Die Antwoord Drops Album $0$ October 12, Announces U.S. Tour Dates

NEW YORK, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- South Africa...Tuesday, October 12, 2010, will be one f--ken special day as Die Antwoord drop their debut full-length, $0$, on Cherrytree/Interscope, finally unleashing their rave-rap next-level music worldwide. And double that to f--ken f--, because that same date Ninja, Yo-landi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek are coming from their South African home up to North spreading their zef-so-fresh across the land.

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So far there's been a lot of talk surrounding a viral video released by the band. Reaction is varied – from bemused and bewitched to bewildered. As Ninja says The Guardian: "Is this Die Antwoord f---ing terrible, like f---ing retardedly the worst thing ever or the most amazing thing in the entire universe?"

At the handful of live shows the band has played in the U.S., Die Antwoord are the most amazing thing in the entire universe. As Crawdaddy notes: "It was hard to imagine anyone's jaw being able to drop any further towards the floor. Die Antwoord had given themselves to the night, and we were there to take them. See Die Antwoord to believe in them."

Onstage Ninja can go from endearing to menacing, spitting smartly-crazed raps in both Afrikkans  and English. Sex kitten doesn't even begin to describe Yo-landi, more like hell kitten, prone to tauntingly slapping her own ass - the one not for you. Then your brain turns upside-down when this teeny bad-ass throws off sounds in the sweetest pitch you've never heard, a voice Mad Decent calls "Afrikaan heliumized Son Doobie."  

I don't really know what that means either, but do know Die Antwoord is the most ingenious, exciting thing to come around. Since Ninja hooked up with Yo-landi and DJ Hi-Tek it was immediately "The Answer" ("Die Antwoord" in Afrikkans).  And then the video. "Enter the Ninja" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc3f4xU_FfQ) hit the interwebs and suddenly Die Antwoord are internet superstars with so many views their site crashed. After website Boing Boing picked up slack, views went up to 7 million obsessive viewers getting their fix.

Get the album, get show tickets, just get to getting! $0$ coming now!  

www.dieantwoord.com

ADDENDUM:

Occasionally Ninja emailed from UK tour; he probably wouldn't mind if we share his insights:

From: NINJA

Subject: body buzzing like a bed of a billion bees

we have murdered every single one of our concerts every single f---in time we have slayed, crushed, killed, destroyed nyc, poland, denmark, germany, serbia and hungary every festival stage we hit capacity packed every club we hit totally sold out with mini riots outside for tickets hazardous rap-rave mosh-pits break out every f---in time we jump on the mic kids loosing their f---in minds girls trying to pull my underpants off while i rap everytime yo-landi nearly got sucked into the audience at one concert when she tried to slap some hands security had to punch people in the face to let her go in budapest at moment about to f--k off to usa again to resume reign of terror once - NINJA out

From: NINJA

Subject: lord have mercy

jissis f-k...more inflatable toys floating on the back-stage heated pools...wild animals rushing off their faces...sweaty bald bouncers in leather jackets dishing out duk poes klaps...golden bum smacking...little girls getting crushed against the stage...ninja piel- pomping followed by stage-dive somersault back-flip right into the middle of the f--ken techno mosh pit...these are the days of our lives

SOURCE Interscope