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Selecting music at Tempo

Will spin some tunes at Tempo in Malmo on Friday. It's together with my friend Big Boss B�r�n and there will be plenty of time to chat, so if you're in southern Sweden please stop by for a couple of drinks! From ten-ish until 01.

Trainflow

SJs tidning Kup� skriver:

"Musiken har satts samman av radarparet Christer Sandelin och Tommy Ekman. Christer och Tommy �r v�l mest k�nda fr�n gruppen Freestyle p� 80-talet. Idag arbetar de dock med en helt annan typ av musikprojekt. F�r SJ har de skapat en blandning av musik som n�rmast skulle kunna klassas som "lounge". Liknande musik kan du hitta p� samlingar som Buddabar, Del mar, Portixol m fl."

Skivan Kup� syftar p� heter Trainflow och kan k�pas "i SJs resebutik, p� X2000 eller utvalda InterCity-t�g". Alla int�kter g�r oavkortat till h�rprodukter f�r Freestyles comebackturn�, planerad till sommaren 2006.

Made, played and earned in Japan

Last Thursday my report on the Japanese copyright laws was broadcasted by Musikjournalen. As SR's streaming service seems to have had some malfuctions during the holidays it's instead listenable through this link for about a week. The feature includes interviews with Gakuji Matsuda (Cubismo Grafico, Neil&Iraiza, etc etc), the professional songwriter Yousuke Kobayashi and Satoshi Watanabe, Manager of the Broadcast and Online licensing Department at JASRAC, (the JApanese Society for Rights of Authours, Composers and publishers). You'll also hear music by Cubismo Grafico, Leyona, Tommy February6 and SMAP.

As usual the radio is mainly in Swedish (though you'll hear parts of the interviews in Japanese and English), and yeah I know, I haven't written too many posts in English here this autumn. So from now on, or actually from a couple of weeks ago, my Tokyo-related bloggings are to be found, read and commented over at Tokyo Style In Gothenburg. Head over there and let us know what you want to know about the city we love.