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As you might know, I’m organising and programming the Mobile Monday Barcelona events together with Cristina Meló, and Carles Fereiro from Barcelona Media. Martin Tantow, who initiated the event with me, left to Madrid for a new job so we’ll be missing him as of now.
After a summer break it’s time to announce the […]

Nokia takes the lead in bringing podcasts to mobile and I think that’s great news!
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the Nokia Podcasting Application for S60 at gotomobile.com, now the beta application for the Nokia N91 is available for download here. Thanks for the tip, Steven!

Steven at Nokia informs me that this version […]

This morning I received a box from a friend with some new released cd’s of my favourite artists. Pretty old skool this may seem, and it definately is to us people used to watch trends daily surrounded by the latest mobile tech. But this present brought me a particular pleasure I haven’t felt for a […]

It has been a while since I wrote on mobile music applications; not the ones as we know of them now - simple OTA downloads of ring-, real- and mp3 tones, but the ones that are just coming to the mobile market and are using new, innovative technology to create different business models for the […]

Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to see Cibelle with her 4-piece band presenting her new album The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves in Theatre Zorrilla in Barcelona (Badalona).

Her new album will be released in April 2006 on Crammed/Ziriguiboom. Cibelle will be performing all around Europe and North America throughout the rest of the year […]

Read on BBC NEWS:
“According to figures from the Recording Industry Association of America, digital sales accounted for slightly more than 4% of the market during the first half of 2005, up from about 1.5% during the first half of 2004.More than seven out of 10 US digital music sales through PCs are through iTunes, a […]

Yesterday it was in my mailbox again: “Always a treat: every two months, Mercedes presents an exclusive selection of musical talents from around the world – right now Mixed Tape 09 with a range of urban sounds between London and Berlin!”
Since its inception, receiving this message takes me immediately to the page to download the […]

Some of the finest jazz records ever made have been released on Impulse! - The New Wave Of Jazz Is On Impulse! Remember?
Impulse! released some of the best records from legendary jazz artists such as Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, and many others…

I just previewed a […]

Tomorrow I’m gonna get a look to the live Fabchannel.Comwebcast of the Simple Minds playing in Paradiso, Amsterdam.
Fabchannel.com is great! It’s one of the best broadband streaming video concert services that I know of. Good quality live concert webcasts of great bands and artists from the Paradiso and the Melkweg in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
It reminded […]

I wanted to present this as a new iMix on iTunes but the problem is they don’t have all my favourite records in store yet…
But hey, here’s this years “Indian Summer” mix for the fans; if you like original sixties-jet-set-bossa-kind-a-lounge then try to get a grib on these records, this is my mix selection for […]