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This is a copy of a post from our OpenMusicMedia blog, would be great to see you there on the 17th September!

After months of trying to get this nailed down we are very pleased to announce that Joi Ito will be in London and joining us to lead the conversation at the next OpenMusicMedia! Joi is the CEO of Creative Commons so make sure you clear your diaries for 17th September for what looks set to be a great session.

Most of you will probably have heard of Creative Commons already, but we think that it’s a topic that is not discussed enough by a music industry that has traditionally built its business around a different view of copyright. There’s lots to discuss and we’ll only have one evening, but here are just a few of issues that we’d like to talk about:

• What role does Creative Commons have to play within the music industry?
• Does CC mean we are just giving away our music for free and no one makes any money?
• The existing licensing structure for the music industry has been working for so many years, is CC just making it more complex?

As always we want you to get involved as much as possible in the conversation – before, during & after. We’ll be meeting at around 6pm and the talk will start at 7pm, usually lasting around an hour. We strongly recommend that you stick around after as often the best part of the conversation happens over a beer or two.

The event is free and open to everyone but please RSVP on Facebook to help us working out how many people will attend. Please note that we expect this to be a busy night so we recommend arriving early in order to find a seat. If you’re late we can’t guarantee entry. Leave a comment below or contact us on Twitter if you have any questions.

Thursday, 17th September 2009
6:00 PM

William IV

7 Shepherdess Walk
London, EnglandN1 7QE
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I guess this is it. Thanks to everyone for listening over the last five years, it has been a blast! I will of course keep blogging here and there will be more music related projects coming up in 2010 but for now I’ve got some big travel plans (more on that here).

You can listen to my last show here.

1. Schneider TM ‘The Light 3000′
2. Kings Of Convenience ‘I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From’ (Röyksopp Remix)
3. Mugison ‘Sweetest Melody’
4. Lali Puna ‘Nin-Com-Pop’
5. Frightened Rabbit ‘Set You Free’
6. Phoenix ‘Everything Is Everything’
7. Sufjan Stevens ‘Chicago’
8. Mia Doi Todd ‘My Room Is White’
9. Flunk ‘True Faith’
10. Chromeo ‘Needy Girl’
11. The Teenagers ‘Homecoming’ (Gentelmen Drivers Rave Mix)
12. Superdiscount ‘Fast Track’ (Featuring Julien Delfaud_Alex Gopher)

The comfort zone. It’s hard to complain when your in it but you know that something is wrong. You become stagnant and you don’t seem to develop -  something that can not only be frustrating but also dangerous.

I don’t actually want to quit my job at Last.fm (I do really like it) but it’s time to set new challenges and see new things. I have been in London for about eight years and been with Last.fm for four of them and now it’s time for something new.

One of the most important things in any job is that you keep learning. It is part of your pay package and if you don’t gain any knowledge you are essentially underpaid. Applying that logic I was paid extremely well for years at Last.fm: I met a lot of great people, learned about the business (and its countless issues) and saw some amazing places. Unfortunately by definition any learning curve has to flatten out so it’s time to find something where I can start at the steep end again.

Raila and I will move to North America early next year after taking some time off and spending a few months in South America. We will live in Vancouver. My last day with Last.fm will be the 2nd October 2009 – please get in touch if there is anything you need before I’m off.

When I realized that I won’t be able to attend this years Transmission conference because of other commitments (it will become more clear next week) I was disappointed. I had such a great time last year and I felt I’m missing out.

Fortunately I was able to participate at least in one way: I took part in their Politalk48 session which is basically a panel of experts who discuss a topic via email over a period of 48 hours. The results are then published on the TransmitNow website for anyone to read. The topic was “Next Generation Leadership” and the outcome can be found here.

This is my penultimate show. Weird. As mentioned this morning there will be repeats of heute:pop:morgen on Tide 96.0 until the end of the year but no more new shows from me. Again, today I went through the playlists from the last five (!) to compile the below.

You can listen to the show here.

1. Gravenhurst ‘Velvet Cell’
2. Sebastien Tellier ‘La Ritournelle’ (Mr Dan’s Magic Wand Remix)
3. Bloc Party ‘The Pioneers’ (M83 Remix)
4. Beck ‘Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime’
5. Ben Gibbard ‘Carolina’
6. Willy Mason ‘We Can Be Strong’
7. The Postal Service ‘Against All Odds’
8. Chris Garneau ‘Baby’s Romance’
9. Manchester Orchestra ‘I Can Feel A Hot One’
10. Bon Iver ‘re: Stacks’
11. Soko ‘I Will Never Love You More’
12. Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’
13. The Wave Pictures ‘I Love You Like A Madman’

Only two more shows to go after this one. Regular listeners will recognize many of the songs below – going through all my old playlists brings up good memories. Interesting how with some songs I know exactly why I played them on my show and where found them and with others I have no recollection why they ended up on my playlist.

I know you might be sick of hearing about it by now but if you can please have a look at my SXSW panel and vote. Thanks.

You can listen to this show here.

1. Alias ‘Unseen Sights’
2. Ulrich Schnauss ‘On My Own’
3. The New Pornographers ‘All The Things That Go To Make Heaven And Earth’
4. Cansei De Ser Sexy ‘Let’s Make Love And Listen Death From Above’
5. Phosphorescent ‘Wolves’
6. Nina Gordon ‘Straight Outta Compton’
7. Seu Jorge ‘Life On Mars?’
8. Lightspeed Champion ‘Stay The Fuck Away From Me’
9. Iron & Wine ‘Boy With A Coin’
10. Feist ‘My Moon My Man’ (Boys Noize Classic Mix)
11. Daft Punk ‘Human After All’ (SebastiAn Remix)
12. Modeselektor ‘2000007 feat. TTC’
13. Tes ‘New New York’

If you have seen me recently on a panel or doing a presentation you would have noticed that there is one topic that I’m very interested in: how the consumption of recorded music has changed over the years and how it will continue to develop.

Looking into the past is vital but also fairly easy. The future is the tricky one and for some the most fascinating: I want to find out how we will consume recorded music in 10 years from now but to find some good answers I might need some help.

This is how I came up with my idea for a panel at SXSW next year in Austin. As you might know, they encourage people to come up with ideas for a panel or presentation and post them on their website for anyone to vote on.

Of course you guessed it by now: please vote for my panel suggestion at the SXSW 2010 Panelpicker. You can see from my description on there what I’m trying to do. Also, please suggest people that should be on that panel by posting a comment here or on the Panelpicker. Maybe I won’t be the only one that’s trying to promote themselves.

What a great time we had at the Big Chill. You can check out some pictures on my flickr set.

Listen to my latest show here.

1. Blitzen Trapper ‘Black River Killer’
2. Junip ‘Official’
3. Emiliana Torina ‘Sunny Road’
4. Bright Eyes ‘Lua’
5. Scout Niblett ‘Dinosaur Egg’
6. Portishead ‘Sour Times’
7. Wye Oak ‘Take It In’
8. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone ‘Jeanne, If You’re Ever In Portland’
9. Jennifer Gentle ‘I Do Dream You’
10. a-ha ‘Take On Me’
11. Lindstrøm ‘The Long Way Home’ (Prins Thomas Edit)
12. The Bravery ‘An Honest Mistake’ (Superdiscount Remix)

Going through my playlists from the last five years did not only make me feel nostalgic but I also found some great tracks I haven’t listened to in ages. For my last four ‘new’ shows I will pick out some of the best ones without to calling it a “Best Of…” or do some sort of countdown.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Múm ‘Sing Along’
2. Wye Oak ‘Take It In’
3. The Slow Club ‘When I Go’
4. Sea Wolf ‘Stanislaus’
5. Cat Power ‘Dreams’
6. Lou Barlow ‘Gravitate’
7. The Magic Numbers ‘Hymn for Her’
8. Imogen Heap ‘Canvas’
9. Blitzen Trapper ‘Black River Killer’
10. Deastro ‘Tone Adventure #3′
11. The Knife ‘You Make Me Like Charity’
12. Simian Mobile Disco ‘Cream Dream’
13. M83 ‘Don’t Save Us From The Flames’

This post was originally published on our OpenMusicMedia blog but I re-posted it here for you guys to read as well. Would be great to see you there:

We wanted to do something slightly different for this next meetup, we wanted to discuss ‘Music As Culture’. Leading the conversation will be New Music Strategies’ Andrew Dubber and Jez Collins. This conversation actually started at Unconvention Salford but we felt it was one worth continuing down in London for OpenMusicMedia. But what exactly does ‘Music As Culture’ entail? We’ll leave it to Dubber to explain below…

Music As Culture

It’s no surprise to anyone that the music industries are struggling in the digital age. Faced with a filesharing populace, an incredible array of media choices, a tough economic climate, and plenty of other things for people to spend money on, it can be pretty tight for a lot of people in the industries.

Recent research demonstrates a link from openness and inclusion to massive untapped potential for all kinds of businesses. Consumers have a bigger say in the fate of the industries than ever before – and while they recognise the commercial aspects of music business, they do not accept that old systems of control are relevant to them anymore.

By empowering consumers, opening access to archives and for scholarship, enriching the public domain, according popular music the same cultural status as classical and folk musics, and treating audiences as part of the music process (rather than as merely passive consumers), the society we live in is a much richer and vibrant one.

It’s good for culture, it’s good for the economy, it invigorates local scenes, it’s a lifeline for artists – and it’s great for business. In fact, it might just be what saves the music industries.

As always this will be an open discussion and you will set the agenda for the night. We’ll be starting the discussion at around 7pm but feel free to be there by 6pm and have a drink with us. You can find all the details below, if you have any questions, leave a comment or contact us via twitter.

The event is free to open to everyone but if you can please RSVP at our new Facebook group.

William IV