![]() ![]() The new album, Ten$ion, has taken a serious critical lashing.Įven so, the group continues to play, and sell out, bigger venues, and if Sunday night was any indication, that’s not necessarily a good thing. The consensus among detractors is that Ninja and Vi$$er’s shtick is wearing thin, and that even if Die Antwoord is an elaborate piece of performance-art provocation (which is almost certainly is), crassness for its own sake isn’t a very deep or satisfying well from which to draw. How much has changed since their first local show, a mere 20 months ago? Well, in that time Die Antwoord has signed with and then severed ties to a major American record label, released two albums, played The Late Show With David Letterman, and weathered the beginnings of a backlash from the very blogs that helped break it in the first place. And the group’s two MCs are still as compelling to look at as a train wreck: the lanky Ninja with his home-job tattoos and Fu Manchu moustache, and Yo-Landi Vi$$er with her signature cropped bangs and disconcerting black contact lenses. It’s a known quantity by now, but there’s still something undeniably odd about its blend of raver-friendly beats and English-language rhymes peppered with Afrikaans slang. The words to “DJ Hi-Tek Rulez” are lifted almost verbatim from an infamously expletive-strewn Mike Tyson rant.)Įven though this was Die Antwoord’s third visit to Vancouver, the South African rap crew hasn’t completely lost its “what the fuck?” factor. Its opening line, “DJ Hi-Tek will fuck you in the ass,” encapsulates all the elements that make up Die Antwoord: it’s crass, vulgar, and threatening, but it’s also too over-the-top to take as anything other than winking irony. The group’s masked DJ was the first to hit the stage, pumping out his signature track, “DJ Hi-Tek Rulez”. ![]() Ninja still makes the muthafucker jump, Yolandi is still infatuatingly unusual and Konne is the glue that keeps you on the dancefloor.At the Commodore Ballroom on Sunday, February 19įor the benefit of anyone in Vancouver who thought Zef was, like, so 2010, Die Antwoord showed up at a sold-out Commodore determined to serve notice that this shit is far from over. It changes the eclectic nature of the original, but none of its cool. He lays this over the top of rhythmic tribal percussive beats and Yolandi’s main vocal hook to great success. ![]() ![]() We are looking at a couple of decent remixes to hit the cloud over the past week, firstly from Vegas based DJ Konne who has released a very club friendly banger that keeps a hold of the high charged rave synths that blanket the builds of the original. (help me.) Turn off the lights, put this bad boy on full screen HD and put the weed away for a few minutes, you won’t need it. This has to be my favourite video of the year so far and I can’t watch it enough, it haunts my dreams and is ruining my relationship. Watch the video for the fight of the century between Maynard James Keenan vs. I’ll be looking to hit this choon at the Karaoke clubs tonight! I’m not sure who this Antwoord character is, but if the energy created by wanting to kill him inspires this kind of madness, then I’m glad he pissed them off. Die Antwoord are the best thing to come out of SA since Charlize Theron. One of my favourite moments is listening the crowd’s nervous reaction when they performed this live on Letterman, theres just something to be said (although I don’t know what) about an oversized t-shirt, massively dialated pupils and missing teeth, Yo-Landi Vi$$er just pulls it off (although I’m glad she kept them on).Īs a New Zealander, not many things sound worse than a strong South African, but Ninja makes that shit sound cool, or maybe he didn’t, I was sold after seeing them smashing Dre Beatz headphones. Only two years later were they touring the world with their tech-electro infused hip hop, and this month releasing their third album Tension, where we find their viral hit that speaks volumes of the South African education system, I Fink U Freaky. Forming in 2008, they hit the ground running, and like a lot of good Africans, they were pretty bloody quick. Die Antwoord the white rave rappers from the Dark Continent have a unique style that is part Afrikaans, part English and a shit load of parts weird. Yesterday I wrote about the classic Freakyness of the Disco Era, today, we see how much has changed. Wednesday’s child had nightmares, forever. ![]()
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