Category Archives: Sjambok

TEBA

FREE SONG

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Love 04:37
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Published by   20-2-1 PUBLISHING

released 08 February 2013

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Christmas Beetles

insane Christmas music . Like you’ve never heard before.
give it it a listen. Full quality sound ..whole track.
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Come All 04:32
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Wenceslas 03:42
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Hark 02:57
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Buckfever Underground

VERKEERDEVLEI

by BUCKFEVERUNDERGROUND

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Geluk 03:45
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KLAWER 03:38
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BAT DOGS 02:34
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released 01 August 2012

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Buckfever Underground

VERKEERDEVLEI

by BUCKFEVERUNDERGROUND

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KLAWER 03:38
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released 01 August 2012

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Rare Innocence

Time in Space

by Rare Innocence

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Unfound 03:56
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Songs recorded in 2004 when the girls were around 12 years old. They wrote all the material themselves and were edited and nudged along by Warrick Sony who was very inspired by “the Shaggs”
see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggs

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released 04 November 2004
photographs by Mark Baldwin
recorded at Milestones Studios Cape Town
www.milestones.co.za

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mud ensemble

1993-1999

by mud ensemble

The Hermit 00:00 / 06:53
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Snorkel 04:10
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Tiger 03:57
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THE LEGENDARY MUD ENSEMBLE AT LAST BRINGS OUT THAT LONG AWAITED CD.

The album is a compilation of selected songs between 1993 and 1999.

Anyone that went to their concerts in the 90s know that every concert was a viceral experience for itself. Every live show was an event.

Theire filmic sensibility on stage ,and use of performance art, ritual, voodoo and alchemy made them one of the most important art /music movements of its kind in the 90s in south africa.
Even though apartheid had finally come to an end ,we where all still full of the scars of that time.There wasnt a person in Yeoville ,Kensington,Hillbrow or Troyville or Soweto that hadnt seen it all .

Their legendary concerts at Bobs bar or The Fig gallery are still to this day ingrained on our consciousness.

Never will the rest of the world know or understand how we lived, even though they arrogantly claim too. Today a few of us still remain to tell the tail of Johburg, no Hollywood production will ever be able to catch it on film. The Mud Ensemble helped us reflect our heritage face our own downfalls and also see the beauty inherent in the grimey streets of Jozi.

MUD PERSONNEL

Juliana Venter
Marcel Van Heerden
Kenny Marschall
Libbie Du Toit
Manya Gittel
Nic Hauser
Thomas Barry
Graeme Feltham

HELPERS

Konrad Welz
Alex Mavro
Christo Boshoff
Kevin Montanari

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released 01 April 2011
Mastering by Joseph Suchy (Berlin)
Released by Amatafula Tonträger
Cover design by Gerald Weitenhagen/
www.sleevegum.com

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AGITPROP – Kalahari Surfers

AGITPROP

  • tag as Foktronik
     The long awaited album of songs from the K.Surfers who’s last album just before the soccer World Cup saw them tour the UK with the African Soul Rebels tour.This is quite different in that it  harkens back to their early song and satire material. The first album they’ve done which really explores that connection ..ie the bridge between their political songwriting of the 80s and South Africa now.
    Genre wise,its always difficult with the Surfers but,I guess we are talking Folktronic which, I suppose  implies a certain lack of edgyness  which would be incorrect so I’d go for  ElektRetro or maybe taking the “L” out of Folktronic  . Sony after all did work with Die Antwoord before their big break under the name Bennie DeBruin so deserves the Foktronic tag. Every song smacks home a strong clear lyric of  “I-wish-I-had-written-that” magnitude. Go listen on their Bandcamp site for free. It is a dense work so you need two or three passes at it. Their are even 3 or 4 free downloads and while you are their check out the EP album recorded at the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival which contains all new material too. Prolific output.
    Lester Gabang

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This album has been an attempt to integrate my earlier more political songwriting work with my dub inspired electronica of the 90’s and 2000’s. Its taken me a little over a year to complete these songs, most of which were written on the train traveling to and from the city of Cape Town where I compose at Milestone Studios. Inspiration and feelings coming straight from the mess of governance that has been precipitated by the palace coup of the communist Trojan Horses within our democratically elected government.
We used to joke in the 80’s about Comrade Dollar ( a well moneyd “communist” with expensive tastes) only to see this emerging well beyond anyone’s imagination.
I feel great unease for the future when I read in the ruling parties online magazine phrases like:
“The Ideological Third Force”
“this anti-majoritarian agenda”
“expose the liberal offensive”
“Cadre deployment and redeployment”
terms which belong to another era …an era which I have eluded to with my choice of title and which I think we would do well to move away from.
Many of the tunes are personal vignettes from my book of dreams or life shaking experiences that have found their way into song of sorts which as in real life bump up against the political…but then everything is political
Warrick Sony“
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released 01 May 2012
recorded and produced at Milestone Studios Cape Town South Africa www.milestones.co.za* “Wings of a Stingray” was recorded live at
the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2012www.ctemf.com
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Babalazi 04:47
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Vok Jou 04:34

TransSky – Killing Time (1998)

TransSky-Killing Time

This album, released by Tic Tic Bang in the late 90′s  was the culmination of work done by  Brendan Jury and Warrick Sony under the name TransSky. It explores the fusion of dance/ triphop and social comment with unique african  sound samples and  (what was then new) drurn & bass techniques.   The band toured with Massive Attack opening for them during their South African ” Mezzanine”  tour.

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Immediate download of 13-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.PLUS scans of 16 page booklet from original CD cover art plus extra pics from the Massive Attack tour. Buying the whole album gets you a free mystery track
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TransSky was Brendan Jury & Warrick Sony
Johannesburg-Cape Town South Africa circa 1996-1999
Recorded at Shifty Studio in Johannesburg & Cape Town
engineered by Warrick Sony
arrangements Brendan Jury
photography by Dror Eyal
concept and design by Adriaan Louw
Juliana Venter b.vocals on Blue Flame
management Patrick Horgan
thanks to Lloyd Ross
released by Tic Tic Bang BANGCD039
contact warrick@kalaharisurfers.co.za

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this was an EP of remixes of Brendans URBAN CREEP track “Slow Thighs” as well as a dance electro version of the EngelburtsCan’t Take My Eyes off You” …..say CHEESE

pics from Massive Attack tour:

Dread Warrior

Dread Warri0r (1986) The Shifty Sessions

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“The first proper South African reggae band ..before Lucky Dube” Keith Jones
director of the award winning documentary “Punk in Africa”
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released 06 June 1986
“But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. ” Jeremiah 20:11
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