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Industrial Warfare Down Under: KING YOSEF Ready To Unleash Hell With HEALTH And PERTURBATOR · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: My name's King Yosa from coming down to Australia with
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  Speaker 1: Health and Perturbator in September twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic brother, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not a problem.
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  Speaker 2: As you say.
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  Speaker 3: You returned to Australia next month for running shows with
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  Speaker 3: Health and Persurbator, kicking off in Brisbane on September eight eighth,
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  Speaker 3: then heading to Sydney at Melbourne, Hobot and Adlai before
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  Speaker 3: finishing in Freemant on September twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 2: But not long now? How do you have packed ready
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  Speaker 2: to go?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? No, it kind of snuck up on me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this whole year flew by and then all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden I was like, oh my god, I have like
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  Speaker 1: a sixteen hour flight in a couple of weeks. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll be ready. We'll be ready nice. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the packing is the easy part. It's all the other
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I've gotten done already. You know, merchant is
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, setlist is good to go, gear is
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  Speaker 1: good to go. So yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: No, I thin, what's changed with our King since you're
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  Speaker 3: out of here? Last in twenty twenty four with great push.
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  Speaker 1: OUTA Yeah, it's funny is it's like I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I've lived a hundred lives since I was you know.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a whole new album that's been out
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  Speaker 1: since then called spire Fear, And the live setup has changed,
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  Speaker 1: like the new music performing live has changed. And we
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  Speaker 1: just have like a lot more touring under our belt.
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  Speaker 1: I was saying earlier, like in a stat measure from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of King yosif to last time you are in Australia,
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  Speaker 1: we've done that many shows plus like twenty in a
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  Speaker 1: single year. Yeah, right, So yeah, we just have a
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  Speaker 1: lot more under our belt, and I think just like
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  Speaker 1: coming in so much more confident and just like stoked.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's a lot less like running uphill, a
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  Speaker 1: little less sissiphus, you know, and a bit more like
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  Speaker 1: people understand what we're doing now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right through it it.
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  Speaker 3: Your music is an intense planning to industrial hardcore and
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  Speaker 3: hash noise.
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  Speaker 2: So how do you applyace structuring?
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  Speaker 3: You say, when sharing a bill with a cinematic Dutch
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  Speaker 3: intator and the heavy electronics of Health.
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  Speaker 1: I always say that, you know, instead of planning for
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  Speaker 1: the bill, I think a lot of people would want
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  Speaker 1: to be like oh well, I should probably play my
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  Speaker 1: more synthy stuff, you know, or I should lean to
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  Speaker 1: the direction of them. I will do the exact opposite,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, it's like we're all on a bill together.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to hear me do an impression of
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  Speaker 1: Perturbator and Health. You know you're already gonna hear Perturbator
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  Speaker 1: in Health. So for me, I always tend to go
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  Speaker 1: just more than metal direction. I think also live that
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  Speaker 1: just like works better, it feels good for me. I
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  Speaker 1: think me and the rest of the band all just
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  Speaker 1: like gel a little bit easier too on like the
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  Speaker 1: heavy stuff, because that's all where we come from. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, confrontational and direct is like always the direction
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to go when it comes alive. I don't
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  Speaker 1: we only get X amount of time with people, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna like beat around the bush like I
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  Speaker 1: just flew. I'll be flying halfway across the world. People
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  Speaker 1: be there, So like we're not gonna sit there and
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  Speaker 1: like give you a forty five minute build up set.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like we're starting. It's time to move, no
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  Speaker 1: standing around, do something, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, brother, I Am Health is a band famous
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  Speaker 3: for the collaboration albums like just Go Forward, Convict Dale
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  Speaker 3: see said do you Renson, You're gonna be in there?
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  Speaker 3: Read back Size Mate and sort of getting them getting
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  Speaker 3: them on board to work.
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  Speaker 2: On you next one.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. You know what's funny is that it was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to happen uh, and it didn't due to the fires
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. But we've talked about it. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about it all the time, and we're gon We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about working many of times before, so I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 1: only inevitable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, these things are.
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  Speaker 3: Your music to like in a nice way, like it's
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  Speaker 3: incredibly blake, it's intense, it's aggressive, but backstage, Jenny g
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  Speaker 3: can be totally different, Like what does that He can
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  Speaker 3: get us a green room, look like five minutes before
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  Speaker 3: you hit the stage versus five minutes after.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we always joke that we're the most boring band
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  Speaker 1: in the world.
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  Speaker 3: You know, me and.
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  Speaker 1: Synth guitar Cameron, we're both sober. We don't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: Only our drummer drinks a beer and then like nobody
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  Speaker 1: else know, tour party drinks or does anything. So most
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  Speaker 1: of the time, like before we go on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll put in headphones. I like to listen to like
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  Speaker 1: some movie scores or like just like something really atmospheric
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  Speaker 1: before we go up. And then you know, it's like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of joking around. We're always laughing together. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's like the biggest thing about touring is like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're with people all the time, and that
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  Speaker 1: being with people that way all the time makes kind
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  Speaker 1: of want to kill each other. So being able to
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  Speaker 1: laugh about stuff is like big for us. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of joking around. And then post that it's
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  Speaker 1: normally like we're all pretty quiet and pretty tired, just
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  Speaker 1: because it's intense, Yeah, exactly, you know, trying not to
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  Speaker 1: try not to have ascid ever, so most of the
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  Speaker 1: time we're both we're all just quiet, wrapping cables and
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  Speaker 1: movements after the.
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  Speaker 3: Set, uh Yescudio treks mat Like when you figure albums out,
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  Speaker 3: you've got so many intricate layers of distortion and noising.
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  Speaker 3: They said, how how difficult is that to REPUTATEE on
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  Speaker 3: the lodge stage.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely like intensive, but you know, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a like a relay race sometimes, Like
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  Speaker 1: when I learned something about doing the album, then I
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  Speaker 1: gotta run all the way over here and grab the
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  Speaker 1: baton from somebody else and be like, oh fuck, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta learn about doing all the live stuff again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And then I do that again, and I just keep
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  Speaker 1: going back and forth. But uh, it's getting easier than
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  Speaker 1: set Up is a lot different than even when we
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  Speaker 1: went down last time. So I'm a bit more intensive
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  Speaker 1: on how we set up and what works and how
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  Speaker 1: we do it. So it's gotten easier over time, but
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  Speaker 1: it's still something that I struggle with and I'm constantly
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  Speaker 1: trying to think about and how we're going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think a huge part of that is leans
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  Speaker 1: into the energy aspect of performing live and letting people
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  Speaker 1: know that, like this is a live version of the song,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to be perfect. It's more important to
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  Speaker 1: me that we're like pushing so hard that you're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, these guys are like psychotic. Then for
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  Speaker 1: us to play a song perfect, you know, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: less like I like it to be more kinetic and like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're there with me. I would rather you
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  Speaker 1: move than it be just a performance where you are like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching this for entertainment, you know, like I want
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  Speaker 1: people to also be there with me, and even if
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  Speaker 1: it's imperfect, just understand how much we're trying to give
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  Speaker 1: to it in the moment. So it's not always perfect
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  Speaker 1: when we do it live. And that's kind of by design,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because like the music can be perfect on
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  Speaker 1: the record if I want it to be, but in person,
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  Speaker 1: it's like we only have that moment.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I read this next question before speaking to you,
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  Speaker 3: and not just speaking to you, mate, I reckon it's
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  Speaker 3: actually quite pertinent. But your music deals with intense themes
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  Speaker 3: to control anger and in general friction. Like you seem
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  Speaker 3: like a really nice guy, I might joking you, so
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  Speaker 3: like it's stepping on the stage every night an active,
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  Speaker 3: genuine therapeutic cathosesis for you, what do you have to
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  Speaker 3: like step into character to to go into that?
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  Speaker 1: It's it's honestly not very hard. It's not very hard
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  Speaker 1: for me. I think it's just like I always say
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  Speaker 1: that all the songs and all the bad stuff and
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  Speaker 1: everything that's in the tracks, like what by being honest
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  Speaker 1: with music and like putting it all out there and
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  Speaker 1: putting it in there is it's like almost like writing
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  Speaker 1: your own book with all your own worst things, and
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  Speaker 1: instead of it being trapped in your head, you get
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  Speaker 1: to open the book when you decide and revisit it,
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  Speaker 1: and so like, uh, you know, it's not uncommon for
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  Speaker 1: me to cry during this set. It's not uncommon for
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  Speaker 1: me to like literally like be so worked up that
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  Speaker 1: I just start yelling or anything like that, because it's like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like exposure therapy. Everything that I'm going
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  Speaker 1: back into when I listen to the music is like
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  Speaker 1: all right there for me, and it's because I trapped it.
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  Speaker 1: I trapped it in the song and then I decide
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  Speaker 1: that I'm going back to it, you know. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty funny, like especially if like my wife,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she she has a really funny impression of
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  Speaker 1: me on the stage. She's always just like like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's it's it's I don't even really think
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  Speaker 1: about it anymore, you know. It's kind of just like
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  Speaker 1: it's there and it just turns on and then by
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  Speaker 1: the time it sets over, it's gone cool.
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  Speaker 3: You said me more about turn astri and Astralian to
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  Speaker 3: hit it when it comes to your deposit of sound, Like,
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  Speaker 3: what do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 1: I think that, you know, I felt this way when
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  Speaker 1: we went to like Western Europe too, But like I
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  Speaker 1: think that you guys, like Australians have a better culture
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  Speaker 1: around electronic music and so like in America, people hear
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  Speaker 1: my music and they're like like dubstep, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: there's like no framework for like the influences that are coming.
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  Speaker 1: So when you know, we went over the first time,
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  Speaker 1: I was like super shocked when we played Dark Mofo,
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  Speaker 1: like how well people understood it. And they would come
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  Speaker 1: up to me and be like, oh, I like how
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  Speaker 1: it How's like the Prodigy influence, but it's also like
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  Speaker 1: like a hardcore band, And I was like, nobody's ever
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  Speaker 1: just like picked my influences out, like like it was nothing,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I don't know if it's like you
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  Speaker 1: guys share more like flavor palette with Europe than like
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  Speaker 1: America does. But like in America, anything that has electronic
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  Speaker 1: music and that people are like, uh, it has to
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  Speaker 1: be like really straightforward, you know. It has to be
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  Speaker 1: like this sounds like club music, This sounds like you know,
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  Speaker 1: ambient music or even like industrial. It's like it has
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  Speaker 1: to sound like industrial as I note to be from
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, you know, like people like Joy forty. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So when we went over and people were like telling
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  Speaker 1: me about things that like I think about musically and
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  Speaker 1: the things that I love and I'm inspired by, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, how the hell do you guys already know that?
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  Speaker 1: You know, like we don't even have a conversation. You
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  Speaker 1: just understand, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about influences probably your only way. I had
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  Speaker 2: strong rips and.
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  Speaker 3: Trap metal and underground hip hop beats, but you say
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  Speaker 3: I have steadily evolved into a massive industrial hard core
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  Speaker 3: warlen noise. So it's so much going on, Like how
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  Speaker 3: do you find the balance into creative pricess? Like how
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  Speaker 3: do you know when you go on too far one
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  Speaker 3: way or not far enough in another.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's always has to do with just like
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of it, you know, and like my own fulfillment.
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  Speaker 1: So like when I'm writing a record, if I'm like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'll write lyrics and then they sit in
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  Speaker 1: a notebook or in a phone, and then I'll look
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  Speaker 1: at them, and a lot of times if they haven't
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  Speaker 1: already been to a song, I'm like, it's because I
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  Speaker 1: haven't written the right song, and that may be that
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I wrote too many heavy songs. I
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  Speaker 1: can't put these lyrics over a heavy song, Like that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. Like I have to go a different
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  Speaker 1: direction now if I want to be honest with myself.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes being like really aggressive music is
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  Speaker 1: really vulnerable in a different way than soft music is vulnerable,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and so they it kind of informs itself,
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  Speaker 1: like my like my my intuition just leads me there,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just by the design of me trying new
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  Speaker 1: things all the time that I just end up in
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  Speaker 1: strange places, you know, and all of a sudden, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I have the song that is like
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  Speaker 1: the epitome of it to me on the latest record,
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  Speaker 1: was the track whether the front half of it is
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  Speaker 1: like a super massive attack portis Head inspired and then
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  Speaker 1: it like kind of goes into like a Converge esque
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  Speaker 1: bit to me, and then it finishes out with like
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  Speaker 1: like nineties like metal heads like Goldie like era drum
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  Speaker 1: and bassed thing that then goes into like a breakdown,
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  Speaker 1: And all of those things just happened, Like I just wrote,
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  Speaker 1: like I was writing music and that's where I went
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like I was like, oh, I have to
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  Speaker 1: put a drum and bass part in this, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It just was like, Oh, I want to write something soft.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like true to me. And as I was going,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, the atmosphere is really dense on this.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I need to be like I need
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  Speaker 1: to come out and it needs to sound like I'm
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  Speaker 1: in a big hall yelling by myself. Oh well, like
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  Speaker 1: that was the release. How do I make it all build?
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  Speaker 1: You know? So it's all intuition, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: just from like purely trying to always have like a
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  Speaker 1: really authentic relationship with how I enjoy music and how
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  Speaker 1: I love it, you know, because it's hard. It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to keep liking things.
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  Speaker 3: Would just say someone's coming along to Sea Health and
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  Speaker 3: they haven't really heard a king Ysis before. Made like,
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  Speaker 3: what three songs you should they listen to before they
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  Speaker 3: come along getting out of here?
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  Speaker 2: What to expect?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say Pitycase is gonna be the one
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  Speaker 1: that pops up. So just listen to Pitycase. Know that
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  Speaker 1: that's an old song, but that has the spirit. And
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  Speaker 1: then we're gonna go multi fear because that song is
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  Speaker 1: like where I'm at now, and then if I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you need to know a little bit more of the
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  Speaker 1: dynamic places that I'm trying to go, I would say
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  Speaker 1: liking because it's soft on the front. It's got like
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  Speaker 1: a big stompy chorus with big riffs, still electronics, still metal,
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  Speaker 1: And those would be like kind of the three summary
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  Speaker 1: tracks I would give for right now. But it's also
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  Speaker 1: hard because it depends on who's asking. You know.
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  Speaker 2: That's so true. Well, thanks very much for you talking.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be the pleasure speaker in you.
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  Speaker 3: You will be here with Health and Perturbator from September eight.
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  Speaker 3: Ain't kicking off in Brisbane. Chickens through destroy the line,
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  Speaker 3: so have yourself, fun mate. We'll see in Bribee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see in Brisbane.