Die Antwoord's US debut at Coachella: interview with Xeni (Boing Boing Video)
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Ninja and Yo-Landi of Die Antwoord sat down with Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing.net 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.
We're told this was the only interview Die Antwoord granted during their US visit. The conversation originally streamed live as part of the Los Angeles Times / Brand X Magazine Coachella Oasis Webcast.
Die Antwoord online: dieantwoord.com
Twitter: / dieantwoord
Boing Boing post, with photo gallery from their Coachella performance:
www.boingboing....
More Boing Boing Video:
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Brand X Magazine: thisisbrandx.com
(Produced using the Tricaster live video system from newtek.com)
Yolandi is so adorable aw
@Fantomas646 Talking from experience?
@Fantomas646 I’m guessing you are as obese as everyone else seems to be nowadays. I lived in the 70s when everyone was slim before obesity and when fat people were laughed at.
I'm 9 years late to the party but fuck me these guys are awesome. Saw them in the movie Chappie and now I can't stop listening to their music and watching their videos on the interweb. I don't even like rap. I love these guys. Go Ninja and Yo-Landi!
I’m 65 and Die Antwoord has been my favorite for many years. I completely love their bizarre style I can’t get enough of it.
"we make car-crash music, like when there's a car crash, everyone looks."
lol yolandi.. never heard a better description of "die antwoord".. hahaha..
love you guys.
i feel like she split them up so yolandi could finally talk lol
😔
They both handled their landing in America like a boss
Oh come on, it wasn't that bad an interview. The reporter is friendly and asked good questions, and Ninja and Yo-Landi were both really polite and gave great answers.
Going from an average of 300 audience to an 5,000 start - woah!
PS: sounds funny when they say "interweb" instead of internet :P
She had to work hard in the middle! I liked this interview because of her asking both of them directly. I hate when a singer holds the mic the whole time and the rest of their band never talks. But sometimes the rest of the band are idiots. Yolandi's cool, so I'm glad she talked.
It is quite refreshing to hear an interviewer ask good questions - and be aware during an interview and roll with it. Which is great for such a cool crew as Die Antwoord.
how can u not love these people?
Come to Australia and I will be there. You reinstated my faith in the techno music scene adding so much more , just amazing and cant stop listening and watching you all.
Sue Kimpton he will be in jail if comes to Australia revenge porn is a offence
why are people hating the interviewer, she is letting ninja and yolandi talk doesn't she? the more the better ;)
U hardly ever get Yo Landi piping up in a lot of the interviews, she's amazing!!!
I can't believe they can keep a straight face....they are absolutely brilliant.
Painful raw honest & AMAZING art, ❤️ you Die Antwoord!!!!!
These two just do not disappoint. At all. You want to love them, and they just don't give you any reason not to.
"We used to have to no friends. We do now. Now we're famous."
Swearing in dutch and most sister languages of duch is very powerful
this interview is priceless. their answers are so to the point and awesome. zef
I saw them at Coachella it was amazing!!!
Why is everyone complaining about the interviewer? I think she is pretty good.
I just stumbled upon Fatty Boom Boom, then downloaded Ten$Ion last night, and just started watching some clips of interviews, etc., with Die Antwoord. These guys are fantastic -- great music, great personalities, great senses of humor.
xcuse me but THAT interviewer was wicked cool!...and so are Die Antwoord.
She made Ninja and Yo-Landi feel so comfortable and Damn I actually watched the entire interview because it was so interesting listening to Die Antwoord talk about their cultures past and present and their music. Enjoyed!
I love yolandi pure woman child.
car crash music, these two are HONEST to?!?! crazy, these two are god-made!
lol... I love at around 8:05 when Ninja starts kinda gettin' down with the techno in the background. xD
Yolandi looks like she's trying to get away from the interviewer. Lmao
i started whatchin this vid wen no1 was, showed it 2 some U.S. friends who loved it and ofcourse shared it!! and i started seeing the numbers sky rocket after that!! word of mouth dis pragtig!!
Great interview but it was so awkward. Why was the interviewer sitting in between them? If they were all mic'ed up then sure thats fine but seeing her fumble between Ninja and YoLandi with one mic was painful.
"It was like a cg crowd.. lord of the rings or something...."
LOL
Silly commenters attacking the interviewer. That's Xeni Jardin, one of the hippest tech and pop culture writers around. Her post about them on BoingBoing birthed the whole Die Antwoord explosion and is certainly the reason they were invited to Coachella in the first place.
No kidding! The other day my friend showed me the short movie they did with Harmony and i kept looking at the other videos and interviews for like an hour.
all up in the interweb....die antwoords so fresh...
what a good interview props to the interviewer.. asked the right question
Cant stop listening to DieAntwoord ... congrats from Romania
Best musician interview evaaar !
dude im happy u famous :) this girl is awsome :) kisses from Poland :)
REALLY NICE LADY HOST, NICE INTERVEIW, SHOWS HOW DOWN TO EARTH THEY ARE WITH THE TALENTS THEY POSSES, LOVE EVERY ALBUM SO FAR, I THINK THEY WILL HAVE BIGGER HITS IN THEIR FUTURE, THEY GOT FLEXABILITY IN THEIR REPERTOIRE. GREAT MIXING, ALIEN POPERAMA
You wont be able to stop looking up interviews , listening to their songs etc. it's like a disease of the mind 0_o
Raw and in your face..I like it
Ninja has some of the best tattoos I've ever seen. He's very honest too, "We don't really have any friends"
i love all the crazy references ninja say in all the interviews
This is like one of the best interviews of them. Interviewers mostly ask stupid question.
awkward interviewer, she should've sat further back and given them both mics. lmao
His Ninja analogies are genius.
I LOVE YOLANDI
"like wild like fuckin pyscho like sped up techno, and like it's like it's like bubblegum like acid techno for kids... Sorry i was having a blank before I was looking at the palm trees." he is my fucking idol.
Yolandi looks like she wanna run away from the interviewer lol
Why did the interviewer had to sit between them?! It was reA
These two are the most entertaining people I've seen in an interview in along time maybe ever. He's hilarious and she's like hot and fucking cool. I love what she says at the end.
Woow their accent is So coooool ;)
How did they upload a 22 minute video on youtube? I thought it couldn't be more than 10 minutes.
The seating and passing the mic back and forth made this unwatchable. I only got a few minutes in and it frustrated me too much. Otherwise would've been an awesome interview; it was nice to hear Ninja and Yo-Landi's replies
Yo-landi is amazing.
The mic passing was annoying. But I enjoyed it.
Also I don't see how they're an embarrassment, their work is actually really really good...if people can't see that, then they are morons.
And they are a new flavor, -3 them, curse words and all!
I think we just discovered the missing links.
Die Antwoord has destroyed my depression! please come to ny usa!
These neat people I think saved my life - like I felt boxed in because America is sorta dismal - then I hear like the wisdom of the early magic rebels and like sage knowledge - freedom punk kids - its massive and the world needsum!
OMG, not to be too off topic, but you can totally hear the "bulletproof (remix)" by Hyper Crush at 18:00! I didn't know it had gotten around. :D
7:32 dirty talk - wynter gordon :D
their explanation and analyzation of racism in South Africa, America, and Europe is spot fucking on
Around 5.30 Yo-Landi even mentions "Ice Ice Baby". I think they're great, used lots of stuff as inspiration. They obvioulsy must have had so much fun doing the interview.
They have got such a raw sound, it really grows on ya...when ya ya find out what they are saying its pretty ruthless and fresh
Car crash music lol....soooo true. I love it too. I kept thinking about a train wreck. Cyberpunk and I'm not sure they know that. I look at Ninja and think "Max Headroom lives again!" I really like the Afrikaans accent too. Dysfunctional artwork. Dystopian visions. Never thought I'd like something like this and now I can't leave it alone.
Was at LED yesterday and saw Die Antwoord - Best set bar none. FOKKEN NEXT LEVEL!!
I love artists who hone their craft for years, end up getting so frustrated with there talent, and in the end come out all refined through all the trials and ideas. Then they just throw everything theve done and learned out the window and re-invent themselves. Like taking a Picaso and tearing it to shreds. That is Die Antwoord.
lol 9:48 ninja one's head in the cloud , the journalist trying to find what he's looking at :D
the more i watch their videos the more addicted i get. i saw their first video 2 hours ago and i can't stop!
Funniest thing about this video is at 12:25. Insane alien Die Antwoord is being interviewed with Steve Winwood playing in the background. Then it transitions into Paul Simon.
Ninja.... South African style.. nice to see you making an impact.. Keep putting out
the jamz
what is the song playing in the beginning of this video, not "Enter the Ninja," the one after it.
Damn, so much hate in this comment section. I don't understand.
i love these guys
I love this guys love the music and everything about them.
"We make car crash music..." Just Brilliant
These guy's are deeper than I thought, good shit.
i love this kind of band like them, enter shikari, mindless self indulgence, m.i.a., crystal castles, sleigh bells and so on. sth off the hook and insane.
i love what people cant understand. it just makes me feel excited. yea, pure excitement ykno.
what i gotta do is to buy their new ep and sit here wishing them luck
Why is she sitting with her back to Yolandi. So disrespectful.
I want these two full flex heppines as well as Leon i love them so greatley!! and to the winers: these beings have seen struggle and persistence & hard times, don't judge them!
What happened to the Die Antwoord presentation? That was the best video
Uk loves die antwood next level but i still miss max nomal and the corparchon album was omg man
Dont tell them wat it means let them find out if thay love you thay will find out man
Yo Yolandi where you at?
hahaha she didn't get his 'virgin' joke, it was so funny!
their accents are really awesome. and their music KICKS
You can even hear at like 8:34 he kinda drops his accent for a little... These guys are brilliant...
This video needs more mics
she is soooo awesome and he is a bad ass!!!!!!!!!would love to meet them in person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!free tattoo work for them ;)
Celebrities always get free stuff!
They've got enough Shitty Tattoos mate!!! 😉
best thing is the music in the background - deadmau5 live @ coachella...
@grey1pvc I'm a South African living in South Africa. I love these dudes. Their concept is very authentic and should carry them to the top!
8 minute......tune in the background is a belter.....these two are fucking bonkers!
because that DJ is not one person but a collective of people....
fok fok fok!! fokkin awesome.
It's so funny when people take them seriously and at face value. As a South African I find it so hilarious how people don't get the in-joke :D
I do not understand how someone could be afraid of music. The only time in which I found music frightening was when it had sound effects that reminded me of frightening things. Die Antwoord is not scary, in the least. This interviewer is ... lets go with silly.
love the mgmt going in the back half way thru
I thought the interview was pretty legit. Yeah, it would've been nice if they had their own microphones but the questions were solid and I thought the interviewer did a good job of shuffling the mic around between Ninja and Yo-Landi, allowing them to both speak on the questions at hand.
they did not mention dj hi-tek once.
It would have been funnier if she had two mics and just kept both arms outstretched the entire interview
I think your right, not cause he's seems deficient somehow, but cause he's speaking in metaphor.
A breath of fresh air.