Elsewhere, your mom’s private parts end up in a “Fish Paste” jar as an insult, and Ninja’s idea of a sexual encounter always requires post-coital mops and buckets. Jamaican dancehall is referenced on “Evil Boy,” which turns Little Red Riding Hood into a story of phallic bragging, as is dancehall’s iffy relationship with the “batty boy”, because Die Antwoord are hardly politically correct. When “Scopie” - this album is chock-full of NSFW South African slang - samples “Short Dick Man,” it’s clever, and borrowing from the Bronski Beat for the epic sex track “Beat Boy” is just one example of the album’s fascinating love of old synth music, from new wave to gabba hardcore with a little love thrown dubstep’s way. A third, shadow member, DJ Hi-Tek, supplies much of the music, making wonderfully outlandish decisions like sampling Smile.dk’s sugary hit “Butterfly” for the massive “Enter the Ninja,” a hypnotic motivational track that should pump up any given mutant before they enter the ring.
First, there’s the setup: a duo of South African’s trashiest trailer kids, including a lead male rapper, Ninja, who is obsessed with his namesake plus an albino kewpie doll, pixie-voiced back-up singer, Yo-Landi Vi$$er, who often channels her inner sex goddess even when she’s traditionally unsexy. Even as these incredibly busy hip-hop-meets-rave productions rocket toward the brink of chaos, the listener is harnessed in by layers of hooks and plenty of cheeky musical ideas. On their debut album, $O$, the music is just as phantasmagoric, unsettling, and bursting with the same sick humor as their videos, but there’s also the same amount of care put into the product.
Just thought id share my story and see if any of you are in the same boat, I truly hope not.Representing the Lady Gaga Era’s dark underbelly, South Africa’s Die Antwoord are the real “Little Monsters” of their time, brought to fame by a series of videos that looked like David Cronenberg and Keith Haring were co-directing. Some of you may have had a similar situation with Kanye using Avril 14th for his song the Blame Game, luckily I only ever heard that song once and never finished listening to it. I wish I could unhear the song that is Ugly Boy but I dont think I'll ever get over this, and it hurts. Years have gone by and I have become a massive fan of every Aphex Twin release and have discovered so so many incredible forward thinking artists such as Autechre, Clark, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada and probably hundreds more, leaving most of my EDM roots in the past to the point where I can hardly stand to listen to it.ĭie Antwoord has ruined Ageispolis for me, I love SAW but after all these years whenever I get to track 4 on SAW my brain almost instantly starts hearing that god damn shit vocal that Die Antwoord do. This was the first time I had heard Ageispolis and at the time listened to it a few times, I realised it was an Aphex Twin sample so I finally checked out SAW for the first time and fell in love with the album, so I guess I have to thank the song for that, however. I was (unfortunetly) heavily into so bad EDM and other kinds of music I wouldnt dare listen to these days, I was also a fan of Die Antwoord. I had not listened to Selected Ambient Works at the time. So back in my teen years I was an Aphex Twin fan but only really knew of the Windowlicker EP, Richard D James album and Come To Daddy EP.
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