Music & Media Finland is a unique connection point and an opportunity for Western music-business professionals to meet their Eastern counterparts, and vice versa. Finland’s geographically and culturally strategic position next to Russia and the Baltic countries make this a platform with solid foundations.

Music & Media Finland 2010 gives delegates access to numerous, coordinated networking opportunities and international seminars, now with additional content, while allowing convenient schedule planning to suit individual needs. The conference attracts a steady stream of delegates from all sectors of the music and related industries globally; participants from 15 countries have already signed up for this year’s conference, which takes place on October 21 – 24.

ROGER MAVITY (CEO, CONRAN HOLDINGS) AND JONATHAN FORSTER (GM EUROPE AND GLOBAL SALES DIRECTOR, SPOTIFY) TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AT MUSIC & MEDIA FINLAND

Music & Media Finland is proud to announce its first two keynotes for 2010: Conran Holdings' CEO Roger Mavity and Spotify's European General Manager and Global Sales Director Jonathan Forster.

Advertising executive Roger Mavity started his career in the UK in 1981, when he set up his own firm, Mavity Gilmore. He sold Mavity Gilmore in 1991 and joined Granada Ltd., handling the PR for Granada's bid for the Forte Group under Gerry Robinson – the largest successful hostile takeover in history. After 25 successful years in advertising, Mavity eventually became CEO of Conran Holdings – one of the world’s leading design companies. Roger Mavity is co-author of Life’s a Pitch, a best-selling guide to presentation skills, first published in 2007. He has also written articles for Campaign magazine and various newspapers, including The Observer.

Music & Media Finland 2010 in Tampere, Finland, October 21 – 24

Sign up now for a discounted Early Bird price at: www.musiikkimedia.fi

We now seek a fixed-term producer for our Nordic partnership programme 2010-2011

This fixed-term, full-time producer will be responsible for work to export Finnish popular music in the Nordic countries: customer contacts, marketing communications as well as projects and financing programmes under the partnership programme. This export and sales professional will most likely be based in Stockholm.

We require our producer to be a goal-conscious person with an innovative approach and a passion for marketing communications and developing exportation of Finnish popular music. In addition, we require knowledge of music sector professionals and earnings logics. Understanding of the structures of society and administrative practices is an advantage.

Our producer is rich in ideas, able to shoulder responsibility, works effectively as a team member and gets along with people splendidly. The successful candidate is motivated on the job and has the ability to motivate others. Applicants should have at least three years’ work experience of tasks involving responsibility in international trade and/or the music business.

Our producer will also have very good command of both Finnish and English. Proficiency in the Nordic languages, especially fluent Swedish, is a plus. Knowledge of the key professionals in the Nordic music sector is also an advantage. We also value a Master’s degree. These, however, are not absolute requirements.

The successful producer will have a good overview of the media and communications tools, a good capacity to withstand pressure, a good sense of humour and the ability to keep everything under control even when rushed.

The producer for our Nordic partnership programme will start preferably on 15 August 2010 or as agreed.

Please submit your free-form application, including the salary desired, by 12 noon on 2 July to info@musex.fi. Additional information about the position can be obtained from Director Paulina Ahokas; by e-mail (paulina@musex.fi) or phone (+358 (0)20 730 2230) on Wednesday 23 June and Wednesday 30 June at 14:00–15:00.

NB! We shall contact shortlisted applicants, to arrange interviews, during the week starting 5 July. Interviews will take place in Helsinki on 13 July.

Music Export Finland
Pieni Roobertinkatu 16 A
00120 Helsinki, Finland
+358 20 730 2230
info@musex.fi

Timo Kaukolampi – a Finnish musician, DJ and producer, perhaps best known as a founding member of the groups And The Lefthanded, Op:l Bastards and K-X-P as well as a producer for artists such as Annie – will give an exclusive DJ set comprising works of his own creation and a selection of others’ tunes, too. Currently Kaukolampi is working on new material with the renowned Kent-based production team Xenomania.

K-X-P's self titled debut album will be out through Smalltown Supersound on July 19. Be prepared!

Finland Fest brings together Finnish and Japanese professionals, mano a mano, and unleashes a torrent, a veritable monsoon of Finnish music upon Tokyo. From woolly folkies to leather-clad metal men to sharp-as-tacks jazzers, as well as woolly metal men, leather-clad folkies and even

Check out more information about Finland Fest and the full showcase program on the event page.

Bringing some spice to the conventioneering are a number of live showcases presenting Finnish music from heroic heavy metal to equally heroic harmonica wrangling, electronic beats and jazz virtuosity.

For a complete speaker list, program and more information on the showcases, check out the event page.

The Finnish contingent at The Great Escape offers the frenzied folk-punk of Jaakko & Jay (Fullsteam Records), the ocean swell of shoegazing generated by Joensuu 1685 (Kaiku Studios / Bone Voyage), passionate alternative rock by Manna (Suomen Musiikki) and VUK (Kaiku Studios) on a breathtaking tightrope walk between stellar hooks and avant-garde art rock.

On top of all this, the renowned London-based Nordic Club night JA JA JA drags its bones to Brighton and presents a special evening with a line-up featuring three Nordic acts. The evening starts with a free-drinks party at the Queens Hotel (Sandringham Suite) at 7.30pm, which all the Great Escape delegates are welcome to attend.

Danny Sim
Marketing Director, International Repertoire / Universal Music, China

Mathew Daniel
VP Internet Music Services / R2G / wa3.cn, China

Viraj Savant
Founder / An Echo, India

Zhou Xiao Chuan
President / Starsing Records, China

Al Di
Promoter / Icon Promotions / ALDITV, China

More information about Shanghai Snowball here.

The record brings together musicians from Helsinki and Shanghai in the spirit of true collaboration, but the original composition, minus a jazz standard or two, were penned by Pohjola.

The film presents a great variety of viewpoints, from those who see metal as the new folk music to those who detest its commercialization. The film includes interviews with many musicians who helped make Finnish metal an international phenomenon.

Kimmo Kuusniemi, after his pioneering fight for metal, lived in England for 16 years, so his perspective on all that happened is different from your average Finnish metalhead's.

Click here to download the movie from the App Store.

The tour consists of Finntroll (King Foo Entertainment), Moonsorrow (Spinefarm), Swallow the Sun (King Foo Entertainment / Spinefarm) and Survivors Zero (Cobra). The producer, King Foo Entertainment, hopes to make it an annual event. What's a year in the States without loud, occasionally shirtless Finns?

Finntroll just released their new epic, Nifelvind, and are riding high on a new surge of trans-Atlantic popularity.