Keepin It Real : Classic Funk Chronicles 1

In an effort to keep it real, we present to you a mix of classic funk from OG sources, spun out in one inspired session while loungin’ on the Mothership: Sly & the Family Stone (late period); Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns (featuring Maceo & the Godfather; Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye; Funkadelic (uncut)….and more. Feels good deep in the bones.
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mixed dec2011/jan2012
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The backfloating hedgehog
A free-range mix in one sitting, featuring Quantic / Steel Pulse / Lee "Scratch" Perry / Rashaan Roland Kirk / Four Tet / Radiohead / Tom Waits / Yo-Yo Ma / The Spinners / The B-52's / The Beatles / Nirvana / Johnny Cash / Medeski. Martin & Wood / Willie Nelson / Phish / Art Blakeley / Pearl Jam / Ziggy Marley / Prince!

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mixed dec 2011
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Milk It : A NIRVANA MIXTAPE
After reading Charles Cross’ excellent biography of Kurt Cobain, Heavier Than Heaven, I felt moved to collect my favorite Nirvana songs in to a (digital) mixtape, mostly so I could carry around 1 hour and 30 minutes of anguished guttural dark rocknroll to tap in to when the mood called for. I have such profound and deep-felt respect and awe for Cobain & Co’s gifts as musicians, poets and avatars and this recent journey through words and music has made me appreciate anew what this powerhouse trio brought to the world. I’m continually amazed that they were only together a handful of years and only produced three studio albums, and I can’t help but wonder what Kurt would have done in following years had he kept himself alive. There is a new level of artistry and sophistication that comes through on In Utero-era recordings, as if he was only starting to bloom, and his self-inflicted early exit stands as a great tragedy for rock n roll.
This mix pulls together tracks from Bleach, Nevermind and In Utero (mostly demos, B-sides, alt takes, etc) as well as their live albums (Reading, Portland 1989, Seattle Paramount Halloween 1991) and With the Lights Out box set.
Namaste Kurt. Here’s to hoping you’ve found your peace, and thanks for all the power chords, broken guitars and screams.

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11-11-11: New Muziks for Autumn
Fresh music from Wilco, Jill Scott, My Morning Jacket, Radiohead, Ben Harper, Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys, Fleet Foxes, Cowboy Junkies and a slew of other Podcast Cafe long-time favorites. Autumn-tinged, harvest-style, completely nutritious & satisfying!

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Brokedown Palace : Garcia on Stage 4

Miss you Jerry!
xx oo thanks for everything you gave.....
Althea
Gomorrah
New Speedway Boogie
They Love Each Other
Jam
Watkins Glen Soundcheck
Doin' That Rag
Stella Blue
Feedback
They Love Each Other
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Brokedown Palace

You can find four other DJ Fundi tribute mixes to Garcia at www.podcastcafe.org/episodes/files/category-grateful.html
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Widespread Panic * Grand Targhee, Alta, WY * 7/1/11 Highlights

Targhee camping photo by Jim Stanford.
I plan on releasing several podcasts over the next couple of weeks featuring highlights from the Targhee run. This first podcast in the series condensing the first night on July 1, 2011 to my favorite songs and jams of the night. I know, I know -- for some people, editing down a full show to highlights is nearly sacrelige. For those listeners, the full shows are available for purchase at www.livewidespreadpanic.com/catalog or http://panicstream.com/vault/11.html.

Setlist: Ain’t Life Grand > Who Do You Belong To? * LDGTB * Use Me * You Should Be Glad * Ain't No Use > Drumz > Ride Me High > Pilgrims * Chainsaw City * E: City of Dreams

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Purple Reign IV : Prince Mixxx

The fourth (of five) installment in the Podcast Cafe’s Purple Reign musical mix tribute series to Prince opens up with an abstract funk-jazz track from his obscure “Xpectations” album, then segues in to the start-stop funk of “Dance On” from “Lovesexy” and a remix of “Irresistible Bitch.” It’s a promising start and lets the listener know right away that they are in the hands of a Prince master archivist and mixmaster supreme. This isn’t any kind of Greatest Hits compilation -- expect rare tracks, remixes, B-sides and other surprises that range the entire 30-some years of the Purple One’s extravagant career.
Other tracks along the way include “Call My Name,” “Raspberry Beret,” “Hot Thing,” “Let’s Pretend We’re Married,” “Thieves in the Temple,” “Lemon Crush,” “New Power Generation,” “Joy in Repetition,” “The Beautiful Ones,” “Rainbow Children,” “Private Joy,” “Paisley Park,” Do Me, Baby” and “Positivity.”
You can find Purple Reign episodes 1-3 at http://podcastcafe.org/episodes/files/category-prince.html.

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Acoustica V : Born 2 B Loved
Happy happy happy spring! Green growth, perky forest floor coming alive, unfurling fiddleheads, trillium, hummingbirds, currants, frogsong at night and love. Here's another gift: Acoustica V: Born to be Loved, our fifth mix in our series of acoustic-based music. Featuring songs new and old by Andrew Bird, Robin Pecknold, Fleet Foxes, Lucinda Williams, Iron & Wine, Pearl Jam, Cowboy Junkies, The Mountain Goats, The Cave Singers, Radiohead, Alexi Murdoch, The Decemberists, R.E.M. Willie Nelson with Wynton Marsalis & Norah Jones. This is like an all-star lineup of Podcast Cafe favorite artists from over the years -- some playing acoustic instruments, others plugged-in but making music in the acoustic spirit. Hope it soothes your soul!
Special guests: Brayden & Ryan!
You can find the previous four episodes in the Acoustica series at http://tinyurl.com/Fundi-Acoustica
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Chiron Transmission 1 : Golgotha

Greetings from the friendly Burners here at Destination Burning Man, and welcome to the latest mix from DJ Playaduster: "Chiron Transmissions 1 : Golgotha." Much of this podcast is shrouded in mystery and codes, but it appears to be a missive sent from the outer fringes of our solar system, a musical message that originates from the proto-comet Chiron.
Discovered in 1977 in its eccentric orbit between Saturn and Uranus, Chiron is known in some circles as the "Rainbow Bridge" or "Wounded Healer," a humble, benevolent guide that can assist humans by keeping us moving forward on our proper spiritual paths. In early February 2011, Chiron entered the watery realm of Pisces, activating the pure power of potential, the manifestation of the unconscious and transformative healing through (re)union with the divine.
The frequencies found in this podcast are believed to have originated from Chiron, with DJ Playaduster serving as a musical midwife in order that they be perceived by the human ear and widely disseminated through our dBM channels.
Contributing artists include Bill Laswell, Rena Jones, Phaelah, Tipper, Heyoka, James Blake, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, DJ/rupture, Kim Hiorthoy, Ezekiel Honig, Yo-Yo Ma, Shackleton, PantyRaid and Thriftworks, with vocal musings from Joni Mitchell, Timothy Leary, Hekter McElliott, Pema Chodron and the Tangerines.
We're still puzzling over this one. Let us know how it hits you and what you perceive at gmail@destinationburningman.com or facebook.com/destinationBM
Chiron Transmission 1 : Golgotha by moontrolling
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Our Love is Our Power
A mix of new soul, r&b love and loose-limbed funk, inspired and informed by my recent discovery of the musician Jamie Woon. Jeremy Sole dropped Woon's track "Lady Luck" on his KCRW show a couple of weeks ago, and I've been rocking it on the headphones every day since. I built this mix around 3 Jamie Woon tracks that I love, and they appear at the beginning, middle and end. Supporting the mood are jams by Raphael Saadiq, Digable Planets, Sade, Aloe Blacc, The Bees, Erykah Badu, Jamie Lidell, Lauryn Hill, The Roots, Andreya Triani, Galactic, Pharcyde and the Spinners. DIG IT Y'ALL!



Our Love is our Power by moontrolling
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Widespread Panic * Highlights from the 25th Anniversary Shows * 2/11/11
Here is the promised second podcast featuring highlights of the recent Widespread Panic 25th anniversary shows at the Classic Center in Atlanta, GA. This episode hones in on the most unforgettable jams of February 11, 2011. You can listen to and download February 10 highlights here. And if this sampler isn’t enough to satiate your appetite, go forth and purchase both shows in their glorious entirety at www.livewidespreadpanic.com.
Track listing: Barstools & Dreamers, Knights in White Satin (The Moody Blues), Blue Indian, New Speedway Boogie (Grateful Dead), Fishwater, Conrad the Caterpillar, Don’t Be Denied (Neil Young), Postcard, Driving Song, Porch Song.

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Here’s a review of the 2/11/11 show from Honest Tune: The Southern Journal of Jam:
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Widespread Panic * Highlights from the 25th Anniversary Shows * 2/10/11

For your jamtastic listening pleasure, DJ Fundi has put together a 2-part mix featuring highlights of the recent Widespread Panic 25th anniversary shows at the Classic Center in Atlanta, GA. This episode features my favorite moments from the February 10, 2011 show -- we’ll post highlights from the following night next week. I know that purists will be horrified to hear a Panic show edited and blended in this fashion, but oh well -- one can purchase the shows in their glorious entirety at www.livewidespreadpanic.com. Get ready for some amazing jams, funky grooves and southern soul in these transmissions, and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Panic is sounding frickin’ awesome 25 years later...no small feat.
Track listing: For What It’s Worth (Buffalo Springfield; first since 11/22/88), You’ll Be Fine (first since 11/12/01), Proving Ground, Arleen (with Randall Bramblett on saxophone) > Drums > Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead; first since 10/2/88) > Space Wrangler > Coconut, Bowlegged Woman, Heaven (Talking Heads).

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Interesting to note that Panic opened up their very first show with Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” 25 years ago (almost to the day) at the Mad Hatter Ballroom on 2/6/86!
Here’s a review of the 2-night stand, from Honest Tune: The Southern Journal of Jam:
“How many bands can you think of that have made it 25 years, continuing to enamor their fans? The first groups that likely come to mind are bands as highly regarded as the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers Band, or the Rolling Stones; both of whom have persevered through the loss of key members, addiction, health issues, and an ever changing standard of what is considered "good" music. The lesser known Widespread Panic is a recent addition to this list and in their 25 years together, they have experienced momentous highs and endured through unthinkable lows. To the delight of a nation of devoted fans, "The Boys" who met in Athens, GA back in 1986 chose to celebrate the occasion by playing three unforgettable shows at two historic venues.”
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Dwellingham (Acoustica 4)
This is a mix of music made as anticipation for moving off of the island and back up to Bellingham grows, with thoughts of nesting, family, cedar trees and grounding in heart. Mostly it is a collection of my favorite songs of this season of the mellowish, acoustic-based, beard-folk, often melancholy, always moving variety. These are the tunes I find myself listening to over, over & over again in the winter of 2010-2011.
The mix features Adam Hurst, Tallest Man on Earth, Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, The Black Keys, Aloe Blacc, Sade, Mumford & Sons, Carlina Chocolate Drops, Cowboy Junkies, Neil Young, Band of Bees, Band of Horses, Josh Ritter, Robert Plant's Band of Joy, Laura Veirs, Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs, Sharon Van Etten and others.
You can find other episodes in the Acoustica series at http://tinyurl.com/Fundi-Acoustica

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Sliding Down Rainbows : Favorite Electrojams of 2010

Here's a musical mix fresh from the astral plane that explores some of our favorite electrojams of the past year. The sounds come from whomp, hip-hop, funk, glitch, freakbeat and other undeclared genres. DJs Playaduster & Fundi provide the amorphous soundtrack to the journey...
Bonobo * Jneiro Janel * Flying Lotus * The Great Mundane * Eskmo * Tipper * The Roots * Sufjan Stevens * Nosaj Thing * Boreta * Fever Ray * R/d * Ratatat * Missy Elliott * Big Boi * Mimosa * Erykah Badu * Thriftworks * The xx * Dubtronix * Cee-Lo * Kid Cudi * Pretty Lights * Bassnectar * Zero 7



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LOVENESS : Got Found? (Part 2)
We're back on the playa and it's late in the week -- things are moving in synchronicity through deep cosmic channels, new friends have been made, sleep is an afterthought, everything is irreversibly dusty and you love it all. The music you hear throughout the city at night is vibrating through your bass chakras and you don't know where the DJ ends and you begin anymore. In this interpretation, Beats Antique, R/D, Pretty Lights, Kid Kudi and others represent this disorienting but beautiful freakbeat madness.
If you've met a special someone during the week, things may be getting impossibly romantic as the week nears its crescendo. This mix reflects that by veering in to a Tanjalove-inspired pocket of funk and soul healing, grooves that both reflect and enhance the love that is filling your heart to overflowing: "Erotic City", "Take My Heart (You Can Have It)", "Simply Beautiful", "Love to Love You Baby", "You Make Me Smile" and "Sexual Healing." Heavy stuff, for sure, but that's how it is.
On Saturday, the Man falls right around the time that your last bit of protective armor, fear & sadness fall away, and you give in to full Loveness. A mobile soundsystem, crowned with a glowing, beating heart, plays "Love is in the Air" at the exact moment as the sun rises over the eastern horizon on Sunday morning. Bliss reigns, friends swirl, mimosas bubble, hearts swell and you dissolve in to sunlight with your dusty Beloved in your arms.
Sunday night the Temple is set ablaze and there is culmination. Sade returns with another take on "Soldier of Love" to show you how far you and your wounded heart have traveled through the week; The Cinematic Orchestra reprises your theme song, "To Build a Home"; Bassnectar & Nelly Furtado conclude the entire affair with a wise reminder: "And I say follow me, follow me, follow me / Down, down, down, down / 'Til you see all my dreams / Not everything in this magical world / is quite what it seems."
Namaste, and thanks for listening. Yours in LOVENESS, DJ Playaduster
Loveness : Got Found? Part 2 by moontrolling
Beats Antique "Prelude/Ms. Levine/Revival"
R/D "Face of God"
Pretty Lights "High School Art Class"
Big Boi "Tangerine"
Kid Cudi "Day 'n Night" (Crookers Remix)
Splatinum "It's Bigger Than Glitch Hop"
Flying Lotus "Roberta Flack" (Heartbeat Remix)
"Michael & Justin's Erotic Adventure"
Prince "Erotic City"
Bill Withers "Heartbreak Road"
Al Green "Simply Beautiful" (Lenton Remix)
Kool & the the Gang "Take My Heart"
Aloe Blacc "Make Me Smile"
John Paul Young "Love is in the Air"
Hot 8 Brass "Sexual Healing"
Sade "Soldier of Love"
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros "Home" (RAC Remix)
Get Found field recording
The Cinematic Orchestra "That Home
Nelly Furtado "Magical World" (Bassnectar Remix)
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Part one -- JOYISM -- is here.
Joyism : Got Found? (Part 1) FIXED
While DJ Fundi is out on sabbatical, we asked our comrades over at DestinationBurningMan.com to share a mix with our listeners that would feed the ears, tantalize the mind and lift the spirits. DJ Playaduster sent this mix over. We think it will work on all accounts. Enjoy! -- The Podcast Cafe
"There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills...
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust..
This is a place where I don't feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home.......
Cause, I built a home
for you
for me
Until it disappeared
from me
from you
And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust…….."

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The Cinematic Orchestra open up this musical mix with a beautiful and emotive song that speaks to me in these days and weeks after Burning Man 2010 : "To Build a Home." It has multiple layers of meanings for me and stirs me in places deep down inside.
Sade provides the second track in the "opening statement" of the podcast, livening up the mood with another song that is rich with meaning for me these days. I heard a DJ slyly drop in to a dance party on the playa, and I sang along to the chorus with all the lovely people on the dancefloor at the top of our lungs, "I've been torn up inside (oh!) / I've been left behind (oh!) / So I ride / I have the will to survive. I'm a soldier of love / all the days of my live..."
With those 2 opening salvos behind us, the mix moves in to the first movement... (more after the jumo)click for more...
Summersauce Doubleshots
Two tracks each from the musicians I am diggin on the most in this midsummer glory stretch....I expect many of these artists to make Fundi's Best of the Year list in a few months, cuz they so good. I been listening to some of these albums over & over & over again. The songs in this mix are all pretty new except for the Band of Horses tracks -- hitched my wagon to their sounds only recently. Much funk and hip hop, blended with introspective folk and some modern blues.
"Summersauce Doubleshots" features The Roots, Band of Horses, The Black Keys, Janelle Monae, Big Boi, Quantic , Jack Johnson, Bonobo, Aloe Blacc, M.I.A., Flying Lotus, The Tallest Man in the World, Trombone Shorty and Josh Ritter.

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Art by Jeff Soto
Like a Road : Garcia on Stage 3
Jerry Garcia was born on August 1 and passed away 53 years later on August 9. The Podcast Cafe has been celebrating his vast musical legacy these past few weeks with the release of several Jerry-lovin' podcasts: High Time: Garcia on Stage 1, Lazy River Road: Garcia in the Studio, Dark Star : Garcia on Stage 2 and now this, the third mix of our very favorite live Jerry jams. Such sweet kindness!
We'd also like to remind our listeners that we've posted other Jerry-related offerings in years past that you can still access, including some archival recordings of a call-in radio show on KLCC:
I was living in Bend, Oregon at the time, and was awoken out of bed with the bad news. After contacting beloved friends with whom I had shared many a Dead show, I tuned the stereo to KLCC 89.7 FM, the Dead-friendly college radio station broadcasting from Eugene. They were playing nothing but Jerry's music, and we listened through the day. For some reason, I dropped a cassette tape in and hit record. This podcast is drawn from that dusty old tape, recently found in the archives deep in the garage and brought in to the 21st century by way of modern technology.
Acess part one here and part two here.
Help > Slip > Franklin's
Loser
Jam
Days Between
Ship of Fools
Eyes of the World
Big Railroad Blues
To Lay Me Down
West L.A. Fadeaway
Like a Road

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Dark Star : Garcia on Stage 2

The second installment in my "Jerry Garcia on Stage" tribute series -- something about summer just brings on that Jerry jones! With a deep love for the man, and a profound respect for the gift of these live performances, Fundi has curated something special here, and we hope you dig it as much as we do. (You can find the first episode in the "Garcia On Stage" series right here, and a bonus "Garcia in the Studio" show over here.)
Set list:
After Midnight 76
Brown Eyed Women 76
Spanish Jam 68
Wharf Rat 71
Ain't No Bread in the Breadbox 90s
When the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game 90s
Bertha 71
Standing on the Moon 91
Jam 90s
Dark Star 68
Morning Dew 68
The Maker 90s
Dark Star (reprise) 90

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Lazy River Road : Garcia in the Studio

This is the second in a multi-part series of Garcia mixes -- we have several hours of our very favorite Jerry jams to share with you over the spring and summer as we draw near to the anniversaries of Jerry's birthday and expiration date. This episode focuses on Jerry's studio work, as opposed to his home on the stage, and features a wide range of alternate takes, spontaneous jams, obscure tracks and unreleased goodies. With a deep love for the man, and a profound respect for the gift of these studio performances, Fundi has curated something special here, and we hope you dig it as much as we do. (You can find the first installment in the Garcia series on the Podcast Cafe right here.)

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