Video: Dirty Paraffin Documentary

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Video: Dirty Paraffin Documentary


“If we had to box it, we would say its primer stove music,” says Okmalumkoolkat, one half of the genre-busting outfit Dirty Paraffin, in this visually-compelling twelve-minute documentary. In this video shot by South African-American filmmaker and Fulbright scholar- Meja Shoba, the experimental duo talk about their musical influences, how they met and the science behind what they do and what they’re trying to accomplish.

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