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mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon)

we want for nothing but to create...

About Me

MTKidu is comprised of two South African individuals on a collective path of a shared creative consciousness. Design / art / composing is what constitutes their collective make up, and the MTKidu TFTD 0.5 project is merely the first steps to realising the physical / tangible manifestation of these ideas and concepts.MTKidu is a live beat construct and visual manipulation team, comprised of MT (Murray Turpin), Nicholas Nesbitt (Kidu) and Hayley Junkin(Chinxxx(VJ)that was formed beginning 2006 in the pursuit of a sound and visual language that is both experimental and dark. For all intents and purposes, we concentrate on the creation and innovation of new, dynamic sound and vision in South Africa, and as the art galleries and clubs stagnate in white and grey cube commercialism, we will not forget the original purpose and potential of these spaces, for invention and exploration.The time has come to break the conventional moulds of exhibiting and the traditional parameters of tried and tested media and content. MTKidu approaches this in four ways: Audio manipulation created and performed with a laptop, sampler, CDJs and that Casio keyboard you lost when you were five. This creates a soundtrack to the world we wish to create for the viewer through our graphic representations and live visuals. Graphic representation of our visual concepts through mediums such as stickers, stencils, badges, prints, comics, design and web interactions. Experimentation with live visuals (original visuals presented as simple line animations built in Flash, that are controlled live). Regulating ourselves and our projects through our record label and art & design consultancy, Team Uncool. So in a word or 264, that's us and what we do. well, for now, at least....
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/28/2006
Band Website: mtkidu.com under reconstruction
Band Members: murray turpin(mt)
nicholas nesbitt(kidu)
Chinxxx(vj)

Influences: All creative boys and girls, especially South African boys and girls and a few influential others.......battery 9, max normal+ (TV), frank miller,lark, felix laband,horror pops, diesel whores,chris cunningham, real estate agents,amon tobin,jacob isarel,boards of canada johnny neon,kid koala, miles davis,constructus,fax, gazelle,Richard the 3rd,prodigy, sweat x,bjork, matin rocka and the sickshop,wim botha, louis armstrong,fingerthing,roger ballen, MIA,thom yorke,CSS, damon albarn,prefuse 73,suicide girls+pussycatdolls...;],banksy,the streets, marukami, beck,,tim burton, twoloneswordsmen, david lynch, kurt, crystal castles, gorillaz,aphex twin,squarepusher, dj krush/shadow/food,(warp,mute,ninjatunes,mowax,subpop,ed banger,modular etc) michael gondry,merzbow,phillipe starck,dali,jamie hewlett, venetian snares, spike (both), beastie boys....to name but a few...off the top of our heads...

read along as we listen to the adventures of the dark continent...

many exting adventures await klein baas as he inserts the TFTD 0.5 cartridge into his console.

now lets start...

1st album SOLD OUT

Sounds Like:

Record Label: teamuncool
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

old traks say...byebye...nu trak say... hello!

allo all, the subject line says it all...well...almost its a lil teaser of things to come...soon my pretties soon....nu traks( one a month till launch), live show and story book en route, wa...
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:05:00 PST

nu album and live show underconstruction...

a quick thanks to all that bought our 1st album and came to our prototype shows... chapter 1 is on its way....nu album, nu show....next level   watch this space..   mtkidu...
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:53:00 PST

www.teamuncool.co.za

underconstruction....but we left ya lil sumtinsumtin for the mean while...av a skwiz... :)   mtkidu
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:35:00 PST

surfs up

I'm back from ...Durban from the ice-box festival... we did a workshop and a gig on the Friday. It was really cool. At the workshop Dean Henning/captain asthma did a presentation on circuit bending an...
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:58:00 PST

http://saartsemerging.org/ by Shane Delange

mtkidu could not have said it better... http://saartsemerging.org/ thanks shane       ...
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Wed, 09 May 2007 04:37:00 PST

the dead music of mtkidu

hello boys and girls... Been meaning to post something for awhile... did a gig at the premises last night with Mt. We showcased some of our demos for our next release... id like to thank Daniel for t...
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST

pronounced, "empty-kid-oooh" mtkidu say easy peasy puta.....

  it is what it is......a name....for now....    
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:55:00 PST

nudark remix by richard tha iiird http://www.myspace.com/richardthaiiird

 hey been meaning to log this but never got round to check out a super kif remix of nudark on by the super talented richard thiiird click click http://www.myspace.com/richardthaiiird  kidu...
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:38:00 PST

mtkidu 100th friend..free give away.

if ya quick enough you may get a free cd....tell your friends...if such a thing on myspace really exists.....
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:23:00 PST

cc remixxx go download it now...

http://www.ccmixter.co.za/media/tags/safrobraz also cool track bye richard tha 3rd...
Posted by mtkidu (SHAKAWON coming soon) on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:47:00 PST