Kalahari Surfers

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Versatile Flying Options 06:10 Tools
Kicked By the Ball 04:41 Tools
The Secrecy of Science 06:35 Tools
Dig It 06:52 Tools
9866 04:52 Tools
Durga's Belt of Skulls (Move into the light) 05:36 Tools
Devi Dasi 06:37 Tools
Gangsta 05:18 Tools
Slow Speed 05:52 Tools
Into The Light 05:52 Tools
Taako 05:41 Tools
Coptic Handcross 05:48 Tools
Umlamli (The Equator) 06:38 Tools
What Have They Done 04:27 Tools
(I) The Qatar Depression (Ii) Faust 07:58 Tools
Panga Intro 00:35 Tools
Panga management 03:20 Tools
Shikhar tal 08:16 Tools
Slava 06:20 Tools
Healthy Way Of Life 00:27 Tools
Catch them in the act 07:28 Tools
Mazda village 07:22 Tools
One Party State 04:27 Tools
Herdsman 07:05 Tools
A Mercator Projection 08:38 Tools
Noise Rem 05:39 Tools
Gethsemane 06:22 Tools
Kavady 06:01 Tools
Temptation 07:16 Tools
High Ground 06:29 Tools
The Generals 06:58 Tools
The Generals Walk Free 06:56 Tools
Houghton Parents 04:04 Tools
Disarm Him (Country Music) 11:04 Tools
Braai nylon 07:57 Tools
Popshield 05:15 Tools
Zuluz La Trek 07:59 Tools
Diengele 06:04 Tools
Aerial Surveillance 03:48 Tools
Locust Storm 07:23 Tools
Potential Aggressor 01:08 Tools
Tongaat 03:09 Tools
Leka-Leka 06:42 Tools
Prologue 00:54 Tools
Shack (Zim Remix) 08:49 Tools
Plan for Peace 03:41 Tools
Tsa Na Na (Dubious Remix) 05:26 Tools
A New Chemical Entity 07:28 Tools
Kunene Jaz Drive 09:08 Tools
Mafikeng Road 05:20 Tools
Over the Presidential Palace 06:53 Tools
Bigger Than Jesus 04:19 Tools
Remember the Corporals 01:55 Tools
Leaders Underground 02:34 Tools
Limpet Mine 02:54 Tools
Running Out Of Time 03:37 Tools
Fish Effect 06:22 Tools
What Have They Done to You? 00:00 Tools
Brighter Future 02:22 Tools
good advice for the eighties 02:26 Tools
Golden Rendezvous 04:15 Tools
The Stimulated Herdsman 09:02 Tools
Gangsta (DJ Dope's Ragga Dub) 04:17 Tools
Damn fool 00:45 Tools
Rademeyer's Letter to his Wife (Fraud City) 02:16 Tools
1999 03:59 Tools
Djengele (The Generals) 06:06 Tools
Maid's Day Off 06:51 Tools
Cutting Yourself 03:51 Tools
Hoe ry die boere? 01:34 Tools
Europeans 04:39 Tools
Township Beat 04:34 Tools
Sustainable Development 08:34 Tools
Reconnaissance 03:56 Tools
This Land 03:29 Tools
A New Kind of Leader 04:04 Tools
Gathering Data 04:01 Tools
a national party 01:49 Tools
Parts Of Northern Natal 05:09 Tools
gutted with the glory 02:11 Tools
Greatest Hits / Teargas 01:53 Tools
Golden Rendezvous Part 2 04:22 Tools
beachbomb 02:34 Tools
A Brighter Future 01:53 Tools
Prayer For Civilisation 05:28 Tools
Don't Dance 03:49 Tools
Gangsta - DJ Dope's Ragga Dub 04:18 Tools
Play It Backwards 03:43 Tools
Conspiracy of Silence 00:00 Tools
Straight To The Hips 03:43 Tools
gangsta (longversion) 04:18 Tools
Song For Magnus 03:03 Tools
Reasonable Men 04:13 Tools
Greatest Hits/Teargas 03:03 Tools
Every Eventuality 03:41 Tools
Zola And The Budget 02:29 Tools
Free State Fence 03:19 Tools
You're Breaking Up (Press The Hash Key) 04:23 Tools
Tools of the trade 04:01 Tools
Fish Effect - Breathe Sunshine vol3 06:24 Tools
You're Breaking Up (Press The 04:24 Tools
Safety Seat 04:11 Tools
The Equator 06:36 Tools
Grensvegter 06:24 Tools
Beatle Love Song 03:54 Tools
Intimidasie 05:14 Tools
Ambush Street 03:28 Tools
NDincede (help me!) 04:58 Tools
Youth League 03:18 Tools
Gita 05:42 Tools
gold reef city 02:14 Tools
Stroll through the Country 02:29 Tools
Kunene Jazz Drive 09:06 Tools
You're Breaking Up 04:23 Tools
Hippo in Town 03:21 Tools
What have they done to you 04:27 Tools
Don't Get Fooled Again 05:02 Tools
Part of the Empire 03:04 Tools
The Equator (Umlamli) 06:36 Tools
Upon looking up at the Statue of Cecil John Rhodes 08:35 Tools
Frontiers of Madness (feat Sarah Jane Mary Hills) 03:41 Tools
Scared of the Police 02:57 Tools
Messer in kopf 1 02:31 Tools
John Medlow 01:28 Tools
Relax (feat the late Alan Kwela) 04:14 Tools
Trouble On The Way 01:43 Tools
Gangsta ( DJ Dope's Ragga Dub) 04:17 Tools
National Party 01:49 Tools
Xmas In Krugersdorp 01:46 Tools
Man on Parade 01:10 Tools
Another Torn Fridge 02:47 Tools
Child Soldier (feat Lesego Rampolokeng) 05:00 Tools
In Transition (feat Lesego Rampolokeng) 04:03 Tools
Broederbond 07:37 Tools
Singing in rain 02:43 Tools
Gross National Product 03:29 Tools
Durga's Belt of Skulls 03:29 Tools
Minority Report (feat Lesego Rampolokeng) 04:00 Tools
Let's Go Shopping 02:36 Tools
Durga's Belt Of Skulls - Move Into The Light 05:36 Tools
More Radical Style 00:52 Tools
Cut ups 03:13 Tools
Epupa Falls 09:18 Tools
Crossed Cheques 03:27 Tools
Disarm Him - Country Music 11:05 Tools
Durgas Belt of Skulls 05:35 Tools
Play Around with the Buttons (feat ESKOM & SABC) 04:12 Tools
Blackness and Light (Featuring Lesego Rampolokeng) 04:57 Tools
Dance of the Young Fascists 06:44 Tools
last kick 04:29 Tools
Wading Through the Sea 05:21 Tools
Human Wrongs 04:52 Tools
african countries 04:36 Tools
Suburban Surface / Puting Back The Clock 04:10 Tools
Blackness and Light (feat Lesego Rampolokeng) 04:57 Tools
The Voice Of Rage and Ruin 05:31 Tools
Surfer 02:03 Tools
The Last Tourist 03:41 Tools
Transcending Conviction 01:58 Tools
Che Geuvara & the Voodoo Boys 04:17 Tools
The Lost Soul of Dr. Basson 04:10 Tools
The Gatar Depression 07:57 Tools
Hostile Takeover 04:27 Tools
Blue Light Brigade 05:06 Tools
Brother Leader 05:46 Tools
The sectesy of science 06:35 Tools
Leka Leka 02:03 Tools
Without Slipping 04:00 Tools
Independence Day 04:13 Tools
Carolines Circle 04:21 Tools
Gangsta - Long Version 05:17 Tools
What is She Saying to Me 08:54 Tools
Knife in Head 2 00:38 Tools
Good Advice 00:38 Tools
The Actual Size 04:38 Tools
Dawn - Finely Powdered Rain Version 06:25 Tools
Black Southeaster 05:24 Tools
Higher Ground 05:29 Tools
Safety Beat 04:12 Tools
Beat About The Bush 06:30 Tools
Damn Fool (Sample) 00:43 Tools
South Africans 04:48 Tools
Prayer for Civilization 05:21 Tools
Close to Tears 04:12 Tools
Relax 04:13 Tools
The Curse of the Birds 04:10 Tools
This Land / Exodus 03:30 Tools
The Last Kick/One Verwoerd In The Grave 04:49 Tools
gansta (dj dope's ragga dub) 05:46 Tools
Shack Zim - Remix 08:52 Tools
Teargas 02:09 Tools
Telly Phone 04:48 Tools
Fraud City 03:16 Tools
Another Goat - Gita Two Point Oh One 04:17 Tools
Another Potential Aggressor 00:31 Tools
September 84 06:38 Tools
Don't Dance (Live) 05:09 Tools
Durga's Belt Of Skulls - Into The Light 05:34 Tools
Goldreef City 03:22 Tools
Garuda Express - Original Mix Arrangement 06:33 Tools
Kalahari Surfers - Fish Effect 04:38 Tools
Hillbrow II 02:02 Tools
Hillbrow I 05:46 Tools
Wings of a Stingray 05:29 Tools
Tsa Na Na (Dubious Remix) { sofaspace.net } 00:30 Tools
The Equator - Umlamli 06:38 Tools
Burning Tractors Keep Us Warm 06:23 Tools
Burning Track 04:07 Tools
Many Are Afraid 03:22 Tools
Mdincede 04:46 Tools
Lisa Upanishad - Exteneded Unpunished Version 11:23 Tools
Gangsta [DJ Dope's Ragga Dub] 02:15 Tools
Gangsta (Long Version) 06:23 Tools
Disarm him 04:00 Tools
4 African Countries 04:36 Tools
Underground 07:27 Tools
Kavady { SOFASPACE } 00:30 Tools
Play Around With the Buttons 04:12 Tools
Messer Im Kopf I 02:25 Tools
Kavady { sofaspace.net } 04:36 Tools
Tsa na na 05:27 Tools
Our Leaders have All Gone Underground 00:30 Tools
No Problems In Capetown 02:07 Tools
Shack - Zim Remix 02:02 Tools
The Night Owl 00:30 Tools
The Qatar Depression 00:30 Tools
Catch Them In The Act { SOFASPACE } 05:27 Tools
Tsa Na Na (Dubious Remix) { SOFASPACE } 00:30 Tools
Child Soldier (Featuring Lesego Rampolokeng) 05:00 Tools
Minority Report (Featuring Lesego Rampolokeng) 04:00 Tools
Beat About The Mind 04:34 Tools
Knife In Head II 02:36 Tools
Suburban Surface Putting Back The Clock 03:56 Tools
Broederhood 07:27 Tools
Lagoon Squad 07:27 Tools
Mazda Village { sofaspace.net } 03:56 Tools
The Maids Day Off 03:13 Tools
Popshield { sofaspace.net } 02:36 Tools
Tsa Na Na - Dubious Remix 05:29 Tools
98866 05:29 Tools
Mazda Village { SOFASPACE } 05:29 Tools
Blackness and Light (feat Lesego Rampolokeng) 04:56 Tools
Our Plan for Peace 02:01 Tools
Heavyweight 03:41 Tools
durga's belt of skulls (into t 00:30 Tools
You're Breaking Up - Press The Hash Key 04:24 Tools
Gangsta - Ragga Dub 08:50 Tools
Gangsta (Dj Dope's Raggadub) 00:30 Tools
Frontiers Of Madness (Featuring Sarah JaneMary Hills) 03:41 Tools
September 1984 02:33 Tools
Veraaiers 02:20 Tools
We Will Now Call Out The Names 02:20 Tools
Force Publique 02:20 Tools
Catch Them In The Act { sofaspace.net } 03:41 Tools
Diengele - The Generals 06:06 Tools
Frontiers Of Madness 04:24 Tools
Try To Kaewasaki 02:01 Tools
Shack zim remix 08:50 Tools
Hearing Voices (in his head) 08:50 Tools
Messer Im Kopf 08:50 Tools
The Equator (Unlamli) 06:38 Tools
kalahari surfers 1 beat about the bush 02:20 Tools
Gangsta/Durga's Belt of Skulls (Move into the Light) 02:20 Tools
Popshield { SOFASPACE } 02:20 Tools
The Quatar Depression / Faust (Excerpt) 02:20 Tools
transceding conviction 02:33 Tools
running out the time 03:37 Tools
Go Straight 03:37 Tools
Blackness and Light 05:15 Tools
Durga`s belt of skulls (move into the light) 05:36 Tools
The Qatar Depression / Faust - Excerpt 07:59 Tools
In Transition (Featuring Lesego Rampolokeng) 04:03 Tools
Zola & the Budget 02:50 Tools
The Last Kick / One Verwoerd In the Grave 04:03 Tools
Kalahari Surfers - Kicked by the ball 04:03 Tools
Reconnaisance 07:59 Tools
Child Soldier 05:15 Tools
Gangsta (feat. M21) 05:15 Tools
Hoe Ry Die Boere 08:50 Tools
Generals Walk Free 05:15 Tools
Reasonable Man 08:50 Tools
You're Breaking Up (Push The Hash Key) 05:15 Tools
Braii Nylon 05:15 Tools
We're Still Digging That Tape 05:15 Tools
Divine Intervention Convention 05:15 Tools
Substainable Development 05:15 Tools
Hillbrow 1 02:50 Tools
Shovelling Earth at the Ming Tomb Reservoir 02:50 Tools
My Husband's Run Away 02:50 Tools
Maids Day Off 05:15 Tools
Blue V's 02:02 Tools
Kalahari Surfers 05:15 Tools
In Transition 05:15 Tools
The Surfer 08:50 Tools
Zarafa 02:50 Tools
Independance Day 02:50 Tools
voice of rage & ruin 07:59 Tools
Guns and Pangas 04:11 Tools
Protect The people of South Africa (Hillbrow edits) 04:11 Tools
Durga's Belt of Skulls [Move into the Light] 02:02 Tools
Klein Hande 02:02 Tools
Putting Back The Clock2 02:02 Tools
Gross National Products Cut Ups 02:02 Tools
kalahari surfers 4 burning tractors keep us warm 02:02 Tools
Faust (Excerpt) 08:50 Tools
Suburban Surface (Never Do Art) 08:50 Tools
The Qatat Depression / Faust (Excerpt) 08:50 Tools
don't dance (live version) 02:02 Tools
What is She Saying to Me? 02:02 Tools
Frontiers Of Madness (feat Sarah JaneMary Hills) 03:40 Tools
The Qatar Depression / Faust (Excerpt) 07:59 Tools
Devi Dasi (Fragments of Tagore) 02:50 Tools
Hillbrow 2 02:50 Tools
Rainbow Hibernation 02:50 Tools
Another Goat (Gita Two Point Oh One) 06:30 Tools
Gangsta (feat. MZI) 08:50 Tools
Four African Countries 08:50 Tools
This Land/Exodus 08:50 Tools
1. free state fence 08:50 Tools
beat!apartheid - sA teargas 08:50 Tools
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- http://rhythmmusicstore.com/music/6526/Kalahari-Surfers/One-Party-State buy and listen to the new album here - http://http://www.kalaharisurfers.co.za/ Formed in 1982, the Kalahari Surfers was essentially a string of studio projects realised by Warrick Sony at Shifty Studios during the 80's. These involved various personel from that environment whose names were altered or simply reduced to first names to safeguard against security dirty tricks persecution.The band itself was a fictional collective designed to dodge any flak that may have appeared from these forces. The first release was inspired by the do-it-yourself punk ethic and was a cassette packaged in a silver spray painted box containing 60 minutes of music all recorded in a bedroom on a 4 track Portastudio. It was titled 'Gross National Product'. Material was made up of early tape experiments, audio collage , songs , cyclic trance tracks accompanied by free verse and looping bass/drum ideas. The Surfers second release was a double single package released on the Pure Freude label in Germany and consisted of 4 sides of heavy dub influenced songs. German group CAN were involved with this label and were an important influence on the Surfers sound at this time. Some of the Canterbury music scene bands in England were influential on the surfers sound but mostly the work of Robert Wyatt and Henry Cow. Weirdly these artists were the Surfers introduction to the South African exile jazz sound of Mongezi Feza , Dudu Pukwana and Johnny Dyani which also inspired them. Dudu played with Henry Cow at one point. In 1984 the first full album 'Own Affairs' was completed at Shifty Studios and taken to EMI to press. On the grounds that it was too politically sensitive EMI refused to press it thereby censoring the work before it was made. Radical far left British label Recommended Records pressed it and set up an alliance that continues to this day. Chris Cutler from RecRec helped set up tours and the Surfers rode forward with confidence. In 1985 they put out 'Living In The Heart Of The Beast' to critical acclaim. title from a Tim Hodgkinson composition on the Henry Cow album "In Praise Of Learning" The mixture of dub rhythms and hard punk social comment made it a unique South African album which pushed the barriers of local independent music. Musical styles ranged from the avant garde to straight rock. Quite Zappa-ish in places with the use of tape splice edits and juxtaposing diverse styles the album was a South African veiwpoint that provided some relief for those who didn't like the Johnny Clegg-CatStevensgoeszulu sound. Like many other Shifty Records albums it inspired many younger artists who are still working today. The need to tour was evident and Warrick moved to London to work on promoting the album. He toured with Chris Cutler and other friends from England. A third album 'Sleep Armed' was completed before leaving and released in 1986.The Kalahari Surfers were seen as far afield as Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Moscow, Lenningrad, Riga, East Berlin and London. Back in South Africa during the late 80s the album 'Bigger than Jesus' (title from the famous John Lennon quote ) was recorded and released locally and officially banned for distribution and possession . After an appeal to the publications control board the ban was lifted and set a legal precedent. The early 90's saw a collaboration with Sowetan rebel poet Lesego Rampolokeng resulting in the album 'End Beginnings'. Which took them on a tour of Brazil and France during the mid 90s. This was also released in London through REcRec. Lesego is the most powerful black voice to emerge from the 80s with his brain intact. A product of the lost generation who suffered detentions and beatings from our country's notorious security forces. He is a rarity and fittingly teamed up with fellow nomads in the South African cultural wasteland. Kalahari Surfers took the Shifty Studio to Cape Town after a violent highjack made the move essential and developed a new project with fellow Durbanite , ex Urban Creep front man, Brendan Jury working under the name TranSky.They spent a few years doing sound design, film music and various collaborative projects as well as an album "Killing Time" and a tour opening for Massive Attack's South African tour in October 1998. A project with ex ORB members Greg Hunter and Kris Weston is was begun towards the turn of the millenium and the Surfers joined up with Milestone Studios where Warrick has been busy working since. He hosted Brian Eno's workshop in Cape Town for CAMA and released five Kalahari Surfers albums through African Dope and Microdot Records.He has been involved in various art and music and DJ events in the city, including Faultlines, Soft Serve, Vortex, and Mother City Queer Party.The Surfers played Wiesen Festival in 2005 in Austria and Composed and performed material for the opening of “Turbulence” with Dizu PLaatjies at the South African art Exhibition in Salzburg – Red Bull Hangar 7 event. March 2007 As a specialist sound designer he has worked on feature films like the Mangler, directed by Tobe Hooper. [1] (POLTERGEIST, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) , SMS Sugar Man dir Aryan Kaganof,the Shadowed Mind dir Cedric Sundstrom [2] and multi media theatre productions such as William Kentridge's Ubu and the Truth Commission , Faustus in Africa and Handspring Puppet‘s “Tall Horse” and “The Chimp Project” , Akin Omotoso’s "Jesus and the Giant", Aryan Kaganof's "SMS Sugarman" as well as Museum installations like the San Rock Art Museum and contributions for the Dada South exhibition at the Cape Town National Gallery. In 2007 he co- arranged material for "The Triptic" a CD Polish metal band "Sweetnoise" working closely with Piotr "Glaca" Mohamed He has been invited as a guest lecturer to Rhodes University in South Africa, running post-graduate masters classes in audio post-production and sound design and was invited to present a performance for Unyazi: International Electronic Music Symposium at Wits University Johannesburg as well as the Unyasi 2008 "Fear of the Unknown". He performed with Victor Gama and Dizu Plaatjies in "Makakata Musique" and "Turn to Traveller" at Grahamstown National Arts Festival July 2009. [1]and contributed sound design to a number of Baxter Theatre productions including "Cissie" directed by Nadia Davids, Sister Breyani directed by Lara Bye and "I am my-own wife" directed by Janice Honeyman A 2010 Kalahari Surfers album: "One Party State " has been released through MicrodotRecords material of which was toured with the African Soul Rebels tour of UK 2010 alongside Oumou Sangaré & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou organized by Music Beyond Mainstream. He recently composed music for the feature film "Jozi" a comedy directed by Craig Fremont produced by Thom Pictures [http://www.jozi-movie.co.za/ ] "Being a white English South African means being schizophrenic. It means not having a firm foot in any culture, but also it means being priviledged to be exposed to many wildly diverse aspects of social life. A tapestry of influences." 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