The Black Tape: These are the notes by Warrick Sony on the Sjambok download site for the Koos Black Tape digital download release:
Three big things happened in 1987. I returned to South Africa after a year of touring my Kalahari Surfers band in the UK, I met my wife, Michele, and saw a band called Koos. They were, for me, the only South African band that fitted in with the work I was doing with Recommended Records and the political climate of the time. I saw them play at “The Pool CLub” and later again at “The Black Sun” in Johannesburg.They performed with incredible intensity combining theatre, art and music with punk sensibility, and best of all using the Afrikaans language which the best expressed , in my opinion, the peculiar zeitgeist of the 80’s. Not only the South African 80’s but the global cold war 80’s. Like German, Afrikaans has an angst that grabs the soul. 
I approached them about recording and brought them into the Shifty Studio* one Sunday morning where most of their tracks were laid down live. Shifty had already begun recording some of the Afrikaans punk bands like Gereformeerde Blues Band and Bernoldus Niemand. KOOS were different though:they fitted somewhere outside of the light entertainment market. It was hard.
I think of the Brecht quote “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Essentially a live studio album, it was recorded straight onto a Fostex B16 and digital SonyPCM ( the first digital recorder on the market).
The recording was released as a cassette tape in a brown paper bag stamped with the word “KOOS”.
Some months later, I recorded one of their performances live at the Black Sun, from which 2 bonus tracks appear here
Here, then ,is the KOOS cassette packaged for CD reissue and now for MP3 release through Sjambok. As they say “Oud maar nog nie koud”
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The third Kalahari Surfers LP released by ReR during 1987 was Sleep Armed
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