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?

Reposted from Miss Cyberpink blog

Well, we celebrated the passing of Parkade in style, with party that lasted over 8 HOURS!!! Massive thanks to Andy Asylum, DJNoNo Ulysses, Topher Delcon and me for the music…

I recorded my set, as you do and it’s available to download here. Tracklisting is as follows:

Exactshit – Dave
The Doors – Hello, I Love You (Adam Freeland mix)
Eric Prydz – Proper Education (Club mix)
Eric Prydz – Call On Me (Retarded Funk mix)
Dunproofin’ – Electro Sandman
Instamatic – Neon Sex People
Miss Cyberpink – Strangeword
Cookie Crew – Got To Keep On
Space – Magic Fly
Giorgio Moroder – The Chase
Kraftwerk – The Robots
Lumpy – Higher State of Timekeeping
Daft Punk – Harder Better Faster Stronger (X Volt remix)
Fischerspooner – Never Win (Benny Benassi remix)
Justice – Phantom pt2 (Soulwax remix)
Dunproofin’ – Promiscuous
Ian Fondue – Edit!
Dunproofin’ FU2 (remix)
Orbital – Chime
Dunproofin’ – Superquadrophonia
Dunproofin’ – Standing In The Way Of Felix
Pop Will Eat Itself – Can U Dig It?
Utah Saints – Something Good ‘08
Energy 52 – Café Del Mar (Three n’ One remix)
Supercollider feat. Octofish – Black Metal Tarantula
Pendulum – Slam
The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds

Enjoy!!!

Yes this is definitely go and is on tonight from 9pm GMT / 2pm PST/Second Life time until 5am GMT / 10pm PST/SL.

Lineup is:

2-4pm PDT – Andy Asylum (original owner of the Aslyum)
4-6pm PDT – DJNoNo Ulysses (me!)
6-8pm PDT – DJ Foximus (Topher Delcon)
8-10pm PDT – Miss Cyberpink (Amanda Shinji)

The Parkade will be recreated for one night only in the NuRepublik sim – here’s the SLURL.

See you there!

(Topher Delcon, Amanda Shinji, DJNoNo Ulysses – Andy Asylum not shown)

Just heard from Amanda Shinji that the Parkade, one of the longest clubs in Second Life (nearly 3 years!!! That’s several lifetimes in SL) and the club I had a part in running and designing after Andy Asylum decided to stop running it is closing at the end of this month closed, gone, no more (see EDIT below for rant).

Here’s what she said:

As some of you know, I took over Parkade from Andy Asylum back in March 2007 and with the graphical assistance of the erstwhile DJNoNo Ulysses, we reopened the facelifted club in May 2007, on the now long gone Pontiac Motorati Island.

Pontiac left SL and the United Spinal Association took over the 7 sim complex, Parkade grew, with the slightly smaller replica of the Golden Gate Bridge out front and the small chill out area around the back… Same amazing crowd, same fun…

Last year, around June time, I moved Parkade to what was Kara Zor Isle and we had a giggle there, but the sim being sold forced me to move the club to it’s current location, Parkade Island. As you know, full sims aren’t cheap and I couldn’t afford to buy or rent one, so I rented a light use sim, which was adequate but then the delightful LL decided to stick their noses into what we did with these ‘buffer’ sims and called time on our antics, creating the Homestead sims, which then drastically limited the number of people who could use the places to 20. Not ideal for a club.

However, this wasn’t an issue, because with the decline in SL clubbing culture, only the diehard faithful hung around. We’d already lost a few DJs by then and what with the receeding crowds, we lost long time resident DJNoNo. However, we keep going and push on. Saturdays are still busy, with Walt’s Boot Camp nights and of course me n’ Diva taking it in turns before BootieSL, then there are Walt’s Sunday sessions and me on Thursdays… However, things aren’t picking up and it’s not just this club that is affected, others are too… Once great names like Republik are also suffering. Republik are in the same situation as Parkade too and thats a shame.

Anyway, enough about Republik. This is about Parkade here and this is where it gets tricky. I’ve taken the hard decision to close one of SL’s longest running clubs. What was started in 2006 is ending in 2009, by the end of this month. I’ve informed the company who I rent the sim from that I’ll not need it come the end of March and I’ll be removing the build permanently then. Parkade will cease to exist. It’s been one helluva rollercoaster ride, but the LL decision to limit numbers has been a huge factor in this, as well as cost too… I’m paying a lot for this sim and frankly, it’s not worth it any more.

So, this is it…

Well, so you’d think, no?

What if there was a “But…”?

But… this isn’t the end. Oh no. Parkade might be closing, but this isn’t the end.

I mentioned Republik earlier on. Republik on their class 5 sim, with a 100 person limit and the threat of closure due to financial issues and dwindling attendance… Well, guess what grrrls n’ bois? I’m moving to Republik!!

I’m going to be investing in keeping the sim afloat, along with the other owners, I too will be an owner of the club and between us and the management team, we’re going to relaunch the place, complete with a brand new club build that is almost finished and stunningly gorgeous. Even though I’m paying into the tier, I’m still saving money on what I pay now for this cut down excuse for a sim, so I win there, and I know that BootieSL and my sets will continue there and I’m hoping that Walt will come with me and bring his Saturday night and Sunday sets with him too, so if you lot come along, it’ll be like home, only darker and posher. Slightly

This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. The beginning of something pretty damned cool. Myself, Sable, Lina and Jo are going to really push Republik in 2009 with some different strategies and ideas, plus I’m hoping to bring a live band from RL to perform in SL too and I’m not talking about some kids in a garage, this lot have supported Depeche Mode on tour

So, don’t be sad that Parkade is closing, be happy that the music, atmosphere and fun live on.

I am planning to sort out a farewell party soon, and I’ll post details of that when I’ve got it arranged.

Anyway, I’ve gone on long enough. I wanted to let you all know what is happening and I hope you realise this is for the best.

Thanks, and see you on the other side soon… Amanda xXx

I have to say I’m not surprised – as Amanda says the club culture and audience in SL has been tailing off for a while now – not to say there aren’t well attended clubs as I expect the new Republik will be, but certainly the tier-changes killed or consolidated a lot of smaller clubs and places in SL where I stayed (and meant a lot of my friends left), hence my decision earlier this year to stop DJing at the Parkade.

I wish Amanda all the best at the Republik, where Amanda’s night and BootieSL will continue, and a few more of the Parkade nights maybe, and I’ll definitely try to be at the last events at the Parkade for a tearful farewell. Thanks to Amanda and Andy for running a great club, it’ll definitely be missed.

EDIT: Due to the what I can only describe as what sounds like the SL version of a slum landlord (I can shorten it even further: C**ts) the Parkade is no more – Amanda thought she had until the end of the month and they foreclosed this morning…so I never got to say goodbye and the place is an empty island. This makes me very sad.

Really I have to say this is one of the major problems of SL – the fact that Linden Labs itself doesn’t really show a good example means that the place is full of shady and dodgy people – but it hurts Second Life as a whole – people don’t want to turn up to a club and find a stinking hole, or be messed around, or have the whole openspace debacle…they just leave annoyed and don’t come back. So what might be a quick buck for the landlords of SL and Linden Labs eventually damages the whole thing, and creative people leave, and it all just leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.

This impermanence – the loss of popular areas like Fat Tiger for example, should be something Linden Labs is worried about – if you don’t have cool places for people to visit, then people will go away. And these places may be virtual but people do have real connection to them over years – so to just pull the plug immediAately with no warning is callous and just shows you what kind of people rent land in Second Life, somewhere below pond scum.

*Well not totally, it's the last Cruise Control actually, but that doesn't sound as good)

As I said in my previous post, I’ve stopped doing the Cruise Control sets in the Parkade in Second Life, which I’d been doing for over 2 years! I’ll pop back from time to time, doing the odd special set, time/work allowing.

For those of you that missed it, I recorded the last set so here is more than 2 hours of continous mix as an example of what the Cruise Control sets and those 2 years pretty much every week was like.

And a big thank you goes out to Mistress Bereford who stayed until the happy end, and Amanda Shinji and Andy Asylum who have run the Parkade so well over the last 2+ years. Long may it stay!

And no you don’t get to see a naked Cybill Shepherd…(123Mb, 2:25)

• The Rock Steady Crew – Hey You (Justin Faust Remix)
• Celebrity Murder Party – We Want Titties and a Robot Cucumber (P-Funk vs The Trucks vs Vampire Sound Inc vs Kraftwerk)
• S’Express – Blow Me Another Lollypop
• Funkytown Kiss (Lipps Inc vs Tom Jones)
• S’Express – Find’Em, Fool’Em, Forget’Em (Wondere(s)que mix)
• Gwen McRae – All This Love That I’m Giving (JoolsMF Remix)
• Ultra Nate – Free (Sidechains remix)
• Cubic 22 – Night in Motion
• Bonde Do Role – Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag (Pigbag cover)
• The Prodigy – Everybody in the Place (AC Slater remix)
• Usura – Open Your Mind (Act of Dog Free Thinking mix)
• Deltawave – Lost In Music (Sister Sledge cover)
• Urban Shakedown – Some Justice (Super Mal remix)
• Robyn – Be Mine (Ocelot Mthrfckrs Remix)
• Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill ft Pos Plug Won (De La Edit)
• Kleptones – Controlled Revenge (blog version – Guns and Roses vs ?)
• Dunproofin – FU2
• Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy (TMX Remix)
• Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun (Hacker’s Hardcore Inferno – Chemical Bros vs The Trammps)
• El Barto & Liam B – I Feel Control (Donna Summer vs Chemical Brothers)
• Cradle of Filth – Temptation
• P.O.D. – Bullet the Blue Sky
• Halloween – Lay all your Love on Me
• Instamatic – Brightside Slippy (Killers vs Underworld)
• Kraftwerk – The Robots (Dunproofin’s Where were you in ’92 mix)
• Meat Beat Manifesto – Where are you/Enuff
• Bonzo Dog Band – We Are Normal
• Roxy Music – Grey Lagoons
• Ivor Cutler – There’s A Turtle In My Soup
• Instamatic – English Ghost (Dillinja & Lemon D vs The Clash)
• London Elektricity – Remember the Future
• High Contrast – Everything’s Different
• London Elektricity – Different Drum
• London Elektricity – Rewind
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music for a Found Harmonium
• Apeboy – Enya vs Prodigy (Lenlow Edit)
• Gay Muppet Bastard – Phil n’ Dog (Muppets vs Chemical Bros)
• Kermit and Fozzie Bear – Moving Right Along
• DJNoNo – Supercalibreakz (Julie Andrews vs Shy FX)
• DJ Lumpy – No Good (Start the Raam) (Lemonjelly vs Prodigy)
• Beatbox Saboteurs – Morecambe and Wise
• Specials – Enjoy Yourself