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1. Deathbot ‘Give It To Me’
2. Dungen ‘Satt Att Se’
3. Bat For Lashes ‘A Forest’ (The Cure)
4. Viking Moses ‘Werewolves In the City’
5. Envelopes ‘Boat’
6. Kevin Devine ‘It’s Only Your Life’
7. Milosh ‘Gentle Samui’
8. Ratatat ‘Falcon Jab’
9. Fujiya & Miyagi ‘Knickerbocker’
10. Vessel ‘Kerna’
11. The Knife ‘Parade’
12. Fuer Amel ‘Pink Eyes’
13. Xiu Xiu ‘I Do What Want When I Want’
14. Horse Feathers ‘Finch On Sunday’
15. David Bowie ‘We Are Hungry Men’

Listen to all this here.

I often sit together with other people working in the music industry and discuss the past, present and the future of the music industry (may it be on panel, at conferences or in the pub) and all the great opportunities artists have these days to become successful. What is interesting is that the people involved in those conversation often are not directly affected by any of those issues, they don’t write or produce music and they don’t try to sell it either. Essentially what we get is a bunch of so-called ‘experts’ (I don’t exclude myself from that) talking about how great things are actually looking for artists and labels without really feeling the pain that companies and individuals are going through in the current changing times.

An example: you often hear the idea that artists should give away their music for free to then make money from live performances. Again, most of the time the people who are saying this will not be the guys that will go on tour for months. What about if the artist doesn’t want to sit in a van for weeks and weeks? What if their music of not suitable to be performed live?

I would like to hear more from the artists in those discussions. Or maybe it is even better to hear the managers as they will have the business background as well as being able to represent the artists opinions. Sounds like this could be a good topic for a future OpenMusicMedia Meet…

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

This is a beautiful, almost heartbreaking little video. Anyone got $3m? I wonder how much it would cost to then digitize all those tracks that are currently not available anywhere.

As some of you will know we had Pim Betist from Sellaband as our guest speaker at our last OpenMusicMedia Meet which turned out to be highly interesting. I don’t think we got very far that night in exploring the ‘1000 True Fans‘ idea which was the topic of the night but I certainly started to understand his crowd sourcing platform for musicians. Those are the things that became obvious after that night:

• the service does not exist to serve long-tail artists, the aim is to get major record deals for their artists
• they are very successful, having already collected $50,000 for 24 artists (each of course) and much more for artists that have not yet reached that threshold
• having a founder who is not from a music background was certainly a plus for Sellaband, you can see Pim’s energy and how he reacted to criticism from people in the room

Last.fm, Pandora, imeem and all the others are great for discovering and listening to music but I need the files too. The simple reason is that I want to play the tracks on my radio show and I need the sound file in a decent quality for that (192kbps mp3 at least).

Getting the tracks from the labels, iTunes or even from peer-to-peer networks has always been a good solution for me but for a few months I’ve been using Peel, a great mp3 blog reader, player and download tool. All you need to do is give Peel the mp3 blog URL and it will check automaticall which tracks are available on there, lets you listen to them and adds them to your iTunes library if needed.

For my purposes this is perfect:

• I don’t need to go to various mp3 blogs every week to see what’s new on there
• No more right-click and ‘save as’
• Since many of those blogs would write about new tracks/artist I always find music that is relevant for my show (I prefer to play new music but don’t do that exclusively)

1. salut!machaut ‘The fastest boy in school’
2. Viking Moses ‘Werewolves In the City’
3. Dungen ‘Satt Att Se’
4. Grizzly Bear ‘Knife’ [Girl Talk Remix]
5. Sebastien Tellier ‘SEXual Sportswear’ (SebastiAn Remix)
6. The Faint ‘Machine In The Ghost’
7. Podington Bear ‘Misfit Toys’
8. Llorca With Lady Bird ‘My Precious With Lady Bird’
9. Lakes Of Russia ‘Like Silver Rain’
10. Kevin Devine ‘It’s Only Your Life’
11. Jim James with M. Ward ‘Wonderful’ (The Way I Feel)
12. The New Frontiers ‘Look At Miss Ohio’ (Gillian Welch Cover)
13. Isaac Hayes ‘Never Can Say Goodbye’

Listen to all this here

1. Noah and the Whale ’5 Years Time’
2. salut!machaut ‘The fastest boy in school’
3. Belle & Sebastian ‘Expectations’
4. Travel by Sea ‘Truth Was’
5. Glissando ‘Grekken’
6. The Great Northwest ‘Chief John’
7. Death Vessel ‘Bruno’s Torso’
8. Xploding Plastix ‘Sports,Not Heavy Crime’
9. Moloko ‘Sing It Back’ (Herbert’s Tasteful Dub)
10. M83 ‘We Own The Sky’ (Maps Mix)
11. Under Byen ‘Det Er Mig Der Holder Traerne Sammen’
12. The Streets ‘The Escapist’

You can listen to all this here.