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Those who listen to my show on a regular basis (and understand German) will see that Gerd Leonhard and myself share many ideas about the future of recorded music. He put together a brief overview on his thoughts in the YouTube video below.

It’s a great summary and there is a lot in those 10 mins – might be worth watching twice.

EDIT: as just pointed out by Chris, there is of course a second part to the above:

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’