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"The raw appeal and romanticization of their look and biography is now an afterglow. The audacity of their sound is familiar to music fans around the world. It's a new year and what we've got is the band back home in Johannesburg, steady gigging and gearing up for the performance at the opening ceremony at the world's biggest sporting event, taking place in BLK JKS' backyard. The World Cup. This is the sort of moment for which BLK JKS were built. While FIFA may have already selected its theme song for the Cup, we'll let you in on a secret. The unofficial anthem -- the song kids in Soweto are singing on their way to matches -- is not something imported or made for the moment. It has lived there, waiting for the world to turn its ears to South Africa, just now. Secretly Canadian is stoked to present you with ZOL!, the new BLK JKS EP just in time for The World Cup."
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"It's been too long since anyone was able to bring this much soul and heartblood to progressive rock, a medium that has been left cold and dry by a misguided focus on technical show-offery. But by entangling the music they love -- township blues, fringe jazz and renegade dub -- into the DNA of prog, BLK JKS have provocatively pulled Afro-futurism into a new century. In January 2009, BLK JKS set foot on US soil for just the second time, holing up with Brandon Curtis (Secret Machines) in the quaint, spirited town of Bloomington, Indiana, to record the music that would become After Robots, their first proper album. Ten-hour days turned into fourteen as the band relentlessly exorcised their collective ideas and ideals about music. The process was an overwhelming sensory experience in its own right. To discuss certain musical passages for which there is no accurate English befit to describe, BLK JKS seamlessly shifted from accented English to their differing tribal languages. Then -- giving up on words altogether -- they'd dive back into a fine-tuned performance of a song. It is the band's tendency to work it out on the spot that is most impressive about their approach to recording and structure. After Robots triumphs on its own strange set of genre-ending rules, and BLK JKS are undeniably a band of our times, embodying the duality of our violent and hopeful new world, these days of mystery and wonder."
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"For this 12" release, Osborne --- the MacGyver of house music -- chimes in for an extended club remix of Johannesburg quartet Blk Jks's 'Mystery,' originally from the Mystery EP. With the bass nearly bumping the needle off the record, we recommend you bust out your best moves early and often."
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