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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" www.podcastcafe.org

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. www.sacredbass.org facebook.com/sacredbass

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!

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…. www.podcastcafe.org

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" www.podcastcafe.org www.facebook.com/podcastcafe

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. www.podcastcafe.org djfundi@podcastcafe.org

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

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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! Feedback encouraged: djfundi@podcastcafe.org.

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! destinationburningman.com podcastcafe.org feedback: destinationburningman@gmail.com or djfundi@podcastcafe.org