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.

Tracklist:

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(Original cutting from Cerysmatic Factory)

Tribute to the influential, vociferous, and showmanlike Tony Wilson, who died on Friday. He ran Factory Records, started the Hacienda, Dry Bar and In the City, all in Manchester.

I’ve only got record shops left: (70Mb, 88mins) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_127.mp3

• String Tribute to Joy Division and New Order – Love Will Tear Us Apart (original FAC 23)
• Happy Mondays – 24 Hr Party People (FAC 170)
• Joy Division – Shadowplay (FAC 10)
• OMD – Electricity (FAC 6)
• Crispy Ambulance – Deaf (FAC 32)
• A Certain Ratio – Shack Up (FAC 42 / FAC BN 1)
• E.S.G – Moody (FAC 34)
• Section 25 – Looking From A Hilltop (FAC 90)
• Quando Quango – Love Tempo (Remix) (FAC 79)
• Cath Caroll – England Made Me (FAC 210)
• New Order – Perfect Kiss (FAC 123)
• New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle (Richard X mix) (original FAC 163)
• Devine and Statton – Bizarre Love Triangle (original FAC 163)
• Happy Mondays – Loose Fit (FAC 312)
• New Order – 1980 Demo (FAC ??)
• Happy Mondays – Hallelujah (Club mix) (FAC 242)
• New Order – Special (not on Factory, although demos released as FACT 300)
• The 6Ths + Dean Wareham – Falling Out Of Love (With You) (Facd 2.06)
• Durutti Column – Sleep Will Come (TWI 007)
• Swans – Love Will Tear Us Apart (original FAC 23)

Peter Saville, Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus

Somehow I’ve become co-owner of the Parkade club in Second Life- previously run by Andy Asylum, he decided to resign last week, I played the last night. A group of the DJs got together and decided to keep the place going, rebuild it and redesign it, so DJNoNo Ulysses along with Amanda Shinji and Topher Delcon are now owners of a club!

I’m doing the textures, signs and branding-type stuff, and even some tshirt design and Amanda’s doing the building and technical stuff – you can see a sneak peak here. Can you say Peter Saville? And Hacienda? Meets Garage, no not the Paradise Garage, a disused garage It’s going to be very grungey as an antidote to all those Dawn of the Dead shopping malls in Second Life, and will be the best looking club there.

The opening will be soon – watch this space!