The Podcast Cafe

This is a mix of music made as anticipation for moving off of the island and back up to Bellingham grows, with thoughts of nesting, family, cedar trees and grounding in heart. Mostly it is a collection of my favorite songs of this season of the mellowish, acoustic-based, beard-folk, often melancholy, always moving variety. These are the tunes I find myself listening to over, over & over again in the winter of 2010-2011.

The mix features Adam Hurst, Tallest Man on Earth, Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, The Black Keys, Aloe Blacc, Sade, Mumford & Sons, Carlina Chocolate Drops, Cowboy Junkies, Neil Young, Band of Bees, Band of Horses, Josh Ritter, Robert Plant's Band of Joy, Laura Veirs, Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs, Sharon Van Etten and others.

You can find other episodes in the Acoustica series at http://tinyurl.com/Fundi-Acoustica.

The fourth (of five) installment in the Podcast Cafe’s Purple Reign musical mix tribute series to Prince opens up with an abstract funk-jazz track from his obscure “Xpectations” album, then segues in to the start-stop funk of “Dance On” from “Lovesexy” and a remix of “Irresistible Bitch.” It’s a promising start and lets the listener know right away that they are in the hands of a Prince master archivist and mixmaster supreme. This isn’t any kind of Greatest Hits compilation -- expect rare tracks, remixes, B-sides and other surprises that range the entire 30-some years of the Purple One’s extravagant career.

Other tracks along the way include “Call My Name,” “Raspberry Beret,” “Hot Thing,” “Let’s Pretend We’re Married,” “Thieves in the Temple,” “Lemon Crush,” “New Power Generation,” “Joy in Repetition,” “The Beautiful Ones,” “Rainbow Children,” “Private Joy,” “Paisley Park,” Do Me, Baby” and “Positivity.”

You can find Purple Reign episodes 1-3 at http://podcastcafe.org/episodes/files/category-prince.html.

Here's a musical mix fresh from the astral plane that explores some of our favorite electrojams of the past year. The sounds come from whomp, hip-hop, funk, glitch, freakbeat and other undeclared genres. DJs Playaduster & Fundi provide the amorphous soundtrack to the journey...

Bonobo * Jneiro Janel * Flying Lotus * The Great Mundane * Eskmo * Tipper * The Roots * Sufjan Stevens * Nosaj Thing * Boreta * Fever Ray * R/d * Ratatat * Missy Elliott * Big Boi * Mimosa * Erykah Badu * Thriftworks * The xx * Dubtronix * Cee-Lo * Kid Cudi * Pretty Lights * Bassnectar * Zero 7

A joint production of the Podcast Cafe and Destination Burning Man.

We're back on the playa and it's late in the week -- things are moving in synchronicity through deep cosmic channels, new friends have been made, sleep is an afterthought, everything is irreversibly dusty and you love it all. The music you hear throughout the city at night is vibrating through your bass chakras and you don't know where the DJ ends and you begin anymore. If you've met a special someone during the week, things may be getting impossibly romantic as the week nears its crescendo. This mix reflects that by veering in to a Tanjalove-inspired pocket of funk and soul healing, grooves that both reflect and enhance the love that is filling your heart to overflowing: "Erotic City", "Take My Heart (You Can Have IT)", "Love to Love You Baby", "You Make Me Smile" and "Sexual Healing."

The Man falls right at the same moment as your last bit of protective armor, fear & sadness fall away, and you give in to full Loveness. A mobile soundsystem, crowned with a glowing, beating heart, plays "Love is in the Air" at the exact moment as the sun rises over the horizon on Sunday morning. Bliss reigns while you dissolve in to the sunlight with your Beloved in your arms.

Sunday night the Temple is set ablaze and there is culmination. Sade returns with another take on "Soldier of Love" to show you how far you and your wounded heart have traveled through the week; The Cinematic Orchestra reprises your theme song, "To Build a Home"; Bassnectar & Nelly Furtado conclude the entire affair with a wise reminder: "And I say follow me, follow me, follow me / Down, down, down, down / 'Til you see all my dreams / Not everything in this magical world / is quite what it seems."

Namaste, and thanks for listening. Yours in LOVENESS, DJ Playaduster

Beats Antique / R/D / Pretty Lights / Big Boi / Kid Cudi / Splatinum / Flying Lotus / "Michael & Justin's Erotic Adventure" mashup / Prince / Bill Withers / Al Green / Kool & the the Gang / Aloe Blacc / John Paul Young / Hot 8 Brass / Sade / Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros / Camp Get Found field recording / The Cinematic Orchestra / Nelly Furtado

"There is a house built out of stone

Wooden floors, walls and window sills...

Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust..

This is a place where I don't feel alone

This is a place where I feel at home.......

Cause, I built a home

for you

for me

Until it disappeared

from me

from you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust…….."

The Cinematic Orchestra open up this musical mix with a beautiful and emotive song that speaks to me in these days and weeks after Burning Man 2010 : "To Build a Home." It has multiple layers of meanings for me and stirs me in places deep down inside.

Sade provides the second track in the "opening statement" of the podcast, livening up the mood with another song that is rich with meaning for me these days. I heard a DJ slyly drop in to a dance party on the playa, and I sang along to the chorus with all the lovely people on the dancefloor at the top of our lungs, "I've been torn up inside (oh!) / I've been left behind (oh!) / So I ride / I have the will to survive. I'm a solider of love / all the days of my life...."

With those 2 opening salvos behind us, the mix moves in to the first movement, inspired by the Pink Mammoth. One of the best daytime dance party camps on the playa, the San Francisco-based Mammoth crew was conveniently located a block away from my camp at Get Found+Chillville. Several sunsets found me and Hannah Tangerine getting down 'n dirty beneath the disco ball with a frosty fruity cocktail in hand, surrounded by some of the happiest, lovingest Burners we encountered all week long. The Pink Mammoth sessions inspired a renewed passion for disco and house music, happy music, love music, and I tried to represent this in the first half of Joyism.

But eventually the sun does set, and nighttime slips in to Black Rock City -- an entirely different mood and mindset takes over, and a different kind of musical soundtrack is needed. You'll hear this happen when the Love Committee gives way to the freakbeat bass music of Opiuo -- a DJ from Australia who played his first-ever playa set midweek at Entheon Village, on the heels of weird wobblie grooves from Heyoka and Vibesquad. Opiuo was my favorite new discovery on playa this year, and so gets two different tracks in this mix -- one ultra-funky, one deep, dark and strange like BRC at 4 am.

So, the second half takes the listener on a tour of a night spent freaking out and grooving in whomp domes all night, receiving Bass Chakra Therapy from the best soundsystems anywhere in the world, and concludes with two remixes from An-ten-ae. An-ten-ae looms large in Get Found's collective memory as the DJ who introduced us to the Wall of Whomp at Root Society Thursday night. He opened up his outrageous set with a Black Sabbath song retooled for the playa and pretty much melted the entire audiences' mind with these glitched-out power chords and Ozzy yowls.

Pretty much every song in this mix is meaningful to me in some way or another, whether because of the groove, the memory I associate with it, the lyrics or even just the song title. I will spare you all the details here, but know that this mix, especially by opening with "To Build a Home" and "Soldier of Love," is thoroughly intentional, completely infused with loving vibrations from the heart, dusty at the edges and crafted especially for my peoples at Camp Get Found. It attempts to illuminate on my ideas of Joyism as Sustainable Synergy via bass waves, soundstickingz, time warps and heartbeats.

I'll soon release the second half of the Got Found? Burning Man 2010 mix, which takes the adventure through the second half of the week via new musical directions. Absorb what you can from Joyism and prepare yourself for….Loveness!

--DJ Playaduster

Tracklist:

The Cinematic Orchestra "To Build a Home"

Sade "Solider of Love"

Jamiroquai "White Knuckle Ride" (Alan Braxe + Penguin Prison Remixes)

Sylvester "I Need You"

Harvey Mason "Groovin You"

Carrie Lucas "Dance with You"

Love Committee "Got to Have Your Love"

Opiuo "Robot Booty"

Ana Sia "International Profile, etc"

Nanda "Yoda Knowledge"

Vibesquad "Double Dutch Oven"

Bonobo "Eyes Down" (Breach Remix)

Samples "High Life"

Opiuo "Brain Blow"

Fever Ray "If I Had a Heart" (Familjen Remix)

Deya Dova "So Happy" (An-ten-ae Remix)

Black Sabbath "War Pigs" (An-ten-ae Remix)

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Jerry Garcia was born on August 1 and passed away 53 years later on August 9. The Podcast Cafe has been celebrating his vast musical legacy these past few weeks with the release of several Jerry-lovin' podcasts: High Time: Garcia on Stage 1, Lazy River Road: Garcia in the Studio, Dark Star : Garcia on Stage 2 and now this, the third mix of our very favorite live Jerry jams. Such sweet kindness!

Help > Slip > Franklin's

Loser

Jam

Days Between

Ship of Fools

Eyes of the World

Big Railroad Blues

To Lay Me Down

West L.A. Fadeaway

Like a Road

More Jerry Garcia mixes at http://podcastcafe.org/episodes/files/category-18.html

The second installment in my "Jerry Garcia on Stage" tribute series -- something about summer just brings on that Jerry jones!

After Midnight 76

Brown Eyed Women 76

Spanish Jam 68

Wharf Rat 71

Ain't No Bread in the Breadbox 90s

When the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game 90s

Bertha 71

Standing on the Moon 91

Jam 90s

Dark Star 68

Morning Dew 68

The Maker 90s

Dark Star (reprise) 90

You can find more Jerry mixes at www.podcastcafe.org

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This is the second in a multi-part series of Garcia mixes -- we have several hours of our very favorite Jerry jams to share with you over the spring and summer as we draw near to the anniversaries of Jerry's birthday and expiration date. This episode focuses on Jerry's studio work, as opposed to his home on the stage, and features a wide range of alternate takes, spontaneous jams, obscure tracks and unreleased goodies. With a deep love for the man, and a profound respect for the gift of these live performances, Fundi has curated something special here, and we hope you dig it as much as we do.

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Alternate names for this particularly strange and tantalizing episode: Introverted Excavator and/or Kermit's Beautiful Vision

I've been pondering what holds all of this really disparate and varied music together, why the mix sounds so cohesive to my ears even though it doesn't look like it should work if you scan the playlist.

Part of the harmony of the many is, to my ears, a prioritization of the rhythm of the song. Most of these tunes have a solid groove propelling them forward, drums out front. Some pieces are rather abstract -- I love to play with soundscapes and create moods and atmospheres -- but still have the ghosts of a rhythm floating through them.

Also: these songs feel REAL to me. like REAL musical expressions from REAL people expressing REAL emotions. I am attracted to that quality in music no matter what the genre: authenticity, integrity, soul.

Many of these songs feel erotic to me. Even though the styles and sounds are all over the map, they share some kind of sexy charge, some languid hotness, attitude and life-force juju. It must be the always-teasing rhythms and slightly-agitated grooves that get me all hot and bothered.

Most of the music in this here episode #57 (!?!?!) really has a deep and funky swing to it. Some tracks are basically all swing, a bunch of jamming around a loose groove. Listen for that underlying swing (different from the swagger) -- better yet, just feel it by swaying your hips to the music, dancing across the floor.

Alright. Dig it, if you can.

oxox, DJ Fundi