Another Die Antwoord video has hit the net, check it out and drop your thoughts below.

Credits

Directed by Roger Ballen & NINJA
Director of Photography Melle Van Essen
Edited by Jannie Hondekom @ Left
Post Production by Blade
Fuck you Frazer

ZEF FILMS 2012

Jozifest is around the corner…that’s right, in 2 weeks time you will be able to head your ass down to Newtown and witness one mind-f$%K of an event. 11 International acts and 40 of South Africa’s finest ripping it up for a full weekend of mind-blowing entertainment! Too sick! If you are one of the Jo-burgers that can’t make it due to lack of funds then here’s your chance to avoid that excuse and get your Jozifest on!

WHAT

Jozifest

WHERE

Newtown JHB
Carfax Street + Town Hall + MASH

LINE-UP

FRIDAY THE 3RD OF FEBRUARY

MONSTER ENERGY STAGE

• 19:00 – TBC
• 20:00 – Benson
• 21:00 – Rude One
• 22:00 – Hyphen
• 23:00 – Heist (UK)
• 00:00 – Sub Zero & Felon (UK)
• 01:00 – Grooverider & Junior Red (UK)
• 02:30 – Bruce Willis??

CARFAX STAGE:

• 19:00 – TBC
• 20:00 – Jab A Jaw
• 21:00 – Articulate Artists
• 21:30 – Lithal Li
• 22:00 – ID
• 23:00 – Ill Skillz
• 00:00 – Eligh & Scaurb (USA)
• 01:00 – Raiko
• 02:00 – Nifty

MASH STAGE:

• 20:00 – A Fate Like Yours
• 20:45 – The Dead Will Tell
• 21:30 – Facing the Gallows
• 22:30 – Vendetta Cartal
• 23:30 – Knave
• 00:30 – Pestroy
• 01:30 – Bloodline

TOWN HALL STAGE:

• 19:00 – TBC
• 20:00 – Destrukto
• 22:00 – DJ Calculus
• 23:00 – Damage Inc
• 00:00 – Musical Chairs
• 01:00 – Double Adaptor

SATURDAY THE 4TH OF FEBRUARY

MONSTER ENERGY STAGE:

• 11:00 – Only Forever
• 12:00 – Josie Field
• 13:00 – Popskarr
• 14:00 – Wrestlerish
• 15:00 – The Frown
• 16:00 – Taxi Violence
• 17:00 – Zebra & Giraffe
• 18:00 – Tasha Baxter
• 19:00 – Aking
• 20:00 – 340ml
• 21:00 – Tidal Waves
• 22:00 – Foto Na Dans
• 23:00 – Lark
• 00:00 – Die Antwoord
• 01:00 – Fokofpoliesikar
• 02:00 – DJ Sideshow

KILLCOOL STAGE:

• 12:00 – Natural Selekta
• 13:00 – Point 4
• 14:00 – LVS
• 15:00 – Ish
• 16:00 – MPI Project
• 17:00 – Cut Key Low
• 18:00 – Ambush
• 19:00 – Liver
• 20:00 – Greg Reve
• 21:00 – Kennedy
• 22:00 – Blush n Bass
• 23:00 – Twelv & Thesis
• 00:00 – Jenna G (UK)
• 01:00 – Funtcase & Krafty MC (UK)
• 02:00 – Haezer
• 03:00 – I Am Noize

MASH STAGE:

• 19:00 – TBC
• 20:00 – DJ Soosh
• 21:00 – The Cutt
• 22:00 – Lapse
• 23:00 – Hypomaniacs
• 00:00 – Deeziak
• 01:00 – Blunted Stuntman

CARFAX STAGE:

• Art / Design / Photography / Video / Installation Exhibition

DAMAGE

FRIDAY – R120

SATURDAY – R150

WEEKEND PASS – R200

WIN A SET OF DOUBLE TICKETS!!!!!

To win, just tell us – by commenting on this post – which of the internationals you would like to go nuts to at the event. Simple, no?

MORE INFO?

• Jozifest Facebook Page
• Jozifest Twitter

Another track from Die Antwoord. Listen if you care…

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It would appear Die Antwoord have gone and ditched their record label Interscope. We just posted the new music video for their single “Fok Julle Naiers” off their new album TEN$ION which apparently led to Die Antwoord’s divorce from Interscope and decision to go independent. Watch it here

The group had this to say on their online diary o0f sorts

So anyway… Interscope offered us a bunch of money again to release our new album TEN$ION.

But this time, they also tried to get involved with our music, to try and make us sound like everyone else out there at the moment.

So we said: ‘U know what, rather hang on to your money, buy yourself something nice…we gonna do our own thing. Bye bye’

The band will supposedly release TEN$ION through a new independent label of their own, ZEF RECORDZ. Songs will be available as digital downloads and on flash drives, “Because CDs are like motherfucking VHS,” Ninja tells Boing Boing.

They tried to release the music video they created (without label involvement or assistance) for this track on YouTube, but YouTube blocked it due to a copyright claim by Interscope/UMG (this despite the fact that the band and the label have already divorced; seems like the copyright claim wheels turn slowly).

Which would explain this outburst on Facebook earlier today

yo kidz, sorry 4 da blocks outside Zuid Afrika for da FOK JULLE NAAIERS video! TEN$ION is releasing on ZEF Recordz…NOT on Interscope / Universal. Think it’s taking a while for this to sink into their brainz…

Gonna try sneak FOK JULLE NAAIERS video in2 sum udda interweb channelz…hahahahaha…TEN$ION TEN$ION TEN$ION TEN$ION!!!

xxx
NY

So it would appear is all not perfectly well with the Die Antwoord as I’m sure Interscope will have something to say about this whole debacle. Anyway lets just wait and see what happens

Die Antwoord have been laying low for a while now and it would seem they’ve been working hard on their new album titled, Ten$ion, which will be released through Zef Recordz early 2012.

The group have just released the first single and music video off the new album and it’s available for free download. Check it out! and drop your thoughts in the comments below!

Download the Track Free!

Fok Julle Naaiers is a free track in preparation for Die Antwoord’s new album, Ten$ion, which will be released through Zef Recordz early 2012.

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Our very good friends at Scar hair have entered the big leagues with an amazing new billboard in Cape Town featuring none other than Ninja from Die Antwoord. The billboard features the pay-off line “Good hair for bad people” – Check it out!

Die Antwoord, the local Zef-Rap crew that everyone loves to hate has released their short film directed by Kids writer, Harmony Korine. The film is titled “Umshini Wam” and stars Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yo-Landi and it premiered today at SXSW in Austin Texas [A place I wish I was right now]. Check it out above!

About the Film

Korine’s sixteen-minute short brings the audience to the fringes of society where Ninja and Yo Landi of Die Antwoord star as wheelchair-bound gangsters. Residing in the outskirts of civilization, Ninja and Yo Landi play trigger-happy, gun-toting misfits who bond throughout the film by sharing cartoonishly huge joints, sticking-up business owners, and seeking refuge and shelter in the woods. It is a tale of love and the struggle for survival.

Source: VBS.TV

Credits

Ramfest! What can we say other than Fuck!, now that was a party and we’re happy to say Dont Party.TV was there filming every sordid moment, at least when we weren’t pissed or nursing the consequences of extreme overindulgence. With over 90GB of HD footage and nearly every act caught on film and condensed into 4:35 minutes of audio visual bliss here it is! Dont Party.TV :: RamFest 2011.

Check out Haezer interview Tom Deluxx as well as performances by Alkaline Trio, Funeral for a Friend, Liver, Niskerone, Die Antwoord and a whole lot more!

Credits

• Camera: Silo Dimba, Michael Hazell, Lize Engelbrecht and Tyron Kuypers
• Edited: Silo Dimba, Michael Hazell
• Produced by: Michael Hazell, Tom Kennedy and Tyron Kuypers
• Final Mix/Sound – Miguel Araujo
• 3D Graphics – Malcolm Skene

Tracklist and credits:

Mix n Blend – Joy
Alkaline Trio – This Addiction
Tom Deluxx – Reactivate

Screens

So its here, the new video by Die Antwoord. I’m pleading the 5th and letting you decide. Love it or Hate it! Vote below!

Vote!

Screens

Held in hall 4 of the CTICC in Cape Town the MK awards 2011 was an event that brought out the black collar rock n roll out in about 4 of the people that I saw attending. I must admit that I didn’t even dress-up too much, maybe it was because I didn’t really have anything ‘black collar / rock n roll’ or because I was too hung-over to care, but I was really keen to check out the awards show.

A great idea and well needed to the South African music industry: an award show that focuses on local talent who are voted for by the fans (of which over 500,000 votes were cast) and then ceremoniously handed over a physical accolade for their efforts in front of fans. Combine this with an event full of lights, pyrotechnics, ‘celebs’ and fans you must get a win? Well you’d be, hmmm, wrong…

Ushered into the event in an understandable rush as broadcast starts promptly at 20:00 and it was 19:50, I walked into a gigantic hall, full of metal refers (the big containers that you normally see on cargo ships) filled with white lights, a mass of visual stimulus smashing into the back of your cerebral cortex compounded by about 8 gargantuan projection screens which then confuses your eyes as to what to focus on. At the back sat the ‘celebs’, V.I.P’s, and purchasers of the seated tickets, directly in front of them were the ‘standers’ (I was one, more by choice ) cattled into two sections with stages in front of each and both divided by a walkway down the middle for the award winners to strut down and collect their awards from on stage; whilst being ogled at by adoring fans.

What amazes me about when people utilize the CTICC for music events, such as this one, is that they do not seem to learn the vital lesson from all the previous ones : sound simply does not work in a hall of that size. When the first band came (Taxi Violence ft. Inge Beckmann) on to perform it sounded like a kick drum was used to beat to death the vocalists whilst the rest of the band played air guitar, this is through no fault or lack of talent of the performers or a poor attempt by the AV company, and even if this was the case, we could not hear anything from the audience perspective to judge it! But hey, I’m sure it’s more about the live broadcast on MK!

On a positive note it was amazing to look at, so much going on and happening in so many places that you felt that your senses were being made love to by Walt Disney’s inner child. Sparks were flying, angles were grinding and this continued all throughout the night.

Corné and Twakkie were the hosts of the event, and as always, they were AWESOME! If you weren’t in hysterics due to their costumes which combined latex, fake genitalia and weird S&M accessories you were hosing yourself at their antics. From harassing the audience, comparing one audience member with bushy hair to Macy Gray’s transvestite twin, and then the ‘celebs’, to their smart, off-the-cuff humour which always makes them a pleasure to watch. God they are great!
Besides that we were pushed through awards that rang familiar, like best music video etc, to some that make absolutely no sense, best neon / pornster (which Snotkop, a man that looks like he was entered by Ed Hardy’s kiddy-fiddler brother without consent, accepted with a video clip of him in the pool with 2 ladies in bikini’s either side: how corny can you get????); Prime Circle took an award for the best international breakthrough act over artists like Die Antwoord.

Now, Although I’m not a fan, some might consider that being signed to one of the biggest international major record labels, Interscope records, and headlining most major international festivals qualifies Die Antwoord and their butterflies for that award over Prime who?

The awards raged on. It was cool but the representation of local talent, performers who aren’t white and artists who are on ground level running things was poor.

It was a good start, but there are leaps and bounds to go. The actual event presentation was there, I just think that more consideration should have gone into the voting system, the actual awards being given out and the artists receiving them for the MK Awards to be considered a true zeitgeist of our music era as opposed to another MTV Base : a commercial entity that does more damage than good! Despite my bashing of this award show the idea is there and it can only get better. So I look forward to next year!