Party in the Hague! The Netherlands conquered Brazil, and they didn’t even play that great! But Brazil played even worse as soon as they were behind. At that point all the Dutch had to do was watch them self-destruct. Netherlands taking over!

Uruguay won a cheap victory over Ghana, so they get a cheap video featuring some sort of 80s throwback track. I have no idea if this is even Uruguayan music or not, youtube says it is, and that’s about the maximum amount of due diligence I have the patience for with this team.

Germany’s young team crushes old idols. Funky handicap indeed.

Remember, how I said that I would take any excuse to post a video of the Ex? Well, Spain’s victory over Paraguay will count for that too. This is a track from their record/book release, 1936, which is a document of the Spanish anarchists’ struggle against Franco.

Stay tuned for the semi-finals tomorrow!

I Wanna Dance With Some Numbers

Mash-ups are usually so uninspired that you barely notice them anymore, but every once in awhile you hear one that is totally genius.

When DJ / Rupture and Matt Shadetek decided to go with an underwater concept for their album Solar Life Raft they were of course following a fairly rich history in electronic music of utilizing such thematics, for example, with Drexciya’s Bubble Metropolis. U.R. also did a bit of an acid house banger with a track called Submerge.

Saga of Resistance

Theo Parrish goes deep with this remix of Sun Ra, and Detroit once again becomes a gateway into the cosmos splicing through time & space. One thing I miss about living in the Midwest is how seeped the whole area is with Sun Ra’s legacy… you just don’t get that sort of connection with his music in other parts of the country.

Shout out to the acknowledged classic blog.