Ninja and Yo-Landi of Die Antwoord sat down with me for an interview just after the South African "rap-rave" band's first-ever US performance at the Coachella music festival. The duo spoke about their explosive, internet-fueled burst to fame, and about the origins of their "car crash music" (it's disturbing, but you can't look away) by way of District 9 and an anarchic internet and music subculture in post-Apartheid South Africa.
I'm told this is the only interview Die Antwoord granted during their US visit. Our conversation originally streamed live as part of the Los Angeles Times / Brand X magazine Coachella Oasis Webcast.
After the jump, a gallery of photos from their Coachella performance, shot by Dave Bullock (eecue).
- Coachella: LA Times Brand X webcast rolls today, Xeni hosting ...
- Afrikaans rap-rave: Die Antwoord, "Zef Side [Beat Boy]"
- Die Antwoord, S. African zef-rap, and Progeria survivor Leon Botha ...
- Die Antwoord's newfound Internet fame: your love don't pay my ...
- Die Antwoord to sign with Interscope, Neill Blomkamp to direct ...
- In case you missed it: Die Antwoord, the interview ...
- Die Antwoord to play first US show at Coachella this weekend ...
Photos of Die Antwoord live at Coachella, below: Dave Bullock (eecue)
More Boing Boing video here. Links to fan-shot videos of Die Antwoord's performance at Coachella: user allisongeddie's clips parts 1, part 2, and part 3; and here are many more uploads by other fans in the audience.
♥ THANKS: Eric Mittleman; David Burns, Scott Dallavo, and Richard Metzger of the Los Angeles Times and Brand X Magazine; Mazy Kazerooni and the UStream.tv team; Philip Nelson, Rex Olson and colleagues at Newtek, makers of the Tricaster live video production system on which this was recorded and produced; Diane Coetzer and Jay Savage; Syd Cohen and the office of Joel Zimmerman at WME; and Allison Geddie, whose video of Die Antwoord performing live at Coachella is briefly excerpted in this episode.
(PHOTO in video still: Clayton Cubitt)
WATCH VIDEO: YouTube, or download MP4.
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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.
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