sheding a little light on the track

What's good people?

Just a real brief post today as i'm away in Hawks bay having a bit of breather which doesn't happen to often.

The new track for free download is a bit of blast from the past, we wrote this track about how Aucklanders audiences are spoiled for choice when it comes to gets and can be less than enthusiastic at a gig. It's sad to admit but personally Welly and Dunedin are probably my favourite spots to perform as the crowd's know how to have a good time. We are snobs in Auckland when it comes to getting out and supporting concerts and shows so this track was inspired by the epthony that the best crowds generally are out of town from your local haunt. On that note if your trying to book us to play in your town email our booking agent on : vaevae@nm-audio.com .

We were going through a funny phase when writing this track, still kind of caught up in thinking to much rather than just writing. It's actually one of my favourite tracks cause for the first time we started to explore a bit of funk, as well as begin to play around with recording techniques hence the BV's are way active.

Just a reminder these free tracks are just our way of saying thank you to all the people that have had a part in helping us get through the past few years and enabled to create history with the 10 top 10 singles. If you enjoy the tracks....check out our album "Elevator musiq".....it's a quality album if we do say so ourselves.

Before i go a few congrats are in order

*Firstly to J Williams, our RnB prince at the moment breaking that exclusive top 5 in the album charts. Last night me and Oldwun attended his launch which was a dope night with your usual suspects PNC, King Kapisi, Smash Proof, Dawn raid and of course the Illegal Musik team.

*Secondly P Money, it may come as a shock to most of you (dedicated nesian bloggers) but there are other blogs other than my own one of which is money. Next to Kirks MTC blog I really enjoy watching moneys blog as it's an awesome insight in to the hectic business the man runs well. After having really successful progress in the U.K Money announced he's doing the big move there. So from the nesian fam we wish him all the best and know it's another house to crash on the floor when we're in the U.K. Aotearoa hip hop's small but we're good like that expanding and bringing the team through.

Well til next time Peace and give me your feedback on what you think of this track.

P.S- Before any one points it out, yes i know the title is the o-ficial spelling of the word but it's hip hop there are no spelling rules, in fact we are encouraged in the new school to spell incorrectly for effect......keeps the street creed flowin.

West coast funk meets some disappointed nesians traveling the country and realising their home crowd ain't as good as else where :( produced by DMON.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zhztnzxjkzw/Eluminate (MASTER).mp3

Nesian & OZ collaboration download free

Sup peepz

Sorry been a bit of a gap in the addition of tracks but we're close to finalising things for the first single off the new album so bare with me. The track this week is a collaboration with an OZ crew the turnstyle puppets....good dudes, they flew over a while back to jam with us and we knocked out 2 tracks in one day.

The track "school up", started with the beat produced by Dmon. In the nesian volts are hundreds of beats we've never used, most of the time their not even cause their bad it's just not the mood when in for writing at the time or we don't have a strong concept. This was one of those times, me and dmon opened the volt of beats and had a listen through and came across this one. Straight away i was feeling it, so me and Dmon started jamming different hooks....the eventual hook being a mash of a few of those options. The tracks basically about style and schooling the competition with our own kind of swagger if you will.

The Turnstyle bro's are top blokes, who had a real appreciation of aotearoa hip hop and don't tell no body but they seemed like kiwi's on the inside. We're hoping to bridge the tasman gap even more this year and are looking to do more oz collab's, so keep an ear out. There should be another track up shortly care of Notiq......

Shout out's to grey mouth where we performed last week.....cool people. Also massive congrats and kudos to J williams and the whole illegal musik team hitting not only top 5 with his debut album "young love" in it's first week but also the extremely big hit "Stand with you" feautring his big sis Lavina debuting at 13 on the singles chart. My good mate N.O.X does the production for J so i got to hear the track at the begining of the year and I was convinced then that "Stand with you" would be huge and cross J to mainstream stardom. On a side note Lavina Williams was in a group called Mavelle and Nesian's very own Oldwun was their biggest fan, i kid you not. So to see Lavina return to the charts is real dope as it was once us watching her career as fans. Aotearoa hip hop's going to have quite a year to finish......by the way my cuz st. Janera is also on the horizon of breaking through with his debut single "shine" and when it drops you'll be the first to hear it right here.

Peace S

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dwowtznmzyg/School Up.mp3

Nesian and Turnstyle Puppets. Holla!

The Fresh boyz saga begins.....new free download up

Hey my Cyber peepz

Well true my word we're back with the 4th piece of this 10 track installment. We're starting dialogue for our first video off the new album called "Fresh Boyz", which will be the finale of our record creating celebration with a snippet of "Fresh Boyz" being the 11 track put up. The track has a special guest feature but mum's the word on that until further notice.

Last thursday me and the boyz went out to Papakura high for a fundraising game of b-ball with your local ballers teamed up with all your favourite M.C's.....shout out to Alprisk, Mareko, Sid who along with the Nesians helped raise money for Canteen which supports youth with cancer. It was cool to see our community (Hip hop) can get together for more than simply ourselves promoting our albums. It was a good laugh had by all with a few dope moves from every body mixed in with some terrible air balls, but like Dr Dre said in the movie the show "It's just all entertainment".

4DG remember the name, they are NZ's answer to Jagged edge and put on a real show for their launch. Hands down this would have to be the best NZ album launch i'd been to, minus the sound. They put it on real big held on Krd Studio, the name of their albums "Arrival" and the brothers had air hostess, pilots....the line up for the gig was the departure timetable. I've learnt alot of this game is creating the environment for success, so if people feel blown away when you walk in about the effort that's gone in and you can back it up......then your half way there to having them on your side. It was good night had by all.....we've done a Fresh Boyz remix for the
their song "remember" click here to hear it.

Lastly we performed at Maori in the city at logan campbell centre and i have to say i was impressed. Firstly that we made it to the gig cause our call time was 9am and we performed for 4DG at 2.30am. Secondly that there was actually a decent sized crowd when we went on at 10am. I love when you feel like you have some commonality with an audience cause it makes the talking in between songs that much easier. Talking in between tracks is an art in it self and hands down the jordan for that artform is Dei Hamo. Actually I just saw his new clip "Lyk a teen" it's cool i really like it......even has a cameo from my nesian bro Oldwun what a video pimp lol. To check out that vid click here , the guy who directed it has been on a rampage lately releasing no less than 5 videos recently (Taye williams, J williams, Erykah, Dane Rumble to name a few).

The track we've selected this week is called Sweet sorrow. It's got a sweet yet gritty feel which i think reflects the theme. Dmon produced it and was going through his funny sounds stage as you may hear in the background of the track. Keep it locked right here for our next installment which will feature a collboration with some ozzy cats. Chur S

Sweet Sorrow

http://www.mediafire.com/file/gwzltegdjoj/Sweet Sorrow.mp3

Free tracks to download....it's a celebration

To help celebrate the history we made this week (if you don't know already read my previous blog) me and the brothers wanted to celebrate by gifting 10 free tracks to represent the 10 tracks you guys supported us with. We havn't forgotten if it wasn't for the people that made it possible for us to achieve this.......you, we would have nothing to celebrate.

We will be releasing a new track each week right here exclusively on this blog leading up to the release of our first single "Fresh Boyz" off the yet untitled next album. We thought to start with we'd triple the love to celebrate this historic occasion. So spread the word and keep your eyes and ears right here. The first 3 tracks give you a taste of everything from hip hop to some rnb, special shout out to emerhn Aotearoa hip hop legend.


We appreciate your support which has made a huge difference to us being able to continue to do what we love. Our album Elevator Musiq which features 4 of our top 10 tracks is in a store near you, if your feeling the tracks we're making available for free we would really appreciate it if you could get our album Elevator Musiq.

To download tracks, copy the link and paste it where you'd normally put a website, sorry to state the obvious but just in case :P


1) Stick to your guns produced by Dmon featuring Ermehn

This Westcoast styled track speaks about artist sticking by their creative vision and not compromising to the point of losing control of their music.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mn4enzg1z0w/Stick To Your Guns.mp3

2) Polytek produced by Dmon

This track came about from a jam and the name was a play on poly(nesian) Technique style as well as the obvious polytech schooling people up.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tztj2dfzkwt/Polytec.mp3

3) Prime Time produced by tha Notiq

Probably one of my favourite tracks we've ever made. This was about the hardtimes trying to continue to be a musician even when your not in the spotlight anymore. Artist at different times in their career get judged as either "So hot right now" or "Remember that group what ever happened to them" and we've experienced that so this was talking about that in real honesty.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zjfnxmlmqvm/Prime Time.mp3

Check back in soon for the next installment. If there's a particular style of song you would like to hear than let us a comment and i'll see if i can find something. Thanks once again for supporting us and spread the word.

shout out to Notiq for uploading all this music for my untech-coordinated self.

Peace

S

Who has the most top 10 records in NZ History ;)

Sorry had to give our own pat on the back. Self congrats as you get more of the opposite in this game.

I know it's been forever since i last posted but by no means have things been quiet. This is just a quick note I'll fill you guys in with way more later. RSVP hit 9 on the charts yesterday making it the 4th consecutive top 10 from Elevator Musiq and becoming our 10th top 10 giving us the most top 10 records in NZ history, which is a dope achievement when you consider the hit makers like dave dobbyn, neil finn etc. Me and the brothers are celebrating tonight.....as something i learnt is these moments not happen alot so when they do you best believe were going to enjoy them. I also think this is a recognition of where NZ hip hop has come in this industry, there are many barriers being put up to try change that but the people let the industry know what's up. 

So to celebrate i'm going to be adding a few songs to download for free in the next 2 days and it will happen this time i assure you as I've got the tech dude DJ Notiq on the case. We're negotiating our guest feature on our NEW album which may not mean much to fans here in NZ but in Japan is pretty huge so fingers crossed it comes through and we take Aotearoa hip hop to another level as that was the aim this year. Shout out to Bounce records as this was our last single with them and Dean worked bloody hard over the past year to keep every one aware of Elevator Musiq.......despite some industry B-S. 

We're gearing up for a huge year in terms of Nesian projects keep your ears and eyes locked right here because it's going to start heating up real soon......thats for sure. 

Peace

S

Happy b'day scribe

Well it's scribe's b'day tomorrow

but that was unbeknown to most who came out to throw him a surprise b'day party on tuesday nite. It was mad cool and a bit of a mini hip hop summit with most usual suspects there, of course the dirty crew....dawn raid...illegal musik....sirvere...Arch Dynasty (Nesian label)...Che and a whole host of nz rock legends like Jon toogood (I reckon that names to awesome to be real) from shihad and Boh Runga etc. But more importantly his family Ladi, Tyra, Bonnie, his uncle Vic and some aunties....and lots of cousins. It was mad fun & shout out to YDNA the milli-man shouting the brothers....when we hit that milli it shall flow freely back my bro lol

It was all set up by his manager as a surprise with the help of his fams. So we all arrived early to try get in before he came, problem was we were all having so much fun we didn't see him walk in and after a delayed reaction the surprise call went up about 10 seconds after he entered. Me and Malo go back to 94-95,I've seen where he started his music career from and where it's heading which has been an exciting journey to watch and anticipate. So from the nesians and my famz happy b'day oldskol.......if you didn't already know hes started work on the new album which is after initial material listening session is sounding more a balance between the 2 last records. I'm looking forward to future projects with nesian and him ;) peace

P.S- I know i said that track will be available today and hopefully it should be up like cinderella before the clock strikes midnite :)

S out

How meki? tu meki! PI awards bling to the power of 4

It was a stellar evening last night; we took home 4 awards including a tui for best pacific album. I over use this term but seriously “stoked”, warm fuzzes all round. I don’t want to bore you with a sob story of the hard times but it’s up lifting for your music to be recognised by your peers and community. As I spoke about in my last blog we were up for 4 awards and astonishingly we walked away with all 4. We had a lot of family present with no word of a lie more than 40 people in the audience probably closer to 50 which added to the atmosphere as you can imagine.

There were more than 4 awards presented on the night so I need to make a special mention of life time achievement award presented to Tigi ness (yes che-fu’s dad), for anyone growing up around grey Lynn you would have heard his music at all the festivals. Tigi is the man, the first person to put his hand up to support community events and has always been behind us.

Ladi 6 took home best female artist and Devolo took best male which was well deserved as they were 2 of the biggest success stories last year, to be honest I thought Ladi was going to get album of the year. Ladi’s parents accepted the award and their speech was a crack up with Uncle Vic pulling out his line from the anti violence campaign “it’s not ok”. Snap....I just remembered David Tua was in the house presenting an award and the brother busted out a verse rhyming which had the crowd in frenzy.

Savage got a standing ovation for his international breakthrough award and was a real touching moment; it was one of those historical occasions where new ground was recognised as being broken by one of the brothers.....a moment I put up there with King Kapisi in 1999 wining the prestigious Apra silver scroll award. There some memorable performances with the stand out being the tribute Che and the Krates did for his dad....one of those wooww moments.

The dirty records crew brought out their number hit everything featuring the whole roster Vince Harder, David Dallas, PNC & Scribe. Which brings me to that promotional time, our boys PNC has his new album dropping beginning of next month keep an out for it and now that I think about it all of those artist on dirty I mentioned have albums dropping this year including the name I forgot to mention which heads the crew P money.

Illegal musik came out swinging with their showcase featuring visual effects and a nice a ray of new talent all produced by my man Nox so shout out to my boy....by the way still waiting for some beats bro. J Williams held it down for his crew as the first artist off the Illegal musik roster but I’ve also got to show love for our Nesian affiliate Erika who sung on one of our tracks on elevator musiq “I don’t usually” she’s just released her first single last week and next in line after J to pop off for Illegal Musik. Her man funnily enough plays keys for our live band “the elevators” which closed the night doing Mr Mista for the first time with Che-fu & Cydel it was crazy way to finish the night.

I could go on forever if you couldn’t tell it was a mean night, my special highlight was being presented an award by my first MC mentor Scribe that was special. Forever I’ve looked up to that dude and to receive the award he got the year before was something awesome. That track i promised is on it's way just being mixed....check in 4 days and I should have it for your exclusive ears only.

Chur S out