Incredibly slinky new track/music video from Cape Town, South Africa’s rising star—artist, musician, graphic designer, writer—Spoek Mathambo.  This guy is brilliant!

This is lovesick dubstep at it’s best, ghostly and syrupy through the koppies and quarries of Cape Town.

The video for “War on Words,” features the story of a heartbroken widow performing pagan ceremonies to bring her dead husbands back to life…if only for a night. Her lovers are maggot ridden corpses, struggling through the dark passages of purgatory.

Sounds good, right? It is. Very good. He describes his sound as “dark township tech house sothocore new wave zulu funky.” That seems right!
 

 
Above, the video for “Gwababa (Don’t Be Scared). This is amazing, too.
 

 
“Ghost of Bones,” a short collaboration with the late photographer Shawn Mortensen, for Nike.

Thank you Michael Backes!