The Native Noise Acoustic Collection is a free downloadable compilation of rare, live & unplugged South African talent.

Paul managed to convince a number of local artists to expose their music in the purist form. Bands would perform a few songs unplugged, live on the air. The tracks went out live with no effects, overdubs, mastering or any of the fancy button twiddling that happens in recording studios. The aim was to reveal the core of outstanding music by stripping down songs to the bare essentials. Most songs were performed with just vocals and 1 or 2 acoustic guitars. A few bands went all out and added bongo drums, acoustic bass, keyboards and even trumpets. In essence the Native Noise Acoustic Collection was a live broadcast of intimate acoustic performances.

At the end of 2004 Paul decided to make some of the songs performed on the show available permanently. Of the 145 tracks performed live for the Native Noise Acoustic Collection 21 songs were selected for the album. Because of the raw and unproduced nature of the material Paul decided to release the songs “bootleg style” as a free MP3 album to be downloaded via NativeNoise.co.za. The songs can be downloaded along with the CD covers from www.nativenoise.co.za