Das Kapital capitalises on international profile

By Chelsea Haith

With his bleached blonde hair, heavy undercut and pale skin, Kyle Brinkmann looks as progressive and subversively German as his stage name, Das Kapital. Dressed all in black, only the tip of his cigarette and his pale skin are dimly visible in the dark of the street beset by load-shedding. We stood shivering in the cold while he smoked and spoke, pausing only to offer his lighter to a nearby car guard. Assertions fall out of the DJ like water gushing from a broken pipe: he’s got an opinion on everything and he’s ready to share it.

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