Rattex live on UCT Radio

Yo people, hope you are all gearing up for the "Dunamis showdown" on Friday. Anyway, thought we should hit you up with footage from one of our favourite rappers this side of the Cape. Rattex came through to UCT Radio's Mzansi Mamela hip-hop show (Mondays 21H00 to 00H00), hosted by Benzo along with Core Wreckah. Peep the footage, and perhaps grab that free download of a brand new track of his. Peace!!!

Rattex - Ndiselapha [7.22 MB]

Support your own

Yo, just a real quick one. Dunamis has been chosen, along with four other artist, to be on the "Live to 5 Upcoming Artists" on SABC1's show called "Live". All that is going down this coming Friday (6th February, 2009) at 21H00. Juast tune in, and sms "Dunamis" to the number that shall be appearing on the screen.

Also, you can download his 'Mastered seed' track here . And while you're at it, check out the video. Respect!!!

Papa Zee's lead single

Wadup people? We've decided to share with the rest of the world a track that's been blazing the Lesotho radio waves throughout December 2008. Taken from his forthcoming album, 'Psalm 23', here is Papa Zee's single, 'Starring'. Shout-out to T-Mech for the hook-up

Starring (zip) - 5MB

Starring (MP3) - 5.1MB

Home-Brewed Five - First Edition

As promised in a previous post, we've got the first edition of our Home-Brewed Five podcast, which aired for seven weeks on the Ultimate FM, Lesotho's premiere youth radio station. Download and enjoy, and if need be, feel free to leave a comment.

By the way, the interviews that I'd promised are still coming, so hold your breath!

Tracklisting

1. One, two, six - Poltergeist
Produced by John Tanners

2. One Clip - One clip
Produced by Third World

3. Isosceles - Get pissed
Produced by Phil the Kritik

4. Dunamis - Time has come
Produced by Strrryk 9

5. Benni B - Lift em high

Grab it here

To all massive and crew

First and foremost, thank you very much to anyone who took time out to check the posts on this blog, it really means a lot to know that there are people who show interest in what we do. Even more respect to those people who return regularly to check out the updates.

Corporate Nemesis has decided to put together a short brief for anyone who is involved with radio, television, or the print media. In it, we detail our biography, our body of work, and our vision and mission statement. It is available for download in PDF format, so grab it if you are interested.

Attached with the physical copy of the media brief is a selection of five tracks which we've recorded and mixed throughout 2008. Its purpose is to afford the artists a wider platform than that which they may have otherwise been exposed to. We'll probably be doing more of these samplers, probably on a six-monthly basis, so keep your eyes peeled.

Since we can't distribute physical copies to everyone, we've uploaded the sampler which anyone can download. For this first sampler, we have Poltergeist, Codi Cox, Mellow, and Isosceles. Give it a listen, it's pretty cool.

The Media Brief [3MB]

Corporate Nemesis 2008/09 Sampler [24MB]

A producer's album

Yo! Corporate Nemesis is planning to have interviews with some of our favourite artists real soon. We'll post them up, in audio form, once they are done. Look out for chats with Skebza, San the Instru-Monumentalist, and possibly Konfab.

Talking about San, here's the finished product of RE-Invention: A producer's album. Check the facebook group to get the full list of producers, and to read further about how the whole project came about.

Click here to download the project.

Expansionary movement

I've been keeping mum for over a month, but it's [partly] not out of my own doing. I did an interview nearly two months ago with Cape Town hip-hop crew Ill-Skillz, and have been waiting for their management to approve it ever since. The guys promised to get back to me after they'd checked it out, but that still has not happened to this day. So, pending their approval, let's talk about other things.

Corporate Nemesis has been a constant supplier of jingles across a number of radio stations in Lesotho. We've formed a number of alliances with deejays, but the strongest thus far is that with DJ Dallas T, who hosts the afternoon drive show on Lesotho's premiere youth radio station, Ultimate fm. We've got a segment on the show called the "Fifteen Minutes of Fame" in which we prepare fiteen-minute hip-hop mixes which are played from Tuesday to Thursday. That has been going on for about a year and a half now.

We also produced and presented another segment called the Artist Feature in which we interviewed people in hip-hop who are making moves. That came to a halt earlier this year. However we are back again, and this time around, we are doing a hip-hop chart show called the Home-Brewed Five; it is on every Monday from 1730hrs to 1800hrs. We're only in the fourth week, but the reception has been pretty dope. The concept is to playlist five hip-hop tracks which just happen to be made in Lesotho, and let people vote for their favourite songs. The two songs which get the most votes get to hold the number one and two positions on the next week's show. The other three tracks are randomly selected.

The Nemesis RE:publik t-shirt range has been doing rounds amongst a selected few people, and everyone who has seen the designs is showing much love. It is quite inspiring, and motivates us to put in more effort into producing doper designs. The I AM FRESH range (code# Rep_001), is nearly sold out. No more of it shall be printed; if anyone wants that particular design, they shall have to pay a premium price for re-print. The next range shall be ALPHABET SLAUGHTER (code# Rep_002), so be on the lookout for that!

The Corporate Nemesis website is up (click here). We are still working on a theme, but shall be updating it every now and then in the interim. Keep checking it out after a while; we shall also put up podcasts of the Home-Brewed Five show.

Lastly, San the Instrumonumentalist from Other Intelligences has been on a grind this year, releasing singles and beattapes for all who care to listen. He has also been coordinating a remix project which sees producers from Lesotho, South Africa, and Zambia collaborating to do some re-workings of hip-hop classics from yester-year. The full list of producers on the project is:

Myth
D Cha
J-One
Daliq
Alias
Cymptom
Trompie
SubZero
The Rebbi
DJ PeeWee
Dharma Bums
Biz-ark-human
San the Instru-Monumentalist

The album shall be dropping in a bit. For now though, you can grab a digital download of the sampler here.