Zeflings news
It's been quiet for a while around Die Antwoord. NY are still wroking hard to get everything ready for the latest project named TEN$ION. TEN$ION, the new album from South African freak-rap crew Die Antwoord, is out February 7 via the band's own ZEF Records, in partnership with Good Smile, Downtown Records, and CO-OP Music. (Not Interscope.) After first video "Fok Julle Naaiers", here's another taste from what's sure to be a bizarre affair: the Yo-Landi-lead track "I Fink U Freeky". It seems as if Die Antwoord has chosen not to put too many African words in their new album, although it's only a first fokkin snippet that we hear right now so who knows what the other tracks will bring...
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Finally here zeflings, the new music video form the song Fok Julle Naaiers is in the air! The song will appear on their brand new album called TEN$ION that will be released in 2012 by ZEF Records 2012. And no, not Interscope. Its a great piece of art directed by NINJA and his chommie Ross Garrett who is famous for his great photography artwork. You can see that they are a great duo in combining the minds of two great artists into one masterpiece. Nice to see is dj Hi-Tek in the video as well. Music and screen come togehter as never before. It's a music video that combines the unique character of a single photo with well thought compositions in a moving picture. Check out more about the great Ross Garret and his relationship with Ninja and Yo-landi over here (link) UPDATE: Excuse us..We are waiting for the correct video version because the first version is not working anymore unfortunately, stay tune.....
Does zef exist? Or did Yolandis and Ninja of Die Antwoord make it all up in a frenzied (and successful) bid to capture international attention a year ago? Does it even matter now? Marlon Bishop traveled to South Africa to discover the "real" zef, and how it's connected to what he describes as "some of the worst music on planet Earth, objectively." Turns out Zef exists, but it might not be what you think it is...
“Crocs are zef. Flat-tops are zef. Wearing a cowboy hat to the club, that’s quite zef,” says Chopper Charlie, a South African blogger and DJ, while munching on a pizza at a seaside Cape Town café. “Ed Hardy prints. Ceramic clowns. Maltese poodles. I once saw a house with a life-size cement giraffe in the front garden. That was zef.”
Where the U.S. has its guidos and Britain has its chavs, South Africa has a li.....
It is not everyday that Top Billing get an invite to come and braai in Mitchell's Plain but when it is from futuristic rap-rave crew Die Antwoord our curiosity got the better of us. Representing a fresh new style called Zef Die Antwoord has taken the world by storm. When launching their first music videos in February 2010 their website www.dieantwoord.com received 41 million hits in that month alone. The world couldn't get enough of Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek and they have toured all over North America, Canada, UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, France, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic, Serbia, Poland, New Zealand, Australia and Japan. They have featured in numerous international magazines such as The New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine and Dazed and Confused.
Join Jeannie D as she gets an insight in the t.....
This year, the Voodoo Experience will once again present a large-scale exhibition composed of a series of interactive, site-specific installations scattered throughout City Park. The exhibition will be curated by Stefan Beese and Voodoo founder and producer Stephen Rehage. As in the previous year, this year’s exhibition will feature a celebrated group of both local and international artists.
The purpose of the exhibition is to provide another layer in a comprehensive, multi-sensory “experience” that elicits both physical and emotional responses from festival-goers. The vibrant pieces celebrate experimentation with technology and electronic media along with the nonconventional use of sustainable materials.
Another key aim of the various art installations is to emphasize the human element in this large-scale event by providing interactive opportunities for participants to make both th.....
If you've ever been impressed with the singularly bizarre Zef vision of the South African savants in Die Antwoord, you've been admiring the work of the group's DJ and visual artist, Leon Botha. Botha suffered from progeria, a rare degenerative genetic disorder that causes the body to age rapidly, and finally succumbed to the disease yesterday, a day after his twenty-sixth birthday. He was the oldest known living person with the disease.
Botha spent time DJing in Cape Town under the pseudonym DJ Solarize before he joined MC Ninja and Yo-Landi Visser on their crazed Die Antwoord collaboration, which was as known for Botha's visual style as it was for the group's South African rap stylings. Here you can see a photo collaboration that paired Botha and photographer Gordon Clark entitled Who Am I? Transgression that explored the disease and peoples' re.....
5, 6, 7 August 2011 (Remember to take the Monday off, Tuesday is there to recover from the Koppi)
OppiKoppi Farm, Northam, Limpopo Province
Ladies and gentlemen it is time to switch your pows on. In fact very on. Time has come to start the ritual cleansing and de-cleansing of the senses for the emotional and music overload which is colloquially known as the OppiKoppi festival.
Now in its 17th year, the festival (previously voted as one of the top 10 festivals in the world by the British media [Although, to be honest, that was in a non-royal-wedding year] has become a near religious experience for most of the tune zealots which migrate hundreds of kilometres to the three day celebration. Some of them actually come back from the koppie afterwards as well, which is always nice from an organisers’ perspective (Not like Mortimer who attended the 1999 event and ended .....
Rhythm Records is proud to announce that three of its 2010 releases have been awarded SAMA Awards at the 17th Annual SAMA Awards ceremony this past weekend in Johannesburg.
Van Coke Kartel was awarded with a SAMA Award in the category Best Rock Album: Afrikaans for their March 2010 release, Skop, Skiet & Donner. Bittereinder was awarded a SAMA Award in the category Best Alternative Music Album: Afrikaans for their October 2010 release ‘n Ware Verhaal.
Die Antwoord, whose debut album, $0$ was released locally by Rhythm Records in October 2010, was awarded a SAMA Award in the International Achievement category.
Congratulations to these winners, and all other SAMA 17 winners and nominees.
For more information about Rhythm Records’ three SAMA-winning releases, please see below.
For photos, interviews or more information, please contact Laurissa Vergottini at laurissa or.....
