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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)

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.

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Stefan, Rupert and I have been invited to host a Last.fm radio show at the Big Chill Festival this year. They always have a local FM license for their site and they encourage people to bring radios so you can extend the Big Chill experience for when you are not in front of the stages. I think you might also be able to listen to the Big Chill radio station online.

It might seems a bit counter intuitive to have a radio show hosted by Last.fm since the service is all about your personalized music experience and not about us three DJs deciding what will be played. But we came up with a slightly different idea:

The two hour set will be based on the Last.fm Hype Chart as well as the music taste of the people who are attending the festival. This way the Last.fm users have indirectly decided what will be played and we only act as a filter and make sure we don’t only play Michael Jackson. To give the show a bit of a ‘geek edge’ we will be talking about Last.fm, how it works and what we are doing at the festival.

I believe we are on air from midday to 2pm on the Sunday. I wonder how many people will actually be away at that point but that will not stop us from having some fun in the studio.

If you’re going to the Big Chill this year, make sure you mark your attendance here and we might play your favourite songs. We might even give you a shout out (your Last.fm user name of course).

Brazil. What a great time I had. Dancing, swimming, meeting great people, learning.

I like it when places still surprise you even though you think you know something about them already. Real poverty for example: we (Westerners) think that we have seen the stats and therefore know about poor people but it’s not until you really see it that you start to understand.

I was there for the Porto Musical conference and did a talk on digital music. It’s nice to see how people react to my ideas and thoughts, there seem to be a real energy in the music business in Brazil.

I was blown away in many ways and am sure that I will be back soon.

Sorry for the delay in updating my shows, it’s not the jetlag but the 24 hours of travelling that kills you.

You can listen to my latest shows here.

Playlist 17/06/09
1. The Wave Pictures ‘Bumble Bee’
2. Fink ‘Sort Of Revolution’ (The Cinematic Orchestra Remix)
3. Cougar ‘Stay Famous’
4. TRV$DJAM ‘COACHELLA 4′
5. Vetiver ‘Strictly Rule’
6. Grizzly Bear ‘Owner Of A Lonely Heart’
7. Chad VanGaalen ‘Willow Tree’
8. Beth Jeans Houghton ‘Night Swimmer’
9. Grasscut ‘High Down’
10. Riceboy Sleeps ‘Happiness’
11. The Fugees ‘Ready or Not’
12. Moderat ‘Seamonkey’

Playlist 24/06/09
1. Phoenix ‘Lisztomania’
2. Vetiver ‘Strictly Rule’
3. The Flaming Lips ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
4. The Twilight Sad ‘Three Seconds of Air’
5. Finn ‘Dew’
6. Lykke Li ‘Tonight’ (YN Piano Version)
7. Riceboy Sleeps ‘Happiness’
8. Grizzly Bear ‘Owner Of A Lonely Heart’
9. La Roux ‘In For The Kill’ (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey Remix)
10. TRV$DJAM ‘COACHELLA 4′

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

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.

Just a quick note for everyone who is waiting for my latest shows. I’m now on holiday (first Vancouver and then Hawaii) and I’ll upload them as soon as I can. Not sure about the internet connection at these kind of beaches.

If you are in Hamburg you’ll still be able to listen to a new show next Wednesday, I’ve recorded it already.

In the meantime you can follow me on twitter where I’ll try and make people as jealous as possible. There will be some pictures as well.