Frank’s mixes

First mix of 2011. Bass heavy, 135bpm all the way through.

Download link here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XUUPTUBL

Got round to doing the second part last night. This one goes from 124 up to 140bpm

09-12-21 December Mix Part 2 by frankmcgahon

Frank McGahon: 09-12-09 December Mix Part 1

Mirrored here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2AWFT5NV

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:

Tracklist:

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:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AJLK7JAJ

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

Frank McGahon: 09-04-27 April Mix 2

Got a new mix for this month and I hope to get one or two more done before the month is out. This one starts at 113bpm, goes up to 128bpm and has a mix of house, jazz funk, broken and acid and clocks in just under the two hour mark

April Mix 1: 09-04-06 April Mix 1. File Size is 158.7 mb, encoded at 192kpbs, runtime is 1:55:35

Frank McGahon: 09-04-06 April Mix 1

I thought I’d do another all Broken Beat mix for a change. Got a mix of new and old on this one, ruff and noodly and ranges from 124 to 132 bpm. I’m calling this a bonus mix as I have another longer mix planned for this month which I’ll try to get to over the next week or so.

Another Bonus Broken Mix: 08-11-04anotherbonusbroken.mp3. File Size is 85.4 mb, encoded at 192kpbs, runtime is 1:02:08

Frank McGahon: 08-11-04 Another Bonus Broken Mix

I have a new mix for this month, starting out with some 90bpm beats, some boogie, balearic, deep house, acid, techno, broken beats and finishing off at 140bpm/70bpm. Did this one at 320 again which explains the large file size. I’ll do a 192 version for those with slower connections/limited storage space.

October 08 Mix: 08-10-18 October 08 Mix.mp3. File Size is 259.7 mb, encoded at 320kpbs, runtime is 1:53:27

Frank McGahon: 08-10-18 October 08 Mix