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INTRODUCING: Skip & Die

• 12th Sep 2012

Meet Skip and Die, the South African/Dutch genre bending group who are releasing their debut album on Crammed Discs and have just dropped their first single as a free stream along with an equally intense video.

‘Love Jihad’ opens akin to walking through Lower East Side on a summer afternoon with field recordings of birds hiding in the background of duetting clarinets. The mood is quickly ramped up with chopped vocals, carnival weight drums and a wonky synth line sounding like a peak time sound clash between Sinden and Diplo. The pace is relentless with a maximal assault of ideas and sounds creating a thick sonic wall for Cata’s confident vocals to stand upon. It’s rowdy yet never brash with its mix of world club and political lyrics.

Surfing the Dalston tsunami with style, Skip & Die look set to clean up once this tune permeates out of the East London Bubble and with a controversial single title like ‘Love Jihad’ these guys are the perfect hipster bait.

Vice Mag best get their reel ready, Skip & Die are coming.