Like any b®and savvy crew, Die Antwoord isn't just about music. They also became the stuff of legend after jumping onstage to improvise "Sail Away Mutherfucka" when the Wedding DJs played the famous Enya track at Oppikoppi 2009.ġ6. Watch the video of them performing "Doosdronk" with Fokofpolieskar (f*ck off police car), who probably were genuinely doosdronk (that's pussy-drunk literally, but it doesn’t translate) at the time.ġ5. Die Antwoord performed live for the first time ever at Ramfest 3 in February 2009.ġ4. The current crew consists of Ninja, Yo-landi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek (aka Max Normal.TV’s Justin DeNobrega).ġ3. The line-up featured characters Max Normal (the boss), Yolandi Visser (a romance novel writer), as well as Brad Armitage (the playboy), Jakob Basson (the workhorse), and Justin De Nobrega (the angel) all of whom had different responsibilities and roles to play in Maxcorp, a conflicted but caring corporate entity sent from heaven to save the world… or something like that.ġ2. Max gave musical multimedia presentations styled like motivational talks, with Powerpoint presentations projected above the stage.ġ1. Fans who missed Max Normal’s more accessible sound were excited when, a reinvention of Max Normal as a corporate hip-hop crew, came to town.
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Constructus was a masterpiece of design and marketing, and The Ziggurat (2002), another mall-themed album, featured Waddy playing various characters, a book illustrated by Nikil Singh, and a bonus blank CD with instructions on where to download extra songs and audio, free of charge.ġ0. Sibot and Markus are all also former African Dope fiends, and underground alternative icons in their own right, partnering up in The Real Estate Agents and sculpting beats for Playdoe and Sweat X respectively.ĩ. On a mission to keep it real, Waddy invented another fantasy world for himself: The Constructus Corporation. Aka Constructus, this super-underground crew brought Waddy as Watkin Tudor Jones together with the beat Sibot and Markus Worsmtorm. Urban myth has it that a pre-famous Nelly Furtado was so smitten by seeing Max Normal perform at the Pukkelpop festival in Holland that she wanted to collaborate with Waddy.Ĩ. They played their last gig as the support act for Faithless on the international group’s 2002 SA tour.ħ. Max Normal had only just begun to make underground waves worldwide with their album, Songs from a Mall (2001) when Waddy disbanded the crew and moved to Cape Town.Ħ.
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The original Max Normal line-up featured the talents of Waddy plus his DJ partner Simon 'Sibot' Ringrose, drummer Sean O Tim, drummer Adrian Levi, and guitarist Mark Buchanan.ĥ.
Their relaxed sounding, but biting grooves took cool Joburg clubs like 206 by storm. Always the creative chameleon, Waddy's next conceptual makeover saw him fronting live hip-hop band Max Normal. Signed to major label, Sony Music, their albums Puff the Magic (1995) and Burn the Evidence (1997) were hailed by critics as a mercurial "funkadelic jazzy hip-hop" spin on Cypress Hill's spliff-rap.Ĥ.
Long before he hooked up with Yo-landi, he exploded into the Rainbow Nation’s consciousness in 1994 fronting wigga crew The Original Evergreens. "Waddy" has always been big on collaborations. He is most commonly known in Cape Town as "Waddy", but frequently will not answer to this name.ģ. Over the course of his career so far, "Ninja" has gone by many other names including The Man Who Never Came Back, MC Totally Rad, Yang Weapon, Max Normal, Constructus Corporation, Maxnormal.TV, Watkin Tudor Jones, Jones Junior. "Ninja" has been renamed more often than the average street in Durban.Ģ.
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