BLAKEFIELD
When I first encountered Blakefield:
Biotronica had a lair there, Alexi.Ayres (founder of Singularity Tribe) was doing his trashy bitch thing, there was a lot of underground music happening in the sim. Loop Europa was in full swing. Jedda Zenovka had an underwater wonder club where advanced animated and interactive organic sea-life and aboriginal dream things. InfinityCircuit had built a temple to tron by way of cybernightclub which gave the sim a wonderful and unusual vibe, the superimposition of a more advanced technology and music-based civilization upon the degenerate red brick urban squalor and boarded up vinyl stores. Blakefield is ghetto. A lot of ghetto edge cyber folk have been through it; my list does not scratch the surface, sorry folks if your names not on it you are still welcome to squat, obviously.
By the time I got around to making blogs about SecondLife, all that was gone; people moved on to their new projects, and the sim had quietened down, returned to being the Bronx style. There are still music stores and the occasional hobo trashcan, grafiti stains alleys and you can squeeze amidst wrecked wooden fences. It feels more than ever of a slum, desolate, a ghost-town. And that's cool because it's all part of the vibe, it reminds me where I grew up in south Wales.
Fortunately returning to Blakefield at this time has given me a chance to get to know GaiaKitty who is currently keeping the Blakefield music scene going.
ALEXI
https://soundcloud.com/alexi-ayres
https://twitter.com/superalexi
BIOTRONICA
JEDDA ZENOVKA
INFINITYCIRCUIT
https://soundcloud.com/alexi-ayres
https://twitter.com/superalexi
BIOTRONICA
JEDDA ZENOVKA
INFINITYCIRCUIT