Jan 30
Here’s another one from the vault. The newer mixes are getting pushed off the page so please scroll down or click on the current mixes link in the sidebar, there’s plenty of good stuff down there. This is a mix I made around the time I used to do Domingo (with Conor Griffin) at the Spirit Store in Dundalk and features the sort of stuff I used to play there. The recording quality is mostly good but there’s a bit of clipping now and then. It was ripped from a 90 minute cassette, encoded at 192 kbps and is in two parts.
Side 1 here: 01-04-23mixtape-1.mp3, file size is 63.7 mb, runtime is 46:21.
Side 2 here: 01-04-23mixtape-2.mp3, file size is 63.1 mb, runtime is 46:55.
Frank McGahon 01-04-23mixtape side 1
01. Ocells Del Mes Enlla Part 3 – Jordi Sabates
02. Tambu in 7/4 – Cal Tjader
03. Pursuit of the Pimpmobile – Isaac Hayes
04. Melting Pot – Booker T and the MGs
05. Dreamin’ a Dream – Crown Heights Affair
06. Standing in the Rain – Don Ray
07. Don’t Go Lose it Baby – Hugh Masekela
08. You Can Do It Baby (Beats) – Nuyorican Soul
09. Solina – Jedi Knights
10. The Child (K-Dope mix) – Alex Gopher
11. Ghetto Music – House of Whacks
12. Phuture Soundz – Amalgamation of Soundz
Frank McGahon 01-04-23mixtape side 2
12. Phuture Soundz – Amalgamation of Soundz
13. Alegre – Truby Trio
14. Dangerous Seduction – Darkman
15. Got the Bug – Bougie Soliterre
16. Number One – Patrice Rushen
17. Where Were You? – The Trammps
18. I am – Yukuhiro Fukutomi
19. Nana Nomura – Nu Era & Pavel Dego Kostiuk
20. Church Candles – KV5 feat. Nicky Taylor
21. Wind & Sea – AtJazz
22. Sound Travels – Nathan Haines
Jan 27
This is another one of my old favourite mixtapes. The tempo is mostly over 120bpm and there are a good few dancefloor tunes on it but it’s much more of a “headphones” mix rather than a party mix. It was ripped from a 90 minute cassette, encoded at 192 kbps and is in two parts.
Side 1 here: 00-03-04mixtape-1.mp3, file size is 63.7 mb, runtime is 46:20.
Side 2 here: 00-03-04mixtape-2.mp3, file size is 63.7 mb, runtime is 46:20.
Frank McGahon 00-03-04mixtape-1
01. Move You Run – Smith & Mighty (K7) 2000
02. MAW Expensive – MAW presents a Tribute to Fela (MAW) 1999
03. Gorilla With a Gun (Underwolves mix) РBell Caf̩ Band (Dynamite Joint) 2000
04. Holy Sounds (Scuba mix) – Phillip Charles (Ovum) 1999
05. Love – Ron Trent (Peacefrog) 1999
06. Inception – Capries (Ubiquity) 1999
07. Pra Manha – Da Lata (Palm Pictures) 1999
08. Picadillo (Carl Craig mix) – Johnny Blas (Ubiquity) 1999
Frank McGahon 00-03-04mixtape-2
08. Picadillo (Carl Craig mix) – Johnny Blas (Ubiquity) 1999
09. The Future ain’t the same as it used 2 B – Neon Phusion (Laws of Motion) 1999
10. E Ruim – Grupo Batuque (Far Out) 1998
11. Freedom Now – KV5 (Dynamite Joint) 1999
12. Amazon Adventure (Jazzanova mix) – Azymuth (Far Out)1999
13. So Blue it’s Black (Restless Soul mix) – Underwolves (Blue) 2000
14. Burnin’ (Jazzanova mix) – Tate’s Place (Dynamite Joint) 1999
15. Colors of My Mind – Nuspirit Helsinki (Guidance) 1999
16. ?
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Jan 18
This – 05-09-11MAWproductions.mp3 – is a mix I did last year for a friend who had liked the Nu Yorican Soul album but was otherwise unfamiliar with the work of ‘Little’ Louie Vega and Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez. I thought I should immediately address this omission, particularly so as my two favourite Nu Yorican Soul tracks, The Nervous Track and Mind Fluid (included on this mix) didn’t appear on the most widely released version of this album. File is 71mb and was encoded at 128kbps, runtime is 1:17:32.
05-09-11MAWproductions
01. Stay Together – Barbara Tucker – 1995
02. Love & Happiness – River Ocean feat. India – 1994
03. What a Sensation – Kenlou III – 1995
04. Brazilian Beat – Masters at Work – 2000
05. MAW Expensive – MAW presents a Tribute to Fela – 1999
06. MAW War – Kenlou IV – 1996
07. The Nervous Track – Nu Yorican Soul – 1993
08. Mind Fluid – Nuyorican Soul – 1996
09. The Ghetto/El Barrio – George Benson – 2000
10. Ran Kan Kan – Tito Puente – 1992
11. Our Mute Horn – Masters at Work – 1991
Jan 14
Latest mix now uploaded: 05-12-01mix.mp3. File Size is 107.5mb and was encoded at 192kpbs, Runtime is 1:18:17.
Frank McGahon: 05-12-01mix
01. Latin Strut – Joe Bataan (Salsoul)
02. Take it Easy (Kenny Dope edit)- Brass Construction (Kay-Gee)
03. I Can’t Help It (TangoTerge edit/remix) – Michael Jackson
04. Baby, I’m Scared of You (edit/remix) – Womack & Womack
05. Play Tha Game – Bakura (Especial)
06 [?] – BB Boogie (Bitasweet)
07. Bar a Tym – Kerri Chandler
08. Blaze Theme Track – Black Rascals (Sumo)
09. Spiyanko – Spikiri feat. Hugh Masekela (Vega)
10. Equitoreal – Dubtribe (Jive Electro)
11. Where’s The Monkey? – Sir Eddie Real and the Realistics (Sonar Kollektiv)
12. The Moment (Seiji mix) – Fertile Ground (Counterpoint)
13. The Rain – Reel People (Papa)
14. Where You At? – Blaze (Papa)
15. Rideaway Getaway (US remix) – Agent K (Giant Steps)
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Jan 14
Ok, here’s my first upload: 05-10-01mix.mp3. File size is 108mb and was encoded at 192kpbs, Runtime is 1:19:06. Tracklisting below (I plan to add links to Gemm, MusicStack and Discogs for each track when I get a chance)
Frank McGahon: 05-10-01mix
1. Aerodescent – Spymusic 2005
2. Another Way – Alex Phountzi feat. Xantone Blacq 2005
3. Soon Come (Bugz mix) – Daz I Kue feat. Colonel Red 2005
4. Callejon (Domu High mix) – Blakai 2005
5. The Fifth Dimension – Osunlade 2005
6. Crescendo – Glenn Underground 2004
7. Jazz Room – Paul Murphy & Marc Woolford 2001
8. Allegre (Louie Vega mix) – Truby Trio 2003
9. Calma (Louie Vega instrumental mix) – Bah Samba 2005
10. V Gets Jazzy (Ritual Dub) – Louie Vega feat Mr V 2005
11. Flying High – Umoja 1995
12 Milkshake (Dj Zinc Mix) – Kelis 2003
13 Yin Yang – Seiji feat Spoonface 2004
14 Afrospace – Blakai 2005
I did this mix back in October just before a trip to London. I had just bought a bunch of tunes from Juno and Vinyl Underground (I’m going to add a shops section to the sidebar soon) and I wanted to put a few together. Some of the tunes I had been looking for for a while – the first two in particular, originally heard on Benji B’s 1xtra show. It starts off with broken beat, Aerodescent has a nice lighter jazzier feel, especially with the little bit of cuica. Another way has a stripped down quality, drum, snappy rimshots and winding bass with an explicit reference to Faze-O’s classic 1977 cut Riding High. This mix is the original demo, the more cluttered remix loses its minimal quality. The next two tracks felt right – more crisp broken drum programming, winding keyboards, the second with more of a latin flavour. Which leads into Osunlade’s deep house, latin percussion cut. The next track, Crescendo has more of a jazz flavour but appears to be based on live drumming, at least at the beginning, couple this with a slightly larger hole in the centre of the vinyl, and it was a bugger to mix in. I think I managed to avoid the horses-galloping-down-the-stairs associated with a dodgy beat-mix but it took one or two attempts. More jazz 4-4 but a bit more punchy with Jazz Room and then a trio by Louie Vega. His mix of Truby’s Allegre is another I had been looking for for a while, it’s basically a little slicker than Truby’s with some extra keyboard action. I’m normally a big fan of Bah Samba but for this particular tune I prefer Louie’s instrumental mix over the vocal mix with its simple repeated latin-ish riff. Next is a stripped down mix of V get’s Jazzy. It was the full version of this track – a cover of the KC Flightt original (or more accurately the Blaze Dope Dub of same) – I first heard on Benji B or Gilles Peterson. But, when I got the record, this minimal version – drums, bass and percussive voice riff – stuck out. The pattern reminded me of an old DJ Pierre track from 95 so I pulled it out and I think it worked ok. Flying High has a tougher feel which seemed like a good opportunity to bring the breaks back with Zinc’s mix of Kelis’ Milkshake, then Seiji’s Ragga-Broken fusion, rounding off with another Co-Op fave: Afrospace.
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