the constructus corporation - the ziggurat - 2003

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The Constructus Corporation - The Ziggurat
Label: African Dope Records
Catalog#: ADOPECD009
Format: CD, Limited Edition, Album
Country: South Africa
Released: 2003
Genre: Electronic
Style: Illbient, Abstract, Trip Hop, ZEF


CD comes in a numbered hardcover book containing lyrics, a comic and a free
blank CD you can use to download free material and make your own album.

Tracks are all compiled from various sources.
Bit rates vary, but all are at least 128kbps.


From Wikipedia:

The Constructus Corporation was an electronic / hiphop act from Cape Town,
South Africa, that burst into life in early 2002 and had disbanded by mid-2003,
leaving only the one-of-a-kind concept album / book \"The Ziggurat\" (African
Dope Records, 2002) as legacy.

At the time, The Constructus Corporation (aka Constructus) was somewhat of a
Cape Town underground supergroup, combining the creative talents of chameleon-
like rapper / satirist Waddy Jones (aka Watkin Tudor Jones) and his long-time
DJ partner Sibot, with Cape Town\'s electronic music producers - Felix Laband
and Markus Wormstorm.

In early 2002, Waddy had summarily disbanded his previous group Max Normal (in
which Sibot was a member), just as the band was reaching South African stardom,
headlining festivals like Oppikoppi and charting on 5FM (citing being creatively
stifled as reason). He relocated to Cape Town and began collaborating with DJ
Dope of Krushed & Sorted and Felix Laband on the music for a multi-media project
he had conceptualised involving a graphic novel with soundtrack and live show.
These sessions spawned the Man With No Name track on African Dope\'s \'Cape Of
Good Dope\' compilation in 2002, but gradually mutated into The Constructus
Corporation outfit with personnel as listed above. During the year-long
production process a young female vocalist joined the group, listed as Anica
The Snuffling on the credits. She and Waddy became involved and remain together
today, forming the core of his current incarnation Die Antwoord (where Anica has
become Yolandi Visser), and have a daughter, Sixteen Jones.

After a mammoth production process including mix and master by Krushed & Sorted,
in December 2002 \"The Ziggurat\" was released. This remains one of the most
ambitious and extravagant music packagings to come from South Africa: an 88 page
pink hard-covered book containing a hand-written hiphop fantasy story by Waddy,
which follows the adventures of two kids on a giant futuristic floating world /
shopping mall called The Ziggurat, detailed etched digital illustrations by Nikhil
Singh, a soundtrack CD on which Waddy plays several different characters, and a
bonus blank CD at the back of the book with instructions on where to download an
entire second album of music and narrations for free, with which to fill the CD.

The Ziggurat may have instantly achieved cult status in South African electronic
music folklore, but in spite of a memorable album launch performance at the Cape
Town Victoria & Alfred Waterfont Aquarium (in front of the sharktank), the band
imploded less than six months after its release. The various members have all
flourished in their respective careers thereafter, and enjoyed some fruitful
collaborations. Sibot and Markus Wormstorm are now The Real Estate Agents together,
Felix Laband went on to be signed by distinguished German independent Compost
Records (who released a Sibot remix of Felix\'s \'Minka\' on 12\" in 2006), Waddy has
released several albums under different guises (including the Sibot-produced The
Kill and Markus Wormstorm-produced promo-only EP \"Emmanuel Rothchild - My Favourite
Songs\" and \"Markus Wormstorm Is Not Gay\"), and expanded into graphic art, fluffy
toy-making and other aspects of his creativity.


DISC 1
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101 The Ziggurat
102 How To Become A Better Person
103 Rick Flare
104 Pooka
105 Randomboy And Kidtronic
106 Long Street
107 On The Way To The Arcade
108 The Competition
109 Ooh Lala
110 Jellyfish
111 Metatron One
112 Hot Water
113 Invisible Sentinels
114 You Sound Dumb
115 I\'ll See You Now Now
116 Recharge
117 Johnny\'s Birthday Song
118 Wakey Wakey
119 Brotherly Love
120 Sweet Thing
121 V
122 Super Psyche
123 Choose Your Own Adventure

DISC 2
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201 Dream
202 Ambrosial Hours
203 Touchy Feely
204 Robot
205 Derreck And Darrel
206 Mommy And Daddy
207 The Magic Ear
208 Incredible Machine
209 Eat Dirt Copperman
210 The Krakula Cometh
211 Natalie
212 Bom
213 A Thousand Miles
214 Scum Deluxe
215 Dudus
216 Ripples In The Mesh - The Radioplay

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