[Interview] New Zealand’s next big export to talk music, Hobbit hate crimes, stealing listeners from label mates and being ‘normal. ’

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[Interview] New Zealand’s next big export to talk music, Hobbit hate crimes, stealing listeners from label mates and being ‘normal. ’

Stack & Piece recently completed debut EP, The Love Goes EP, which draws on their extensive networks and features a number of rising acts including Helen Corry and Diaz Grimm.

With a nationwide tour in May to celebrate their first single ‘Burning Out’ off the EP, Stack & Piece are showing no sign of slowing down – if anything, they’re speeding up.

Stoney Roads: So, who are you?

Jack Stack: We’re Stack & Piece a producing/DJ duo from the Waikato in little old NZ who make music – fuck, this sounds like a sales pitch.

Scott ‘Piece’ Tindale: Basically we’re just two normal as fuck kiwi blokes who make music and DJ all over the place.

Stack: Yeah, that. We come from a small city which is pretty much only known for it’s dairy industry, how hard the people there party and because it’s super close to the place they filmed The Hobbit in.

Stoney Roads: You’re from Hobbit country?

Piece: Same area really – it’s not really something Kiwis care about. The only time it ever gets mentioned is when we’re with international artists or doing interviews with Stoney Roads, apparently.

Stack: The only time we’ve actually ever been there is when Benson (Sydney producer and DJ) came to NZ and wanted to go. It was horrible, we were so incredibly hungover and the trip there was so shit. Piece ended up power spewing on the Welcome To Hobbiton sign – which I’m pretty sure is a hate crime against Peter Jackson.

Piece: Fuck the Hobbits. Haha.

Stoney Roads: Speaking of Benson, you’ve signed to the label he co-founded, Medium Rare Recordings, right? How did that come about?

Piece: We’ve know all the guys behind Medium Rare Records for quite a while, we’ve played a bunch of shows with the guys from the label – Benson, (Tom) Piper and Daniel Farley (Terace) – and last time we played in Sydney we showed Piper a few of the songs we were working on. He was keen to get us on board.

Stack: And we were keen as well. They’ve been doing pretty cool things – just look at Stace Cadet’s Molly Happy. That song’s doing the rounds, hell, it’s even on George FM (NZ’s national electronic music radio station) over here. So, we’re pretty stoked to get involved – if only to steal listeners from Stace Cadet.

Stoney Roads: Your last few tracks hit the Beatport charts but you’re moving away from the twerk and trap sound – why the change?

Piece: ‘Cause that music kind of sucks. It’s so abrasive and every single person seems to be making the same shit and using the same sample packs. I feel we’ve reached peak-EDM so we’re moving away from that and making stuff that, hopefully, sounds like real music. With melodies and not just recycled samples.

Stack: We’ve been playing gigs for several years and, I guess, we wanted to make music – not just shit that will make your ears ring.

Stoney Roads: And you’ll be bringing that sound to Australia soon?

Stack: Within the next few months, we’re doing a tour to coincide with the release of the EP and are locking in a few dates in Australia as we speak.

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