October 24, 2024 • 7 mins
Who Shot Scott was overseas and heard someone say something that infuriated him. When he got home the song poured out, with the help of some 90s influences. Frontman Zaidoon called up to explain who they were, what was said and what's helped him calm down.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio Hodakis Off the Record podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with who shot Scott Kyoto, Zidoon Kyoda.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
How are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Really well? Thanks. We're about to the country, are you
this evening?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm currently in Tomaki, Makoto, just in outside a cafe
in Ponsonby at the moment, I'm just in my car.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How's the David, Yeah, really good, really good.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Not gonna lie. Ever since my song came out, I've
been on a press run, so just everywhere doing interviews
and stuff. But nah, I've been been good man, really chill,
really excited to have music, arden to be here talking
to you.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, I'll try not to ask the same questions.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
If they want, I've been answering them some seasoned.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
All right, Well, let's go back to the beginning. What
was the first instrument you learned how to play?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Wow? I remember my uncle teaching me how to play
guitar when I was like six years old. But I
never followed up on that. But he taught me like
a few chords. But yeah, I still I still don't
know how to play guitar. I think the first time
I like learn how to play an instrument that I
still know how to play was keyboard like piano and
intermediate school.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And then which intermedia did you go to?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I went to the Bucklan's Beach Primary in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And some kids did intermediate get into music and start
forming a band even then, not.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Right away, but in high school, yeah, I started. I
was in some bands and rap groups.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And that rap thing has carried on into what you
do now. Although this news song is not only very
angry but very punchy and there's an element of rock
in it.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah. In my high school days it was a mix
of a lot of alternative hip hop and also alternative
rock like ninety stuff, so a lot of tribe called
Quest and Wa that sort of stuff. And then on
the alternative rock side it was more like Rage against
the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Yeah, also just like
weird stuff like Primus and stuff like that, like skateboard
music as well.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh, big fan of all those bands. We Liz Klappel's
a genius and obviously Rage against the Machine. Their music
was so revolutionary at the time, but it still at
this day is relevant.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing just how timeless all of those
genres of music and bands.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Were and so with this new track, the data, I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Angry at all, man, I'm angry at all of it,
and I'm just kidding. But specifically this is like, it's
that whole commerce versus art argument, you know what I mean.
That's sort of the age old I think. I think
the artists have been feeling of compromising artistic vision because
of wanting to have careers and stuff like that. But
I feel like for me, this was very much triggered
from a trip that I took overseas and I had
(02:37):
a experience with a social media company, the biggest one
in the world that I won't mentioned, but yeah, it was.
The executive at that company was preaching a message to
everyone that was there that for me, had a secondary
sort of agenda, which was to keep us on their
platform and to keep us sort of as without signing
too dramatic, but like as slaves to their to their platform.
(03:01):
And I didn't like that, and I thought it was
very anti freedom, anti art, and so I channeled all
that rage into this song. I was pretty pretty pissed off,
to say the least.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
All right, let's hear it, Freddie, I heard aki that's
new from who shot Scott it's called the Data, and
we're lucky enough to have a singer that song on
a zoom with us now, kurtas I Doom, thanks for
(03:31):
bringing us that tune.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You're obviously bottling up a lot of rage before you
made it. Is that still there within you?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
To be honest, it's like it's gone a lot, like
a lot of the anger, at least toward it has gone.
My feeling is still the same, obviously, because it's honest,
But that anger that I was feeling at the time,
I don't think it's there, and I think I attribute
a lot of that to Since I've released the song, actually,
a lot of artists and I have been having conversations
about the whole thing, and just to feel connected at
the moment with other artists who've also felt alienated or
(04:00):
distance from, you know, that whole social media stuff. Just
to feel that connection has done a lot of healing
for me. And it's really cool to know that, you know,
my song has sparked up this conversation between me and
some other artists. So yeah, it's cool. It's been actually
really healthy in a lot of ways too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Correct, And are they artists from around the world around
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think yeah, like around the world, but definitely like
a lot of my community of artist friends and people
who I admire are here in Altuto, so yeah, a
lot of a lot of Kiwi artists as well.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Would you get a chance to perform that song live
someway soon?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I would love to. I'm I have no gigs that
I'm allowed to announce it just yet, but I would
love to be able to scream and shout this song
at the top of my lungs on a stage with
a microphone and my whole band going crazy on stage.
I'd be a good time. I think, channeling the rage
against the machine inspirations from my high school years.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, I would like to see that as well. So
how many people would be in the band? Who shot Scott?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Oh, It's really simple. It's just me on the obviously,
the lead vocals have a drummer. His name's Tia. He's incredible.
I also have a DJ high on who's also a
hype man, so just the three of us. Really it
works for what we're doing because my tracks are so
heavy and like there's you know, like a lot of
drum focused stuff. So as long as there's like a
live drum element. It really adds that primal feel which
(05:19):
I love, which is what I try to put in
the music as well.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And so how long have you been Who Shot Scott?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Since November twenty twenty, so coming up four years.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And was this a lockdown thing? Was this because you
couldn't interact with other people? So you've done it yourself?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, yeah, I was. I used to be in another
music project that was a duo with me and one
of my high school friends, but then that ended around
that time as well, and I was trying to write
new music before COVID. Actually around twenty nineteen, I was
trying to reimagine myself what I would look like as
a solo artist. When we went into lockdown, I just
started playing around and making music just for the sake
(05:54):
of it and for fun. And actually I made a
little fourteen track album just for one of my friends,
and I didn't even think about releasing it. I just
I literally made it with the intention of just showing
one friend. And a lot of the songs that ended
up being Who Shots Scott's songs were actually on that project,
and they were so free of what any preconceived sort
of notion of what quote unquote song should be or anything.
(06:15):
They were just full experiments and fun times and real
expressions of my soul and that that was the catalyst
to the whole artist project. So yeah, when the music
was right, it was the right time to start, you know,
putting stuff out. And it's just been just a joy
to be releasing music. Is Who Shot Scott? Ever?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Since we've got the data? Is there more music to come?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh? Yeah, there's a EP coming out early next year,
but there's more music coming out this year as well.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And if we want to get into any of this
stuff and any tour dates as they pop up, you see,
you can't talk about any Now where's the best place
to find information on you?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Who Shots Scott spelled as it sounds on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Are all your releases digital? Is there any physical?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Currently? They are digital? But with this EP that I'm dropped,
it's called brains There's a brainside A and this is
now brainside B. I am planning and this may be
the first time I'm announcing it publicly, but I am
planning on doing some hard copy vinyl pressings, some very
exclusive ones that I'll be shipping out.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Who Shot Scott thanks for your time on Hodaki.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Appreciate that man. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Radio hod aches Off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe
so they download automatically and don't forget to rate us
five stars?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Find out more about this podcast and the people who
make it at hodache dot co dot nz.
Welcome to Radio Hodakis Off the Record podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with who shot Scott Kyoto, Zidoon Kyoda.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
How are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Really well? Thanks. We're about to the country, are you
this evening?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm currently in Tomaki, Makoto, just in outside a cafe
in Ponsonby at the moment, I'm just in my car.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How's the David, Yeah, really good, really good.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Not gonna lie. Ever since my song came out, I've
been on a press run, so just everywhere doing interviews
and stuff. But nah, I've been been good man, really chill,
really excited to have music, arden to be here talking
to you.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, I'll try not to ask the same questions.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
If they want, I've been answering them some seasoned.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
All right, Well, let's go back to the beginning. What
was the first instrument you learned how to play?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Wow? I remember my uncle teaching me how to play
guitar when I was like six years old. But I
never followed up on that. But he taught me like
a few chords. But yeah, I still I still don't
know how to play guitar. I think the first time
I like learn how to play an instrument that I
still know how to play was keyboard like piano and
intermediate school.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And then which intermedia did you go to?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I went to the Bucklan's Beach Primary in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And some kids did intermediate get into music and start
forming a band even then, not.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Right away, but in high school, yeah, I started. I
was in some bands and rap groups.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And that rap thing has carried on into what you
do now. Although this news song is not only very
angry but very punchy and there's an element of rock
in it.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah. In my high school days it was a mix
of a lot of alternative hip hop and also alternative
rock like ninety stuff, so a lot of tribe called
Quest and Wa that sort of stuff. And then on
the alternative rock side it was more like Rage against
the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Yeah, also just like
weird stuff like Primus and stuff like that, like skateboard
music as well.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh, big fan of all those bands. We Liz Klappel's
a genius and obviously Rage against the Machine. Their music
was so revolutionary at the time, but it still at
this day is relevant.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing just how timeless all of those
genres of music and bands.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Were and so with this new track, the data, I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Angry at all, man, I'm angry at all of it,
and I'm just kidding. But specifically this is like, it's
that whole commerce versus art argument, you know what I mean.
That's sort of the age old I think. I think
the artists have been feeling of compromising artistic vision because
of wanting to have careers and stuff like that. But
I feel like for me, this was very much triggered
from a trip that I took overseas and I had
(02:37):
a experience with a social media company, the biggest one
in the world that I won't mentioned, but yeah, it was.
The executive at that company was preaching a message to
everyone that was there that for me, had a secondary
sort of agenda, which was to keep us on their
platform and to keep us sort of as without signing
too dramatic, but like as slaves to their to their platform.
(03:01):
And I didn't like that, and I thought it was
very anti freedom, anti art, and so I channeled all
that rage into this song. I was pretty pretty pissed off,
to say the least.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
All right, let's hear it, Freddie, I heard aki that's
new from who shot Scott it's called the Data, and
we're lucky enough to have a singer that song on
a zoom with us now, kurtas I Doom, thanks for
(03:31):
bringing us that tune.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You're obviously bottling up a lot of rage before you
made it. Is that still there within you?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
To be honest, it's like it's gone a lot, like
a lot of the anger, at least toward it has gone.
My feeling is still the same, obviously, because it's honest,
But that anger that I was feeling at the time,
I don't think it's there, and I think I attribute
a lot of that to Since I've released the song, actually,
a lot of artists and I have been having conversations
about the whole thing, and just to feel connected at
the moment with other artists who've also felt alienated or
(04:00):
distance from, you know, that whole social media stuff. Just
to feel that connection has done a lot of healing
for me. And it's really cool to know that, you know,
my song has sparked up this conversation between me and
some other artists. So yeah, it's cool. It's been actually
really healthy in a lot of ways too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Correct, And are they artists from around the world around
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think yeah, like around the world, but definitely like
a lot of my community of artist friends and people
who I admire are here in Altuto, so yeah, a
lot of a lot of Kiwi artists as well.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Would you get a chance to perform that song live
someway soon?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I would love to. I'm I have no gigs that
I'm allowed to announce it just yet, but I would
love to be able to scream and shout this song
at the top of my lungs on a stage with
a microphone and my whole band going crazy on stage.
I'd be a good time. I think, channeling the rage
against the machine inspirations from my high school years.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, I would like to see that as well. So
how many people would be in the band? Who shot Scott?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Oh, It's really simple. It's just me on the obviously,
the lead vocals have a drummer. His name's Tia. He's incredible.
I also have a DJ high on who's also a
hype man, so just the three of us. Really it
works for what we're doing because my tracks are so
heavy and like there's you know, like a lot of
drum focused stuff. So as long as there's like a
live drum element. It really adds that primal feel which
(05:19):
I love, which is what I try to put in
the music as well.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And so how long have you been Who Shot Scott?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Since November twenty twenty, so coming up four years.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And was this a lockdown thing? Was this because you
couldn't interact with other people? So you've done it yourself?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, yeah, I was. I used to be in another
music project that was a duo with me and one
of my high school friends, but then that ended around
that time as well, and I was trying to write
new music before COVID. Actually around twenty nineteen, I was
trying to reimagine myself what I would look like as
a solo artist. When we went into lockdown, I just
started playing around and making music just for the sake
(05:54):
of it and for fun. And actually I made a
little fourteen track album just for one of my friends,
and I didn't even think about releasing it. I just
I literally made it with the intention of just showing
one friend. And a lot of the songs that ended
up being Who Shots Scott's songs were actually on that project,
and they were so free of what any preconceived sort
of notion of what quote unquote song should be or anything.
(06:15):
They were just full experiments and fun times and real
expressions of my soul and that that was the catalyst
to the whole artist project. So yeah, when the music
was right, it was the right time to start, you know,
putting stuff out. And it's just been just a joy
to be releasing music. Is Who Shot Scott? Ever?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Since we've got the data? Is there more music to come?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh? Yeah, there's a EP coming out early next year,
but there's more music coming out this year as well.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And if we want to get into any of this
stuff and any tour dates as they pop up, you see,
you can't talk about any Now where's the best place
to find information on you?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Who Shots Scott spelled as it sounds on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Are all your releases digital? Is there any physical?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Currently? They are digital? But with this EP that I'm dropped,
it's called brains There's a brainside A and this is
now brainside B. I am planning and this may be
the first time I'm announcing it publicly, but I am
planning on doing some hard copy vinyl pressings, some very
exclusive ones that I'll be shipping out.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Who Shot Scott thanks for your time on Hodaki.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Appreciate that man. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Radio hod aches Off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe
so they download automatically and don't forget to rate us
five stars?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Find out more about this podcast and the people who
make it at hodache dot co dot nz.
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