The Das Racist evening is becoming a slightly hysterical triple bill. Hip-hop but not as we know it. Das Racist is an art-freak-rap-trio from Brooklyn. Himanshu Kumar Sure grew up in Queens, just lik...

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The Das Racist evening is becoming a slightly hysterical triple bill.

Hip-hop but not as we know it. Das Racist is an art-freak-rap-trio from Brooklyn. Himanshu Kumar Sure grew up in Queens, just like Ashok Kondabolu. They met Victor Vasquez at the Sarah Lawrence Bard Pomona Wesleyan Art College in Massachusetts. Or maybe they didn't, as humour is never far removed from their leftfield hip-hop that wipes the floor with the genre. Due to the humour, they are sometimes depicted as clowns but their tracks are provided by Diplo, El-P and other great underground names. Gained fame thanks to their internet track ‘Combination Pizza Hut Taco Bell’ in 2008. In 2010 they were finally taken seriously thanks to a number of mixtapes that landed them in the charts of Spin Magazine, MTV and Rolling Stone. What's more, that first mixtape (‘Shut Up, Dude’) also received a 7.8 in the Pitchfork Media bible.

We'll be opening with the phenomenal Kraantje Pappie. Blew us away at the recent Eurosonic festival where he presented tracks from his new album, with beats from his famous drum 'n bass city-mates Noisia. Recently joining Noah's Ark (label of Jiggy Djé), with an increasingly bigger network and a heap of passion, Kraan is slowly working his way between the big names of Holland's hip-hop/rap culture.

After that it's the turn of Speed Dial 7 or rather the latest alter-ego of Tom De Geeter; the brain behind the avant-hop acts Cavemen Speak and later Zucchini Drive. Only just getting over his ‘Short Rich Apocalypse’ on which he enlisted the assistance of Mike Ladd, M Sayyid, Passage, K-the-I???, Rob Sonic, Pip Skid, John Smith, Bidrapres, Bleubird and many more... While touring for that album he wrote yet another opus and ‘11’ will be available in stores as of 19 April.