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A song for the late Syd Kitchen penned by his good friend Jonathan Handley. Performed by Jonathan Rat with Dave Rat on vocals. Filmed in The Necroplis Hotel in March 2012 by Rogue Productions. Footage of Syd courtesy of Rogue. Words and music by Jonathan Handley, copyright icbm music/Radio Rats.
A song for musicians – lepers with long hair, borrowers of birdsong and so on – written by Jonathan Handley. Filmed by Rogue Productions in Room 213 of The Necropolis Hotel on Wednesday, 21 March 2012. Vocals – Dave Rat, Lead guitar – Ozzie Theron and all instruments by Jonathan Handley, copyright icbm music/Radio Rats.
50 Original South African Songs
A non-definitive list of 50 great South African songs, that are not cover versions of overseas hits.
Arranged in chronological order of release date.
| 1. Vuka Vuka | The Manhattan Brothers |
| 2. Meadowlands | Archie Coker & The Meteors |
| 3. Ag Pleez Deddy (aka The Ballad Of The Southern Suburbs) (live 1962) | Jeremy Taylor |
| 4. Pata Pata | Miriam Makeba |
| 5. Silence Is Golden | The Square Set |
| 6. Master Jack | 4 Jacks & A Jill |
| 7. I Need Someone | Alan Garrity |
| 8. Orang Otang | Hawk |
| 9. Charlie | Rabbitt |
| 10. Playgrounds In Paradise | Finch & Henson |
| 11. Johannesburg | The Julian Laxton Band |
| 12. Buccaneer | McCully Workshop |
| 13. Villagers Theme (from TV series) | Mick Jade |
| 14. You’re Living Inside My Head | John Ireland |
| 15. ZX Dan | Radio Rats |
| 16. Boy Van Die Suburbs | Anton Goosen |
| 17. Better The Devil You Know | Stingray |
| 18. Man On The Moon | Ballyhoo |
| 19. Paradise Road | Joy |
| 20. Roxy Lady | Neill Solomon |
| 21. Schoolboy | Asylum Kids |
| 22. You’re So Good To Me | Hotline feat PJ Powers |
| 23. Bowtie Boogaloo | Morocko |
| 24. Give Me The Good News | Crocodile Harris |
| 25. Shadows | éVoid |
| 26. See Yourself (Clowns) | Ella Mental |
| 27. Jabulani | PJ Powers & Hotline |
| 28. Baby You Been Good | Robin Auld |
| 29. Burn Out | Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse |
| 30. Johnny Calls The Chemist | Falling Mirror |
| 31. We Are Growing | Margaret Singana & Julian Laxton |
| 32. This Boy | Sweatband |
| 33. Weeping | Bright Blue |
| 34. Scatterlings Of Africa | Johnny Clegg & Savuka |
| 35. Be Bop Pop | The Spectres |
| 36. Hometalk | Mango Groove |
| 37. Shosholoza | Ladysmith Black Mambazo with The Team |
| 38. Afrikan Dream | Vicky Sampson |
| 39. Sarajevo | Jack Hammer |
| 40. Shallow Waters | Just Jinger |
| 41. Who Killed Kurt Cobain | Koos Kombuis |
| 42. Goeienag Generaal | Piet Botha |
| 43. Die Mystic Boer | Valiant Swart |
| 44. Un-Ez | Springbok Nude Girls |
| 45. Nkalakatha | Mandoza |
| 46. I’ll Remember You | Brian Finch |
| 47. Gasoline | Saron Gas |
| 48. Africa’s Not For Sissies | Syd Kitchen |
| 49. Another Universe | Arno Carstens |
| 50. Doo Be Doo | Freshly Ground |
Memories Are Made Of This – Best Of SA Pop
A 2CD set of some of the best South African Pop and Rock hits from the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s and 90′s.
Memories Are Made Of This - Best Of SA Pop
Disc 1
| 1. | Hungry For Love – A-Cads | ||
| 2. | Silence Is Golden – Square Set | ||
| 3. | Get Me Some Help – Neville Whitmill | ||
| 4. | Live On – Pierre De Charmoy | ||
| 5. | Master Jack – Four Jacks And A Jill | ||
| 6. | Cry To Me – Staccatos | ||
| 7. | Hometalk – Mango Groove | ||
| 8. | Look Out Here Comes Tomorrow – Dealians | ||
| 9. | Mammy Blue – Charisma | ||
| 10. | Paradise Road – Joy | ||
| 11. | Turn Around – Ken J.Larkin | ||
| 12. | My Only – Coleske | ||
| 13. | Please Stay – Jonathan Butler | ||
| 14. | Love Minus Zero – Dream Merchants | ||
| 15. | For Your Precious Love – The Flames | ||
| 16. | Put Your Hand In The Hand – Alan Garrity | ||
| 17. | Shadows – eVoid | ||
| 18. | Charlie – Rabbitt | ||
| 19. | Venus – Stockley Sisters | ||
| 20. | I Never Loved A Man – Margaret Singana | ||
| 21. | Man On The Moon – Ballyhoo | ||
| 22. | ZX Dan – Radio Rats |
Disc 2
| 1. | My Kind Of Girl – Cinema | ||
| 2. | A Million Drums – Dennis East | ||
| 3. | Charley – Sean Rennie | ||
| 4. | Long Days And Lonely Nights – Lincoln | ||
| 5. | Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet – Maria | ||
| 6. | Heart – Gene Rockwell | ||
| 7. | Lazy Life – Quentin E. Klopjaeger | ||
| 8. | Shabby Little Hut – The Bats | ||
| 9. | Burn Out – Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuto | ||
| 10. | Feel So Strong – PJ Powers & Steve Kekana | ||
| 11. | Buccaneer – McCully Workshop | ||
| 12. | Tabatha Twichet – The Dominos | ||
| 13. | How Do You Do – Rising Sons | ||
| 14. | The Spaniard – Lesley Rae Dowling | ||
| 15. | Toy Train – John Edmond | ||
| 16. | Sunday, Monday, Tuesday – Jessica Jones | ||
| 17. | All Of Woman – Robin Auld | ||
| 18. | Take My Heart – Pendulum | ||
| 19. | Born In A Taxi – Blk Sonshine | ||
| 20. | So You Win Again – Copperfield | ||
| 21. | This Boy – Sweatband | ||
| 22. | I Am A Rock – John & Sharpe & The Squires |
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Classic South African Rock Songs available to download
Many of my favourite South African Rock songs from the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s have been becoming available for download on Rhythm Music Store over the last while.
Here are a few of them, in no particular order:
- Buccaneer – McCully Workshop
- ZX Dan – Radio Rats
- International News – National Wake
- Mysteries and Jealousy – The Helicopters
- This Boy – Sweatband
- Playgrounds In Paradise – Finch and Henson
- Celebrate – Julian Laxton Band
- Give Me The Good News – Crocodile Harris
- Jo Bangles – Baxtop
- Johnny Calls The Chemist – Falling Mirror
- Shadows – éVoid
- Six String Razor – Mauritz Lotz
- Goeienag Generaal – Piet Botha
- Sarajevo – Jack Hammer
- Who Killed Kurt Cobain – Koos Kombuis
- Blommetjie Gedenk Aan My – Anton Goosen
- Competition Rules – No Friends Of Harry
- Don’t Dance – Kalahari Surfers
- Bokkie Bokkie – David Kramer
- Kiss The Machine – Battery9
- Die Mystic Boer – Valiant Swart
- Sex – Pressure Cookies
- Waiting (For A Miracle) – Dog Detachment
- The Boys – Lancaster Band
- Baby You Been Good To Me – Robin Auld
- Thugs – The Dynamics
- The Road Is Much Longer – Roger Lucey
- Shot Down - The Cherry Faced Lurchers
- Ancient Dust Of Africa – Edi Niederlander
- Button Your Lip – Illegal Gathering
- Sea Level – Urban Creep
- The Party Song – The Electric Petals
- Road – Sugardrive
New Rebel Records release – BARNEY SIMON’S RADIO REVOLUTION
BARNEY SIMON’S RADIO REVOLUTION – Various Artists
NEW RELEASE
REBEL RECORDS
May 2010
“If you don’t know who Barney Simon is, there can only be one reason for that, you’re not from South Africa. Or, you live on a farm with no electricity and you haven’t turned on the radio and the television in the last 28 years.
The Barney Simon Official Biography
Barney Simon, one of the most outspoken and well known media supporters of South African music and entertainment, has been on our radios and televisions for over 25 years. He is the most widely-credited and -quoted music specialist and deejay in the country and besides having his own 5FM radio show for twenty-one years on 5FM, promoting rock music, South African bands, local music events and happenings as well as new music demos, he was consistently laboring away, doing whatever he could to bolster the local music and entertainment industry.
And now Rebel Records is releasing this SA music legend’s 2-disc compilation of the very best South African music has had to offer over the past three decades. So what were his motivations for creating Barney’s Radio Revolution? “I have never released a South African compilation including past and present bands and artists. Three good reasons are the 2010 Soccer World Cup; celebrating 30 rocking years in radio and turning 50 years young this year. Good timing, I guess and proof that one is never too old to rock and roll!”
For Barney’s Radio Revolution, SA’s best-known local rock fanatic has decided “to mix it up a bit and include legendary artists of the past and the best artists of the future. I played Piet Botha, Valiant Swart, Koos Kombuis, Bright Blue, Radio Rats, No Friends Of Harry, Johannes Kerkorrel, Anton Goosen and James Phillips when I started out in radio and these songs bring back good memories for me and hopefully for fans of South African music as well. Then came the rocking 90s, with the bands I rocked hard and got drunk with at club gigs, festivals and introduced many times on stage – Sugardrive, Lithium, Springbok Nude Girls, The Awakening, Battery 9, The Narrow, Saron Gas and Wonderboom. Of course the future of South African music is very important and that is why I included Fokofpolisiekar, aKING, Ashtray Electric, New Holland, Van Coke Kartel and Straatligkinders.
Barney Simon’s Radio Revolution will take listeners on a three-decade journey of the best South African rock has to offer. Whether you will reminisce to No Friends Of Harry and hear Fokofpolisiekar for the first time, or the other way round, this value-packed, hard rocking, party-starting compilation should have pride of place in every passionate supporter of local rock’s music collection.
Barney Simon’s Radio Revolution
Tracklisting
Disc 1
1. Fokofpolisiekar – Fokofpolisiekar
2. Afrikaners Is Plesierig – Karen Zoid
3. Gewonde Standbeeld – Straatligkinders
4. Algehele Kontrole – Van Coke Kartel
5. Doodstraf – K.O.B.U.S!
6. Verslaaf Aan Ruk En Rol – Koos Kombuis
7. Johnny Is Nie Dood Nie – Wonderboom
8. Suitcase Vol Winter – Piet Botha
9. Help Me – Albert Frost
10. Ossewa – Johannes Kerkorrel en die Gereformeerde Blues Band
11. Hou My Vas Korporaal – Bernoldus Niemand
12. Pers Reen – Johannes Kerkorrel
13. Die Mystic Boer – Valiant Swart
14. Boy Van Die Suburbs – Anton Goosen
15. Die Volk (Is In Die Kak) – The Buckfever Underground
16. No Man’s Land – Breyten Breytenback ft. Arno Carstens
Disc 2
1. The Sounds Of Silence – The Awakening
2. Kiss The Machine – Battery 9
3. Disco Lazarus – Sugardrive
4. The Banded – The Narrow
5. The Last Time – Chromium
6. Never Enough – Fetish
7. 69 Tea – Saron Gas
8. Broken – Lithium
9. Bubblegum On My Boots – Springbok Nude Girls
10. Facebrick Constellations – aKING
11. Gallop – Ashtray Electric
12. No Disguise – New Holland
13. Competition Rules – No Friends Of Harry
14. Warsong – James Phillips
15. ZX Dan – Radio Rats
16. Weeping – Bright Blue
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SA Rock Gold
Available from Fresh Music
Disc 1
- Freedoms Children – 1999
- Suck – Aimless Lady
- Otis Waygood – You’re late Miss Kate
- Abstract Truth – It’s alright with me
- The Bats – The Rock Machine
- The Tidal Wave – Spider Spider
- Hawk – Here comes the sun
- Omega Limited – Tchaikovsky 1
- Circus – Long legged lady
- Stingray – Better the devil you know
- Julian Laxton Band – Celebrate
- Rabbitt – Savage
- McCully Workshop – Buccaneer
- Finch & Henson – Lonely Spacemen
- Lesley Rae Dowling – Grips of emotion
- Baxtop – Jo Bangles
- Radio Rats – ZX Dan
- Flash Harry – No football
- Sue Kiel – Julia
- Wild Youth – Wot about me
Disc 2
- Peach – A lot of things
- No Friends of Harry – Competition rules
- The Sweatband – This boy
- Dog Detachment – Touch the sky
- Ellamental – Pressure
- Tribe After Tribe – Damsel (as I went out one morning)
- Psycho Reptiles – Monster from the Bog
- The Spectres – Be Bop Pop
- Asylum Kids – Fight it with your mind
- Evoid – I am a fadget
- Falling Mirror – Johnny calls the chemist
- Petit Cheval – Once in a lifetime
- Cherry Faced Lurchers – Do the lurch
- The Helicopters – Mysteries & Jealousies
- Robin Auld – All of woman
- Bright Blue – Weeping
- Celtic Rumours – Slow rain
- Hotline – You’re so good to me
Disc 3
- Shifty Henry – Gimme little sign
- Squeal – Killing the light
- Urban Creep – Sea level
- The Pressure Cookies – Baby Baby
- The Kerels – Golden days
- Lithium – Bite it
- The Sunshines – Wanna make love
- The Electric Petals – Sister Love
- Little Sister – Little Sister
- Blue Chameleon – Hoss
- Fetish – Constant
- The Diamond Dogs – Going home
- Arapaho – Wild warrior
- Fat City – Bad habit
- Sugardrive –Disco Lazarus
- Sunways – Colour me in
- Toxic Shame – Rollercoaster ride
- Jack Hammer – Headlines
- Jo Day – Princess
- Helloangel – I don’t care
- Blue Scream – Without your love
South African Rock Gold 3 CD Collection
For the first time ever…a 59 track, 3 CD set of the cream of South African rock, from the early ’70s through to the ’90s….Killer tunes from the likes of Evoid, Tribe after Tribe, Stingray, Hawk, Baxtop, The Sweatband, Squeal, Freedoms Children, Ellamental, Wild Youth, Julian Laxton and many more.
Available from Fresh Music
Disc 1
- Freedoms Children – 1999
- Suck – Aimless Lady
- Otis Waygood – You’re late Miss Kate
- Abstract Truth – It’s alright with me
- The Bats – The Rock Machine
- The Tidal Wave – Spider Spider
- Hawk – Here comes the sun
- Omega Limited – Tchaikovsky 1
- Circus – Long legged lady
- Stingray – Better the devil you know
- Julian Laxton Band – Celebrate
- Rabbitt – Savage
- McCully Workshop – Buccaneer
- Finch & Henson – Lonely Spacemen
- Lesley Rae Dowling – Grips of emotion
- Baxtop – Jo Bangles
- Radio Rats – ZX Dan
- Flash Harry – No football
- Sue Kiel – Julia
- Wild Youth – Wot about me
Disc 2
- Peach – A lot of things
- No Friends of Harry – Competition rules
- The Sweatband – This boy
- Dog Detachment – Touch the sky
- Ellamental – Pressure
- Tribe After Tribe – Damsel (as I went out one morning)
- Psycho Reptiles – Monster from the Bog
- The Spectres – Be Bop Pop
- Asylum Kids – Fight it with your mind
- Evoid – I am a fadget
- Falling Mirror – Johnny calls the chemist
- Petit Cheval – Once in a lifetime
- Cherry Faced Lurchers – Do the lurch
- The Helicopters – Mysteries & Jealousies
- Robin Auld – All of woman
- Bright Blue – Weeping
- Celtic Rumours – Slow rain
- Hotline – You’re so good to me
Disc 3
- Shifty Henry – Gimme little sign
- Squeal – Killing the light
- Urban Creep – Sea level
- The Pressure Cookies – Baby Baby
- The Kerels – Golden days
- Lithium – Bite it
- The Sunshines – Wanna make love
- The Electric Petals – Sister Love
- Little Sister – Little Sister
- Blue Chameleon – Hoss
- Fetish – Constant
- The Diamond Dogs – Going home
- Arapaho – Wild warrior
- Fat City – Bad habit
- Sugardrive –Disco Lazarus
- Sunways – Colour me in
- Toxic Shame – Rollercoaster ride
- Jack Hammer – Headlines
- Jo Day – Princess
- Helloangel – I don’t care
- Blue Scream – Without your love
Credits
Tracks licensed courtesy of EMI Music, Warner Music/Gallo Music, Fuller Music, Angela Music, David Gresham Records, Neil Cloud, Spaced Out Sounds, 3rd Ear Music, Radium Wreckords, Michael Fleck, Amber Music, Alan Armstrong, Ashland Music, Sheer Music, Shifty Music, Robin Auld, Universal Music, Diamond Dogs, Toni Gozza, Legend Music, and John Buckley.
Compiled by Benjy Mudie for Universal Music. Grateful thanks to Johnny Dorfling for the concept, Chris Venter for the sound advice, Gary Crause for the mastering, and Patsy Thompson for all the legalities.
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How can I sell my music online?
This is one of the questions I get asked very often by South African musicians.
In 2002 I was involved with creating the SAmp3. com portal for promoting South African music through free downloads. However there was no real way, at the time, to monetize these free give-aways.
In August 2006, I became a partner in starting Rhythm Online to sell MP3s to the world. This online store is now known as Rhythm Music Store (and also MyMusiek) and if you are a talented musician, published or unpublished, fill in the online electronic distribution agreement to have your tunes listed on Rhythm Online Music Store.
Would you like the world to hear and buy your music?
SAmp3. com can help you promote your music through channel24 and sell your MP3s to the world on the RhythmMusicStore.com.
And the best part is, there is no cost to you!
Music Sales:
If you wish to sell your music on RhythmMusicStore.com you will need to complete the easy online agreement.
All the information you need can be found there.
Currently Rhythm Music Store is only able to accommodate artists and labels with bank accounts in South Africa.
For selling MP3s on Rhythm Music Store we require a physical audio CD or CD-R for for the following reasons:
- Quality Control
- Naming Convention
- Creation of 30 second samples
Single songs are also fine (we list it as a album with only one track, and with its own artwork and blurb), but we still require the music to be supplied on an audio CD, please.
Postal address:
Rhythm Music Store
PO Box 399
Century City
7446
Cape Town
Physical address:
Brian Currin
c/o Mabu Vinyl
2 Rheede Street
Gardens
Cape Town
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Free Promotional Give-aways:
Please contact:
Stephen “Sugar” Segerman:
email: sugar@samp3.com
Phone: 021-423-7635 (office hours)
We will need your song(s) on an audio CD or CD-R, mailed, couriered or hand-delivered to us, so that we can rip the mp3s. We will also need some info about the band/artist and your authorisation of our use of your tracks as free mp3 downloads. You need only supply one copy of each album for both Rhythm Music Store and SAmp3.com
For free promotional give-aways you can also email your MP3s to brian@samp3.com
By sending MP3s to brian@samp3.com you are authorizing them to be used as free downloads.
Please do not send MP3s for selling on RhythmMusicStore.com, please see reasons above.
Postal address:
SAmp3.com
PO Box 399
Century City
7446
Cape Town
Physical address:
Mabu Vinyl
2 Rheede Street
Gardens
Cape Town
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Old punk goes digital – Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source
Classic records by National Wake, Corporal Punishment, The Popguns, The Radio Rats, Illegal Gathering, KOOS and the Kalahari Surfers are seeing the light of day again.
via Old punk goes digital – Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source.
New Radio Rats Single released
1.Little Miss Bliss
2.Crystal Bible Girl
3.Daar’s ‘n Drol In Die Drinkwater (bonus, by popular demand)
This is disc one of the new Radio Rats ‘Love Train’ album project. Tracks will be added as “singles” as they are completed, until there are enough for an album.
Brian Currin
I believe that Pop music ought to be literary in a way, minimalistic, but not dumb.
It’s not good enough to be able to play well – the words must be even better than the pathetic playing. The words of traditional country are often superb, the playing on the other hand is standard, but still superb too. Pop can take inspiration from Country brilliance.
Well, the 7-Single project could make South Africans as good as the best Americans, if it grows.
But, I ramble . . .
J.Rat
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Give the gift of music this Festive Season
From RhythmMusicStore
Keep the spirits high and the good vibes going over the festive season in giving gifts that your friendsand family will value.RhythmMusicStore.com offers gift vouchers and the amount that you would like to spend is entirely up to you, even just a single song for R7.00.
The most thoughtful, perfect musical gift – allowing the receiver to make their own unique selection of music on Rhythm Music Store to the value of the gift voucher you send them. Rhythm Music Store Gift Vouchers are the perfect Christmas, Birthday, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or Valentine’s Day gifts.
How do Gift Vouchers work?
You can purchase gift vouchers for your friends and family to give them prepaid credit on Rhythm Music Store.
To share the Rhythm Music Store catalogue of 70,000+ tracks with your loved ones, simply select a gift voucher of the appropriate size and send them the unique voucher code (by emailing it to them or writing it in a card) available in your Download Area after completing the checkout process as long as the voucher remains unclaimed.
A unique voucher code is generated for each purchased voucher, to be claimed within one year of purchase, which will show up as prepaid credit in the claimant’s account.
