SAPD (South African Punk Downloads) MIX TAPE ONE

A collection of some songs.
https://archive.org/details/SAPDMIXTAPEONE

A.W.O.L - We Want A Revolution
All These Wasted Nuts - I Benefited From Apartheid
Atom Band - Betsy (Stalker Sympathy)
Brafcharge - Marikana
Captain Stu - Value Systems
Car Boot Vendors - An Honest Love Song
Conqueror - I Am Pain
Contramundi - Feedback
Corax - Death Spiral
Fruits Veggies - Without A Gwaai or a Cent
Fuzigish - Little Bird
Gentlemen Callers - I Stopped Caring
Gross Misconduct - Flags From Ashes
Hog Hoggidy Hog - African Son
Japan And I - By the Braai
JP Mayers - Jozi
Leek & The Bouncing Uptones - Racist
LP SHOW - driving in d minor
Make-Overs - Too Far
Matt Vend and the Tender Ten - Justifying Apathy
Mental junto - Greater good
MiSLeD - Hatemale
Monday Morning Justice - heart-dis-ease
Outrage - Capitalism Close Up Shop
Power Age - Smash the AWB [side 2- TLD- '7- 1987]
Provider - The Pearl
Ramblin' Bones & His Bloody Agents - Those Grey Men
Red Brigade - Beer song
sibling rivalry - xephon
Skelm Helm - NoChoice
SKUNKS - Zombie March
Sleeping At The Popes - New South Africa
Sloppy Folk - Fixed Dice (Electric)
Solitary Confinement - Convenient Evil
Sticky Antlers - Sick Man Of Africa
Still Thinking - Boys In Blue
The 85ers - Wooden Toy
The Bone Collectors - Circus
The Brother Moves On - Dagiwe
The Dollfins - Kiss Me Quick
The Finger - Anti-Social Tennis
The Nomadic Orchestra - Hell
The Trees - Burn This City
The Tubby Wilsons - & Jeffrey Learnt Absolutely Nothing
The Vendetta Cartel - Hidden Evil
The Vodun Haunts - Midnight Curse
Touched By Nausea - The Ecological Footprint
Toxic Death Kommando Militia - Unemployment
Two Weeks Old - ADD
War on Salt - Ska Government

Hope everyone is ok with the songs being used. The idea is: "Would it not be kinda nifty to try to compile one song from virtually every local punk band EVER in a set of archives that can be streamed or downloaded?"

Help with band suggestions and sourcing the songs for the next ones would be swell :)

This blog has been started to try and put together a documented audio history of past and present music from the South Afican punk scene / DIY underground.
This is about sharing some of the music we make and have made. rather than trying to sell a product.
Most of everything posted is out of print + permission to post from the creators of the work, will have been granted, but sometimes this can be very difficult... if not impossible.
So if you have a copyright issue with something and would like it removed please let us know.

Same shit different package by Skuff Mullet

So, there is a new Skuff Mullet album up for free download.
Check it out here: https://skuffmullet.bandcamp.com/album/skuff-mullet-same-shit-different-package

Undead Generation is a Punk band from Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Undead Generation (formerly known as The Tsotsis) is a young punk band from Port Elizabeth, South Africa. They started during June 2012 and play lively punk rock jams with a wide range of influences. It is very interesting seeing something like this, in this day and age, and also coming out of a place like PE! (nothing comes out of PE).

Get their 4 track "Kak Cool Demo": Here!

Punk Fuck: A Glimpse Into Soweto's Punk Scene

TCIYF - by Leigh Lobotomy

Welcome to Soweto's emergent punk scene. Hope you survive the experience.

The JHBLive team take a look behind the scenes at Punk Funk, the second event bringing punks from throughout Johannesburg together for one massive gig in Dube, Soweto.

*Shot & Edited by Cale Waddacor

To read our full feature article, 'Peaceful Punks Of Soweto', go here: Here

"We want to see young kids interested in instruments. We want them to turn away from the commercial bullshit that spews garbage about bling and chains. This is real music and we want real people keen on it." - Mbuso "Moose" Zulu

VIDEO
*Interviewees: Clint Hattingh, Sechaba, Pule, Moose Zulu
*Performances: Black Magic Moonshine, Loui Lvndn, The Deaf Commission, Afgepis, Death Pegasus, T.C.I.Y.F, Brafcharge, The Carniwhores, The Moths, The Left-Overs, Fridge Poetry, The Slashdogs, Home At Last, Brainwreck, Jonny Joburg

Toxikus Obliterate

Toxikus Obliterate is an Album-Minus-Band work of punk rock splendour by the kid on the cover of this 1991 skate mag.

Jon-Pat Myers (ex Toxik Sox guitarist) Belts out some of the best punk rock jams South-Side of the equator.

This long overdue batch of previously unreleased mayhem (a small excerpt from his library of 4-track self recorded demos) is out on We Did This. God Help you all.

*Toxik Sox was an apartheid era johannesburg punk band

Here - http://we-did-this-records.bandcamp.com/album/obliterate

Armour For Nightmares Are Back!

Biography:
We spent our high school years together going to punk rock shows, listening to Deftones on repeat, skateboarding around the suburbs and spending weekends starting short-lived bands in sealed up spare rooms and basements.

Our musical tastes were bolstered after hearing Poison the Well's Tear From The Red for the first time in 2003, inspiring us to start a new band.

This first line up consisted of Jon on drums, David on lead guitar, Kimon on rhythm guitar and Brett on bass and vocals.

Steven came on board as a vocalist a few months after when we discovered he could scream while singing along to Finch's Falling Into Place EP. Up until that point, none of us (including himself) knew he could.

It might sound trivial, but that was a huge step for us, having a singer who could produce the same sounds as the vocalists from the bands we were getting into.

With Steven joining the line up, Brett was free to focus on melodic vocals, giving the band its distinctive dual vocal sound. David would also often provide additional vocals, as heard at the end of our first release 'Icarus Theory'.

Kimon performed at numerous live shows and contributed to a lot of the initial song writing process (his metal inspiration can be heard in 'Life Through Lesson') but had to make the hard choice of leaving the band to focus on his studies in 2005.

We were heart broken, but Armour had turned into something we couldn't give up on and our friend Jon Shaban, who we had been experimenting with on violin, joined on guitar and backing vocals, adding a whole new element to the band.

In our time together we performed at numerous clubs across the Western Cape including Mercury, The Whammy Bar, Wynberg Sports Club, Lanner's Landing, The Purple Turtle, Gandalf's, Roots and Acoustic Cafe.

Festivals include Knife Fight Festival II and III, Witchfest, Riot at the Madhouse and Rocktopia.

Armour disbanded after finishing our full length self-titled album, which was recorded and engineered between 2006 and 2007.

Our personalities, looming professional occupations, studies and the stress from gigging almost non-stop since our inception were all contributing factors, but we remained close friends and consider those old issues to be dead and buried for good.

In 2014 we announced a reunion show.

This is something we have been talking about for a long time but haven't been able to realise with Steven living in the UK. We're not sure what's to follow but are extremely excited and incredibly humbled by the interest in this event. We're going to make it worth your while. - from the band

ARMOUR REUNION SHOW. 30/01/2014. RAGAZZI. - tonight!

Self Titled

by ARMOUR

HERE!

Beware of The Moths!

A unique blend of surf-rock, from the land with no beach, for your listening pleasure!

Beware of The Moths!

Here!

HOURS by Hours (Durban)

http://highseasrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hours

Biography:

When people grow up, their views change. You probably feel differently about almost everything, right now, compared to the way you did, back when you were younger.

Pauly Shore films: that shit was hilarious – now they're close to unbearable.

Meteors: As adults, we think they’re the most kick ass thing ever. They’ve made valuable contributions to science and our comprehension of space and the universe. They just freaking rule.

But as kids: we hated them. We blamed them for taking away what we loved most: the dinosaurs. They were the worst thing ever.

Point is: there are very few things that you still feel the same way about – from adolescence through to adulthood. For the dudes in Hours, that thing is pop punk.

In 2010, Matt began writing some songs and recording them at home without much intent to actually do something serious with them. Then one day, hanging out with his homie, Marc, he was convinced to get the fuck into a studio, record the tracks professionally, and release an EP through Marc's label, High Seas Records. So he hit up Bro Studios and recorded some of the shit he had written – with him nailing all guitars and vocals, and Paul (Bro Studios engineer) drumming. Some time after that, he showed the material to another homie, Ally. Super stoked on it, Ally immediately got involved, picking up bass duties and co-writing, alongside Matt, on what was left of the EP. Hours is practically a collaborative effort between friends, with different musicians featuring and playing their respective instruments on the EP.

We have a pretty fucking sweet time doing this shit.

Theatre (Cape Town) - Atlantic

Theatre was an experimental chaotic hardcore outfit formed in South
Africa, in mid-2008, after the expiration of its member’s previous
bands. They bring genre-smashing music to the foreground that is both
unique in construction and chaotic in design. Theatre was
characterised by notably destructive, yet emotive performances with
live shows that truly defied the norm.

RIP. 2008 -2011

Atlantic by Theatre 

released 10 December 2010 

Download

Theatre was:

JJ van Rooyen :: Vocals 

Duke Negus :: Guitars 

Byron Jones :: Guitars 

Jay-Dee Bekker :: Bass Guitar 

Tarquin Jones :: Drums/Percussion

The Wild Youth story (1976-1980) and growing up in Apartheid era South Africa.

'Wild Youth started in March 1978 but the story began a year before. We grew up in the suburbs along the North Coast about ten miles away from Durban. Wild Youth was born out of boredom, my friend Mark Dyson and I bored out of our skulls sitting in his lounge listening to Rolling Stones records. Sometimes our friend Peter Kunst would join us but he had a girlfriend so he had less free time. Boredom is good for rock and roll. Mark and I decided to start a punk band with Peter. Peter would play bass and sing. I would play guitar and sing and Mark would play the drums. We decided to call it The Fourth Reich, a stupid name as we weren’t fascist or racist just young dumb and wanted to cause a reaction. My dad had grown up in Czechoslovakia under Nazi oppression and he has told me some horrific personal recollections from those days but that is a story in itself...'

Full article here: http://retrobutionrecords.co.uk/uncategorized/the-wild-youth-story-1976-1980-and-growing-up-in-apartheid-era-south-africa/

Gentlemen Callers - An Introduction to Metaphysics EP

Gentlemen Callers play a mixture of post-punk and hardcore punk. Their intention is anti-escapist, with their sound privileging anxiety over fun. The band formed in Grahamstown in early 2012 out of a sense of disappointment with what they considered to be a largely thoughtless national music scene.

Interested in the Shamanic potential of music, they combine paradoxically dense and primitive rhythms with lyrical concerns ranging from reincarnation and drug use to the rise of the sociopath in contemporary society. They like to describe themselves as neurotic astronauts stuck on an inhospitable world. They are in the process of releasing three EPs over a three month period. Their first EP, ‘An Introduction to Metaphysics’ is now available (with digital booklet) for free download. 

The three EPs were recorded on reel-to-reel tape in Grahamstown by friend of the band and producer Matt Sabine. The band decided to record all instruments simultaneously ('live') with appropriate overdubs in post-production. The decision to record in this fashion, as well the use of vintage equipment, came from a desire to experiment with non-digital techniques in order to capture an aesthetic at odds with much in the contemporary landscape.

Gentlemen Callers will stagger their EP trilogy over the next three months. The three EPs, four tracks on each, will each contain a selection of songs relating to their relevant title/concept.

An Introduction to Metaphysics
http://gentlemencallershc.bandcamp.com/album/an-introduction-to-metaphysics

( http://www.punks.co.za/ ) Shut Down

Goodbye.

Its interesting (at least to me), a few years ago I read the posting on another punk website that was the predeccessor to this one, It was a long piece on how punk had died and wasn't what it should be. I instantly dismissed it with the ignorance of youth and the belief that it could be great. Yet here I am today writing almost the same piece, things never change. Life is life.

I remember going to gigs, feeling at home, enjoying the laughter, the music, the drinking, the cracked ribs (spermbirds) and broken toes(hogs). I remember thinking "this is where I want to be forever.". Over the years as I got more into it I realised that the ideals of punk are really what we love. The idea of a community of like minded individuals backing each other up, loving music and generally having a good time without any care for who you are. It was never about rebelling against authority for me (I love the idea, but punk like all things ...changed), it was that warm happy place I could always go alone and be accepted without criticism. But it all changed, or maybe I changed, but the dream shattered the mirror was broken.

I remember watching DVBB, Swivelfoot and Fuzi at the Bohemian (one of my fav venues) and having the gig cut short because someone pulled the toilet off the floor and flooded the place. I remember a punk/hardcore split show at Black Dahlia stopped because people where spray painting penii on the outside of the venue. I've seen 'punks' jump fences to get in but spend more at the bar than what entrance cost more times than I can count-and seen them complain that bands never get paid. I've seen it change or just seen the image for what it is go from who cares lets have fun to a drug/booze filled fuckshow where if you dont listen to The Exploited or have a patch on a leather jacket that screams crust you werent accepted. I think Against Me! said it best on Reinventing Axl Rose:

"Just gimme a scene where the music is free
And the beer is not the life of the party
And there's no need to shit talk or impress
'Cause honesty and emotion are not looked down upon"


I realise people will look at this and think "fuck you, you're an arrogant prick who knows nothing" as I probably did so many years ago, and they could be right. Tonight someone told me "Sometimes you aren't as bad as everyone says you are" and I think its just that attitude that turned me off punk rock in south africa. I almost definitely propagated that by saying I didn't like bands for bullshit reasons or just being shit to people for fucked up shit - dragged into the depths- it's sad it got to that stage, and I apologise to anyone I offended by that, I only hope it changes or is different for you.

The death of the site or the lack of community was something that was always coming, people didn't care enough to put up gigs when they could just put them on facebook, we gave away community for usability, for the joy of the like. The world changed and we didn't change fast enough to keep up.

I'd love to go back to the days of Thrashers when stevie wonderfuls, leek, pet flyz, 3 chord theory, half price, slashdogs played and made life worth living, the joy of letting go and not giving a shit - it was a huge party filled with almost no BS. When I didn't know better. When punk rock was a party not a political system and I was blissfully unaware of the subculture undercurrents that probably killed it for me.

I wish it could simply be and I wish you all find it. A fist in the air, a circle pit of smiling faces and a community of people who care.

RIP Punk (for me).

-Andrew MacPherson
{ andrew@andrewmohawk.com }

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- https://soundcloud.com/the-vodun-haunts

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Download: http://providermusic.bandcamp.com/