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I just got into London and it’s great to be back! OpenMusicMedia London is happening tomorrow night, hope to see you there.

I noticed that Karim from Techvibes was kind enough to record my short introduction for the OpenMusicMedia event in Toronto two weeks ago and this is the video. (By the way, the bricks you can see in the background are part of the oldest wall in Toronto.)

I’ve been in Vancouver just over two weeks and someone warned me that I will have to go over to Toronto before I realize it. It only took me this long.

As a co-founder of OpenMusicMedia I certainly wanted to see what the guys in Toronto are doing with the idea since I knew they had some good events last year. What I didn’t expect is that they would invited me to lead the conversation is the next OpenMusicMedia Toronto event which will take place on the 12th May.

Our conversation will focus on location based music services and we’ll discuss if those are necessary for the industry as well as music fans. The idea started with me thinking that 15 years ago a lot of the music discovery and consumption happened on a local level: we would find new music on local radio station, in the local record shops or through friends we hang out and go to gigs with. With the Internet things became very global and now we can explore music from all over the world and we are not bound to our local areas.

More recently we see the success of services and websites that are focusing on your area (Foursquare being just one example) and in our next OpenMusicMedia session in Toronto we want to discuss what this means for the music industry. Do we need more ‘local music services’? What role will local radio stations have in the future? After the closure of many local record store around the world will we they see their comeback over the next few years?

As always with OpenMusicMedia, I will not answer those questions but only act as a moderator for a big discussion in an informal setting. If you’re around it’d be great to see you there.

This week I talked about our OpenMusicMedia event which took place last week. It’s a free event so come down next time too if you are in town.

I also talked about my trip to Toronto for Canadian Music Week and what I’ve been up to there.

You can listen to all this here.

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)