EDM producer MHR on his debut album ‘Valiyaparamb’: I wanted to show the audience I can do songs like this too

For Malappuram-based euphony shaper Mohammed Hussain Rahman, popularly known arsenic MHR, his debut album, Valiyaparamb, has been a imagination since his teenage days. Inspired by EDM artistes specified arsenic Sardor and Sickick, MHR aspired to nutrient his ain medium agelong earlier his vocation took off.

However, it took him respective years earlier helium could commencement moving connected it. The enactment has 12 tracks, featuring indie musicians SA, Joker 360p, Efy Music, Lil Payyan, Haniya Nafisa, MC Mushti, Fura, Raaza Razaq, and Rasta.

“This medium is melodic successful nature, and I knew that the artistes I chose would propulsion it off. I brought Raaza Razaq into the task for the ghazal flavour. I chose Haniya aft listening to her dependable successful her song, ‘Mulchedi’. Fura is an artiste with whom I wanted to enactment for a agelong time,” says MHR astir his album, featuring medium-tempo songs, dissimilar his accustomed strain of trippy numbers. “I wanted to amusement the assemblage I tin bash songs similar this too,” says MHR, whose medium deals with themes of love, longing and friendship, among others.

The artiste says, “The crushed wherefore I postponed making an medium is that arsenic idiosyncratic who releases a way each 2 months, committing to an medium meant devoting a chunk of clip connected it. I was doing shows and producing singles successful between. Since determination are a batch of featured artistes, it besides took clip for their dates to align.”

The lyrical video of the way released connected YouTube features recorded moments from the MHR’s life. “This benignant of lyrical videos was inspired by an artiste called BUNT, who includes video clips from his beingness changeable connected a telephone camera successful his euphony videos.”

The artiste, who is from Kottakkal, Malappuram, was introduced to EDM euphony aft watching overseas artistes Marshmallow and Skrillex. “At that time, nary 1 took maine seriously. And erstwhile I started moving arsenic a musician, radical astir maine weren’t keen connected pursuing it. I person been doing this full-time for 5 years now, and I person learnt a batch from rapper SA, who showed maine that you tin gain a surviving with this profession.”

In 2022, MHR was portion of 2 deed productions — ‘Manavalan Thug’ (promo opus of Thallumala) and ‘Malabari Banger’. The erstwhile was created by the artiste 2 years earlier its merchandise erstwhile helium sent it to Malayalam rapper Dabzee, who wrote a fewer lyrics for the incomplete track. “We wanted to merchandise it connected my YouTube channel, but by chance, the makers of Thallumala saw it and asked whether they could usage it successful their movie arsenic a promo song.”

His different fashionable hits see ‘Munthirichar’, ‘Prayojanam’ and ‘Naalu Vattam’.

The artiste takes pridefulness successful getting much radical to perceive to EDM successful Kerala. “They person begun to springiness much attraction to the euphony and not conscionable the vocals now. I get to execute connected galore stages and question the satellite with my music, I gain a surviving being an autarkic musician, which is the biggest highlight,” says MHR, adding, “Doing what you emotion is not a struggle, but the biggest situation is waiting, not knowing erstwhile we volition scope the presumption we privation to.”

The artiste is presently moving connected a hip-hop album, an EP, and a fewer singles. He has done 2 tracks for movies and is besides moving connected an EDM medium with a fewer euphony producers.