Pieceocast 121 – Music Is The Highest Form Of Thought4 min read

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Title: Music Is The Highest Form Of Thought

A sign in front of a shop reads "Burger Meisterschaft" which means tournament of burgers. It shows several burgers flavored according to countries playing at the Euro 2024
Consider me un-burgered for life

It’s a difficult month for anti-nationalistic football lovers/haters like myself, when football is dominating every aspect of life during an entire month (as illustrated with the flipping burgers above), because of the damn Euro 2024 in Germany.

Meanwhile in Germany they claim this tournament will be another Sommermärchen, a summer fairy tale, in reference to the world cup 2006, that was held in the same country. Nationalism and patriotism had been a taboo in Germany until 2006, for the obvious, historical reasons. But then, during said world cup, many Germans for the first time waved their national flags again. As has often been written about since then, the analyses seems clear, the party-patriotism that reigned in 2006 has been instrumental in the resurgence of the far right in Germany. And this is the year when the fascist AfD *spits* has reached majorities in several state parliaments.

So what could possibly go right in re-issuing the Sommermärchen?!

The incredible number of racist and nationalistic incidents that have already occurred, when we have only reached the midpoint of Euro 2024, to me this sounds rather like a Sommeralptraum, a summer nightmare.

Even footballistically speaking this tournament has sucked. Many of the top teams do not play well, their stars look arrogant and tired. As such it was quite the symbol, when Belgian fans booed their own players, after unfair time wasting against Ukraine. If any team would have merited the symbolic success of making it to the next round, in the middle of the ongoing, horrendous war against Russia, it would have been the Ukrainians.

I did watch some games, might as well, but they were so boring. Why did i watch them? Because you can’t get away from them anyway.

At this point in time football has become an imperative. All the neighbors scream it from their balconies, while presumably flipping nationalistic burgers on their grills. Every news show gets dominated by it. Every butcher promotes their special edition burger. Every fucking car sports a fucking national flag. Fuck off.

The (former) beautiful game has gotten marketed to smithereens.

All this to say, this is my anti-football mix, guaranteed with no mention of the nationalistic tournament.

Because fuck that.

So without further ado.

Here comes the music.

Music to the rescue.

As is so often the case.

“Music is the highest form of thought”. ~ Dr. Who

The federal building in Bern covered by a scaffold for renovations. There is a sign that reads "Fussball regiert" = football reigns. The photo is from 2006 and quite blurry
Never mind the football imperative, here’s the music

So there it is, another pieceocast.
I hope you enjoy it.
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Pieceocast . A podcast of sorts

The tracklist: (music borrowed with all due respect to the artists):

1. Intro: Madvillain – Meat Grinder. Samples from various songs and movies
2. Beber & Teasdale – Razorblade
3. Lundland – Charlamane (Bigga’s Imperial Delay Mix for Rockers Hi-Fi)
4. I Roy – War & Friction (Stereo MCs Rmx)
5. Biggabush – Throwdown (feat. Jay Rees)
6. Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew – The Spark
7. Yosushi Ide – Tatiana No Namida (Kenny Dope Main Mix)
8. White Rhino – Definition
9. Jayden Jones – Da Feelin
10. Gary Clail⧸On-U Sound System – Magic Penny
11. Clocolan – Humantime
12. Nightmares On Wax – Les Nuits (Hip Hop Reprise)
13. Klee Bennally – A.C.A.B. Round Dance Song
14. Outro: Burial – Strange Neighborhood. Samples from movies

Samples: Dr. Who – Devil’s Chord, We Are Lady Parts, Amanda Knox 2016, Aja Monet – Poem as performed on Democracy Now

The cover: This is an old photo from 2006. It shows the federal building in Bern covered in scaffolding for renovations. There is a sign that reads “Fussball regiert” = football reigns.

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All music and audio is borrowed with the utmost respect for its creators. I consider this to be fair use. The material is created purely for fun, to share with my online friends. There is no commercial transaction involved.

I release all my work, the DJ work as well as all my other coding and creating, under a creative commons license, hence i treat this material as if it was under CC license. I attribute it and i do not use it for commercial gain. Don’t try to sue me, i am broke anyway.

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