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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).

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’

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’