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This morning I was talking about Chris Anderson’s new book ‘ FREE‘ which I can highly recommend. You can read some more in my previous post.

Also, the difference between classical and ‘popular’ music is something that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently  – related to that I played a track by Ólafur Arnalds who calls his music ‘neo-classical’. You can download his latest free album here.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons ‘Beggin’
2. My Latest Novel ‘I Declare A Ceasefire’
3. The Low Anthem ‘Charlie Darwin’
4. Sigur Ros ‘Hafsól’ (live)
5. Riceboy Sleeps ‘Happiness’
6. Ólafur Arnalds ‘Erla’s Waltz’
7. Hauschka ‘Morgenrot’
8. Florence And The Machine ‘Howl’
9. Cassettes Won’t Listen ‘Into The Hillside’
10. Fagget Fairys ‘Feed The Horse’
11. Moby ‘Pale Horses’ (Apparat Remix)
12. k-os ’4 3 2 1′

I mentioned this in my show already: I find it very hard to add anything new to the Michael Jackson ‘discussions’ – it almost feels like it has all been said: obviously a great loss for music regardless of the controversy. The first album I owned was “Thriller’ on cassette tape.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Plastic Operator ‘Folder’
2. Sia ‘Electric Bird’
3. Ben Gibbard ‘Thriller’
4. Michael Jackson ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’
5. Fol Chen ‘Cable TV’
6. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons ‘Beggin’
7. The Crystal Method featuring Emily Haines ‘Come Back Clean’
8. Tortoise ‘Minors’
9. Clark ‘Rainbow Voodoo’
10. Tujiko Noriko ‘Call My Name’
11. AGF ‘My Most Amazing New Patch’
12. Royal City ‘I Called But You Were Sleeping’

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′

Some of you would have noticed already: the show from last Wednesday was actually a re-run of my show from the 8th April.

A new show will be broadcast on Tide 96.0 next Wednesday while I’m in Spain and Brazil. I’ll try and upload it here as soon as possible.

More on that soon…

Today I talked a bit about the idea that the internet is ‘free’. There will be a blog post following up from this but essentially my point is that there seems to be this mind-set that all content on the internet is free. I argue that we might not pay for it directly when we consume it but that someone will have to pick up the bill.

Take this podcast as an example: it might seem free to you but in reality you are (probably) paying to access the internet and I pay for any streaming costs.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Tears For Fears ‘Mad World’
2. We Fell To Earth ‘Lights Out’
3. Grizzly Bear ‘Two Weeks’
4. Eels ‘My Timing Is Off’
5. Bibio ‘Haikuesque (When She Laughs)’
6. Beth Jeans Houghton ‘NIGHT SWIMMER’
7. Withered Hand ‘Oldsmobile Car’
8. Sharon Van Etten ‘Consolation Prize’
9. Phosphorescent ‘It’s Not Supposed To Be That Way’
10. Zoey Van Goey ‘City Is Exploding’
11. Jason Lytle ‘Ghost Of My Old Dog’
12. Metric ‘Help I’m Alive’
13. Simian Mobile Disco ‘Audacity of Huge’ (feat. Chris Keating)
14. Moderat ‘Seamonkey’

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’

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’