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It does all come together on "Enter the Ninja"- still a fantastic single- in part because it's an origin story.

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They're also captivating live, where the visual fakery of what they do isn't lost the simple challenge and central difficulty of their debut record, $O$- most of which was released as a free download last year- is to fully put across who or what Die Antwoord are when all you have to guide you through their world is recorded music. Ninja and Yo-Landi aren't just striking visual curiosities, either they're underrated MCs and pop personalities- much more talented on the mic than they're credited for. There was music in it, but it served only as a soundtrack to the band's off-the-charts personalities- you got leader and MC Ninja's testicles dancing in Pink Floyd shorts in slow motion, along with the first hints at fellow MC Yo-Landi Vi$$er's strident, low-rent toughness, which was eventually cited by David Fincher as a potential cinematic look for the femme-hero of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books.

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There was a full music video for their second single, "Enter the Ninja", but the first thing most of us were entranced by, the element that articulated and contextualized in some small way who DA were, was a promotional piece about the group called "Zef Side". Combining documentary elements with a surreal undercurrent, the clips were funny, confounding, and unique, the sort of thing that you forward to your friends and then do online detective work to learn more about what you're watching and sharing. Our introduction came last winter, when Boing Boing first posted a pair of their videos. Hell, when we first profiled the group, it was under the headline "Who the Hell Are Die Antwoord?" More likely, you first encountered them as a viral video, a meme, a performance art collective, a joke that left you searching for the punchline, or some combination of the above. Die Antwoord were always a group of musicians of course, but chances are you didn't first hear about them because of their music.