The Podcast Cafe

"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

A fresh blend of soul, funk, gospel and hip-hop, with both contemporary and traditional flavorings. In tribute to those musicians who keep the soul-flame lit through the many generations. Performed across different technological mediums, but always emanating from the heart. Dig it if you can. Fundi hearts you!

Featuring Erykah Badu / Raphael Saddiq / Q-Tip / Al Green / Jamie Lidell / The Supremes / Galactic / Dirty Dozen Brass Band / Sade / Stevie Wonder / Aretha Franklin / Bill Withers / Gift of Gab / Saddiq / Sharon Jones & the Dapp Kings / Gnarls Barkley / The Stax Singers / Saddiq

Happy 4/20 to all the friends of the Podcast Cafe! Here's a special treat for you on this special day: an hour-and-a-half of live performances from Jerry Garcia, drawn from Grateful Dead and JGB shows from across the decades, mixed up and served just right by DJ Fundi.

This is the first in a multi-part series of live 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 death date. As you'd expect, DJ Fundi has conducted deep research in to creating these grateful journeys -- finding out what is considered the kindest version of "Scarlet Begonias" into "Fire on the Mountain", for example, and then hunting down that performace to share with you. 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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The Podcast Cafe's 3rd Prince mixxx installment in the Purple Reign series, featuring Shockadelica, Strange Relationship, Housequake, Always in my Hair, Mad Sex, We Can Funk, It, How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?, New Position, 3121, Lovesign, The Work and other favorite jams from the Purple Funkster. Purple Reign I and Purple Reign II are waiting for you at www.podcastcafe.org/episodes.

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