Sorting out some minidiscs I found some of the mixes I recorded years ago at the Parkade…now the Parkade is gone it’s high time to release them as a reminder what was so great about it

Here’s the first Parkade Flashback – a nearly 2 hour dark dubby laid back ambient mix.

This mix was for Traffic Jambient when me and Amanda Shinji rotated Sunday sets – I’m guessing it’s 2007, could be 2008 but I’m guessing probably didn’t release it then cos of the similarity with bits of RC 136 ‘All A World’s A Siege’ which was in the middle of my Psychic TV and dubstep mania…so that would make it around October-November 2007.

Hope you enjoy – bits of it I queried were even mine, I’d forgotten the tracks and the mix so completely, so please mind the cobwebs, and the gaps in my memory in the tracklist below. Let me know if you can refresh my memory on any of these…

He gets in so late at night, We don’t want no fuss and no fight, All through the night (90Mb, 112 mins)

• Egyptian Lover – House on The Nile
• Skream – Tapped
• Apple Blim – Mystical Warrior
• John Carpenter – Halloween theme
• Shackleton – Stalker
• Control Freak – Limbo
• ?
• Skream – Midnight Request Line
• Skream – Chestboxing
• ?
• Disrupt – Blast You To Bits
• Disrupt – IK+
• Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Rain
• Vangelis – Memories of Green
• ?
• Supermayer – Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying
• Skream – Midnight Request Line (again? is this a remix? Or just liking it rather a lot? )
• Burial – Versus
• Digital Mystikz – Anti War Dub
• Egyptian Lover – Egypt, Egypt
• Supermayer – Two of Us
• Disrupt – The Stars My Destination
• Jeff Sconce – Mellotronia
• ?
• Dennis Brown – Man Next Door
• Merlene Webber – Hard Life
• Lethal Bizzle – Police on my Back
• Cabaret Voltaire – Over and Over
• Skream – Dub Period
• Easy Star All Stars – Money
• Gang of Four – To Hell With Poverty
• Psychic TV – Ov Power
• Egyptian Lover – What Is A D.J. If He Can’t Scratch
• Psychic TV – Always Is Always
• controlfreak – One For Sorrow
• ?
• ?
• Tay Zonday ‘Chocolate Rain’ vs Steve Reich ‘Electric Counterpoint’
• DJ Lunch Boy – Shouting at 18 Musicians (Tears for Fears vs Steve Reich)
• Philip Glass – Einstein on the Beach?

Hacienda as pictured in ’24 Hour Party People’ – great film btw

…and the Hacienda, and piano house in general.

I’m sure at some point acid house devotees will become annoying as punk bores, but with piano house on the rebound a and late 80′s house references on the come back (see Hercules and Love Affair, Surkin, Math Head, AC Slater, Jack Beats, Juan Maclean (especially the remixes), Axwell even Eric Prydz!) it seems like the Summer of Love is on the comeback at last…moving away from the nu-rave chancers who tried to tag guitar music as rave, and into true piano chord bliss.

Of course it’s been a long time coming; from when I heard a Math Head Passions mix in 2007 and halfway through I shouted PIANO!!!! and started dancing manicly, to Axwell and then Eric Prydz massive Pjanoo from last year, the rehabilitation of the piano in dance music has taken a long time…yeah trance had a sort of pizzi fixation but that’s not bouncing hands-up-in-the-air whistle-blowing piano break that we all know and love. So welcome back the piano

So I present to you Mike Pickering and Graeme Park at the Hacienda, August 1989, a bit of dance music history and . (via iainh and someone who uploaded an excerpt to Soundcloud, I love Soundcloud…shame no download, but more about that in a sec)

I’m listening to this in the sunshine and it’s perfect.

And if you like that, some kind soul has uploaded the whole 3 hours to Archive.org. Get em while it’s hot, or still there.

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