Bittereinder - Kwaad Naas

Getting local today with South African alternative Afrikaans rap group Bittereinder. I am a bit late with posting this one but give me a break, I only checked it the other day. It's the music video for their latest single off their most recent album Dinkdansmasjien (Think-Dance-Machine). The track is called Kwaad Naas (how South African people pronounce "quite nice") and has a very bouncy crunchy and infectious electro beat, quite lekker if you ask me, but that's because it's produced by beat-wizard Peach Van Pletzen aka Yesterday's Pupil (blogged about in Feb) who makes up one third of Bittereinder. The song also features a rap from none other than lead singer of South African indie band Desmond and the Tutus, Shane Durrant. Love the video, love the track, love the lyrics, love local, kiff my bru's. Tshek it out my chinas:




Shayne

Yesterday's Pupil

My oh my! Great travesty! Tragedy and tyrrany! How could I have left one of my favourite South African artists of 2012 off my Best Of list? Perhaps because his album was released in such an unorthodox manner that it slipped my mind that it was actully an album. Nevertheless, I come to blog about the great man known on stage as Yesterday's Pupil!

Yesterday's Pupil a.k.a Peach van Pletzen from Pretoria, was one of my most exciting discoveries last year. He is a one-man musical machine, producer of awesome electronic pop music and overall talented musician. He is also the production-third of Afrikaans alternative rap group Bittereinder and has worked with SA rapper Tumi Molekane of Tumi & The Volume and more. His solo project however is the real gold, and Peach produces the beats, plays the instrumentation and provides vocals on all the tracks, which range from gritty electro-bangers to funky electro pop numbers to alternative rock influenced tunes. Really nice stuff in my opinion. And a great live act too!

Last year he released his second album, in four parts, releasing 2 tracks every 2 months, for free! What a champion! The way he sees it, people are going to get it one way or another, so why not give it to the people, visionary I say... Each track release had a different artwork based on a pupil (clever eh?) done by kickass local designer Louis Minnaar. Yesterday's Pupil is definitely one of my favourite guys on the SA music scene at the moment and I anticipate big things and great music from him in the future.

Head to his website to download his latest album, for free! Thanks YP!
http://www.yesterdayspupil.com/

The Beast feat. Tumi Molekane by yesterday's pupil

Shayne