The Glogg Chronicles : 2008 in Review
31/Dec/2008 |
new music
blend |
permalinkage
A sound-smoothie made from my most favorite sound-nutrients of the past year; favorite artists, dopest tracks, weirdest records: all blended up just for you! Starts off pretty mellow, but by the time Bassnectar winds up his clock, things start pumpin' pretty damn hard, with funky flourishes to end on...
Featuring Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu, Gnarls Barkley, Al Green, Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Fleet Foxes, Q-Tip, The Roots, Jamie Lidell, Stephen Malkmus, The B-52's, Beats Antique & Bassnectar, Dust + Blackdown, DJ/rupture, Bon Iver, Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit, DJ Scruff, Ani Difranco, Amadou & Mariam, K'naan, Nina Simone, Thievery Corporation & Quantic, y'all. Dig it correct!
Love, DJ Fundi
12/31/08
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Holidazed 2008
21/Dec/2008 |
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Happy holidays from all of us here at the Podcast Cafe. Here's hoping for transformation & celebration in 2009!
Love, DJ Fundi
djfundi@podcastcafe.org
Featuring Yo-Yo Ma, The Temptations, Jackson 5, Nina Simone, Jack White, Alison Krauss, Billie Holliday, Johnny Cash, Vince Guaraldi, John Denver & the Muppets, Ray Charles, Prince, The Soul Saviors, Pearl Jam, Otis Redding, Lou Rawls, John Lennon, Louis Armstrong, James Brown, Dave Brubeck & more!
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Yes We Can : Obama Hopecast : Part 1
22/Nov/2008 |
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part
one of a two-part
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left speechless & shaking with an intense, spiritual joy after the 2008 presidential election, i was so happy for myself, for my country and for the whole entire world that i came to a rare loss for words.
this "hopecast" is my best attempt to describe and share some portion of the mix of emotions the election of Barack Obama has inspired in me. it is especially inspired by looking backwards, because you can't know where you're going unless you know where you've come from.
bob marley, curtis mayfield, marvin gaye, ludacris, nas, lee "scratch" perry, maceo parker, the blind boys of alabama, george clinton, fela, prince, public enemy and assorted hymns, field hollers and cameos from MLK and Dubya people this tribute. it also features excerpts of Obama's most memorable oratory as he made the transitions from junior senator to presidential candidate to president-elect -- an audio record of history in the making, set to a fitting groove.
Part one takes the listener from Obama as junior senator from Illinois on to the campaign trail and up to the Democratic Convention when he became the Democratic nominee. I'll release part two on Inauguration Day and it will finish up the story with his acceptance speech in Chicago.
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left speechless & shaking with an intense, spiritual joy after the 2008 presidential election, i was so happy for myself, for my country and for the whole entire world that i came to a rare loss for words.
this "hopecast" is my best attempt to describe and share some portion of the mix of emotions the election of Barack Obama has inspired in me. it is especially inspired by looking backwards, because you can't know where you're going unless you know where you've come from.
bob marley, curtis mayfield, marvin gaye, ludacris, nas, lee "scratch" perry, maceo parker, the blind boys of alabama, george clinton, fela, prince, public enemy and assorted hymns, field hollers and cameos from MLK and Dubya people this tribute. it also features excerpts of Obama's most memorable oratory as he made the transitions from junior senator to presidential candidate to president-elect -- an audio record of history in the making, set to a fitting groove.
Part one takes the listener from Obama as junior senator from Illinois on to the campaign trail and up to the Democratic Convention when he became the Democratic nominee. I'll release part two on Inauguration Day and it will finish up the story with his acceptance speech in Chicago.
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Troubled
15/Sep/2008 |
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Welcome to the 35th episode from the Podcast Cafe! This is a musical mix in the same vein as "Snowgreen Spincycle" -- I chose the concept of "trouble" and then searched through my archives for songs with that word in their title. I think the whole idea came about because of my enormous love for Cat Stevens' song "Trouble":
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080808
16/Aug/2008 |
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An audio postcard from where DJ Fundi's ears, heart and mind is at on the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the new century. Brewed with freshly-harvested soundstick recordings.
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Intergalactic 2 : Urban Beet Pharmer
01/Jul/2008 |
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Featuring Ike & Tina Turner, Bassnectar, Missy Elliott, The B-52's, Jamie Lidell, James Brown, Gnarls Barkley, Herbaliser, Roots Manuva, Portishead, The Glitch Mob, The Time, Girl Talk, The Roots, Antibalas, Mr. Scruff, Alozade and Hollow, Al Green & even more funky things to play with from Fourth Corner Soundsystem -- crank it up loud and rock the block, summerstylee!
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The Playa Portraits Project
15/Jun/2008 |
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For the two Burning Mans I've been fortunate enough to attend, I chose to participate by taking spontaneous, of-the-moment portraits of Burners cavorting around Black Rock City. I called my efforts, which were assisted by others at times, the Playa Portraits Project. At Burning Man, I biked around the playa with a bunch of old picture frames collected from thrift stores, pulling them along behind me in a wagon, and asked my "models" to chose their own frame and do whatever they felt like with it. In 2004, I took portraits with several disposable cameras and scanned them in to my computer; in 2007, I brought down my digital (it's never worked quite the same since).
I never created a way to share the portraits with all of the beautiful people who posed for me, and hope that this video will reach some of them and bring back good memories. If you see yourself or someone you know in this movie, let me know! djfundi@podcastcafe
Higher resolution version of this movie, along with other artifacts of the 2004 & 2007 burn, can be viewed at my other webpage, Destination Burning Man, in the Films section.
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A Lament for Tibet
24/Apr/2008 |
open road
journeys | permalinkage
(LISTENING TO THIS MIX ON HEADPHONES IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!)
DJ Fundi's new mix, episode #31 here at the Podcast Cafe, is inspired by the Dalai Lama -- the Ocean of Wisdom, Holder of the White Lotus, protector of the Land of Snows and an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, Buddha of Compassion. It is a Lament for Tibet, and is dedicated to the merit of all Tibetans who are enslaved in their own homeland.
I made this mix during the Dalai Lama's recent visit to the Pacific Northwest, a time that coincided with the worst violence in Tibet in decades. I was feeling both inspired and joyous at His Holiness' close proximity to Sunnyland Studio as well as burdened, angry and helpless as the Chinese government was arresting, torturing and murdering Tibetans in their villages and monastaries. I think this musical mix reflects the yin and yang of these two emotional poles.
Much of the music comes from the Himalayan region, and includes chanting rituals from Tibetan monks, traditional Nepalese songs, long-form Indian ragas and Chinese folk music. There is also music that I felt had an affinity to the prayer I am making with the mix, music that I was often surprised to hear how natural it blended with the unusual Himalayan vibe: a Celtic singer singing what sounds like a lament, ambient tracks from Tortoise, Cylob and Plasmalamp, medieval European choir songs and Toumani Diabate from Mali playing the kora.
Mickey Hart, DJ Cheb i Sabbah and Wayne Shorter also make appearances in this pilgrimage across the spine of Asia.
I have posted podcasts of the Dalai Lama's talks in the Northwest at www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi. I wrote a story about the Dalai Lama's visit to Seattle for the Cascadia Weekly newspaper; it also discusses author Pico Iyer's new biopgraphy The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. You can view and/or download a pdf of the story right over here. Another story I wrote about the Dalai Lama's 2004 visit to Vancouver B.C. is available here.
Feedback and salutations are invited: djfundi@podcastcafe.org
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Snowgreen Spincycle
20/Apr/2008 |
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Poised between two seasons, with a little bit of winter hanging on and lots of spring bursting forth, this episode -- our 30th! -- takes its inspiration from two words: Snow and Green.
Every track has some connection to these terms: Snow or Green appears in either the song title, artist's name or album title. Random, yes. But lots of fun to be guided to all kinds of excellent music by way of an arbitrary set of criteria.
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REINTEGRATION (keep burnin')
25/Mar/2008 |
playalicious
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How to keep the flame alit? How to burn all year? How to reintegrate the lessons and the love in to the Default World?
These are the questions the Four Broke Dudes confronted as they stepped back in to their former lives in the Northwest. "REINTEGRATION" is the final installment in DJ Playaduster's Green Man Trilogy. It follows on the heels of "REORIENTATION" and "DISORIENTATION", both of which can be found at our sister site, www.destinationburningman.com/stuff/podcasts.
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lunar eclipse : new music IV
23/Feb/2008 |
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no
multitracking. no overdubs. no dub chambers, marsupial
thumbdrives, algebraic nerf beats, Hekter McBuckleskins
nor flamingos in the snow. just a mostly quiet mix made
on a mostly quiet night, underneath a february lunar
eclipse.
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REORIENTATION (Hyper Primbly's Marsupial Thumbdrive)
27/Jan/2008 |
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DJ Playaduster's Green Man Trilogy, which began with "DISORIENTATION," leaves the dusty playa and begins the difficult efforts to reenter the Default World in this second installment, "REORIENTATION." You may as well just call it "Hyper Primbly's marsupial thumbdrive," if you know what I mean.
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