Here’s the second of the Parkade Flashback series – it’s a short, angry and rather rude mix from 2007 (you might have guessed from the title) and utterly exclusive. How do I know that? Well I recorded it when no-one was in the room at the Parkade, hence the ‘Empty’ bit – one of the down sides of DJing in Second Life and generally is when no-one turns up – I assure you this rarely ever happened, I always had at least a small attendance for my gigs in SL, but it does happen every once in a while.

So I vented my frustration via the medium of music

Half empty? Half full? Or just Halfway? (33Mb, 45 mins)

• Simian Mobile Disco – Tits & Acid
• Daft Punk – Around The World (Killdahype remix)
• Electrosound – Gossip around the World (The Gossip vs Dangerous Dan & Nicky Van She)
• Spoon – Don’t You Evah
• Instamatic – Dizzee Justice
• Smith n Hack – Space Warrior
• Hexstatic – Bass Invader
• Rum & Black – Fuck the Legal Stations
• Yo Majesty – Club Action (Chris Bagraiders Sailing to Baltimore Edit)
• Apeboy/Lenlow – Enya vs Prodigy
• Stakker/Humanoid – Humanoid
• Aggro1 – Pull Up The Poor Bitches
• Dillinja – Hard Noize
• Lemon D & Dillinja – Ghost
• Rx – Imagine / Walk on the Wild Side
• Los Hermanos Dalton – Pink Panther

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?

After nearly 3 years the Parkade is no more – so come play with poledancing Daleks, pheonixes and falling giant wheels as Parkade goes out with a bang…literally.

Here’s my 2 hour (well 1:45 as I had technical difficulties at the start) mix for the last ever night of the Parkade.

Pretty proud of the last hour or so – I wanted to put as many Parkade classics but also banging tunes in one place as humanly possible…

Speed Limit: 69 in Camp Areas (88Mb, 1:47)

• Churchill – Hear Missy Work It (Chad Jackson vs Missy Elliott)
• cry.on.my.console – Command Your Rabbits (Chas n Dave)
• Dunproofin – Police Klaxons (Police vs The Klaxons)
• Bingo Starr – Harder, Better, Faster, Blonder (Blondie vs Daft Punk vs Britney Spears)
• DJ Zebra – C’mon Fuck Me (Princess Superstar / Simian vs. Von Bondies / Fatboy Slim)
• The Fall – F’Oldin Money
• Joan Jett – Don’t Give a Damn About My Bad Reputation
• Liberator – Does Your Mother Know?
• Elektric Cowboy – Paris Head (Mylo vs Was Not Was)
• Kid Carpet – Jump
• Instamatic – Ludakriss (Kriss Kross vs Ludacris)
• Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock – It Takes Two (Vocal Edit)
• Breakwater – Release the Beast
• Bomb the Bass – Megablast (Assault on Hip-Hop Precint 13)
• Instamatic – Stone Cold Roses (Stone Roses vs Outkast)
• Lobsterdust – Never Gonna Fool Your Gold (Rick Astley vs Stone Roses)
• Pop Will Eat Itself – Pop Will Eat Itself at Def Con One
• Rebel MC – Street Tuff (Tone 396 remix)
• Funkytown Kiss (Lipps Inc vs Tom Jones & Art of Noise)
• DJ Jay-R – Mia in Funktown (MIA vs Lipps Inc)
• Splittr – All Alone (Alex Metric Dub)
• Rex the Dog – Bubblicious
• DJ Earworm – Since you’ve been Gahan (Kelly Clarkson vs Rex the Dog)
• El Barto and Liam B – I Feel Out of Control (Chemical Brothers vs Donna Summer)
• Acen – Dirty Raver
• Rico Tubbs – Gangsters (Original mix)
• Dirty Sanchez – Lockdown Loneliness (Tomcraft vs. Kanye West)
• RAH Band – The Crunch
• Soundhog – Dire Bass (Dire Straits vs Azzido Da Bass)
• Dunproofin – Livin’ On Breaks (Bon Jovi vs Groove Armada)
• Axwell – I Found U (High Contrast Old Skool Remix)
• Goodbye Parkade!
• Thou Shalt Always Kill (feat. Pos Plug Won – De La Edit Clean Radio Mix)

The flyer for the Finale.

In the end all that was left was a floating sign, which Amanda gave me.

Here are the pics from last night’s Parkade finale – yes I know it’s a ‘virtual space’ but I’ve been involved in some way or other since Andy first showed his new club to me in May 2006. It was sad to see it go, but we gave it a massive storming send off.

Thanks to those at the NuRepublik sim for letting us say goodbye, to Amanda Shinji for building the place one last time, and to Topher Delcon, Andy Asylum and Amanda for doing great sets – and the

No thanks goes to my soundcard and Winamp crashing it on Vista, which meant a quick switch around and reboot delaying my set by 15 mins…and those pesky Daleks (Derek was fairly well behaved wanting to poledance apart from his fox molestation fetish, but Charles had to be transported to another dimension for threatening to surprise someone by falling 1,000s of feet onto his or her head!).

Oh and we’re wheely sorry about the accident at the end

Audio is recorded, and I think Topher and Amanda recorded theirs, mine will follow shortly tonight.

Dov Watanabe, one of the Parkade regulars also posted some pictures and said some very nice words about our club. I remember giving out loads of t-shirts at the end of the night that I designed for the Parkade, I hope sometime in the future they’ll wear them and think happy thoughts of what we all achieved with the Parkade. To have created such fond memories makes it all worthwhile, and less sad for all of us.

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)