Right, I’ve had a chance to think more about Nokia’s new Music Recommender service, which I was a bit snippy about here yesterday. To recap, it’s a service where independent record shop owners from around the world recommend their favourite new tunes, and you can sample them on your mobile and then pay to download the full tracks.
I’m still a bit concerned that it might all be minimalist Japanese techno and Alaskan nose-flute music, but someone at the Nokia launch event last night made the fair point that if you’re intimidated about actually going into these kinds of shops, having access to their picks on your phone is actually quite a good idea.
Meanwhile, having seen the launch clip of a crazy Japanese punk-pop band whose singer’s alternated between helium-high and Exorcist-growly, I can see the appeal of hearing new random stuff from different parts of the globe. I’m still not sure about David Bowie podcasting every month though – as legendary a musician as he is (for all the music he did before 1984), wouldn’t it be more interesting to have a different person every month giving their choice of hot new tunes?
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