Haven’t posted a video in a while so it’s about time. Fever Ray is one half of The Knife (you will recognize her voice) and this is not just a great track but also a beautiful video. And you can almost see her face.
1. Clues ‘Perfect Fit’
2. Oh No! Oh My! ‘Skip The Foreplay’
3. Ape School ‘Wail To God’
4. Asobi Seksu ‘Familiar Light’
5. The Twilight Sad ‘Three Seconds of Air’
6. Tim Hecker ‘Sea of Pulses’
7. Cathode ‘Stabiliser City’
8. Bat For Lashes ‘Glass’
9. Handsome Furs ‘What We Had’
10. A.C. Newman ‘Take On Me’
11. Those Dancing Days ‘Those Dancing Days’
12. Mount Eerie ‘Flaming Home’
13. Lawrence ‘Rabbit Tube’ (DJ Koze Remix)
This week I’m talking about my presentation at the Multimdia Meets Radio event in Prague last week and I’m wondering if what I call the ‘future of digital music’ is actually already the present and therefore already in the past.
If you are in London on the 10th March, make sure you come to our OpenMusicMedia meet. Also – as mentioned – you can find the artwork for the new Grizzly Bear album ‘Veckatimest’ here, I haven’t heard it yet but certaily looking forward to it.
That’s it. I have to set up a Google alert for my name – and don’t pretend that you haven’t done that already. Then I wouldn’t have missed Michael Schmid’s great summary (sorry German only) of the panel discussion at the Dancing With Myself conference on the FM4 website. This round table took place in Berlin on the 17th of January and I was part of it.
There we discussed the future of music reviews anf journalism. In this very lively discussion I took the role of someone who doesn’t believe that we need ‘professionals’ that recommend music to us and who decide what is good and what isn’t. My point was that we have enough tools that allow us to find more music in a democratic way such as Last.fm.
Almost ironic to hear that from someone who is producing a radio show every week for over four years. I guess have fully excepted the fact that it’s very old fashioned and that the ‘relevance’ of my show can only go down from now on.
We’re very pleased to have Spotify speak at our next OpenMusicMedia meet which happens on the 10th March, as always at the William IV in East London.
Spotify is a streaming music service that gives listeners free and legal access to millions of tracks via their desktop client. It’s a service that has proved popular amongst early adopters and is already changing the way that many people access music.
So what is Spotify’s business model? Will it succeed? Can access be funded by advertising? Are there times when ownership is important? What are main benefits off the access model? And what are the implications for the music industry? These are some of the questions that we will be talking about, as always in a open context without hidden agendas.
You can find more information here and make sure you come down early as we are expecting it to be very busy.
Updating late as I was busy getting my motorcycle license. All done now, I’ve passed and am quite happy that it’s over.
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