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This mix evokes the sacred bass celebrations held in the Dream Dome, tapping in to dream states, dream flights, subconscious massages & third eye galaktivations, a space where dreams morph in to altered realities….let the music take you to the place where you access your subliminal side & express your secret powers!

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band opened for Widespread Panic during their two-night stand at The Joint in Las Vegas, NV on July 12-13, 2013. Of course, several of the horn players from the Dirty Dozen joined Panic onstage to help them jam out some of their funky, bluesy, swampy, git-down tunes. This mix collects all nine songs that the boys collaborated on, sharing some of the mightiest, most epic WSMFP I've heard in a very long time!

An amalgamation of first set songs from the Grateful Dead circa May 1977. These are the best first set nuggets culled from the new box set from Rhino Records, "Five Days in May." Remastered, rebalanced and rejujued, this is the Dead at one of their 4 or 5 musical peaks.

We open with two songs that find the band energetic yet ragged, like a runner bursting out of the gates before the starting bell….Bertha and Music Never Stopped give them ample opportunity to warm up and start to locate the communal groove.

We then take a tromp through a slew of classic songs that showcase the restraint and complexity of their playing, Rose, Cassidy, Brown-Eyed, Jack A Roe, all right in that warm pocket of the groovy, earthy 70s. Listen to Jerry's guitar somehow weave together elements of country, jazz, funk, bluegrass, rock and disco, as if to demonstrate that all American popular music shares a common rootstock.

Lazy > Supplication finds the Dead opening up the gates for the first time in to an unrestrained instrumental jam.

By the time we get to High Time, Jack Straw and Half-Step, we are in the presence of a warmed-up band playing honest, heartfelt music that takes in all strands of  American roots music while simultaneously leans in to the future, creating something brand new from shards of the past. The band has found their groove in this twilight of the first set and saunter through the countryfied psychedelic landscapes with an ease bordering on swagger.

Dancin' in the Street brings the parade of set one songs to a rousing, all-on conclusion -- hear the Grateful Dead tease disco, and find both funk and flat-pickin' somewhere deep in that groove.

A guest DJ set from our friend DJ Playaduster, courtesy of Destination Burning Man — a user-friendly survey of the best electronic music cuts of 2013, including house, nu disco, sacred bass, ambient, electrofunk, dub and a good dose of whomp! Buy the ticket, take the ride….

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Track list:

Sigur Ros "Intro"

Andrew Bird "Three White Horses"

Neko Case "I'm an Animal"

Wilco "I Got You"

St. Vincent "Year of the Tiger"

Modest Mouse "3rd Planet"

Gotye "Somebody That I Used To Love"

The National "Fake Empire"

Wye Oak "Two Small Deaths"

Neil Young "What Happened Yesterday > Campaiger"

Cowboy Junkies "Helpless"

Fleet Foxes "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song"

The xx "Unfold"

Grizzly Bear "What's Wrong" + Mary Oliver

Grizzly Bear + Feist "Service Bell"

Feist "How Come You Never Go There?"

Built to Spill "Things All Apart"

Bon Iver "Blindsided"

Gillian Welch "The Way It Goes"

Jim James "State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U.)"

Damien Jurado "With Lightning In Your Hands"

Neil Young "XII > V"

Andrew Bird "Beyond the Valley of Three White Horses"

Gillian Welch "Six White Horses"

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TRACK LIST:

Quiet Village "A Trader in Furs" (remix)

Scuba "Tracers" + Mulatu Astaqe "Gubelye " + Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer "Reannounce"

Nichola Jaar "With Just One Glance > John the Revelator"

Lee "Scratch" Perry "Dub Organizer"

LKJ "Commad Counsel Dub"

Mad Professor "Dub So Hard"

Black Uhuru "Party Next Door"

Ossie All Stars "Ready Dub"

Gregory Issacs "Rumors"

Aswad "Ways of the Lord"

Pantha Du Prince "Particle" + Hunter S Thompson reading the Book of Revelations

The xx "Sunset" (Jamie xx remix)

Fela "No Agreement / Shuffering and Smiling"

Paul Horn + Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer "Reemergence"

Nosaj Thing "Home" medley + Paul Horn + burning embers underwater

Emancipator "Eve II"

Built To Spill "Heart"

Spoken word: Hunter S Thompson '77 Boulder, CO.

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DJ Fundi took it upon himself to comb through the more than 20 hours of live Dead recordings found on the new Spring Tour 1990 box set, finding favorite moments, sweet ballads and stellar jams, then blending them together in to this "highlight mix." Its like Fantasy Grateful Dead, pick and choose your own set list, create your dream show! It is sequenced and mixed so as to emulate what you might hear at a show. Lots of Jerry here, as you might imagine, alongside Bobby, Phil and Brent singing their best too. Everyone sounds just great here.

Loser

Playin' >

China Doll >

Uncle John's >

Terrapin Station >

Drums >

Standing on the Moon >

NFA >

Attics of My Life

Foolish Heart >

Looks Like Rain >

He's Gone >

Last Time

Death Don't Have No Mercy

from 3.24.90 Albany, 3.30.90 Uniondale & 4.2.90 Atlanta

Every year around this time we join journalists, DJs and music bloggers in looking back at the year of music and having some fun selecting the sounds that moved us the most. DJ Fundi scratched out a list of 20 or so albums that we enjoyed the most, and then crafted up a mix over 2 nights featuring his favorite tracks from those records. We hope you enjoy the flavors and this celebration of great music, songwriting, grooves & hooks!

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Is there life after whomp? Or, as this mix sets out to explore, life before whomp? To find out, DJs Playaduster and Fundi (from our sister site The Podcast Cafe) dug deep to create this "old-school" (not that old!) outing of jazz-funk, electrobeats, triphop, turntablism, soul and downtempo grooves. It features classic tracks from well-loved musicians and DJs including Mr. Scruff, Bonobo, St. Germain, Quantic, DJ Logic, Q-Tip, Thievery Corporation, Boozoo Bajou, Monta at Odds, Medeski Martin & Wood, Jurassic 5, Jamie Woon, Jon Kennedy and Zero 7. Dig it!

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