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 informed by looking backwards, because you can't know where you're going unless you know where you've come from.

Part two centers around Obama's election night victory speech in Chicago, interspersed with Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech from the March on Washington in 1963: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character." Bob Marley, the Neville Brothers, Bill Frisell, Marvin Gaye, Common, Z-Trip, Bonobo, James Brown, the Blind Boys of Alabama, George Clinton, Fela, Prince, Public Enemy and assorted hymns, field hollers and cameos from Dubya inform this tribute, along with a cast of dozens more.

I hope that my Hopecast serves as an audio record of history in the making, set to a fitting groove. Viva Obama!

Part one of the Hopecast is available at www.podcastcafe.org/episodes. Feedback welcome: [email protected]

DJ Fundi's annual mix of favorite songs and artists of the year ~ enjoy friends, and here's to better luck in 2017

A-Wa "Yemenite Lullaby > Habib Galbi"

Beats Antique "Burn Dub"

A Tribe Called Quest ".....We the People > Conrad Tokyo (with Kendrick Lamar) > The Donald"

Glass Animals "Cane Shuga"

David Bowie "Girl Loves Me"

Bon Iver "666"

Frank Ocean "Close to You"

Nicolas Jaar "No"

Wilco "Quarters"

Car Seat Headrest "Drunk Drivers / Killer Whale:  

CloZee "Sankar's Lake"

emancipator "Father Dream"

Erothyme "Lemur Dreams"

Yaima "Our Game'

Tor "Days Gone"

Eliott Lipp "Come to Life"

Cave Singers "Fade Away"

Courtney Barnett "New Speedway Boogie"

Ed Droste "Loser"

Man Forever & Sō Percussion and Oneida " Drums > Space"

Cass McCombs and Joe Russo "Dark Star"

Radiohead "Desert Island Disk"

Prince "Moonbeam Levels"

D'Angelo + Princess "Sometimes it Snows in April" live on Jimmy Fallon / RIP

Find past end-of-the-year mixes at www.podcastcafe.org/episodes/files/category-year-in-review.html

An offering: here's a mix of the music that has been filling my earholes, puzzling my mind, carbonating my soul, grounding my heart, challenging my perceptions or moving my butt in 2007...

Most of the songs explored herein were released in the past year, which makes me hopeful for the future of music. Artists include Bassnectar, Iron & Wine, Tord Gustavson, Robert Plant and Allsion Krauss, Charlie Hunter, Yo-Yo Ma, Radiohead, Gong Gong, Neil Young, Blue Scholars, Many Chao, Floratone, Joshua Redman, Ed Solo & SChool of Thought, Wilco, Glitch Mob and other fine musicians.

A full list DJ Fundi's favorite albums of 2007 can be read over on the Fundiblog alongside lists from fellow music lovers he calls friends. Email a list of your favorites to [email protected] and we'll post it there too.

If you like what you hear in "Dig Deep: 2007 Retrospective," buy the rest of the albums at your local independent record store!

44/2009 : yeswecanobamahopecast : usa

part one of a two-part series

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, public enemy, ludacris, nas, lee "scratch" perry, maceo parker, the blind boys of alabama, george clinton, fela, prince 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 in a week or so and it will finish up the story with his acceptance speech in Chicago.

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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":

"Trouble

Oh trouble set me free

I have seen your face

And it's too much too much for me

Trouble

Oh trouble can't you see

You're eating my heart away

And there's nothing much left of me

I've drunk your wine

You have made your world mine

So won't you be fair

So won't you be fair

I don't want no more of you

So won't you be kind to me

Just let me go where

I'll have to go there

...

I've seen your eyes

And i can see death's disguise

Hangin' on me

Hangin' on me

I'm beat, i'm torn

Shattered and tossed and worn

Too shocking to see

Too shocking to see

Trouble

Oh trouble move from me

I have paid my debt

Now won't you leave me in my misery

Trouble

Oh trouble please be kind

I don't want no fight

And i haven't got a lot of time"

Not a happy song by any stretch, but a powerful cry out that I've related to many different times throughout my life. This episode starts and ends with Cat's classic, and mixes in Elliott Smith, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Screaming Trees, Aretha Franklin, Wynton Marsalis, Keith Jarrett, Johnny Cash, Charlie Hunter Trio, Marvin Gaye, Jerry Garcia and others. Very diverse, but methinks it holds together pretty good.

Enjoy!

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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.

Ike & Tina Turner

Bassnectar

Missy Elliott

The B-52's

Jamie Lidell

James Brown

Gnarls Barkley

Herbaliser

Roots Mannuva

Portishead

The Glitch Mob

The Time

Girl Talk

The Roots

Antibalas

Mr. Scruff

Alozade and Hollow

Al Green

and even more funky things to play with from Fourth Corner Soundsystem -- crank it up loud and rock the block, summerstylee!

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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 words: 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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