Dirtbin Delinquents

@ New Moon Pub, Photo by Marko van der Zwan

Boy oh boy is this a treat for your ears. Now, make sure you are sitting down when you give this album a listen. Fuck it, start a moshpit on the street, Fight Club style. Your homework is to make someone initiate a brawl with you and you have to lose. Wait. No, don't do that, I'm kidding. Dystopia does not condone any violence or the initiation thereof. We do however condone dank rad music and your homework is to make sure your brain doesn't melt when you listen to this album.



Let me introduce to you Black Math if you haven't heard of them. These 3 multi-talented musos have been blasting holes in the music scene for quite some time now. I discovered them through SoundCloud and became instantly hooked. First time I saw them was at a dodgy bar in PTA's renowned Moot. Bobbejaan really knew how to host some godly lineups back then and I am glad they blew the last few breaths of sweaty smokey moshpit fueled air into the scene that still stands today. Starting from the roots we have Acacia van Wyk on the drums, Tyla Burnett on Bass and Cam Lofstrand on Guitar/Vocals.



Armageddon to your neck and ears is probably the best you can expect from a show. Go buy one of those cheapy neckbraces from your local pharmacy, and tell them about the trinity that originates from that tropical province you spent rainy December vacations at. I'm really questioning the water supply there. I don't know if you know the dirtbin scene really well and I should inform you that it is something from another planet. Go to SoundCloud and listen to their 8 or 10 Min Song EP if you want a good summary of what is to be expected from these delinquents.



Cam Lofstrand and Tyla also have a band The Sisters, where Cam plays the drums and Tyla plays the guitar or was it Tyla that plays the drums and Cam the guitar? Again multi-talented people here. There are so much music and so many products bursting from their scene and they do occasionally play a festival or local gigs near you too.



Keeping to the subject at hand. Birth Create Dissipate. One of the songs on this album sneaked through to SoundCloud and I can't quite seem to remember which is why I urge you to get on SoundCloud and follow your local bands. Sometimes they sneak stuff in there before it goes to the mainstreaming music platforms. It got released recently but was taken down and will be released in full after they release vinyl as well. For those of you had the honour to engrave it into your ears before it vanished. High five. I'm releasing this article so it might be out or not. If it isn't just get hyped and try not to eat your decoder. After all, good things come to those who wait. Not in the negative sense they have songs that never even have a concept of a point. 



Madness, just pure madness. For musicians, it's that final note that needs to cause some sort of release. You wait and you wait and it never comes. Oh and how they tease you. Finally, it just hits you. The lights go out,  they walk off stage and the shitty DJ music starts playing and you don't really know what happened in front of you. 

Birth Create Dissipate

As you dive deeper into their latest album you realise how much they grew as a band."Exit Here" throws you off and you scroll down to see the last song titled "Entrance". Don't do it. Don't you dare shuffle! If you haven't learned by now Math albums flow into one another and take you on a journey while simultaneously putting each song as its own core. It's heavy, dirty, stoner punk garage stuff. "Regret" makes you feel anything but what the title says, to listen to. Can I just focus on "Entrance"? If you play this album in reverse you're greeted by this beautiful acoustic guitar sprinkled with daily noises recorded here and there. It must be a vibrating phone in the distance at a party somewhere. 



They really do have a way of making an instrument out of everything and anything. People really freak the fuck out when they know a Black Math show is around the corner and I can see why. They carved their names into the foundations of the underground and I hold their music very close to my heart. Cam is a brilliant illustrator, Tyla is the DJ with the hottest pantz and Acacia really makes some fucking rad shirts. Go give them some love as their sole purpose is to do the same onto you through their talents.

Heres all the links and you better go look at all of them!
Acacia's rad shirts
Cam's Spam
DJ Hot Pantz

Black Math on Soundcloud
The Sisters
The New Moon Gig


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Author: Wessel Möller