SENDING rear-wheel drive cars like the Mzansi icon, igusheshe, sideways will be the order of the day when Showmax’s Spinners premieres.
With less than a week to go before the premiere, the streaming service has released a 31-track Spotify playlist from its soundtracks, curated by supervisor DJ Ready D.
Spinners is a TV series about spinning cars to be released on Wednesday, 8 November. DJ Ready D will have a cameo role as an announcer on the pitch. He also composed tracks for the eight-part series alongside 2023 South African Film and Television Award-winning composer Pierre-Henri Wicomb.
DJ Ready D, whose real name is Deon Daniels (55) from Cape Town, said when the French team first approached him and broke down the story, the first thing they said was cars.
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“I was like, okay, I’m in. A lot of the culture is based on the sound of these cars. When you’re spinning, these guys and ladies are throwing these cars all over the place, and there’s a very distinctive sound that a spin car makes because you’re in the rev limits all the time,” he said.
“It’s like people know, the culture knows and kids know that sound. When it starts climbing, it really gets people very excited,” DJ Ready D said.
He said when he read the scripts, he was ready, sitting and mapping out the beats in his head as he read.
“I think of it in music. I think of it in beats. I’m not sure what the outcome’s going to be, but I know this is the energy that’s needed. So, to find the correct artists to sync the scenes, that was the one thing. It was very important for the music to be authentic, and to a certain degree, it’s extremely challenging as well because it’s a story filmed in Cape Town city on the Cape Flats. To get that right, you must understand the culture, and you have to understand the history as well,” he said.
He said Spinners was like a gateway into that world, and it just goes to show how broad culture is and how it’s constantly evolving.
