The Collected Works of Die Antwoord

30,000 fans accrued on Facebook in two weeks. 2 terabytes of data downloaded from their website in two days. While we did note the video for Die Antwoord's "Zef Side" soon after it first popped up, the rising tide of dumb-founded enthusiasm for the satirical South African Zef outfit is rising to fever pitch.

With their album offered up for free at their site (new tracks!), and a physical release only just recently available (Magnetron Music out of Amsterdam), Pitchfork, Boing Boing, and Reuters, to name the big cats, have thrown multiple posts at the same handful of videos and interviews that have popped up. You can see all of them after the jump.

Die Antwoord, 'Enter The Ninja'


Die Antwoord, 'Zef Side'


Take No Prisoners - Interview with Die Antwoord (Official)


And for affirmation that indeed, Die Antwoord is art-school satire, here's an earlier, wonkier project by Max Normal:


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