Iconic Tracks

This is a collection of iconic like tracks, that are useful for discussing Mixxx features along. They have been either used in community discussions, pushing one musical property to the max or are just well known for a particular feature.

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs

This 1959 Cool Jazz tracks, is the icon for a 5/4 tracks.

The Wikipedia contains a detailed description of the section and phrases structure of the track. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Five

Key: E♭ minor Tempo: 174 bpm

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR_HWMzgyc

This 1975 Classic Rock track, is an icon for a polymetre track where two metrics are played simultaneously. In this case, the drummer plays a 4/4 measure while the rest of the band is at 3/4.

Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps

This 1987 Electronic Pop track has on of the most famous key change. It comes along with a "CHANGE" in the lyrics at ~2:45. The key changes from G Major to A♭ Major.

Green Day - Holiday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OqtIqzScI

This 2004 Punk track is one of the loudest recorded tracks. A mp3 version of this track is clipping after decoding due to the additional noise added by the compression algorithm. The calculated replay gain is -12 dB where a typical values are around -6 dB.

ABBA - Dancing Queen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s

This 1976 Disco track is a typical manually played 100 bpm track at that time. It is interesting, because we Mixxx 2.3 beat detector can handle it well. The non const beat mode cycles around 100 bpm makes it useless for auto sync and the a const beat grid is heavily off at many places of the track.

Atenna - Zorba The Greek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrCu94kpE1Q

This is a 1995 Club Mix of Sirtaki, taken from the 1965 movie with the same name. It starts with gentle 105 bpm and speeds up to 180 bpm. It has clear sections, some with constant bpm and some with increasing tempo.

The Winstons - Amen Brother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZuq57_bYM

This is the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. It contains the most used sample (> 2000 times) of all, the "Amen Break". It consists of just 8 betas starting at 1:27.

After these breaks, a odd measure follows that shift the downbeat by a half beat. A normal 4/4 measure is played and that a odd measure shifts the downbeat back to the original position.