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For those not up to date on the cutting edge of South African originality, The Real Estate Agents is the dynamic pairing of lab kids on distortion Sibot and Markus Wormstorm. Sibot is 2002 SA Battle of the DJs scratch champion, and DJ in many other forms. Keen to establish himself as a solo artist, he's busy developing an album while composing jingles for the likes of Black Cat Peanut Butter and FFWD in SA and ski ads for German TV.

He's the only cat in Cape Town with a Final Scratch vinyl system hooked up to his laptop (meaning he can scratch up his own tunes and sounds from Markus's bathroom, if the urge takes him).

Markus Wormstorm is a classically trained beat terrorist from Pretoria whose tunes (there are over 100 in the African Dope unreleased SA library!!) are starting to pop up all over the place - on the 'Cape Town 2 am and lounging' compilation for example, and soon on the first of three albums he’ll do for New York label Sound-INK. And he's only 14 years old...

These two unstable sonic scientists with a fetish for low-fi audio-visual property values (who are also the brains and beats behind that other fine experiment called The Constructus Corporation, but that’s a different biography all together) have both made deeply distinct impressions on the leftfield music scenes both on home soil and abroad, where their disdain for conventional DJ or production laws has led them to be much hailed and critically acclaimed by the electronic music cognoscenti.

The mergence of the two mix maestros on The Real Estate Agents project has got to be one of the most exiting things to happen in the past decade for organic electronic music this side left of the mainstream.

Live, the dynamic duo own their audience, stepping it up a notch as they re-invent the art of performance with some creative DJ’ing, scratching, sampling and live beat manipulation. Using an array of EQ, gear, rare and often humorous sounds, beats, loops and samples, they hack into your nervous system by way of your feet, rewiring brain by way of spine. Add some growling slow ‘n phat sub hunting basslines and you have all the ingredients for an all out freq fest of beat-bop, glitch-hop, drop-top to the cop shop fun.

The term “dancefloor terrorism” probably sums it up best. Either way it is all a welcome change to the faux hard-core, bling-bling cashing attitude currently undermining urban-roots music. Their debut release out now on African Dope Records is a three-disc affair, Disc 1 sees Sibot let loose over 21 tracks that fuse various styles from hip-hop through to jazz with a healthy dose of dancefloor friendly electronica, all the while showcasing the kid’s unique angle on music production and in true Sibot style will undoubtedly prove to be a benchmark title for South African electronic music, Disc 2 turns it over to Markus with 17 electronically inspired and multi-textured genre-free tracks that promise to be subliminally ambient, overtly funky but all intricately and superbly composed and masterfully executed, which is what we and the world have come to expect from Mr. Wormstorm.

Disc three is audio-visual eye candy and the whole package is well deserving of every music award in the book! Brokenbeat glitchkwaito from another planet meets the low-slung sound of funk? This is going to be the sound of Cape Town this summer and a finer soundtrack to the phuture you could not ask for.

(File under chunky beats-with-a-hip-kwaito-glichhop-kinda-mid-tempo-feel.)

'Taking the African rhythm heartbeat to the next level but with really, really thick western production' – Markus Wormstorm