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Other than being very relaxed this morning I’ve been talking about the band Metric and how I saw them last week in London. It’s nice to be surprised.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Archive ‘Bullets’
2. Fredo Viola ‘The Turn’ (Fink Remix)
3. We Fell To Earth ‘Sovereign’
4. Bibio ‘Haikuesque (When She Laughs)’
5. Scout Niblett ‘Comfort You’
6. Iron & Wine ‘The Trapeze Swinger’
7. Xiu Xiu ‘The Body Breaks’
8. My Latest Novel ‘Two Headed Boy’
9. Ellie Goulding ‘Wolves’ (Bon Iver Cover)
10. Metric ‘Help I’m Alive’
11. The Raveonettes/Trentemøller ‘She’s Lost Control’
12. Copenhagen Collective/Soft Cell ‘Copenhagen (Trentemøller Edit Mix)/Tainted Love’

Many of my readers will of course be aware of Seth Godin but for those who haven’t heard of him: make sure you check out his blog, his books and start with the talk below from TED.

If you feel like me and you need some inspiration at work after a long weekend just watch this:

Coldplay’s ‘LeftRightLeftRightLeft‘ album gave me a good excuse to play ‘Viva La Vida’ – a track that normally wouldn’t make it on my show.

The fact that this album is available for free download on the artist website is a great example of a well known artists wanting to ‘own’ the relationship with fans of their recorded music. No doubt that all musicians have some direct relationship with their fans but the recorded music part of that would normally be controlled by a record label.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Lykke Li ‘Breaking It Up’ (Familjen Remix)
2. The Raveonettes/Trentemøller ‘She’s Lost Control’
3. Fredo Viola ‘The Turn’ (Fink Remix)
4. Coldplay ‘Viva La Vida’ (live)
5. Woods ‘Military Madness’
6. Bat For Lashes ‘Use Somebody’
7. Akron/Family ‘River’
8. Breathe Owl Breathe ‘Twilight’
9. Bon Iver ‘Flume’
10. Ólafur Arnalds ‘Ljósið’
11. John & Jehn ‘unknown’
12. Flight of The Conchords ‘Hurt Feelings’
13. Copenhagen Collective/Soft Cell ‘Copenhagen (Trentemøller Edit Mix)/Tainted Love’
14. Flight of The Conchords ‘Hurt Feelings Reprise’

Arttu was so kind to upload my short interview for the Finnish 6pm news to YouTube so I can embed it here as well:

Inspired by my trip to Helsinki I was talking about my ‘music is like a rumour’ idea in this show as well as sharing my opinion on public broadcasters in small countries like Finland.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Lacrosse ‘It’s Always Sunday Around Here’
2. Au Revoir Simone ‘All or Nothing’
3. Breathe Owl Breathe ‘Twilight’
4. Iron & Wine ‘The Trapeze Swinger’
5. Woods ‘Military Madness’
6. My Latest Novel ‘All in All in All Is All’
7. Bat For Lashes ‘Use Somebody’
8. Emmy The Great ‘MIA’
9. La Roux ‘In For The Kill’ (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey Remix)
10. Chateau Marmont ‘Beagle’
11. Heartsrevolution ‘Untitled’
12. The Field ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’

Helsinki reminded me of Hamburg. Maybe is was the lake in the centre or the lack of an Old Town (which was like in Hamburg destroyed in WW2). But most significantly I had a brilliant time in Helsinki, just like whenever I visit my home town.

I was there for an event organized by the YLE (“the Finnish BBC”) called “Embracing the music – music, Internet and public service” last Friday and it was well organized, informative and a lot of fun. Often these kinds of events are exactly the opposite.

As well as taking part in a big panel discussion I did a presentation (hopefully) giving an overview of the development of digital recorded music over the recent years and where it might be heading in the future. It had the catchy title “Development of digital recorded music and the way we consume it – the past, present and future”. I even had slides (which I never do).

My talk was built on the following assumption:

Music is like a rumour:

• It will spread around and one cannot control it
• It has a creator but no owner
• It has a ‘value’ but it can’t be set by the creator

“Control” is the key term here – we lost it when we started digitizing our recorded music and started to conntect our computers to a network. Control over recorded music is something we will never get back and any effort on this is wasted energy.

Still catching up with two weeks worth of emails and the memories of Hawaii become more and more distant…

You can listen to all the below here.

1. Sebastien Tellier ‘Divine’
2. My Latest Novel ‘All in All in All Is All’
3. Death Cab For Cutie ‘My Mirror Speaks’
4. Iron & Wine ‘The Trapeze Swinger’
5. Peter Broderick ‘And It’s Alright’
6. The Wooden Birds ‘The Other One’
7. One For The Team ‘Garden’
8. Camera Obscura ‘My Maudlin Career’
9. La Roux ‘In For The Kill’ (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey Remix)
10. Woodhands ‘I Kissed A Girl’
11. Emmy The Great ‘M.I.A’
12. Oh No! Oh My! ‘The Party Punch’