http://www.podcastcafe.org/index.htmlFrom the stage to your earholes at the speed of lightenDJ FundiCopyright 2006-2012 Roadside Cafe Production2012-07-06T12:01:37-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:19:53 -0800DJ FundiDJ Fundidjfundi@podcastcafe.orgmixtape DJ musicAudio Missives From NowhereDJ Fundiinterview2012-07-06T12:01:37-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/wendell-berry-2011.html#unique-entry-id-40http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/wendell-berry-2011.html#unique-entry-id-40DJ Fundispoken word2012-05-29T10:03:48-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/kerouac-blueshaikus.html#unique-entry-id-39http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/kerouac-blueshaikus.html#unique-entry-id-39 In the spring of 1958, just a few weeks after cutting Poetry for the Beat Generation, producer Bob Thiele suggested making a second album -- quite a daring notion, considering that the first album would prove so controversial that it wouldn't reach the public for a year -- and Jack Kerouac agreed. Instead of pianist Steve Allen, however, Kerouac insisted that he be accompanied this time by two good friends, tenor saxmen Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. With Cohn doubling on piano, the resulting Blues and Haikus is a stunning duet between speaker and saxmen, working spontaneously in this peculiar mix of jazz and voice, in which the saxmen do get their solo spots around Kerouac's work. There's much more of a sense on this album of a conscious interaction here between Kerouac and his accompanists, and the album is more arch but also more intense and more imposing than its predecessor. -- allmusic djfundi@podcastcafe.org facebook.com/podcastcafe ]]>Jack Kerouackerouac beat poetmore poetry for the beat generation...In the spring of 1958, just a few weeks after cutting Poetry for the Beat Generation, producer Bob Thiele suggested making a second album -- quite a daring notion, considering that the first album would prove so controversial that it wouldn't reach the public for a year -- and Jack Kerouac agreed. Instead of pianist Steve Allen, however, Kerouac insisted that he be accompanied this time by two good friends, tenor saxmen Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. With Cohn doubling on piano, the resulting Blues and Haikus is a stunning duet between speaker and saxmen, working spontaneously in this peculiar mix of jazz and voice, in which the saxmen do get their solo spots around Kerouac's work. There's much more of a sense on this album of a conscious interaction here between Kerouac and his accompanists, and the album is more arch but also more intense and more imposing than its predecessor.DJ FundiGratefultribute2010-08-08T16:20:00-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/jerry-garcia-tribute1.html#unique-entry-id-38http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/jerry-garcia-tribute1.html#unique-entry-id-38 Subscribe to Podcast: feed://podcastcafe.org/episodes/files/RSSfeed.xml djfundi@podcastcafe.org facebook.com/podcastcafe ]]>DJ Fundijerry garcia grateful deadRebroadcast of KLCC's coverage of the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995I 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. www.podcastcafe.org www.facebook.com/podcastcafe djfundi@podcastcafe.orgDJ FundiKMTN archives2012-01-28T21:37:54-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/jazzgangstaz5.html#unique-entry-id-37http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/jazzgangstaz5.html#unique-entry-id-37Jazz GangstazLive on a Sunday night on the airwaves over Jackson Hole, WYBack when I lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in the mid-to-late 1990s, I was fortunate enough to serve as a DJ for the local radio station, KMTN 96.9 FM. One of my slots was the Sunday night jazz show, playing mostly-mellow jazz cuts from 6pm-midnight as a way to wind down the last hours of the week for the valley. I got a little restless with the straight-ahead jazz format and so invited my then-new friend DJ Edubious to sit in with me for a couple hours towards the end of the show. We spun funk, hip hop, acid jazz, groovetronica, breaks and all manners of music that one could argue existed on the outher fringes of the jazz universe. We didn't have any format to follow, no commercials to play, probably not a ton of listeners either… so we just got irie and tag-teamed musical selections back and forth, whatever we felt like playing. The station manager must've never tuned in during those late hours as I don't think we we're spinning what he intended for me to play. We always got a kick out of thinking "I bet this is the first time Pharcyde / Funkadelic / Groove Collective has ever been played on Wyoming radio." Some of these tracks sound rather dated now -- a time capsule from the acid jazz/Ubiquity Records/Greyboy-style 1990s -- but you can sure tell we're having fun and kickin' it loose 'n large across the vast airwaves of Jackson Hole, eastern Idaho and the Greater Yellowstone landscape. DJ Fundiinterview2011-02-01T17:38:20-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/Bob-Pyle-Butterfly-Big-Year.html#unique-entry-id-36http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/Bob-Pyle-Butterfly-Big-Year.html#unique-entry-id-36Robert Michael PyleKUOW Weekday interview on Bob's Butterfly Big YearAuthor, naturalist and leading lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle was interviewed today on KUOW, a Seattle-based NPR station, about his latest book “Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year.” Bob is a good friend of mine through my work with him at North Cascades Institute and it was a pleasure to hear his stentorial voice coming across the airwaves on this first day of February. www.podcastcafe.org djfundi@podcastcafe.orgDJ FundiinterviewGary Snyder2011-02-12T09:13:29-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-NCTV2008.html#unique-entry-id-35http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-NCTV2008.html#unique-entry-id-35Gary SnyderAn interview with poet, essayist, environmental activist and philosopher Gary Snyder on NCTV: March 2, 2008.DJ Fundispoken wordGary Snyder2010-12-03T12:56:07-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-berkeley09.html#unique-entry-id-34http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-berkeley09.html#unique-entry-id-34Gary SnyderA reading from "Danger on Peaks" at UC BerkeleyDJ Fundispoken wordGary Snyder2010-06-30T19:31:21-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-berkeley87.html#unique-entry-id-33http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-berkeley87.html#unique-entry-id-33Gary Snydera poetry reading from UC Berkeley, 1987"Gary Snyder uses mainly common speech-patterns as the basis for his lines, though his style has been noted for its "flexibility" and the variety of different forms his poems have taken. He does not typically use conventional meters nor intentional rhyme. "Love and respect for the primitive tribe, honour accorded the Earth, the escape from city and industry into both the past and the possible, contemplation, the communal" – such, according to Glyn Maxwell, is the awareness and commitment behind the specific poems. The author and editor Stewart Brand once wrote: "Gary Snyder's poetry addresses the life-planet identification with unusual simplicity of style and complexity of effect." Snyder has always maintained that his personal sensibility arose from his interest in Native Americans ("Indians") and their involvement with nature and knowledge of it; indeed, their "ways" seemed to resonate with his own. And he has sought something akin to this through Buddhist practices, Yamabushi initiation, and other experiences and involvements. However, since his youth he has been quite literate, and he has written about his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like D. H. Lawrence, William Butler Yeats, and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. William Carlos Williams was another influence, especially on Snyder's earliest published work. Starting in high school, Snyder read and loved the work of Robinson Jeffers, his predecessor in poetry of the landscape of the American West; but, whereas Jeffers valued nature over humankind, Snyder saw humankind as part of nature. In 2004, receiving the Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Grand Prize, Snyder highlighted traditional ballads and folk songs, Native American songs and poems, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, Federico García Lorca, and Robert Duncan as significant influences on his poetry, but added, "the influence from haiku and from the Chinese is, I think, the deepest." "I have some concerns that I'm continually investigating that tie together biology, mysticism, prehistory, general systems theory", Snyder once said in interview. Besides 'non-human nature', sexuality is something often expressed or contemplated in Gary Snyder's poetry. A self-admitted and somewhat famed ladies' man through most of his life, Snyder has also been married four times. Aside from content and style, Snyder's interests in anthropology and Native cultures, along with his Buddhism and environmentalism, have formed his attitude to poetry. He has often spoken of the poem as work-place, and, for him, the work to be done there is learning to be in the world. Snyder argues that poets, and humans in general, need to adjust to very long timescales, especially when judging the consequences of their actions. His poetry examines the gap between nature and culture so as to point to ways in which the two can be more closely integrated." --WikipediaDJ Fundispoken word2010-06-01T19:23:58-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/1beee37baa1fa0bbd0fee121a4dfb046-32.html#unique-entry-id-32http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/1beee37baa1fa0bbd0fee121a4dfb046-32.html#unique-entry-id-32Tom Waitstom waits, tom waits podcast, podcast cafe, glitter and doom, tom waits mp3, dj fundiGet behind the mule!Spoken word revelries from Tom Waits on his 2008 "Glitter & Doom" tour. Ain't nothin' else like Tom tellin' a tale...DJ Fundispoken word2010-05-01T10:03:47-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/tomrobbins-bellingham09.html#unique-entry-id-31http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/tomrobbins-bellingham09.html#unique-entry-id-31 Click above to stream; to download MP3 version, option/right-click on the "Listen Now" icon. To download superior version, subscribe to Podcast Cafe feed via link in the sidebar! djfundi@podcastcafe.org facebook.com/podcastcafe ]]>Tom Robbins + Christian MartinA conversation with the legendary author and psychedelic spelunkerDJ FundiKMTN archivesmixxx tape2010-01-24T14:41:02-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/165537e8911a0eddabd49074ed39ff68-28.html#unique-entry-id-28http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/165537e8911a0eddabd49074ed39ff68-28.html#unique-entry-id-28ChristafariA sleepy ski town awakens on a Saturday to the soothing sounds of DJ Christafari on the airwaves....circa 1998Just for fun, here's another recording from way back when I was the Saturday morning DJ for KMTN 96.9 FM in Jackson Hole, and had the special job of coaxing the town awake and out in to the day -- whether that meant using my music to get people out of bed and to the slopes or to their jobs, proper song selection and pacing was essential. I always loved the notion that I was spinning the soundtrack for thousands of people as they began another day in the Hole. I also had to handle the morning snow and weather reports, lost dog announcements, a 1-hour world beat show and an on-air garage sale-type-thing called Trash & Treasure. The region reached by these radio waves is home to ski bums, cowboys, billionaires, spud farmers and movie stars. DJ'ing to the local musical tastes required reaching a careful blend of bluegrass, reggae, funk, folk, classic rock, jam band and other genres that don't typically sit next to each other. This episode shows me attempting to find the balance with the Allman Brothers, Allison Krauss, Blue Traveler, Morphine, Ani Difranco and Bob Marley. One other note -- I tried to talk and play commercials as little as possible, especially in the early hours, and tried to spin as many consecutive songs as I could. This set appears to be from the springtime shortly before I moved on to other work -- I could take working every Saturday morning at 5 am for only so long-- and some of the song selections are now cringe-worthy to my ears, but still, it serves as a fun time capsule recording from my stint as a small town disk jockey in Wyoming in 1998. More sets at www.podcastcafe.org.DJ FundiinterviewGary Snyder2009-12-26T11:21:40-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnsyder-seattleinterview-09.html#unique-entry-id-27http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnsyder-seattleinterview-09.html#unique-entry-id-27Gary Snyder @ www.PodcastCafe.org/RadioFreeFundiSnyder speaks with Steve Scher on-air about his poetry, growing up in Lake City, WA and what he's up to todayDJ FundiKMTN archivesmixxx tape2009-12-07T12:08:35-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/4d58279821c0cb8ffe833011de20e9a7-26.html#unique-entry-id-26http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/4d58279821c0cb8ffe833011de20e9a7-26.html#unique-entry-id-26DJ ChristafariJazz stylings from the MotherlandA recording from my archive collection of radio shows I did on KMTN 96.9 FM in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the mid-Nineties. Every Sunday night, I'd hunker down in the studio, a short bike ride from my log cabin on the compound, to host the long-running 6-hour Jazz Sessions show. As this mix shows, my definition of "jazz" was pretty loose. For this hour, I started out playing Africa-inspired jazz music, and then branched out from there. Lots of people liked the freshness and creativity I was bringing to the air waves, but I always remember one phone call from a listener very upset that I had deviated from the traditional jazz format and I was ruining his Sunday nights. Ah well. Had to keep myself entertained too. Enjoy! www.podcastcafe.orgDJ Fundispoken word2009-12-06T18:07:33-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/106722882102e4ed456a056b7d3d89b7-24.html#unique-entry-id-24http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/106722882102e4ed456a056b7d3d89b7-24.html#unique-entry-id-24David James Duncan, Sherman Alexie & Jeffrey FoucaultDavid reads the Creation Myth of Ireland, Jeffrey sings some Greg BrownA fundraiser for the Liam Wood School of Fly Fishing and River Soldiering featuring David James Duncan, Sherman Alexie and Jeffrey Foucault; WWU * 9.25.09 * Bellingham, WA. Part two.DJ Fundispoken word2009-10-14T20:33:57-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/735ea85cf3b7dc1dd9e5eacfb82de041-23.html#unique-entry-id-23http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/735ea85cf3b7dc1dd9e5eacfb82de041-23.html#unique-entry-id-23David James Duncan, Sherman Alexie and Jeffrey FoucaltAn evening with David James Duncan, Sherman Alexie and Jeffrey FoucaltA fundraiser for the Liam Wood School of Fly Fishing and River Soldiering at WWU in Bellingham, 9/25/09.DJ Fundispoken wordGary Snyder2009-07-13T21:42:23-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-seattle09.html#unique-entry-id-21http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-seattle09.html#unique-entry-id-21Gary SnyderGary Snyder, Beats, poetry, spoken word, ecology, north cascades, podcast cafeReading poems from the North Cascades and beyond...Gary Snyder visited Seattle in May 2009 at the invite of Seattle Arts & Lectures and North Cascades Institute (my daytime employer). Without any new collection of poetry or essays to promote, Snyder read from a variety of books, notes and a letters in a warm, intimate presentation at Benaroya Hall. Asked by the Institute to speak a bit about his time as a fire lookout in the North Cascades in the mid-1950s, Snyder reminisced and read several poems written during that time period, including "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout" and "The Late Snow and Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-four" -- two of my favorites. Snyder also discusses the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, his Wobbly grandfather soapboxing in Pioneer Square, learning how to cut wood on a stump farm north of Seattle and Finnish anarchist newspapers published on the mouth of the Columbia River in this very special appearance on his home ground of western Washington State. Another podcast will be released in the near future with the question & answers & conversation he partook in after this reading. More Gary Snyder, along with Jack Kerouac and Edward Abbey, at www.PodcastCafe.org/RadioFreeFundi. Feedback: djfundi@podcastcafe.org.DJ Fundispoken wordGary Snyder2009-05-28T20:50:23-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-portland56.html#unique-entry-id-20http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-portland56.html#unique-entry-id-20Gary Snyder @ www.PodcastCafe.org/RadioFreeFundibeat poets, beat poetry, gary snyder, poetry, reed collegeI cannot remember things I once read / A few friends / but they are in cities. / Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup / Looking down for miles / Through high still air.Gary Snyder Reading from “Myths & Texts,” "Riprap" and other poems at Reed College, Portland, OR February 14, 1956 On February 13, 1956, Gary Snyder ’51 returned to Reed College with Allen Ginsberg for a poetry reading at Anna Mann Cottage. The next day, when the poets read again, the unscheduled event was recorded. The reel of audiotape containing the Ginsberg reading, including his reading of “Howl,” was discovered in 2007 in Reed’s Hauser Library by John Suiter, a writer doing research for a biography of Snyder. Beside the reel was a note that contained disappointing news about the Snyder half of the reading: “Tape #1 Missing.” Then, the morning after the “Howl” story appeared in Portland’s Oregonian, Steven Halpern ’85, a Portland-based photographer, showed up at the door of Reed’s special collections with an audiocassette copy of the missing tape. He had made the copy 25 years before as an English major doing research on Snyder’s friend and fellow-poet Lew Welch ’50. Tape 1 contained Snyder’s reading. Furthermore, Halpern had meticulously transferred from the original reel all the labeling information, which not only confirmed the exact date of the reading—February 14, 1956—but also included this note: Poetry Reading made in the school year ’55–1956 at Reed College [when] Snyder was on a trip North from San Francisco that is briefly described in Dharma Bums trip with Allen Ginsberg. Snyder talks about his lookout experiences and early poetry writing. Although the original reel has yet to surface, Halpern’s cassette is a superb copy—virtually equal in sound quality to the Ginsberg companion reel—and is more than twice as long, containing a lengthy selection of 46 Snyder poems. --Copyright 2008, Reed College (for educational purposes only!)DJ Fundispoken word2009-04-06T13:41:32-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/edabbey-freedomwilderness-2.html#unique-entry-id-17http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/edabbey-freedomwilderness-2.html#unique-entry-id-17DJ Fundi @ www.PodcastCafe.org/RadioFreeFundiEdward Abbey, podcast cafe, dj fundi, literature“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit”I am currently packing up my backpack for a forthcoming trip to the redrock country of southern Utah. Been pouring over topo maps of Canyonlands National Park, consulting hiking books and making plans with my two compatriots who will join me in the desert from San Francisco and Taos. And, of course, been brushing up on my Edward Abbey, to get in the proper spirit of the desert. To that end, I thought it's as good a time as any to post the second half of his "Freedom & Wilderness" readings -- I up'd the first half at www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi, along with some background info on these recordings.DJ FundiKMTN archivesmixxx tape2009-05-01T19:44:29-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/eefaa2b67498459b15e9c5e75226979b-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/eefaa2b67498459b15e9c5e75226979b-16.html#unique-entry-id-16DJ Christafarichristafari, podcast cafe, reggae, world beat, reggae podcast, jackson holeGiving it up for the ladies on KMTN 96.9 FM in Jackson Hole, WyomingDJ Fundispecial guest2009-02-10T20:25:16-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/8cc740e4ae522fa8b639f73b8296cd63-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/8cc740e4ae522fa8b639f73b8296cd63-15.html#unique-entry-id-15Mary Anne Hobbes @ BBC Onemary anne hobbes podcast, glitch podcast, electronica podcast, bbc 1 podcast, west coast rocks, west coast podcast, burning man, dj playaduster, destination burning man podcastDestination Burning Man takes a heavy-duty, grinding tour of the West Coast glitch-electronica scene"Mary Anne Hobbs went on a mission out to LA and San Francisco to check out the fast emerging, new electronic music scene, headed up by Flying Lotus. We hear from West Coast DJs and producers, including Glitch Mob, Daddy Kev, Kid Kamelion,Samiyam, DJ Tomas and The Gaslamp Killer. Along with sets from LA hotspot, Low End Theory and San Francisco's 103 Harriet Club." An audio excerpt, hijacked for dBM on February 10, 2009. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/ ***** www.destinationburningman.com www.destinationburningman.comDJ Fundiinterview2009-01-18T17:43:50-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/137ab0e0acfe8a31f3b0f2aa000f63a3-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/137ab0e0acfe8a31f3b0f2aa000f63a3-14.html#unique-entry-id-14Freddie Hubbard and Mark Sidran *** www.PodcastCafe.org/RadioFreeFundifreddie hubbardTwenty-some years ago, Ben Sidran was asked by National Public Radio to interview jazz musicians for a show called "Sidran On Record". The pieces, recorded between 1984 and 1990, were taped in New York and were unscripted, free-ranging conversations between Sidran and musicians or other people involved with jazz. The interviews reveal themselves on a variety of levels: Sidran acts as interviewer plus fellow musician, fan and record collector. Non-playing fans can easily identify with Sidran, because he emotes a mutual enthusiasm, but he also brings along the perspective of a musician who has shared the experience of trying, at the end of the night, to get paid for a gig. This episode features Sidran interviewing trumpet master/jazz legend Freddie Hubbard.DJ Funditribute2009-01-03T09:54:13-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/908e0fcd064769751bcf4fd22408d95b-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/908e0fcd064769751bcf4fd22408d95b-13.html#unique-entry-id-13DJ Fundi & 4th Corner SoundsystemA collection of Freddie Hubbard's most memorable sessions and epic solosJust a dip in the pool of genius that is Freddie Hubbard and his trunpet. Selctions range from 1961's "Ready for Freddie" to a concert with VSOP (Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Ron Carter and Wayne Shorter" in 1974. In Memoriam. www.podcastcafe.org djfundi@podcastcafe.orgDJ Fundispecial guest2008-12-09T15:00:09-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/30e5fd28d94aa2ca742542b5877a52e9-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/30e5fd28d94aa2ca742542b5877a52e9-12.html#unique-entry-id-12Flying Lotus / www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundiflying lotus, podcast cafeAbstract electro-hip-hop from the Podcast Cafe"Steven Ellison is a tall, soft-spoken twenty-five-year-old who works under the name Flying Lotus. As part of a peer network, with outposts in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Glasgow, Ellison is helping to lead a small group of producers toward a new strain of hip-hop. Ellison and his contemporaries have come up with a fusion of the extreme detail allowed by software programming (fractal spidering of sounds, a backdrop of crackles, and prickling, feverish rhythms no human hands could play) and the bedrock thump of hip-hop, the grounding beat that has bled into almost all pop music in the world. Ellison’s Flying Lotus releases this year—an album titled “Los Angeles” and a series of EPs—are a good index of how one branch of hip-hop is going to move into the next decade, detaching itself from traditional hip-hop rhyming and forming new splinter genres." --New Yorker, 12/1/08DJ Fundispoken word2008-09-06T16:18:41-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/d452a54c3e0cd28a9ba321d98370babd-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/d452a54c3e0cd28a9ba321d98370babd-11.html#unique-entry-id-11DJ Fundi @ www.PodcastCafe.orgThe King of the Beats shares his stories from "On the Road"More spoken word podcasts at www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi. Feedback: djfundi@podcastcafe.org.DJ FunditributeGrateful2008-08-09T19:47:23-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/jerry-garcia-tribute2.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/jerry-garcia-tribute2.html#unique-entry-id-10DJ Fundi @ www.PodcastCafe.orggrateful dead, jerry garcia, dead, garcia, jerry, tribute, memorialA Re-Transmission of KLCC 89.7 FM's radio show broadcast on the day Jerry passed onJerry passed on thirteen years ago today. As a way to mark the occasion, I'm posting an old cassette tape, recently digitized, that I recorded from a tribute hosted on KLCC 89.7 FM in Eugene following the tragic news. It is a mix of people calling in and expressing pretty raw emotions with a fine selection of tunes from Garcia's vast repertoire. Listening to it now brings back that sad day in August 1995, though I think it is important to feel joy for his time here on Earth and the gifts that he gave us and not get bogged down in the feelings of loss. Happy listening, and keep on truckin'! (For the first Jerry Garcia KLCC tribute that I posted last year at this time, visit http://podcastcafe.org/episodes and scroll down to August 2007.)DJ FundiKMTN archivesmixxx tape2008-06-06T11:33:01-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/jazzgangstaz3.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/jazzgangstaz3.html#unique-entry-id-8DJs Christafari & EdubiousFrom the archives: Jazz Gangstaz on 96.9 KMTN Jackson Hole, Wyoming, circa 1996DJ Funditeachings2008-05-19T09:26:04-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/f167255d6f37afe10a093fbe29da36cc-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/f167255d6f37afe10a093fbe29da36cc-7.html#unique-entry-id-7The Dalai Lamadalai lama, seattle, buddhism, tibet, podcast cafe, compassion, seeds of compassionHis Holiness at Seattle's Qwest Field, April 2008DJ Funditeachings2008-04-19T11:19:25-07:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/7984f13288938ce6bbe237653a2f9fbe-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/7984f13288938ce6bbe237653a2f9fbe-6.html#unique-entry-id-6Radio Free Fundi from the Podcast Cafedalai lama, dalailama, tibet, buddhism, tibetan buddhism, vancouver bc, compassionHis Holiness' 2004 Vancouver, B.C., address on "Universal Responsibilities"The Dalai Lama, appearing onstage at BC Place in Vancouver, B.c. on May 18, 2004, delivered a talk on "Universal Responsibilities." He was joined by fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu (his interpreter is on the left). This special transmission from Radio Free Fundi is a recording of his talk from that day, inspired by His Holiness' recent visit to Seattle. Stay tuned to RFF for his "Seeds of Compassion" address from Seattle's Qwest Field in a future episode... More at www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundiDJ Fundimixxx tapespecial guest2008-02-12T20:16:12-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/7df927c86f6833070f462860ea41839d-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/7df927c86f6833070f462860ea41839d-5.html#unique-entry-id-5Micromoog LaboratoriesA mix tape unearthed from DJ Fundi's archives, digitized and served up fresh just for you!A mix tape made 10 or 15 years or so back by the tastemakers down at Micromoog Laboratories in Portland, Oregon. Recently digitized from the original TDK cassette in a crazed bout of archival activities, Radio Free Fundi is proud to sponsor the digital debut of the Lab and its many-wondeous sounds...DJ Fundispoken word2008-01-20T22:55:13-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/edabbey-freedomwilderness-1.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/edabbey-freedomwilderness-1.html#unique-entry-id-4"The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws." --Edward Abbey, 1927-1989In honor of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Edward Paul Abbey, Radio Free Fundi presents four stories, written and read aloud here by "Cactus Ed", the late, great writer and essential voice of the American desert. I "obtained" these spoken word pieces on cassette while visiting Moab, Utah and Arches National Park for the first time in 1994. Each is a brilliant combination of memoir, fiction, polemic and adventure tale, composed in Abbey's singular voice -- a voice that balanced anger, humor, heartbreak, generosity and wisdom in his full-barrelled defense of freedom & wilderness. Excerpt from Abbey's Wikipedia bio: "Sometimes called the "desert anarchist," Edward Abbey was known to anger people of all political stripes (including environmentalists). In his essays the narrator describes throwing beer cans out of his car, claiming the highway had already littered the landscape. Abbey has been criticized by some for his comments on immigration and women. He differed from the stereotype of the 'environmentalist as politically-correct leftist', by disclaiming the counterculture and the "trendy campus people" and saying he didn't want them as his primary fans, and by supporting some conservative causes such as immigration reduction and the National Rifle Association. He devoted one chapter in his book Hayduke Lives to poking fun at left-green leader Murray Bookchin. However, he reserves his harshest criticism for the military-industrial complex, "welfare ranchers," energy companies, land developers and "Chambers of Commerce," all of which he believed were destroying the West's great landscapes. Abbey refused to be ideologically pigeonholed by the left or the right; above all he was a staunch advocate for wilderness preservation and ecological protection. Abbey thrived on controversy; his popularity has proven to span generations. Abbey even had a FBI file opened on him on account of a 1947 letter he posted while in college urging people rid themselves of their draft cards." I have another round of stories from a companion cassette that I will podcast at a later date. Feedback is welcome: djfundi@podcastcafe.orgDJ Fundimixxx tape2007-11-28T22:33:09-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/c77739904cff61d90e3038b4237c9d5b-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/c77739904cff61d90e3038b4237c9d5b-2.html#unique-entry-id-2classic funk mixxx for modern times, straight from the hothouse!DJ FundiKMTN archivesmixxx tape2007-11-26T21:35:46-08:00http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/3a15628bd2bfa068c27b234fb3d165a3-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/3a15628bd2bfa068c27b234fb3d165a3-1.html#unique-entry-id-1DJ ChristafariRoots Rock Reggae, with worldly flavors, from a Saturday morning session in Jackson Hole