The Podcast Cafe

For its third anniversary on 5/15/09, the Podcast Cafe is kicking off its first ever listener-powered fundraiser. The old soundsystem, aka 5-year old MacBook, is starting to wear down and its memory banks are brimming over. The headphones recently stopped working and the music vault is straining. The whole shebang starts to smoke everytime Fundi gets deep down in to the groove, and that is unacceptable work conditions. The soundsystem can't take the strain of DJ Fundi's heavy podcasting habit and so the Cafe crew looking to upgrade to a system with more horsepower -- the better to power the Podcast Cafe! Give a little and watch it come back to you with more musical blends to tantalize your earholes and frontal lobe. In 3 years, between all of his channels here at the Podcast Cafe and his work for www.destinationburningman.com, Fundi, sometimes in the bewigged guise of DJ Playaduster, figures he has somehow cranked out 60-70 podcasts. No kiddin'. That averages something like 2 per month, which is ridiculous. If you've been a beneficiary of this musical manna, then we hope you'll consider donating something like a 20 dollar bill to the Podcast Cafe PayPal account and help us upgrade the soundsystem for the next 60-70 podcasts. We're all looking forward to replacing things that are barely functioning now, and can see a bright future of music-mix-making on in to the future! Donate via PayPal @ www.podcastcafe.org -- look for the button in the sidebar -- and big thanks! Contact: djfundi@podcastcafe.org

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I made this here mix with the idea of exploring sacred music from Africa, the Middle East and India. I tried to keep a sublime, introspective vibe pulsing through this diverse array of selections, which include field recordings from villages on the Nile River, traditional music from Iran, Armenian chanting, drum circles, world beat fusion from Pakistan and Ethiopia and a survey of Malian masters like Bouboucar Traore, Oumou Sangare and Toumani Diabate. The journey begins and ends with hypnotic sounds made on the kalimba, or "thumb piano," opening with a track from Samite and closing with Bobby McFerrin. I hope this swirling mix of continent-spanning music from the soul inspires your own internal journeys. Feedback : djfundi@podcastcafe.org www.podcastcafe.org

Here is a recently-unearthed treasure trove of golden hits of the 1990's. This episode represents a cross-section of what I was filling my ears with in an earlier decade. I suppose you could call this mix The Roots of Fundi. Featuring Bult to Spill, Pearl Jam, Pharcyde, Soul Coughing, Kristin Hersh, Ben Harper, the Presidents of the United States of America, Beck, Ani DiFranco, Nirvana, Pavement, Cornershop, Blind Melon, Tribe Called Quest, Jane's Addiction, Morphine, Digable Planets, Soundgarden, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blues Traveler, Spearhead and others! Feedback : djfundi@podcastcafe.org

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: djfundi@podcastcafe.org

A sound-smoothie made from my most favorite sound-nutrients of the past year; favorite artists, dopest tracks, weirdest records: all blended up just for you! Flying Lotus Erykah Badu Gnarls Barkley Al Green Bob Dylan Cat Power Fleet Foxes Q-Tip The Roots Jamie Lidell Stephen Malkmus The B-52's Beats Antique & Bassnectar Dust + Blackdown DJ/rupture Bon Iver Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit DJ Scruff Ani Difranco Amadou & Mariam K'naan Nina Simone Thievery Corporation Quantic love, DJ Fundi 12/31/08 www.podcastcafe/djfundi@podcastcafe.org

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. www.podcastcafe.org feedback: djfundi@podcastcafe.org

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! Feedback: djfundi@podcastcafe.org

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! Support the Podcast Cafe with a donation from our home page at www.podcastcafe.org. Sign up for the Podcast Cafe's eNewsletter at www.podcastcafe.org/newsletter. Feedback and salutations: djfundi@podcastcafe.org

A Lament for Tibet

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. Feedback and salutations: djfundi@podcast.org

no multitracking. no overdubs. no dub chambers, marsupial thumbdrives, algebraic nerf beats, Hekter McBuckleskins nor flamingos in the snow. just a mostly quiet mix made on a mostly quiet night, underneath a february lunar eclipse. this is mostly new music to me, coming over the transom this past month or two, and represents what I listen to when I'm not roaming the outer banks of far-fetched multi-textured beats and grooves with DJ Playaduster. the vibe here is grounded and grounding, which is exactly what I need tonight, and maybe a little bit sentimental too. Tonight's menu: Jack Johnson "What You Thought You Need" * Stephen Marley "Ina Di Red" with Ben Harper > "Office Jimmy/Iron Bars" * Zap Mama "1000 Ways" * Lionel Loueke "Seven Teens" with Herbie Hancock * Groove Collective "Outermost" * Jon Kennedy "Tell Me How You Feel" (Bonobo remix) * Jose Gonzalez "Down the Line" * Cowboy Junkies "Sweet Jane" from "Trinity Session Revisited" * Radiohead "House of Cards" Live 02.01.08 * Iron & Wine "Trapeze Swinger" Live 08 * Cat Power "Woman Left Lonely" > "Blue" * Ry Cooder "Long Ride" from "My Blueberry Nights" * Eddie Vedder "Long Nights" from "Into the Wild" djfundi@podcastcafe.org www.podcastcafe.org

How to keep the flame alit? How to burn all year? How to reintegrate the lessons and the love in to the Default World? Find the entire Green Man Trilogy at www.destinationburningman.com/stuff/podcasts

DJ Playaduster's Green Man Trilogy, which began with "DISORIENTATION," leaves the playa and begins the difficult efforts to reenter the Default World in this second installment, "REORIENTATION," or better yet, "Hyper Primbly's marsupial thumbdrive." Herein, the Four return to their respectable former lives in the Default World. We follow them from Smith Rock to the Nightlight Lounge to Birch Bay Beach as they attempt to keep their freshly-stoked flame alit despite confusing circumstances...