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Babylon Mission Report in Dub

Babylon Mission Report

Chernobyl

Now that the dust has settled

Chardonay: 

 

 

Anti State Capture Death Squad Alliance

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Density Wave Theory

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2015 ep of songs

spinning jenny

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2015 studio album:

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KALAHARI SURFERS – Digging The tape :  1980-83

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Tropical Barbie Hawaiian Surf Set

Limited edition of 250 colored vinyl – Remastered for Vinyl – Compiled by Kalahari Surfers

BUY >> http://roastinrecords.com/tropical-barbie-hawaiian-surf-set/

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Gross National Products

the first ever release by the Kalahari Surfers in 1983 – cassette in silver box

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GATED VILLAGE PEOPLE

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Vortex

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warrick sony & barry van zyl

SURFOPLANE

noname feniks

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befokremixes

Many of the tunes are personal vignettes from my book of dreams or life shaking experiences that have found their way into songs, which, as in real life, bump up against the political…but , in my opinion, everything is political.”you may notice some technical inadequacies in some of my performances, a hesitant beat here, a dodgy note there ,these are, of course, entirely deliberate and reproduced as evidence of my almost painful sincerity.”   Robert Wyatt
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“The leaders will now enjoy the champagne, and of course they do so on your behalf through their lips.” Deputy President Kgalema Mothlanthle at the party’s 100 year celebration
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Interview with Lloyd Gedye – Mail&Gaurdian:
mg.co.za/article/2012-05-25-warwick-sony-surfing-the-zeitgeist

Composed for Unyasi Electronic Music Festival 2012. Piece includes broadcasts from Marakana Mines Masacre 16 August 2012 , police radio from the chopper and a musical interpretation of the unfolding of the events

released 08 April 2013
here is the YouTube film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvBnUKWvW9U&feature=g-high-u
Kalahari Surfers main site is here:
www.kalaharisurfers.co.zaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikana_miners%27_strike

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End Beginnings:  with  Lesego Rampolokeng

original 1989 release plus 2 extra tracks. Album download includes scans from original CD cover of framegrabs from the William Kentridge’s short film “Johannesburg: Greatest City Next to Paris”

HEAVYWEIGHT filmed by Lloyd Ross live at Kippies in Johannesburg

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Kalahari Surfers : Sleep Armed (1987)

The third Kalahari Surfers LP released by  ReR during 1987 was    Sleep Armed

Warrick had desided to move to London after completion of this album and put together the first Surfers live touring band. Through Recommended Records they played a series of concerts in Europe culminating in the Festival of political song in East Germany. The  touring band pictured below was : Warrick on guitar vocals and tapes, Chris Cutler on drums,  Tim Hodgkinson sax and keyboards , ALig on accordian and keyboards Mick Hobbs on bass and Maggie Thomas our sound engineer. Additional musicians on the album were  Brain Rath ,  Hamish Davidson and Ian Herman from Tananas.

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Bigger Than Jesus (1989)

Bigger Than Jesus: The title was inspired by the John Lennon comment that saw the Beatles being banned by fundamentalist Christians across America. The comment that burst the Beatles’ bubble some say. Censorship had become an issue through out the 80′s for Shifty Records and particularly the silencing of peoples poet Mzwakhe Mbuli by internment. The Publications Control Board, set up in 1963 by Dr Verwoerd  to ban films and books and anything that threatened public morals or security. This was the most controversial of the Surfers albums : it was banned (deemed undesirable) by the South African publications control board. Court case documents and extensive lyrics and liner notes are part of album download. So too are the tracks which were taken off for the UK release. By purchasing the album you get these tracks as free inclusions.  It published lists every month of banned items. Bigger than Jesus was banned for distribution and immediately Shifty Records lodged an appeal which saw a  panel of experts from the board deeply studying the record to find proper reasons for their descision. (they hadn’t actually listened to the album it seemed) The track “Gutted With the Glory” was singled out as the offending piece. A William Burroughs inspired cut up between the raid on Lesotho ( by SADF forces in which a friend of ours was killed) and the Lords Prayer. The lawyers argued that this was not anti-Christian but anti -war. The case was resolved by us agreeing to putting a sticker over the title and changig the name of the album: hence “Beachbomb”. An interesting aspect to the banning is that during this time nothing was deemed “Desireable” . The album was found to be “Undesireable” and was banned and then found “Not Undersireable”after the court case. The album download includes  the legal papers ,which are quite amusing and both covers and various scans from the inner sleeve lyrics record centre etc.

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Living In The Heart Of The Beast  (1985)

This is the second album done for Recommended Records by the Surfers. (Title taken from the a track on the album In Praise of Learning by Henry Cow song -composed by Tim Hodgkinson ) Long before sampling became mainstream the Surfers were using cut up bits of radio broadcasts, political speeches and making drums loops with 1/4 inch tape, scissors and sticky tape. Working on an Otari 8track tape machine  in a mobile studio it took hours to put these pieces together. Recorded at the Shifty mobile in 1985 it came to the attention of the British music press and received good critical response. Here is an exerpt from the New Statesman reveiw: ” …it works because it is a formal success: cut up Botha speeches and Afrikaans-speak are set against hi-life and reggae rhythms, while viciously critical (and historically intelligent) lyrics are sung over ..settings that often recall early Zappa….it’s possible to underestimate the powerful symbolism of a record that mixes the rhetoric of white supremacy with black rhythms and thereby undercuts it.” Jon Savage

download or listen to full quality album here

Living In The Heart of The Beast

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