The Real Estate Agents – Promo Vid 1
The Real Estate Agents have come to rescue Cape Town music from pop mediocrity and bland, radio commercialism. From the good people that brought you such South African delights as Markus Wormstorm and Sibot; sSHADOWORKSs and African Dope Records proudly present the most real music in the leftfield; organic electronic glitch scratch; free music for free minds – The Real Estate Agents!
The mergence of the two Cape Town mix maestros on The Real Estate Agents project has got to be one of the most exciting things to happen in the past decade for electronic music this side left of the mainstream. These two sonic scientists with a fetish for low-fi audio-visual property have both made deeply distinct impressions on the leftfield music scenes both on Cape Town home soil, all across South Africa and even abroad, where their disdain for conventional DJ or production laws has led them to be much hailed and critically acclaimed by the electronic music cognoscenti as more than able contenders in the scratch patch, with a sound that has been compared to a Prefuse 73- Mr. Ozio gang bang!
Live, the dynamic duo own their audience, stepping it up a notch as they re-invent the art of performance with some creative DJing, scratching, sampling, tricky turntablisms and live beat manipulation, Sibot’s un-stable turntable adding weighty counter-balance to Markus’s 808-sequenced funky glitch grooves.
Using an array of samplers, laptop computers, feedback units and of course, a stack of vinyl records, rare sounds and often funny jokes, big meaty beats, loops and samples, they hack into your nervous system by way of your feet, rewiring brain by way of Mr. spine. Add some growling slow ‘n phat sub hunting basslines and very odd timing structures and you have the ingredients for an all out freq fest of beat-bop, glitch-hop, drop-top to the cop shop fun. When the Real Estate Agents’ step-up to bat, it’s a call to the homies, phat hiphop honeys, rockers and ravers, lovers and losers to take their place on the dancefloor! This is one concert you’ll not soon forget!
Duration : 0:4:17
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