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Kalahari Surfers
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Group · composer · musician

Kalahari Surfers

South Africa18 albums

Composer, producer, performer, and sound designer.

Biography

Warrick Swinney (born in 1958), more commonly known as Warrick Sony, is a South African composer, producer, musician and sound designer. He is the founder and sole permanent member of the Kalahari Surfers. They made politically radical satirical music in 1980s South Africa, and released it through the London-based Recommended Records. During this time the Surfers toured Europe with English session musicians. Sony/Swinney produced albums, and ran the Shifty Music label at BMG (Africa) for two years in the mid-1990s with a passion for pan-African music he developed and imported records by many then unknown African artists. He was responsible for signing, for the Shifty/BMG Label Salif Keita's seminal Soro album as well as albums by S.E.Rogie (Palm Wine Guitar), Kasse Made (Foro)and Ray Lema (Medecine); all now rare vinyl for the collector. Sony/Swinney has also worked as a film sound recordist, sound designer and sound artist and eventually after a hijacking incident moved to Cape Town with the Shifty Studio. Based in the city, and working at Milestone Studios from 2000 to 2018, he worked in the commercial sector on film, ads, radio, theatre and released more Kalahari Surfers albums...

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Songs recorded

  1. Kicked by the Ball4 versions
  2. Brighter Future3 versions
  3. Free State Fence3 versions
  4. Gangsta3 versions
  5. Heavyweight3 versions
  6. Potential Aggressor3 versions
  7. Reasonable Men3 versions
  8. Transitions3 versions
  9. 98662 versions
  10. Another Potential Aggressor2 versions
  11. Bigger Than Jesus2 versions
  12. Crossed Cheques2 versions
  13. Dark Explode The Blues2 versions
  14. Dig It2 versions
  15. Don't Dance2 versions
  16. Durga's Belt of Skulls (Move Into The Light)2 versions
  17. End Beginnings2 versions
  18. Fraud City2 versions
  19. Golden Rendezvous2 versions
  20. Grensvegter2 versions
  21. Healthy Way of Life2 versions
  22. Herdsman2 versions
  23. Hippo In Town2 versions
  24. Houghton Parents2 versions
  25. In Transition2 versions
  26. Limpet Mine2 versions
  27. Plan for Peace2 versions
  28. Prayer for Civilisation2 versions
  29. Rapmaster2 versions
  30. Reconnaissance2 versions
  31. Running Out Of Time2 versions
  32. Sebokeng Siege2 versions
  33. Song for Magnus2 versions
  34. Surfer2 versions
  35. Taako2 versions
  36. Tapeworms2 versions
  37. Teargas2 versions
  38. The Desk2 versions
  39. The Maids Day Off2 versions
  40. This Land2 versions
  41. Tongaat2 versions
  42. Township Beat2 versions
  43. Treason2 versions
  44. Underground2 versions
  45. Veraaiers2 versions
  46. Zola and the Budget2 versions
  47. 1999
  48. 4 African Countries
  49. A Mercator Projection
  50. A National Party
  51. A New Chemical Entity
  52. A New Kind of Leader
  53. Aerial Surveillance
  54. Ambush Street
  55. Another Iron Fridge
  56. Beachbomb
  57. Beat About The Bush
  58. Beat About The Mind
  59. Beatles Love Song
  60. Black Southeaster
  61. Blackness & Light
  62. Blackness and Light
  63. Blue Light Brigade
  64. Blue V’s
  65. Braai Nylon
  66. Broederbond
  67. Brother Leader
  68. Burning Track
  69. Burning Tractors Keep Us Warm
  70. Carolines Circle
  71. Catch Them In The Act
  72. Che Geuvara & The Voodoo Boys
  73. Child Soldier
  74. Close to Tears
  75. Coptic Handcross
  76. Cut Ups
  77. Cutting Yourself
  78. Damn Fool
  79. Dance of the Young Fascists
  80. Devi dasi
  81. Diengele (The Generals)
  82. Disarm Him
  83. Disarm Him (Country Music)
  84. Don't Dance (live version)
  85. Don't Get Fooled Again
  86. Europeans
  87. Every Eventuality
  88. Fish Effect
  89. Frontiers of Madness
  90. Gangsta (DJ Dope's Ragga dub)
  91. Gangsta (DJ Dope's Rgga Dub)
  92. Gathering Data
  93. Gethsemane
  94. Gold Reef City
  95. Golden Rendezvous, Part 2
  96. Goldreef City
  97. Good Advice
  98. Good Advice for the Eighties
  99. Greatest Hits
  100. Greatest Hits / Teargas
  101. Gross National Product
  102. Guerilla
  103. Guerrilla
  104. Guns and Pangas
  105. Gutted With the Glory
  106. Hard Currency
  107. Hide the Electricity
  108. High Ground
  109. Hillbrow I
  110. Hillbrow II
  111. Hoe Ry Die Boere?
  112. Hostile Takeover
  113. Human Wrongs (Chernobyl 25th Anniversary)
  114. Independence Day
  115. Interrupted Service
  116. Intimidasie
  117. Into the Light
  118. It Hurts (Tree Frack)
  119. Its Been a Slow Day
  120. Johannesburg

Albums

Beat About The Bush / Burning Tractors Keep Us Warm
Beat About The Bush / Burning Tractors Keep Us WarmThe Kalahari Surfers · 1982
Gross National Product
Gross National ProductKalahari Surfers · 1983
Own Affairs
Own AffairsKalahari Surfers · 1984
Living in the Heart of the Beast
Living in the Heart of the BeastKalahari Surfers · 1985
Sleep Armed
Sleep ArmedKalahari Surfers · 1988
Bigger Than Jesus
Bigger Than JesusKalahari Surfers · 1989
End Beginnings
End BeginningsLesego Rampolokeng & Kalahari Surfers · 1993
Volume One: The Eighties
Volume One: The EightiesKalahari Surfers · 1994
Akasic Record
Akasic RecordKalahari Surfers · 2001
Muti Media
Muti MediaKalahari Surfers · 2003
Conspiracy of Silence
Conspiracy of SilenceKalahari Surfers · 2004
The Sound of Dub
The Sound of DubKalahari Surfers / Chronic Clan · 2005
Panga Management
Panga ManagementKalahari Surfers · 2006
One Party State
One Party StateKalahari Surfers · 2010
Agitprop
AgitpropKalahari Surfers · 2012
Many Are Afraid
Many Are AfraidKalahari Surfers · 2013
Release the Shale
Release the ShaleKalahari Surfers & Barry van Zyl · 2014
The Eighties Vol. 2.
The Eighties Vol. 2.Kalahari Surfers

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