The 1st Kalahari Surfers album on Shifty Records.
Lloyd Ross talks to The Rest is Shifty podcast co-host Warrick Sony about creating this remarkable album while he was experimenting in, and getting to know the workings of, the Shifty Mobile studio, housed in a caravan, parked in a sweltering corrugated iron garage in the middle of the veld just south of Joburg. Own Affairs on Bandcamp · Follow Shifty on Instagram · Follow Shifty on Facebook · · Subscribe to our Substack · Shifty Records on Bandcamp
The rock band from Cape Town that left Joburg audiences gasping.
This episode includes Mac McKenzie and Hilton Schilder.
The Genuines smelted Cape ghoema rhythms with rock, becoming favourites at Jamesons in downtown Joburg, a hotbed of original music and racial mixing in apartheid South Africa. Follow Shifty on Instagram · Follow Shifty on Facebook · · Subscribe to our Substack · Shifty Records on Bandcamp
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The first Shifty Records mobile recording | Sankomota
The tragic story of Lesotho's most renowned band & their eponymous LP, Sankomota, the 1st album ever to be recorded in the Mountain Kingdom & the 1st by the Shifty Records mobile studio. Download Sankomota from Bandcamp · Follow Shifty on Instagram · Follow Shifty on Facebook · · Subscribe to our Substack · Shifty Records on Bandcamp
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The Otherwhite Album | The story of the Cherry Faced Lurchers studio album that went missing
The definitive South African protest rock album recorded by The Cherry Faced Lurchers in 1986, then "lost", rediscovered and remixed during COVID lock down by Shifty Records' Lloyd Ross. Download The Otherwhite Album from Bandcamp · Follow Shifty on Instagram · Follow Shifty on Facebook · · Subscribe to our Substack · Shifty Records on Bandcamp
Highlighting the eclectic legacy of Shifty Records, South Africa's fiercely independent cult record label operating through the dark days of apartheid into the democratic era. Presented by Shifty founding members Warrick Sony and Lloyd Ross, each episode features a classic album or noteworthy artist from the Shifty catalogue.