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Control: Spoek Mathambo & Pieter Hugo team up for wild Joy Division cover/video
02.22.2011
01:49 pm
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We’ve posted before about both South African artist Spoek Mathambo and amazing photographer Pieter Hugo (his book Nollywood is sitting on a coffeetable 10 feet away from me as I type this) and wow, their new collobaoration on this video for Spoek’s fucking brilliant cover of Joy Division’s “She’s Lost Control” is nothing short of simply astonishing.

You think there’s nothing new under the sun, jaded reader? That every good idea has already been used up by music video directors? Guess again because this will knock your socks off!

Via Dazed Digital:

‘Control’, the fourth single from Spoek Mathambo‘s debut album Mshini Wam, is a ‘darkwave township house’ cover of the Joy Division classic ‘She’s Lost Control’. In collaboration with one of South Africa’s most influential photographers Pieter Hugo, and cinematographer Michael Cleary, the new video explores township cults and teen gangs. Shot on location in a squatted train boarding house in Langa, Cape Town, the video features a cast mostly made up of local neighborhood kids who run their own dance troop, Happy Feet. Spoek Mathambo has been pioneering a progressive take on African music for the last few years via his DJing (as HIVIP), solo and live band projects, having featured on Boysnoize Records and Top Billin.

Directed and shot by Pieter Hugo & Michael Cleary. Edited by Richard Starkey

 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Voodoo Dubstep: Cape Town, South Africa’s rising star, Spoek Mathambo

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Voodoo Dubstep: Cape Town, South Africa’s rising star, Spoek Mathambo
09.02.2010
09:18 pm
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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!
 

 
More Spoek Mathambo after the jump!

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09.02.2010
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