A weekend that set new bars

For almost a month the Lesotho hiphop scene went silent, I remember reading tweets and facebook posts about how the industry had gotten boring. Anticipations were however raised when Snurd, formerly retired Axo-Mind, the long disbanded hiphop crew Mechini announced that they were releasing new music soon. In the begining not all the release dates were set, it only got denser when it got clear that all songs were set to be released on one weekend, 21-23 April 2017.

And yes, this has been one of the most fired weekends in our small industry, bars were set, high bars for that matter. We have come to a time when we can now proudly say we produce world class music.

Wave by Snurd feat T-Mech

This passed weekend Snurd sure took his home city by a WAVE with a song called wave, coproduced by him and Slick. Here is what Snurd had to say about the song,

" This Song was co-produced by myself and Slick. Slick sent the original beat but it was too similar to what I was doing for my later projects,so we tossed the beat around between us to make the sound a bit different. It was ambient at first as opposed to the later trappy sound... The post production was tricky cause I was introducing a different vocal range that required some tug and pull on the vocals (mine). So I handled the overall vocal mixing and arrangement cause I don't trust too many people with my voice and Mech was busy with clients. The beat mix was a joint venture 4 ways, between myself, Mech, RMC, and Slick. Mastering was Mech and RMC, it was also tricky because the mix was hollow and needed warmth and saturation in the mids. So yeah, they handled that quite well... The song moved between 3 engineers, 2 producers, and a listening audit who choose to remain anonymous..."

This song is one dime of a song that features, MIP's number T-Mech who as usual did not disappoint.

Turn You On by Mechini

Of many good songs that hit the fans this past weekend was "Turn You On", produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Nejah, "Turn you on" is Mechini's first single since they announced their reunion in mid March. An international sound this song is, Listening to it takes you strake into the world class music realm while at the same time keeps you grounded in Lesotho. It was Moddaw oa Mochini we spoke to about he song since he works with us and as a result is easy to contact, here his say about their new music.

"You understand that Mechini has not been in action for the past 3 years right? Two of these brothers being Palvo and Lemeke were musically inactive for all these years with the other three pushing solo hustles, I was out making rap songs all this time, Nejah was busy with college work and L-tweety was not even a member of the movement then. So here you have a group of musicians who haven't worked together for a long time. So we had come up with something great, and we had to also challenge ourselves, and only a pretty unusual topic would challenge us, so we went for a sex song, and I think it was the greatest choice we ever made, in what better way can an artist express themselves better than in a love or sex song? We nailed it.

Oouu Yeye by Axo-mind ft L-tweety

In the same weekend but on a Sunday, more worm was put out by our stars, Axomind of KOL productions released song called "OOUU YEYE", produced by Skreambeats an mastered by take Beats, this song is one of the game changing songs from last weekend, it is also an uncountable proof that our game has upped a whole lot since last year, asked about OOUU YEYE
" 'ouu yeye' is a complimentary song like "Oh my god" like the chorus as it says, i'm counting up this money like Oouu yeye, so i'm counting this money like oh my God, now they wannna ride with me, oh my God, substitute Oh my God for Oouu yeye, that's what it is, aint nothing more to it, like you get surprised that people been watching me from the start, they ain't even supported me, people that ain't even been around me, now they wanna be around me because i'm with people that are actually helping me elevate people that are motivating me and directing me into some proper positions, now they wanna ride with me, these girls wanna ride with me, oh my God, you know what i'm saying? That's the whole concept of the song, but then at the same time it tutors rappers that you guys are in the wrong lane, this is the right lane, you know what i'm saying? Word"

After hearing these three songs we can now proudly say, we have news bars set, we can sound as any international artist, with songs like this, one can't help it but wonder what the Ultimate Music Awards will be like.

Download all these songs herehere;

Wave by Snurd ft T-mech
Turn You On by Mechini
Oouu Yeye by Axomind