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I typed the color-word "White" in to my iTunes and several dozens songs came up. I made an hour+ music mix from these options, enjoying the random constraints as I attempted to craft an audio journey for myself and for you. It helped me to dig deeper in to my vaults!

track list // Bill Frisell "White Fang" / Wilco "The Lonely 1" (White Version) / Parquet Courts "Black and White" / The Heptones "Choice of Black and White" / Gillian Welch "Six White Horses" / Doc Watson "Whitehouse Blues" / Elliott Smith "Bled White" / Morphine "Honey White" / The Field "Then It's White" / Bluetech "White Magnesia" / Pantha du Prince "White Out" / Thriftworks "Pearly Whites" / Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal" / Neil Young + Crazy Horse "White Line" / Johnny Cash "Six White Horses" / Sturgill Simpson "Long White Line" / Iron & Wine "White Tooth Man" / The Whites "Keep on the Sunny Side" \\

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Ever so subtly, the seasons are shifting: days grow longer, buds swell on the branch, frogsong in the evening, not building as many fires for warmth. DJ Fundi has gone ahead and gathered up some very fresh new music and mixed it up for you. It was created on the last full moon - the "snow moon." Many of these tracks are singles from forthcoming albums we are very much looking forward to, including new music from Modest Mouse (two new tracks bookend the mix), Death Cab and Laura Marling; others are from albums just released, like Father John, Bjork, D'angelo; and finally, the rest are from some of the best albums released in 2014, many of which we featured in our last podcast mix "'Cause You Had Taste: 2014 Favorites." Enjoy!

By popular request, here is a New Music Blend that gathers together some of the best tunes that have been bumping out of The Podcast Cafe this summer: fresh tracks from old favorites like The Black Keys, Ray LaMontagne, Natalie Merchant, Jack White and Beck, alongside new discoveries like Chet Faker, Ayla Nereo and tUnE-yArDs, seasoned with a sprinkling of EDM cuts (curated by DJ Playaduster of Destination Burning Man) from The Polish Ambassador, Halo Refuser and Gramatik. This mix has been getting heavy play in our backyard beer garden, inspiring sing-alongs, making out and danceparties on more than one occasion!

Happy Summer Solstice!

Love you, DJ Fundi

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It's been six months since our last new episode was posted….here's something we've been tinkering with off and on that is finally ready to be set free: a tribute mix to the one and only Bon Iver -- featuring songs from his two albums, live tracks, b-sides, covers and obscures songs from compilations. We are HUGE fans of the music of Justin Vernon and this episode — our 94th!! — features all kinds of rarities and hidden gems. Enjoy, friends.

Track list // Holocene / For Emma / Blood Bank / Calgary / Flume / Perth / Skinny Love / Roslyn (with St. Vincent) / Towers / Blindsided / Michicant / The Park / Hinnom, TX / Creature Fear / Wash. / Fall Creek Boys Choir / I Can't Make You Love Me > Nick of Time/ re: Stacks

Greetings friends of The Podcast Cafe — we’re back with another installment in our annual End of the Year Roundup of our favorite music of the year. We already posted "The Thickness: Favorite Music of 2013" a few weeks back, but 2013 offered up a plethora of great tunes and so we had more music to play with. Hope you dig the variety and quality of “Joy: More Favorite Music from 2013.”

Track list // Daughter "Get Lucky" (An-ten-ae remix) / Nightmares of Wax "Eye (Can't See)" / Bob Dylan "Pretty Saro" / Valerie June "Pushin' Against a Stone" / Ty Seagall "The Man Man" / Bonobo "Get Thy Bearings" / Phosphorescent "The Quotidian Beasts" / LYNX "Picture" / Saqi + The Polish Ambassador "Jarro" / Pearl Jam "Pendulum" / Cocorosie "Gravedigress" (original + FlicFlac edit) / Vampire Weekend "Step" / Emancipator "Merlion > Outlaw" / Josh Ritter "Joy to You Baby" / Iron & Wine "Joy" / Rhye "Open" / Rokia Traore "Lalla" / Kurt Vile "Goldtone" //

2013 Favorites

Tor "Lux"

Atoms for Peace "Ingenue"

Bob Dylan "I Went to See the Gypsy"

Laura Mvula "She" + Shlomo remix

Lorde "Royals" (An-ten-ae remix)

Daft Punk "Doin' It Right" (w/ Panda Bear)

Laura Marling "Master Hunter"

Bonobo "Antenna"

Mount Kimbie "Many Times, So Many Ways"

Iron & Wine "Low Light Buddy of Mine"

Neko Case "Night Still Comes"

Phaeleh "Night Lights" (ft. Cian Finn)

RJD2 "Behold, Numbers!"

Janelle Monáe & Erykah Badu "Q.U.E.E.N."

James Blake "Retrograde"

Pearl Jam "Infallible"

Cave Singers "Shine > Northern Lights"

Rising Appalachia and The Human Experience "Downtown"

Tor "The Thickness"

ODESZA "Keep Her Close" (Tor remix)

The Polish Ambassador "Conversations Between" (with Ayla Nereo"

Pretty Lights "One Day" (Break Science remix)

Plantrae "Primary Decomposers"

Rena Jones "Dusk to Daen"

Andrew Bird "Hover II"

Darkside "The Only Shrine I've Seen"

Bill Callahan "Spring"

Valerie June "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations"

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This musical mix by Kaya Rainface is a soundtrack for our vision of Sacred Bass Sessions, like a mission statement, or a map to the subconscious nooks and crannies of your mind. It features music from the West Coast's finest DJs, producers and sound shamans, artists we either have already booked to play an upcoming SBS or are actively pursuing. The low-end mystical flow is deeply inspired by Rainface's time spent in the DreamDome at Photosynthesis 6 this past summer.

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The rains have returned in a big way to the wet side of the Cascades mountain range this week, signaling the definitive end of another gorgeous, carefree, playful summer in Ish River Country. We've been keeping summer hours here at the Podcast Cafe, releasing a couple of kick-ass bootleg concerts from the Dead and Panic but otherwise focused on outdoor pursuits.

As the season shifts, the Cafe springs back to life, with customers coming back around looking for steaming bowls of soup, hot toddies, spruce tip martinis and a place next to our blazing hearth. We're excited to welcome the winter weather back, and along with it all things cozy and good.

Here's a mix we've been tinkering with off and on for a month, full of new/recent songs from many of our standby favorites, but with a twist: our buddy DJ Playaduster from Destination Burning Man.com dropped in midway through our mixing and we decided to let him share some new music from the Realms of Elektronika to spice up the mix. He eases his entry in with the familiar voice of Bon Iver before launching off in to a half-hour journey that makes our heads spin and feet move….before we take back the controls and land the Fundiship back on Planet Earth just in time for dessert at the Cafe with amazing new songs from Mazzy Star (!!!), Pearl Jam and, finally, the sweet strains of Sam Beam.

Hope you all enjoy!