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From the formation of skillkills to taking on various production work
Takano: How did skillkills itself start?
GuruConnect: My brother is the drummer, and he came to Tokyo and we decided to work together. The other members were all weird guys that we met at various live houses and wanted to work together. They were really weird guys. We are still weird now, but we hit it off. We were playing under different band names, but we weren’t getting anywhere. I felt like there was nothing I could do about it, so I started writing my own songs. Until then, we would all go into the studio together and bicker and fight. I didn’t like that, so I stopped practicing. It was like, “Let’s go for a walk” (haha).
Celeina: But that’s where the inspiration for music comes from.
GuruConnect: I wanted to get out of that, so I changed my style to making all the demos by myself, and we changed the name of the band to “skillkills” and made a fresh start.
Celeina: GuruConnect, you are also involved in various types of production work. What was it that got you started in this field?
GuruConnect: Around the time before the Corona disaster, Gotch of ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION and I were approached to produce an album by Aiha Higure, and that was my first time. I tried it, and I was hooked, and that was the first time I had ever been asked to produce an album. You started to be asked to work with them?
Celeina: Do you find that your own music is also influenced by your production work?
GuruConnect: It really broadens my horizons.
Takano: Now, I asked GuruConnect to choose a song that he would like everyone to listen to together on the radio at this time. What song would it be?
GuruConnect: I would like to ask you to play a song that I wrote with a rapper named Campanella called “Bell.
