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Aiming To 'Ratchet' Up With KIEREN HILLS From SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah. So, yeah, my name's Karen. I do a thing called
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  scot it' Sekruts. It's a solo synth crust project and yeah, releasing the
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  new song Ratchet tomorrow today tomorrow pera beautiful mable I'm going to be honest with
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  you, straight from the band. I'm not even going to try and pronounce
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  that name because I'm going to fuck it up. So if anything that I
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  refer to with you, I'm talking about the band. Okay, a lot
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  of people go with sk because it's easier. All right, I'll probably fuck
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  that up to mate. You haven't met me yet, Okay, so you're
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  appropriate. In your latest single, Ratchet Buyer Heavy on Monday, April the
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  fifteenth, bro So, tell us a bit about the song musically, Okay,
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  so this just this song. Yeah, so it's probably the most sort
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  of upbeat and poppy on my songs, which is not really saying much.
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  Yeah, just it's all. It's all sense, heavily distorted sense, very
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  different kinds industrial percussion and drum beats. And yeah, lyrically another song,
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  yes, another song about my you know how fucking the head? I am
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  basically sorry to laugh, mate, if you are really fucking ahead and says
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  I can relate to it completely. Yeah, I'll look at it's such a
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  good cathartist to just sort of get out there and scream about how fucked I
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  am and have people go Yeah. I get into that after that, and
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  it also comes with the creepy as fuck but also awesome as fuck music video.
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  Mate, So run us through that. I'll trying to break it down
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  and relate it back to here, but I've got confused in the first thirty
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  seconds, so I thought it'd be easier if you explained it. Yeah.
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  So this is It was made by David Zerub from Grim Reflections. I this
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  is kind of about my fifth or sex music video. I had totally run
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  it out. It's just visuals, it's not my things. I just I
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  said to him, you know, you you do what you think is best.
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  You direct this, and then you know, he asked for some sort
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  of what direction. I said, well, I want I want it to
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  be uncomfortable. I don't want anyone to watch it and kind of enjoy themselves.
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  It's definitely not date music, so I don't want it to be a
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  date video. And he definitely took that and around with it because it's really
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  uncomfortable. It's great. I'm really happy with it. It's kind a great
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  job. Yeah, it's a long day of shooting. It was a day
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  that was like forty five degrees and we did like seven hours straight of shooting
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  and I was nearly dead by the end, and which kind of works too,
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  because you know he's edited. So yeah, there's bits where I'm just
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  dropping sweat and just so close to death, and I think that that kind
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  of works for the video, right, it does. Indeed, my friend
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  ratchard Is follows on from your previous two singles, Joy and Second Life.
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  So how does this song differ from the previous two. Well, they're all,
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  yeah, they're all pretty different. Like Second Life is just is a
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  straight up if you break it down, like everything I do is just sense
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  and distortion and industrial drum beats. But Second Life, you could play that
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  same song, those same chords and that same drum beat on guitars and drums
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  and it's a punk song. It's pretty straight up punk song. Second Life.
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  I had. I'm sorry that Second Life with Joey. I spent a
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  lot of a lot of time does hammering on ship and breaking shit and recording
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  it, and it's got a lot of like live percussion and bangs and crashes,
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  and it's it's a lot more sort of traditional industrial, I guess in
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  that way, whereas this one is, Yeah, I don't know, it's
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  a kind of weird, straight up, got these sort of weird it's almost
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  circusy kind of bouncy rhythms to it, which I don't know. I have
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  no idea where that came from. A like I I programmed in a drum
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  bet I went, oh, yeah, this is cool, started doing it,
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  and then yeah, and put the bassline on it. There's big heavy
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  bassline. And then when I started playing next layer of synth, it was
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  like this has worked for really bounce was something really bouncy because it's the beat
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  is almost not quite but almost like a fucking hip hop beat or something so
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  and I think that's why it's sort of this sort of syncopated fucking top like
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  synth line kind of works over the top of it. So it's it's different
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  again. Musically, I mean, it all sounds like me, and it's
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  all got me screaming and growling and whatever over the top, but it's it's
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  it's got some kind of traditional song structure and sort of, but yeah,
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  it's it's just it's a bit of a weird one. I like it a
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  lot. It's lot of fun to play exact we would Be Men, and
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  all three of them are taken from last year's album No Life Left. So
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  would you say overall they're good sotnic representation of the album as a whole or
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  are they just I reckon? It's actually yeah, it's a good mix.
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  It shows the album as a whole quite well, you know, because I
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  do I do everything from sort of weird and more sparse, kind of more
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  industrial staff through to just straight up dbat raw synth and yeah, so those
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  three songs I think spell it out well, like that's that's a good,
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  good collection of songs. Cool, and the album must be pretty good,
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  bro Like if you're still releasing singles from it, like the following year after
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  it came out, yeah, well it's gone really well, Like it sold
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  out, so I'm getting it repressed now. They're meant to be in the
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  country, but they're kind of not. They're on a ship. So I
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  released it, then toured Europe for about thirty odd gigs and then came back
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  and I've kind of done a handful here and there, but not that much
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  since I've been back. So from next weekend onwards, I start touring again.
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  So it's just like, well, you know, I'm still really happy
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  with it. I there's a lot of places I haven't played yet since I've
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  released it, so it's like, yeah, okay, I'll do another single
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  from this. I also recorded like a B side to it, digital B
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  side, which is a re recording of a song off my first twelve bench
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  which is long, long, long sold out. And yeah, just keep
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  it going. I mean this would be the last single from it, and
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  but yeah, I feel I feel pretty comfortable with an album. I like
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  it a lot, and so yeah, I want to keep going with it.
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  Now. You mentioned before when you were describing the music you call it
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  industrial synth rust. Like I bread on that a bit for us. But
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  what sort of influences come under that? Okay, so the stuff that come
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  into industrial in the first place, I mean there's some older like old New
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  Zealand stuff like skeptics, as well as you know, stuff like Nobarten and
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  LOI barking this. That's the stuff that got me into the industrial sort of
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  very harsh, very ugly, not dancing more noise orientated, and I like
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  a lot of noise stuff how and so yeah, all my percussion is industrial
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  sounds of different kinds, whether it's actually a piece of metal that's been bashed
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  and then recorded, or whether it's me finding a sound and just fucking with
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  it till it sounds ugly enough to use as a drama or as a percussion
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  thing. Since well, everything I play at this point has been a handful
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  of different synthesizes that I use. I mean, I run them through a
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  shitload of distortion pedals and other weirdnesses. But it's still it's just me playing
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  keys and then crust, yeah, crossbunk, which is what I've been playing
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  in bands for the last fucking god knows how many years. Yeah, just
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  playing dB crust for the last twenty something years, and probably in punk rock
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  for about fifteen years before that. So it's just it's a mix of these
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  things. It's where the industrial and the crosspunk and the punk rock all sort
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  of meat together, and that's kind of what I make with it. Very
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  cool now you touched on this bit before, Brian, but you've got a
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  string of Aussie dates coming up, starting in Nambour and Queensland on April twentieth
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  and you stagger through Victoria, New South Wales and South Austraya up to July
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  the twentieth. So tell us more about that run of shows and then what
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  people can expect from them. Okay, So yeah, up a Namble.
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  So Nambour is up there. It's a shop called Bad Habit Records and the
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  guy who does that also releases my music. That's that's bog. And so
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  this that weekend, which is this coming weekend, is like a festival of
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  Bad Habit Records and a festival of Bad Habits and so it's like three days
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  of music which I'm fitting into. Then the following weekend, Yeah, I'm
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  down in sort of regional Victoria in Castlemaine and eagle Hawks, just playing a
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  couple of smaller towns. There's yeah, I went, I went and played
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  in Melbourne a few weeks ago, and then I just wanted to go back
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  and not do Melbourne at all and just do smaller towns. Then. Yeah,
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  just trying to get getting out regional, playing in Maitland, playing in
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  Port Macquarie and all these other places. I just sort of got around a
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  lot more. Ever since gotaza Kros started. I've been doing shows everywhere.
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  I've done everything. Yes, I've played pubes and class but I've also played
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  house parties. I played under bridges, I've played forest parties. I've played
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  anywhere anywhere that anyone's got a PA that I can plug into, I'll play.
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  I've played video stores, I've you know, fucking literally just anywhere anywhere
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  I can plug in. And so then just kind of continuing that. So,
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  yeah, just keeping it busy up until July, and then yeah,
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  in August through in August. Beginning September, I'm off to Japan for a
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  few shows and then yeah, so that's that's where I'm at. Yea and
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  What's reckon. People find tickets and find out more about the dates on this
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  range or from bro mostly if you're like through my Instagram is probably the best
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  way the schid has creates. Instagram is the best way to find out.
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  For the most part, I don't I don't love pre sale tickets like I'm
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  old. I like rocking up to the door of a venue and payn on
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  the door and being a little bit more spontaneous rather than pre south. But
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  I'm very vocal about when my shows are on, so you know, if
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  people get on my in so then you know I'll let them know about it.
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  Very good. All right, well, thanks very much for you.
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  Chime and I made the single Ratchet is premiere bya heavy at seven am on
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  Monday, April the fifteenth. Then just a cracker of his site made.
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  I didn't quite know what was going on for a bit now myself, but
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  did in the end. It came all together and it's fucking well done brother,
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  so congratulations.