Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

Good news everyone! and thanks to those who’ve been pestering me to get a new one up. Here it is, my summer walking tour of all that’s cool as I’ve discovered in Indie rock this season (a.k.a. The Best Damn Music You Won’t Hear on the Radio). But it’s also a little autobiographical, these are the tracks that have had the biggest impact on me – and for better or worse I can’t stop playing.

If you’re subscribed already, just go in to Itunes and click update. Or if you’re not subscribed yet (what the heck’s wrong with you?!) just follow the instructions:

Link to the podcast (in itunes click Advanced–>”subscribe to podcast” then paste in this url): https://www.thomaspurves.com/music/feed.xml

You can click the song name to download the individual mp3 or if you’re interested in actually supporting the artist, I’ve included links to where you can buy them digitally. (this season, the score is: itunes 10, emusic 9)

Artist	Song	Time	Available
Shearwater	Seventy Four Seventy Five	0:00
Sufjan Stevens	Springfield	3:40
The Lovely Feathers	Pope John Paul	7:35
Tokyo Police Club	Nature of the Experiment	11:25
Sunset Rubdown	Us Once in between	13:27
Camera Obscura	Lloyd, I’m ready to be heartbroken	17:40
Be Your Own Pet	Adventure	22:15
Tapes ‘n Tapes	Insistor	21:27
Nomo	Nu Tones	28:24
Sound Team	Movie Monster	32:03
Tuning	Woodcat	36:15
Nano	A suivre	39:10
Beirut	Mount Wroclai	43:49
El Perro Del Mar	I can’t talk about it	47:00
Shearwater	Johnny Viola	49:50

Or if you’d rather go low-tech download the mix as one big mp3 file and burn it to CD or something. And, by popular demand, all these tracks available as one big-ass zip file.

enjoy!

and if you missed the spring edition… it’s here

If you’re not already joined, link for 25 free Emusic tracks (in sweet drm-free 192bit mp3 format): link

Whant to learn more about how social media is transforming business. From internal blogging to wikis, tagging, and wisdom of the crowds, come see how and who are putting these ideas to work in the Enterprise.

We’re doing it properly this time. Come out thursday (July 20th) for an Enterprise 2.0 Pub night. The show will be run in a somewhat informal workshop format, we’ll have a schedule of three presenters covering the areas of Tech, the Business and the Human Factors of “Enterprise 2.0”. Followed by networking and beer consumption.

If you plan to attend or would like to present, don’t forget to sign up.

All are welcome from tech to business minded. Admission is freedom. (But please do buy a drink or two to support us and the venue).

Monocrom setting up to perform for Toronto

Had the enormous pleasure of meeting up with Yohanes and the crew from Monochrom last night (official site, wikipedia) the manic genius art-interventionist collective from Vienna. Thanks to Fran (a sometime collaborator herself) for the tipoff that they were in town.

There’s still time to catch them in Montreal later this month if that’s were you are.

monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science and political activism.

” [Monochrom has] established a 1 baud semaphore line through the streets of San Francisco, started an illegal space race through Los Angeles, buried people alive in Vancouver, and cracked the hierarchies of the art system with The Thomann Project. In Austria they ate blood sausages made from their own blood in order to criticize the grotesque neoliberal formation of the world economy. Sometimes they compose melancholic pop songs about dying media and hosted the first annual and inevitably leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics.”

The show it’s self consisted mostly of Johanes regaling us with stories of their past projects each making slightly less sense than the one before. accompanied by Johanes dancing and belting out a few songs, a few odes and a general stream of techno-politico-art mashups of varying degrees of piercing absurdity. recommended.

Oh and I’ve been made an official citizen of Zombia. Let me know if you’d like a zombie passport as well, I’ve got all the paperwork. “Just one thing you should keep in mind: once a zombie always a zombie. There’s no turning back. Unless maybe you happen to find a way. Again, that is none of our business either. Zombie or not to be — this is no question!”