Our new single is called The Knife and it’s a bit of a homage to old school 80’s dance. A big fun number. We’re touring on the East coast from the 20th-26th of November playing POW! @ Mynt Lounge, Futuresounds Festival, Toff in Town & the Oxford Arts Gallery Bar.
Blade Runner mixed with Jurassic Park, if that’s a scene? If it’s not, then why the hell not?!
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A cheese platter. There’s a little something for everyone, it’s delicious and goes amazingly with crackers. If people aren’t fans we just assume they are lactose intolerant!
The one that resonates most with our crowds lately is a track called Bodies (currently unreleased). It was also one of the first songs we wrote together actually, and it’s this big heavy banger. We love playing it. Always puts a smile on our faces and gets the crowd up and dancing around. Another one that resonates strongly is an electro cover of the song Butterfly by Crazy Town, which Hamish made as a joke. Our bass player hates that song so we use it for sound check to drive him insane. So that definitely resonates, just in a negative way.
One time we we’re on a rural tour with an old band and had to drive almost an hour from the hotel to the venue. When we got there and set up for soundcheck our drummer realised he had forgotten his kick pedal and sticks… and ultimately, his dignity. We had no support act that night so he had to drive two hours to get his stuff to play the show. Also, we once played at a venue in Wales and found out half way through the set that the venue sat on top of a Bikey gang fortress. Hamish got super drunk to cope with the awkwardness. We found him at 7am in the morning singing Peter Gabriel ‘Sledgehammer’ at a homemade karaoke bar with 5 Bikeys. We never asked him what happened that night.
From all over the place. New and old acts that have created something is really what drives us. We hear something and think its so good we just want to be at that level. Also the crowd and the energy we get from them is what inspires us live. To see people dancing to your tracks just fuels us to create more stuff that people will want to dance with. That and videos of Nicholas Cage yelling on youtube, but that just inspires us to watch more Nicholas Cage.
Rebecca Black ‘Friday’. If we’d written that we could have destroyed it before it was ever released!
We’re heading on tour in November then when we get back we’re straight into the studio to get some new tracks down for release in early in 2016. But if we’re talking immediately, probably answering the next question or taking a break to watch some Rick and Morty.
Blade Runner mixed with Jurassic Park, if that’s a scene? If it’s not, then why the hell not?!
About Nakatomi
Neon drenched, eighties inspired electro-pop duo, Nakatomi have today announced the release of new single, The Knife alongside a run of show dates hitting Rocket Bar (Ade) on October 30, Mynt Lounge (Melb) on November 20, The Toff (Melb) on November 22 and Oxford Art Gallery Bar (Syd) on November 26.
Synth-heavy with industrial beats and offering a generous nod to the eighties, “The Knife is about the downward spiral of bad experiences or relationships, but choosing to see some beauty in the fall rather than getting consumed by it,” explains lead vocalist, Emily Smart. “We worked with Badcop (Tkay Maidza) on the sound design and sought out Melbourne producer-engineer, Jimi Maroudas (Kimbra, Bertie Blackman) to produce and mix, and tracking was done at the amazing Chapel Lane Studios in Adelaide.”
“We had this idea to go with a sci-fi 80s vibe for this clip, so we contacted a great local film director named Aaron Schuppan and set him the challenge to create something inspired by movies such as Blade Runner,” says Smart.
“Thankfully Aaron was just as excited about this idea as we were and proposed that our film clip take the form of a movie trailer for an amazing, lost tech-noir film from the 80s, but something with genuine emotion at its core. Aaron threw together a crazy script, and our only thought was, if he can pull this off, this is going to be epic!”
The duo is excited to hit the road to play for their fans along the east Coast later this month with Smart saying, “we can’t wait, we’ll be supporting JOY. for her Adelaide tour leg and this is also our hometown single launch party, then a few weeks later we will do our first run of shows in Melb and Syd.”
Named after Nakatomi Plaza from the Die Hard movie, Cox jokes, “Nakatomi does have a classier meaning in ancient Japanese though, it’s the ancestral name of the greatest clan of classical times, the Fujiwara.” Nakatomi is made up of Emily Smart on vocals and Hamish Cox on synths.
Tickets to the east coast tour are on sale now
