Best Simon Kemp Podcasts (2024)

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E183: Darrell M. McNeill on the Isley Brothers + Isaac Hayes 1:03:54

42m ago1:03:54

1:03:54

Joining us all the way from Santa Barbara for this episode is Darrell M. McNeill, director of operations at the Black Rock Coalition and author of a new 33 1/3 study of the Isley Brothers' mighty 1973 album 3 + 3. We start by asking our guest about his '90s contributions to the Village Voice and his involvement with the B.R.C.. Crediting his dad fo…

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Disrupting E-Commerce: How Shein and Temu are Challenging Amazon's Reign with Jing Yang 1:05:14

4d ago1:05:14

1:05:14

"Temu was launched in the US, their first market in September 2022. That is when Shein just started to gain a lot of traction. There's a lot of attention being paid to Shein. In the beginning, many people thought that Temu was a copycat of Shein because they both sold goods from China using this direct-from-China shipping model. However, I think th…

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Disrupting E-Commerce: How Shein and Temu are Challenging Amazon's Reign with Jing Yang 1:05:14

16h ago1:05:14

1:05:14

"Temu was launched in the US, their first market in September 2022. That is when Shein just started to gain a lot of traction. There's a lot of attention being paid to Shein. In the beginning, many people thought that Temu was a copycat of Shein because they both sold goods from China using this direct-from-China shipping model. However, I think th…

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E182: Joe "Mr. C" McEwen on soul music + alt.country + Joe Tex audio 1:18:43

8d ago1:18:43

1:18:43

In this episode we're joined by the esteemed Joe "Mr. C" McEwen, who Zooms in from L.A. to reminisce about his storied career as a writer, DJ and A&R man. We begin in our guest's native Philadelphia, where his teenage mind was blown by a James Brown show in 1966, and follow him up to his adopted Boston. He recalls his early reviews for The Boston P…

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E181: Mark Williams on Knebworth '74 + the underground press + Joan Jett 1:10:26

22d ago1:10:26

1:10:26

In this episode the marvellous Mark Williams Zooms in from mid-Wales to regale us with tales from the heyday of the UK's underground press and his later involvement with the L.A. punk scene. We start in mid-'60s Newcastle – where our guest drummed with beat combo the Jailbirds – and move on to his days at the Birmingham Arts Lab via a flat above Lo…

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E180: David Toop on Dr. John + Collusion + Scott Walker audio 1:23:29

2M ago1:23:29

1:23:29

In this episode we welcome the esteemed David Toop to Hammersmith – on the UK's General Election day – to discuss his extraordinary new book about (and around) Dr. John's 1968 album Gris-Gris. First we revisit the short-lived but splendidly eclectic Collusion magazine our guest co-founded in 1981: we hear about its inception and mission, as manifes…

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E179: Luke Turner & John Doran on The Quietus + Yoko Ono + James Chance 1:16:43

2M ago1:16:43

1:16:43

In this episode we welcome John Doran and Luke Turner to downtown Hammersmith and invite them to talk about their much-loved and newly-revamped Quietus "webzine". (That's Noughties-speak, for all you kids out there.) The intrepid duo look back on the 2008 birth of their baby and reflect on its survival and evolution over the subsequent 16 years. Qu…

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Episode 70 - Sapphire Recap with Holger Müller 29:56

3M ago29:56

29:56

Martin's partner in crime Holger Müller is back on Coffee Corner Radio. Of course, there is only one topic to discuss: SAP Sapphire in Orlando and Barcelona. Holger was in Orlando, Martin in Barcelona the week after. Have fun, share the word and give us feedback!

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How Netflix bring Asian Content to the Global Audience with Minyoung Kim 37:28

3M ago37:28

37:28

“The most important lesson that I have learned is really Know your audience. You need to really understand your audience, and what they want because oftentimes the content executives make the mistake of programming for themselves rather than the audience. And I actually went through the exact same mistake when I first started, because I believed wh…

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How Netflix bring Asian Content to the Global Audience with Minyoung Kim 37:28

3M ago37:28

37:28

“The most important lesson that I have learned is really Know your audience. You need to really understand your audience, and what they want because oftentimes the content executives make the mistake of programming for themselves rather than the audience. And I actually went through the exact same mistake when I first started, because I believed wh…

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Google & Sustainability in Europe with Adam Elman 31:03

3M ago31:03

31:03

"We have these very ambitious goals and we've spoken about a few, but there are many others in Europe. In particular, the E.U. and countries like the U.K. have very ambitious climate goals. For Google, we want to be part of the solution. So, good for me is, we make progress on our goals in our own operations, but we really want to help others. And …

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Google & Sustainability in Europe with Adam Elman 31:03

3M ago31:03

31:03

"We have these very ambitious goals and we've spoken about a few, but there are many others in Europe. In particular, the E.U. and countries like the U.K. have very ambitious climate goals. For Google, we want to be part of the solution. So, good for me is, we make progress on our goals in our own operations, but we really want to help others. And …

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E178: Ann Powers on Joni Mitchell + Tori Amos + Women in Pop 1:16:15

2M ago1:16:15

1:16:15

In this episode we're joined from Nashville by acclaimed critic, author and broadcaster Ann Powers for a discussion of her new Joni Mitchell book. Starting in Ann's native Seattle, we hear about her early '80s pieces for The Rocket before moving on to her stints at the San Francisco Weekly and the New York Times. Mention of Piece by Piece, the 2005…

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Episode 69 - Output Management and Forms in SAP with Frank Engert 43:34

3M ago43:34

43:34

Martin talked with Frank Engert about everything related to forms and output management in SAP. Frank is the CEO of Softway AG, a German consultancy focused on output management. Frank runs also a German podcast about output management and forms in context of SAP which you can find here: https://www.softway.de/sap-formular-podcast They started with…

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Executive Coaching in the Asia Pacific with Parin Mehta 53:06

3M ago53:06

53:06

"I don't like to work with someone unless they're intrinsically motivated to do it. And so what I mean by that is, I don't think this is a service that you should sell to people. They should demand it and then they're looking in the market for someone to work with them. So I don't like to go out there and sell it per se. And so I used to get some e…

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Executive Coaching in the Asia Pacific with Parin Mehta 53:06

3M ago53:06

53:06

"I don't like to work with someone unless they're intrinsically motivated to do it. And so what I mean by that is, I don't think this is a service that you should sell to people. They should demand it and then they're looking in the market for someone to work with them. So I don't like to go out there and sell it per se. And so I used to get some e…

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E177: Val Wilmer on free jazz + photography + Lesley Gore audio 1:27:29

3M ago1:27:29

1:27:29

In this episode — our first-ever "field recording" — we travel up to North London to interview the legendary writer-photographer Val Wilmer. Val takes us back to her earliest musical memories in Streatham, South London, and her immersion in the capital's '60s jazz and blues scenes. We hear about her first pieces for Jazz Journal and her experiences…

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Product Management in a Scale-Up with Isaac Tay 1:06:17

4M ago1:06:17

1:06:17

"If I were to summarize it, your job as a product manager is to deliver the right product to the right users, to solve the right problems at the right time. Now, your role is very contextual because you will focus on different parts of that statement, depending on the founders, the stage of life of the company, which industry it is and everything e…

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Product Management in a Scale-Up with Isaac Tay 1:06:17

4M ago1:06:17

1:06:17

"If I were to summarize it, your job as a product manager is to deliver the right product to the right users, to solve the right problems at the right time. Now, your role is very contextual because you will focus on different parts of that statement, depending on the founders, the stage of life of the company, which industry it is and everything e…

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E176: Simon Day on the Fast Show + Brian Pern + Steely Dan audio 1:08:25

3M ago1:08:25

1:08:25

In this episode we welcome Fast Show legend Simon Day to downtown Hammersmith and ask him about his musical passions and the immortal Life Of Rock With Brian Pern. We start with our guest's misspent youth in south-east London, where he frequently saw bands such as Dr. Feelgood and local lads Squeeze and even fronted his own punk combo Simon & the V…

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Deploy and PropTech in 2024 with Jordan Kostelac 54:07

4M ago54:07

54:07

"I think the biggest learning that I had, and, by extension, JLL [Jones Lang LaSalle] in my last capacity was that it's not sufficient to take these companies and then just let them in the door. You can't hand one of your business clients the keys and expect them to drive. So, one of the first cohort companies in Urban Lab was a robotics company, a…

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Deploy and PropTech in 2024 with Jordan Kostelac 54:07

4M ago54:07

54:07

"I think the biggest learning that I had, and, by extension, JLL [Jones Lang LaSalle] in my last capacity was that it's not sufficient to take these companies and then just let them in the door. You can't hand one of your business clients the keys and expect them to drive. So, one of the first cohort companies in Urban Lab was a robotics company, a…

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Episode 68 - Analysts and Research Firms with Jon Reed 44:21

4M ago44:21

44:21

We had a well-known guest in this episode: Jon Reed (diginomica) is a writer and analyst and around in the SAP Community for ages. Jon and Martin talked about how the whole analyst and research business works. Of course, Jon added his extraordinary ideas and thoughts. As usual, we are looking forward to your feedback or reviews!…

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Akamai Cloud Computing & The Age of Edge AI with Jay Jenkins 45:41

5M ago45:41

45:41

"So already this year we've rolled out 10 of these regions. So two in APJ and Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. But 75 of these locations by the end of the year along with our core computing regions will give us 100 locations where customers can run these workloads, and we're not going to stop there. So we're going to have hundreds of these regions over …

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Akamai Cloud Computing & The Age of Edge AI with Jay Jenkins 45:41

5M ago45:41

45:41

"So already this year we've rolled out 10 of these regions. So two in APJ and Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. But 75 of these locations by the end of the year along with our core computing regions will give us 100 locations where customers can run these workloads, and we're not going to stop there. So we're going to have hundreds of these regions over …

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E175: Steffan Chirazi on Metallica + Jack Casady audio + John Sinclair 1:21:59

5M ago1:21:59

1:21:59

In this episode we welcome the splendid Steffan Chirazi to RBP Towers and ask him about his career as a metal/hard rock specialist and his long association with the mighty Metallica. We hear about our guest's lucky break as a 15-year-old Motörhead maniac when the band's frontman Lemmy gave up three hours to Steffan during the sessions for 1983's An…

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Saison Capital and Real World Asset Monetization in Crypto with Qin En Looi 46:32

5M ago46:32

46:32

"The one thing that has become quite clear in Asia, at least it's direct to retail - the government is not ready. The market is not ready. And there still needs to be a very high level of consumer protection. A lot more of a B2B-to-C approach. Where, let's say today's Web3 companies will need to partner up with existing licensed entities, whether t…

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Saison Capital and Real World Asset Monetization in Crypto with Qin En Looi 46:32

5M ago46:32

46:32

"The one thing that has become quite clear in Asia, at least it's direct to retail - the government is not ready. The market is not ready. And there still needs to be a very high level of consumer protection. A lot more of a B2B-to-C approach. Where, let's say today's Web3 companies will need to partner up with existing licensed entities, whether t…

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Digital Report 2024 and why Generative AI did not show up this time with Simon Kemp 1:07:12

5M ago1:07:12

1:07:12

"The key thing that I realize every time I look at the data is that the media is telling us a lot of nonsense. I think that the one thing I know is that the data tells a very different story to the media headlines. So I suppose my advice there is, never to accept clickbait at face value. If you're building a marketing plan, do your due diligence, a…

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Digital Report 2024 and why Generative AI did not show up this time with Simon Kemp 1:07:12

5M ago1:07:12

1:07:12

"The key thing that I realize every time I look at the data is that the media is telling us a lot of nonsense. I think that the one thing I know is that the data tells a very different story to the media headlines. So I suppose my advice there is, never to accept clickbait at face value. If you're building a marketing plan, do your due diligence, a…

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E174: Sean O'Hagan on Microdisney + The High Llamas + The Beach Boys 1:33:49

5M ago1:33:49

1:33:49

In this episode we welcome revered High Llamas leader (and arranger to the hip and the mighty) Sean O'Hagan to Hammersmith and ask him about his life and times from Microdisney to new album Hey Panda. We hear about Sean's Luton childhood, his family's move back to Ireland, and his 1980 encounter with the late Cathal Coughlan — the Corkonian with wh…

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