Ok, latest mix is now up, in two parts. Goes from 116 to 128bpm and then 128 to 140bpm and ranges from jazz, house, boogie to funky, breakbeat and dubstep. Mixcloud streams and download links below. All my old Megaupload links are, for obvious reasons, now kaput. I intend to go back and put up new download links for the earlier mixes when I get a chance but in the meantime anyone who wants any particular mix, contact me at frank@frankmcgahon.com and I’ll get to that one first.
So I did both parts all within the iPad app Djay from Algoriddim. I really like this app. It’s not quite at the level of Torq, Traktor or Serato in that there’s no beat grids or autosyncing but for an iPad app (the iPhone app is identical but with smaller control surface) it is brilliant IMO. It’s pretty good at reading bpms and you can tap in if it’s wrong and that’s the simplest way to get tempos matching. There are plus and minus buttons for nudging the tracks into sync and this works pretty well even though there’s no cueing (so long as you want stereo) so you have to listen for the beats in the actual mix. The effects included are also pretty fun to play around with it and compare favourably with Torq’s. Biggest advantage is that it’s so easy to use no matter where you are.
Always enjoy coming down to play Ralph Hyland’s Sound Affects show on Power FM. Here’s the tracklisting of what I played today:
01. Lonnie Liston Smith – Quiet Moments
02. LTD – Love To The World
03. Patrice Rushen – Never Gonna Give You Up
04. Diana Ross – No-one Gets The Prize
05. Andy Ash – Freak
06. Hall & Oates -I Can’t Go For That (Beatconductor Mix)
07. Heavy D & The Boyz – We Got Our Own Thang
08. Busy Signal – Gal Dem Song
09. Tornado Wallace – Rainbow Road (The Revenge Strings of Fife Mix)
10. T Ski Valley – Catch The Beat (Deetron Rollerskate Remix)
11. Disco Nihilist – Coffee & a Worn Paperback
12. Tucillo – Sandbell
13. P’Taah – This is Imaginary
14. Dego feat Obenewa – Love & Hate You
15. Makossa & Megablast feat Hubert Tubbs – Coming Home
16. Peter Oakden – SambaBeat
17. Oreja – Vazilando (MA1’s Stripped Down Mix)
18. Makam – You Might Lose It (Kerri Chandler’s 623 Mix)
19. Audiojack – Definition of a Track
20. Ben Westbeech – Something for the Weekend (Breach Mix)
21. Hardhouse Banton – Sirens
22. Enur feat Natasha – Calabria (Acapella)
23. Yasmin feat ShyFX: Light Up The World
24. Doug Carn: Little B’s Poem
Something a little different. This one goes from 100 up to 127 bpm and from soul through boogie and old school 80s and 90s house flavours up to some more recent style with a bit of acid and latin too…
01. Move Me No Mountain – Chaka Khan
02. Taste Of Bitter Love – Gladys Knight & The Pips
03. I’ll Be Your Pleasure – Esther Williams
04. Star Lazer – Psychemagik
05. Play On (Yam Who? Remix) – Volta Cab
06. Let This Dream Be Real (Disco Dirtbox Remix) – Ilija Rudman
07. Thug Rock (John Morales & Sergio Munzibai Dub) – Sandy Kerr
08. Crazy With You (Yam Who? Rework) – Ilija Rudman
09. Machine Love – Mic Newman
10. Different Morals (Original Mix) – Luca C & Brigante feat… Ali Love
11. You Must Create (Faze Action Mix) – Miss Cheesecake
12. Release Your Body – Bang The Party
13. Give It To Me – Bam Bam
14. Be Patient – Waifs & Strays
15. My House (Tensnake remix) – Hercules & Love Affair
01. My House (Tensnake remix) – Hercules & Love Affair
02. Organic – Ian Pooley
03. U Got To Get – Danny J Lewis
04. Falling (The 2 Bears Remix) – Ben Westbeech
05. Life Is So Strange EP (Lovebirds Life Goes On Dub) – Joey Negro pres. Akabu
06. Red Lights (Original Version) – Kerri Chandler
07. Wish U Were Here – Deadboy
08. Earthlings – Altered Natives
09. You Better (David Penn Remixes) (David Penn Remix) – Geoff M pres. The Ridiculously Good Looking Guys
10. Something For The Weekend – Part 1 (Breach Remix) – Ben Westbeech
11. Burnout – Altered Natives
12. Nueva (Original Mix) – Nouveau Yorican
13. Salvation (Main Mix) – Maria Dark
14. Blues Wit You (outro) – Pimps of Joytime
Second new mix, recorded this on Saturday night. This one’s a different flavour, slower, from 94bpm up to 120bpm and not intended as a part two for the earlier mix.
I was listening to a few classic Britfunk tunes last week so I thought I’d do a little tribute mix. For those unfamiliar with the genre it was the name associated with uptempo soul, disco, jazz-funk and boogie out of Britain from about the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s although it wasn’t until Hi Tension arrived on the scene in 1978 that the term itself took hold. Although much of the output resembled the American music that was the most prominent inspiration, there are other influences specific to Britain that set it apart. From the Caribbean heritage of many of the artists involved to the crossover effect of a smaller, less segregated music scene, the sound incorporates influences from Reggae to Punk to Jazz.
Britfunk Mix: 09-08-05 Britfunk Mix. File Size is 94.7 mb, encoded at 192kpbs, runtime is 1:08:55
I have two mixes I did recently that wasn’t completely happy with after recording but I thought I’d make them available anyway. The first was meant to focus on the “Broken Techno” sound and its connection to Jazz but I probably ended up with one intro track too many and left out a couple of more tracks that should have been included. I probably won’t bother redoing it so here it is on soundcloud:
13. Man With The Movie Camera (Domu Remix) – The Cinematic Orchestra
The second one is a sketch mix I did last month. It was meant to be the first part of a longer mix I just never got round to recording. There are a few good tunes on it from Domu, Recloose, Zed Bias, Atjazz etc. It starts at 130bpm, goes down to 98bpm and back up to 119 or so for most of it and there are a couple of alright segues but I just wasn’t completely happy with it so I didn’t put it up at the time. I’m just going to put up a megaupload link for it without a tracklisting:
Got round to doing another mix last night and I went about this one a bit differently. I had planned a long-ish mix and had most of my tunes selected and couldn’t decide the exact order of tunes – I had about three alternate playlists with the same tunes. I ended up deciding to do it on the fly and even though it’s mostly the same tunes, I went for what sounded right and what I was enthused about playing right at that time. Even if it’s a littler rough around the edges, it makes, I think, for a more spontaneous sounding mix – sometimes it can be a little dead-sounding if you’re going through the motions on a predetermined playlist.
There’s 14 tunes, a mix of broken beats, four-four, breakbeats mostly around 127 bpm and concludes with three tunes which have the drum pattern divided into triplets.
April Mix 2: 09-04-27 April Mix 2. File Size is 108.6 mb, encoded at 192kpbs, runtime is 1:19:05
