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Assuming there will be no more ash cloud problems I will be over in Newcastle next week to speak at ‘The Know How‘ event. The panel is called Transmission and focuses on the changes in regional broadcasting and music consumption in general.

The event is organized by Generator and Evolution 2010 and I will be joined on stage by Ben Perreau (Global Radio/Gigulate) and Paul Campell (Amazing Radio) on the 24th May.

When I was on the phone today with our moderator Russ Conway I was reminded again of the gap in our terminology: we keep using the word ‘radio’ when we speak of services such as Last.fm and Pandora. The truth is that they have very little to do with the original ‘one-to-many’ broadcasting service called radio but we don’t seem to have a better term. ‘Personalized Streaming Music Service’ just doen’t sound very neat.

And something became clear today: I’ll probably have to get used to the fact that people will call me a ‘former Last.fm-er’. I noticed that’s the case with many of the guys that left Last.fm and I now often catch myself introducing myself as the former Head of Music. It just makes it easier for other people to understand what I’m all about even though we are more than the name of our old employer.

I guess this is it. Thanks to everyone for listening over the last five years, it has been a blast! I will of course keep blogging here and there will be more music related projects coming up in 2010 but for now I’ve got some big travel plans (more on that here).

You can listen to my last show here.

1. Schneider TM ‘The Light 3000′
2. Kings Of Convenience ‘I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From’ (Röyksopp Remix)
3. Mugison ‘Sweetest Melody’
4. Lali Puna ‘Nin-Com-Pop’
5. Frightened Rabbit ‘Set You Free’
6. Phoenix ‘Everything Is Everything’
7. Sufjan Stevens ‘Chicago’
8. Mia Doi Todd ‘My Room Is White’
9. Flunk ‘True Faith’
10. Chromeo ‘Needy Girl’
11. The Teenagers ‘Homecoming’ (Gentelmen Drivers Rave Mix)
12. Superdiscount ‘Fast Track’ (Featuring Julien Delfaud_Alex Gopher)

This is my penultimate show. Weird. As mentioned this morning there will be repeats of heute:pop:morgen on Tide 96.0 until the end of the year but no more new shows from me. Again, today I went through the playlists from the last five (!) to compile the below.

You can listen to the show here.

1. Gravenhurst ‘Velvet Cell’
2. Sebastien Tellier ‘La Ritournelle’ (Mr Dan’s Magic Wand Remix)
3. Bloc Party ‘The Pioneers’ (M83 Remix)
4. Beck ‘Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime’
5. Ben Gibbard ‘Carolina’
6. Willy Mason ‘We Can Be Strong’
7. The Postal Service ‘Against All Odds’
8. Chris Garneau ‘Baby’s Romance’
9. Manchester Orchestra ‘I Can Feel A Hot One’
10. Bon Iver ‘re: Stacks’
11. Soko ‘I Will Never Love You More’
12. Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’
13. The Wave Pictures ‘I Love You Like A Madman’

Only two more shows to go after this one. Regular listeners will recognize many of the songs below – going through all my old playlists brings up good memories. Interesting how with some songs I know exactly why I played them on my show and where found them and with others I have no recollection why they ended up on my playlist.

I know you might be sick of hearing about it by now but if you can please have a look at my SXSW panel and vote. Thanks.

You can listen to this show here.

1. Alias ‘Unseen Sights’
2. Ulrich Schnauss ‘On My Own’
3. The New Pornographers ‘All The Things That Go To Make Heaven And Earth’
4. Cansei De Ser Sexy ‘Let’s Make Love And Listen Death From Above’
5. Phosphorescent ‘Wolves’
6. Nina Gordon ‘Straight Outta Compton’
7. Seu Jorge ‘Life On Mars?’
8. Lightspeed Champion ‘Stay The Fuck Away From Me’
9. Iron & Wine ‘Boy With A Coin’
10. Feist ‘My Moon My Man’ (Boys Noize Classic Mix)
11. Daft Punk ‘Human After All’ (SebastiAn Remix)
12. Modeselektor ’2000007 feat. TTC’
13. Tes ‘New New York’

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)

Going through my playlists from the last five years did not only make me feel nostalgic but I also found some great tracks I haven’t listened to in ages. For my last four ‘new’ shows I will pick out some of the best ones without to calling it a “Best Of…” or do some sort of countdown.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Múm ‘Sing Along’
2. Wye Oak ‘Take It In’
3. The Slow Club ‘When I Go’
4. Sea Wolf ‘Stanislaus’
5. Cat Power ‘Dreams’
6. Lou Barlow ‘Gravitate’
7. The Magic Numbers ‘Hymn for Her’
8. Imogen Heap ‘Canvas’
9. Blitzen Trapper ‘Black River Killer’
10. Deastro ‘Tone Adventure #3′
11. The Knife ‘You Make Me Like Charity’
12. Simian Mobile Disco ‘Cream Dream’
13. M83 ‘Don’t Save Us From The Flames’

There are points in live where you have to challenge yourself and get out of your comfort zone in order to achieve personal growth. I’m planning to do all that and as part of that I will stop my radio show for a while.

My last show (in it’s current form) will be broadcast on the 2nd September 2009. Tide 96.0 might broadcast repeats until the end of the year but I won’t post anything new on here. Strange feeling, I’ve done this for over five years.

I will keep you posted on my plans, all exciting stuff.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Deastro ‘Tone Adventure #3′
2. Azeda Booth ‘Big Fists’
3. The Big Pink ‘A Brief History of Love’
4. Florence And The Machine ‘Howl’
5. Fredo Viola ‘The Turn (A Pagan Lament)’
6. Tom Waits ‘Alice’
7. Willy Mason ‘We Can Be Strong’
8. Phosphorescent ‘It’s Not Supposed To Be That Way’
9. The Slow Club ‘When I Go’
10. Kings of Convenience ‘Mrs. Cold’
11. Imogen Heap ‘Canvas’
12. Like A Stuntman ‘On Repetition We Are’
13. Friendly Fires ‘I’m Good I’m Gone’
14. Modeselektor ‘The White Flash’ (feat. Thom Yorke)

This is where you can have a look at the results from the Music Hack Day I was mentioning this morning. Some really cool stuff in there.

Also, you will find me at the Lovebox Festival in London this weekend, give me a shout if you are around.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. David Bowie ‘Life On Mars’
2. Florence And The Machine ‘Howl’
3. Noah And The Whale ‘The First Days Of Spring’
4. Oh No! Oh My! ‘I Love You All the Time’ (Acoustic)
5. Emmy The Great ‘MIA’
6. My Latest Novel ‘I Declare A Ceasefire’
7. The Low Anthem ‘Charlie Darwin’
8. Why? ‘Eskimo Snow’
9. Yo La Tengo ‘Love Chant’
10. King Cannibal ‘So… Embrace The Minimum’
11. Holy Ghost! ‘I Will Come Back’ (DJ Mehdi Remix)
12. Fuck Buttons ‘Bright Tomorrow’
13. Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head ‘Slow Motion Tag Team’

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’