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September 16, 2024 7 mins

Lucian Rice was raised on a diet of Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins, no wonder then that his music is inspired by shoegaze and emo, as he revealed in our chat about his new song ninezero, plus he gave us the date his debut EP is coming out. 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio Hodar Keys Off the Record podcastle.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
To have a chat with Lucian Rice.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
How's it going?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, it really well, thanks mate. Whereabouts you in the country.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
At the moment in Auckland?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm in Epsom And is that where you grew up?
Are you at home home?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Not.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I grew up in Glenfield on the shore in Auckland,
and I spent some time down at Cambridge and my
White Cotta. I went to school and and both both
Cambridge and Glenfield and met a lot of different friends
and music and I'm still great friends with now through
both of.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
That and uh any of them playing on your new
song nine zero.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yes, I went to high school with the very frequent
collaborator I've done almost like every song I have besides
one with him, Tom Ford Burn. Him and I make stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Together all time, and what does he play but a.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Gat and just general production stuff. We mostly I'll sort
of put the idea together and get it sounded like
a song, and he'll help me see the end of
it most of the time, which is important to me
for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah. So it's this music that's coming out. It's under
your name, Lucian Rice, but you've got your Tom helping out.
I'm guessing there's other people involved as well, or are you,
like Prince, are you playing all these different instruments.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's tricky, right because my music sounds like bad music.
But I'm just one guy. And then I have all
these other people that I make music with, and sometimes
I just make it by myself. It's crazy what you
can achieve on your laptop. But I do a lot
of the drum programming myself. But I do have a
lot of like recording drums as well that I get

(01:47):
someone to do. Otherwise, you know, I'm playing all the bass,
the guitar.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
What instrument did you learn first?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I learned drums. Drums was first, and then bass. And
I'm actually, although I make very guitar music, I'm not
much of a guitarist. I kind of just figure it out.
I'm still figuring it out.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
And nine zero is there a reference to the area
code of Auckland and reverses which is nine Is anything
to do with.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
It is not. It's actually when I like make a
song on my laptop and logic and at the end
of the day, like how along I've been sitting there
working on the song I never have the song name,
or like never have enough lyrics to get a song
name together. And I just like went on my keyboard
and just went nine zero, like the number, the two numbers,

(02:36):
and just perceived and then we just kind of always
kept calling it nither and so it's that. And then
it's also like it kind of is a nineties inspired song, right,
so it plays on plays on both of.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Those, right, So during the song, we're not going to
be waiting for the chorus to be belting at nine
zero nine zero.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, And it's but I guess you could, you know,
you could argue it's a it's a song about the
O nine itself. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I love your nineties references too. I'm thinking of all
the shoe gay stuff like smashing pumpkins and that sort
of thing.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, yeah for sure. Shout out to my mum.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Oh who raised you on that kind of music.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, yeah, big time. She put me on to most
of the bands that I listened to, Nirvana and then
from Navannah, Founa, Food Fighters and sort of that whole
sand Yeah. I personally have a really big like emo
thing that I'm obsessed with.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, let's check it out, shall.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
We I'm Lucian Rice, and this is nine zero. You
listening to Radio Hudarchy.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's already I heard I that is new from Lucian Rice.
It's called nine zero and we're lucky enough to have
Alution on a zoom with us now curee a. Lucian,
thanks for bringing us that tune.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, thanks for thanks for having me, thanks for playing it.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Lucian, you mentioned you grew up in all Clinton. You
spent a bit of time in Cambridge. These days you're
in Los Angeles and New York quite a bit. Where
were you when you came up with that song?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I that's such a good question. Lots of places. I
kind of like it's one of those weird songs where
like I started an I dare like what four years ago,
five years ago, that like always sounded cool, but it
was never cool enough. And then I came across it
like maybe a year ago, and so I started playing

(04:35):
around a little bit more like put it with this
other idea I had, and so it's it's weird. It's
like it's I wrote the song four years ago, then
I only kind of wrote it like a year ago,
and then took me like a day just to realize like, oh,
this is one song. So where I wrote the idea
I don't actually really know because it all sort of
came together all over the place. And then again I

(04:55):
worked on with Tom so that you know, some of
it at Tom's house. And you know, I don't.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
You play guitar bass, You can't play drums. You're programming drums,
You're getting people to play live drums, you make Tom's
playing guitars and so forth. It's all these collaborations going on,
but it sounds like you're making a lot of us
on your computer. Can you make the music wherever you are?
You just open up your laptop and boom, you're just
creating a tune.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Pretty much. Yeah, as long as I can plug my
guitar and plug a mic in, that's pretty pretty easy
to go. Actually, just like born out of necessity, you know,
I wanted to make music, and it's so quickly realized
that it's a lot easier to just do it on
my laptop than it is to form a band. And
this is after coming out of bands and just just
makes the floor a lot easier. But yeah, I can

(05:43):
pretty much. I've made music in some places that I
didn't think i'd make music, you know, just even the
fact that they can do it on a plane or
something around the buses. It's weird. H it doesn't really
get old.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's cool. And so that song that we heard before
nine zero is that part of a collection of songs
that is going to be released later this year.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yes. Yeah, I've got a EP coming out on October seventh,
and that's called Right Now Forever and that'll be my
debut EP. Actually. So although although it's my name, you know,
I do do it all on my computer and stuff
with friends. I do have a band and I think
we sound really good. So I'd love to play more
shows and really like flex that muscle a little bit

(06:24):
more because it's definitely definitely a bit rustier.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
And so you mentioned you spent quite a bit of
time in Los Angeles and New York. Is any of
your band based over there or are they in Auckland
where you.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Are now all in Auckland at the moment. I've just
lost Tom to the UK, which is very classic of course,
but otherwise no, the rest of us are all based
in Auckland, yeah, which is convenient.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Has Tom gone on his oe? Is he gone for music?
What's how come he's left us.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, it's it's a you know, pulls on the hushings
for me. But he's just gone to just try it
out over there. You know, he's got a UK passwords.
So I wish wish them the best of the music,
and I'm sure I'll be over there to see them, sureley.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah. Well, if you're making so much music on your computer,
a lot of bands do just send files back and
forth from wherever they happen to be.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, that's that's the thing. It doesn't actually change how
we work together, which is kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
So when this EP comes out as the best way
to find information about you and your music and these
potential live gigs that might happen sometimes.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Instagram, it's pretty much for your family and it's just
Lucian Race underscore and it's l u c A and
then Race like the.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Food Lucian Rice. Thanks your time on Hidaki, all.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Right, thanks for having me chairs.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
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Speaker 1 (07:51):
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