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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">For Immediate Release:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><br>
September 13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><img width="381" height="66" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.png@01CD91C3.D7052020"></span><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><br>
</span></b><em><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";background:white;font-style:normal">JOIN THE FIRST EVER SONAR ON<br>
TOUR THIS OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER</span></b></em><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";background:white"><br>
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";background:white"><img width="603" height="287" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CD91C6.516CF660"></span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";background:white"><br>
</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">"<b>Die Antwoord</b> YIPPEE-KAI-YAY-MUDDAFUCKA tour 2012! Here we cum again bitchez! Hold on 2 your panties!</span></i><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">"-
<b>Ninja and Yo-Landi</b></span><em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></b></em></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Johannesburg (SA) – September 13, 2012 –
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Today <b>
Die Antwoord</b> announces that they will be heading out on the first ever <b>Sonar On Tour</b>. The band will be joined by Azari & III, Seth Troxler, Paul Kalkbrenner, Tiga, Gesaffelstein and Nic Fanciulli. The eight city trek will be the first time
<b>Sonar</b>, Barcelona’s international festival of advanced music and new media art, has done a full tour anywhere in the world.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Die Antwoord</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""> is currently gearing up to get back out on the road in support of their latest album
<b>TEN$ION</b> (<span style="color:black">ZEF Recordz/Downtown/COOP)</span>, which Sonar calls “a performance that shatters hip-hop and the rave spirit to smithereens and puts them back together according to
<b>Die Antwoord’s</b> own formula.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Prior to
<b>Sonar</b>, the band will be hitting the road for select dates throughout October, including the ACL Festival and Voodoo Festival. See below for a full list of dates.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Sonar</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif""> was established as an annual festival in Barcelona in June 1994.
Its founding principle was to blend artistry with entertainment, celebrate the avant-garde and experimentation, and to explore the boundaries of electronic music and its cultural iterations.
<b>Sonar On Tour</b> will present artists challenging and expanding what dance music can be. Eschewing bubble-gum EDM, the artists joining
<b>Sonar On Tour</b> are uncompromising in their vision for what people can dance to. They are innovators capable of creating some of the dancefloor’s most sublime and transcendent moments. To read more about
<b>Sonar On Tour</b> please visit </span><a href="http://www.sonarontour.com/"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">http://www.sonarontour.com/</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D">.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Die Antwoord</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">came
together in 2008 in South Africa and consists of Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er, and DJ Hi-Tek. Their debut album,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>$O$,</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>was first made available February 2010 as a
free download on their official website, and the band launched their first music videos, “Enter the Ninja” and “Zefside” on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://DIEANTWOORD.COM"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">DIEANTWOORD.COM</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">.<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i> </i></b></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">TEN$ION</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">was
recorded and produced in South Africa by DJ Hi-Tek with additional production by<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>Ninja.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>TEN$ION<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b>is<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">presented by ZEF Recordz</span>
<span style="color:black">and distributed globally by Downtown Records and COOP Music</span>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Die Antwoord se rympies sal jou fokken kop skop.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">DIE ANTWOORD TOUR DATES</span></u></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/14 Austin, TX ACL Festival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/15 Dallas, TX House of Blues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/17 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/18 St. Louis, MO The Pageant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/19 Nashville, TN Marathon Music Works<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/20 Atlanta, GA Center Stage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/22 Ft. Lauderdale, FL The Culture Room<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/23 Tampa, FL The RITZ Ybor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/24 Orlando, FL Beacham Theater<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/26 New Orleans, LA Voodoo Festival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">10/31 Chicago, IL Congress Theater*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">11/1 Toronto, ON Sound Academy*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">11/2 New York, NY Roseland Ballroom*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">11/3 Montreal, QB Metropolis*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">11/4 Boston, MA House of Blues*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">11/5 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorum*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">11/9 Oakland, CA Fox Theater*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">11/10 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Expo Hall*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">*<span style="color:#222222"> Sonar on Tour</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.dieantwoord.com"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">www.dieantwoord.com</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><br>
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<b><span style="color:black">For more information on Die Antwoord, please contact:<br>
Press Here Publicity <br>
</span></b><span style="color:black">212-246-2640<b><br>
</b>Jennie Boddy // Derek Sherron<br>
</span></span><a href="mailto:jennie@pressherepublicity.com"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">jennie@pressherepublicity.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> //</span><a href="mailto:derek@pressherepublcity.com"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">derek@pressherepublcity.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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