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DAS RACIST … just relax!
Brooklyn’s finest weed edge/hare krishna hard core/art rap/freak folk music trio take on the fake patois boldly baking their Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life, and new civilizations where Michael Jackson has gone before. A million dollars. You feel me? |
After their recent 30+ date US tour to “impregnate America with pop-art rap stylings/next-level street literature” and launch new album Relax with friends Danny Brown and Despot… they cruise the cobblestones of Europe for the coming month before taking a plunge into the great southern cultural cornucopia that is Australia. Having beamed up for the 2012 Big Day Out Das Racist venture into deeper quarters as this white guilt art project/science experiment/ponzi scheme piloted by @heems, KOOL A.D. and The Honorable Prophet Dapwell up the spice and down the strip with some extra cool club shows.
Das Racist follow the “top-shelf wiseassery and sneaky political incisiveness” of last year’s mixtapes Sit Down, Man and Shut up, Dude and raise the roof of your mouths with Relax lead track Michael Jackson and its whacked out video (see below). Relax was produced with a mixed bag of collaborators including Diplo, El-P, Yeasayer’s Anand Wilder and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij… and is out on Hima’s own Greedhead label.
Consume presents
DAS RACIST – just Relax Australia 2012
Tickets on sale NOV 28
TUES 24 JAN – Brisbane THE ZOO
Plus special guests… Doors 7.30pm
Tickets from: www.bigdayout.com, www.thezoo.com.au , consume.oztix.com.au and Oztix outlets
WED 25 JAN – Sydney OXFORD ARTS FACTORY
Plus special guests… Doors 8.00pm
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au, 1300 GET TIX (438 849), on your mobile www.moshtix.mobi moshtix outlets, www.bigdayout.com, consume.oztix.com.au and Oztix outlets
MON 30 JAN – Melbourne THE CORNER
Plus special guests… Doors 7.30pm
Tickets from: Corner Box Office (57 Swan St Richmond 12-8 Mon-Sat), phone 9427 9198, online www.cornerhotel.com www.bigdayout.com, consume.oztix.com.au and Oztix outlets.
WED 1 FEB – Adelaide THE GOV
Plus special guests… Doors 7.30pm
Tickets from venue, Moshtix www.moshtix.com.au, Venuetix wwwvenuetix.com.au, www.thegov.com.au, www.bigdayout.com, consume.oztix.com.au and Oztix outlets.
Also performing at the BIG DAY OUT 2012
FRI 20 JAN -Auckland BIG DAY OUT, Mt Smart Stadium
SUN 22 JAN – Gold Coast BIG DAY OUT, Parklands
THUR 26 JAN – Sydney BIG DAY OUT, Showground
SUN 29 JAN – Melbourne BIG DAY OUT, Flemington Racecourse
Tickets available from www.bigdayout.com.
RELAX album out now on Greedhead.
WEB: www.dasracist.net
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/pages/Das-Racist/182793228220
TWITTER: twitter.com/dasracist
DAS RACIST
With an origin going back to their time spent living in a “Students of Color for Social Justice”-themed dorm, Das Racist’s meeting seems like destiny. While MCs Victor Vazquez and Himanshu Suri met years earlier, 2008 would be the year that they would come to the attention of the music world after their strangely catchy song “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” became a YouTube hit. Teamed up with their hype man, Dap (aka Ashok Kondabolu), the Brooklyn group has a style that both satirizes and reveres hip-hop, combining druggy nonsense, social commentary, and obscure pop culture references into one boldly self-aware package. In 2010, the group self-released two mixtapes, Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man, with the latter issued in association with the Mad Decent label and featuring a song with production by tastemaker and label head Diplo. Soon after, Das Racist announced they would release their debut full-length, Relax, on Greedhead Music, a label imprint run by Himanshu Suri. Relax arrived in September of 2011.