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This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
I Hate Being Single Original Soundtrack by Jake Zavracky
Listening in anticipation of tomorrow’s series premiere. Proceeds from the soundtrack go to City Harvest.
I’m going to attempt to program ITSTHEMUSIC.TV with an assload of music tonight, including tons of stuff you’ve never seen before. You’ll see live performances, clever commentary, rare interviews and more. I’ll cover both artists nominated for Grammys and lots of non-Grammy stuff too. You’ll see plenty of bands you know well and plenty you’ve never heard. And most of it you will not have seen before.
I just came up with this idea 45 minutes ago, so lets hope I don’t fall flat on my face. Coverage will start at 7PM.
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The lyrics at 3:33 of this Die Antwoord track are taken, almost word for word, from an unhinged Mike Tyson rant. As you might have guessed, this is NSFW!
Offensive? Clever? Disturbing? Homophobic? Homoerotic? Ambiguous? Pointed?
Or simply the hardest hitting bit of hip hop in years?
Die Antwoord - I Fink U Freeky
Directed by Roger Ballen
![The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord
It was the [South African] black majority that achieved political liberation in 1994. But whites experienced their own form of liberation. Their liberation was in the arts.
Under white rule, Afrikaans art was heavily sponsored by the government and presented a rigid image of Afrikaners as upstanding Christians — a natural ruling class. After apartheid fell, white artists were free to explore a wider range of personas. The comic artist Anton Kannemeyer depicted Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their Afrikaans. In “District 9,” the filmmaker Neill Blomkamp portrayed an Afrikaner transforming into something else completely — an alien — and emerging with improved moral character. “People react to ‘District 9’ and Die Antwoord on the same level,” Ninja suggested. They’re drawn to the burst of creative energy released by transformation.
“I feel sorry for people who need to ask us: Is it real?” Ninja told me. Changing identities is the point — the more total, the better.
Die Antwoord’s Latest: I Fink U Freeky](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqzpjZj3I1qz9m0ho1_500.jpg)
The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord
It was the [South African] black majority that achieved political liberation in 1994. But whites experienced their own form of liberation. Their liberation was in the arts.
Under white rule, Afrikaans art was heavily sponsored by the government and presented a rigid image of Afrikaners as upstanding Christians — a natural ruling class. After apartheid fell, white artists were free to explore a wider range of personas. The comic artist Anton Kannemeyer depicted Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their Afrikaans. In “District 9,” the filmmaker Neill Blomkamp portrayed an Afrikaner transforming into something else completely — an alien — and emerging with improved moral character. “People react to ‘District 9’ and Die Antwoord on the same level,” Ninja suggested. They’re drawn to the burst of creative energy released by transformation.
“I feel sorry for people who need to ask us: Is it real?” Ninja told me. Changing identities is the point — the more total, the better.
Die Antwoord’s Latest: I Fink U Freeky
Dhani Harrison (son of George), George Martin and Giles Martin (son of George) fiddle around with the mix of “Here Comes The Sun” when they discover George Harrison’s guitar solo, which was left off of the record and which nobody recalls hearing before.
KMFDM Is A Drug Against Wall Street
It was originally A Drug Against War. It’s some sort of miracle cure-all!
Califone - The Orchids (via lightswitchraves)
Excellent Psychic TV cover.
Coldcut + Jello Biafra - Every Home A Prison
EPIC!
Directed by Jacob Freeze
Love this song. You can download the whole record at the link above.
I didn’t know Martin Denny made a Moog record!
MTV - Makes Me Want To Smoke Crack
I listened to this over and over for years and then, somehow, completely forgot about it until just now. So great.
Two For Tuesday: Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
I never paid much attention to them before, but I’m really liking “Home”.
