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ShoMag: ‘Music is a very challenging and highly competitive industry’ just as any other industry out there. What would you say is your biggest challenge when it comes to the music industry?

OU: That’s true and on my side I would speak for the house music industry so to say, the talent that’s out there is so vast and undiscovered. The problem is that the industry is big and there are ‘no mechanisms or systems put in place to discover new talent’ so as to showcase to the public as they are hungry for new and fresh ideas.

ShoMag: A lot of us out there might not be aware that you have a track compiled on ‘House Afrika’s compilation album ‘House Afrika Sessions 8’. How did that come about?

OU: ‘The House Afrika compilation’ came about with the EP I released with an international label from London  ‘Atal Music’  and the EP is called ‘Laser Clutch’ and it was the first ever EP I released in my music career last year in 2017 when I first came in the game. The EP gained me so much attention and was even recognized by ‘Tim White’ and I got an email from the label informing me that ‘House Afrika’ wants to compile my track, so that’s basically how it happened.

ShoMag: Recently ‘Surreal Sounds’ rolled out their ‘Within Da Beats’ project and you are also part of that ‘banging project’. Care to tell us more about your release titled ‘If I Had To Kill You’, who did you work with and what can we expect from that offering?

OU: The track ‘If I had to kill you’ features a good friend of mine who is a poet, we met way back in 2016. I had this idea of making a ‘spoken word house music song’ and luckily he happened to be someone I knew who had to skill to bring the record into existence and I told him about the idea and he showed me some material he had and I happened to be touched by the one ‘if I had to kill you’.

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That song has a ‘very deep and powerful message going out to all the women’ who are going through a rough time say, a break up or just having that losing any hope in finding or trying to love again. The message is delivered in a very poetic way which makes your mind pay close attention to the words.

ShoMag: Having had such an amazing 2017. What is instore for us this year from ‘OU’, are there any musical projects you are currently working on for 2018 or on the pipeline?

OU: This year I have a lot that I’m working on and I’ll be dropping more and more music as the year goes. I’ve just released a single track with ‘Surreal Sounds titled Subtle Decap’ and there’s also a collabo I did with ‘Sizz’ for his Allias name the track is titled ‘Guy Gibbons-Psycho(OU&Sizz Remix)’ and I will be dropping a collabo EP with ‘Sizz’ on the ‘Atal Music label’ and there is a remix package of ‘If I had to kill you part.01 and part.02’ coming out in May and June.

ShoMag: Closing it off, what would be your final message to some ‘young talented bedroom producer’ who is trying to crack open into House Music Industry? Let’s face it, they have a huge role to play and House Music is in their hands.

OU: To a young talented bedroom producer I would say ‘I’ve been where you are and the only thing that you need to do is believe in yourself, believe in your craft and put in the time and effort’. Don’t complain about not having sophisticated equipment, work with what you have.

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