Die Antwoord at the Paramount Theatre: Sept. 22, 2014!
STG and AEG present Die Antwoord at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on Tuesday, September 22, 2014!
Links & More Information:
Purchase tickets (on sale 6/26/2014 at noon)*
STG Presents website event page
EmeraldCityEDM Event Calendar
RSVP on Facebook
*Save $ on ticket service fees by purchasing tickets in person at the Paramount box offices or 24 hour ticket kiosks, or at the Showbox box offices.
About Die Antwoord: Coming from Cape Town, South Africa, duo Die Antwoord struck Internet viral gold with their video hit “Enter the Ninja,” but they’re really conceptual artists Watkin Tudor Jones and Yo-Landi ViSSer presenting their “inner zef”, assuming the roles of Ninja and Yo-Landi ViSSer. Die Antwoord, which is Afrikaans for “The Answer”, created their outrageous stage show with Yo-Landi baiting and flipping off the audience, while Ninja rapped and danced, wearing only his trademark Dark Side of the Moon boxer shorts.
In 2008 they recorded their debut album, SOS, and introduced “Zef,” which fused hip-hop, electro, and rave music. A year later, the videos they created for the tracks “Zef Side” and “Enter the Ninja” became viral hits. The latter featured Leon Botha, an experimental South African artist and one of the world’s oldest survivors of the premature aging disease progeria, who appeared as the group’s DJ. “Enter the Ninja” cracked the British Top 40, and major-label Interscope soon signed the group and released their 5 EP in July of 2010. That October, the label released a revised SOS with a world tour following. The group left Interscope the next year when the two parties couldn’t come to terms on their next album’s lead single.
Left to their own devices, Die Antwoord chose “Fok Julle Naaiers” to lead up to their sophomore album, released by their own Zef Recordz and distributed by the Diplo-associated imprint Downtown. The year 2012 saw the release of the non-album single ‘XP€N$IV $H1T,” while the singles “Cookie Thumper!” and “Pitbull Terrier” landed on their 2014 album Donker Mag.
Check out Donker Mag, the latest from Die Antwoord on Amazon and iTunes.