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Interview: Hip-hop duo ‘Creepy Nuts’ spoke to The Natural Aristocrat® at Anime NYC 2024 about their hit ‘Call of the Night’ theme songs “Daten” (Opening Theme) “Yofukashino Uta” (Closing Theme) + “Losstime” (Featured Song).

When: Rapper R-Shitei & DJ Matsunaga fielded questions from the media in a press conference style format the morning after Creepy Nuts’ Anime NYC concert. This Creepy Nuts interview took place on Saturday, August 24, 2024

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THE NATURAL ARISTOCRAT (NIR REGEV): What was your first response to seeing Call of the Night’s animation flawlessly mesh with your music?

Photo Credit: ©2022 Kotoyama, Shogakukan / Call of the Night Committee

R-Shitei: The one scene that has really stayed with me as a beautiful moment is when “Losstime” played during the show (‘Call of the Night‘). I really saw it come together, how the music and the visuals work together.

That was a moment of beauty. And overall, I thought it was just an amazing production!

Creepy Nuts on huge overseas fandom following ‘Call of the Night’ being streamed in the USA:

Creepy Nuts Concert crowd fans at Anime NYC 2024. Photo Credit: © 2024 Nir Regev / TheNaturalAristocrat.com

R-Shitei: We really weren’t expecting such a worldwide audience. Yesterday was a complete surprise to see how much New York was into our music.

We really felt that the audience was singing with us, even in Japanese! And so being able to perform live in the US finally made it feel real.

Like this is reality now because we were able to experience the audience and the music together in New York City last night.

– Our exclusive Creepy Nuts Concert Photos from Anime NYC 2024

– Our exclusive Crowd Photos of Creepy Nuts Fans at ANYC 2024

Creepy Nuts on performing more anime songs after previous hits have been so well received:

R-Shitei: (smiles) So yes, the reception was great, but that’s not what we write music for. What we write music for is to create our own sound, to be ourselves.

The reception is always wonderful and we’re really happy to see that so many people enjoy our music.

But with every song, we do our own thing. We do our very best to create music that is unique to us and that feels free to us.

Creepy Nuts explains band name:

R-Shitei: (laughs) I somewhat regret my choice at this point. I wasn’t expecting worldwide audiences, so I’m a little embarrassed now! (laughs)

Creepy Nuts on the challenge of staying true to their sound and adapting to the changing tastes of audiences:

R-Shitei: Whenever I’ve thought, “All right, this is gonna be a hit!” it’s just kind of okay (laughs).

When I don’t expect anything, it’s really natural. That’s when I’ve had really great feedback from the audience. So I’ve decided it’s not worth thinking about.

DJ Matsunaga: What the audience wants, trying to guess that is a direction that is really difficult to get to. There is no destination in that way of thinking. What I wants to do is really create the music that I enjoy.

I want to enjoy the music and so I really don’t like to think about other influences beyond what I enjoy musically. I prefer to just be true to myself.

Creepy Nuts on their biggest influences & inspirations in music:

DJ Matsunaga: It’s really hard to point to one specific influence. It’s everything I’ve absorbed. All the music that has surrounded me and the music within myself. It’s a summation and a division.

It’s really a matrix of music that I’ve heard throughout my lifetime that’s shaped me and influenced me.

Creepy Nuts on “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” being on the top of the music charts in Japan for eight consecutive weeks. If they felt like ‘overnight’ stars:

DJ Matsunaga: As a musician, I’ve always had the fortune to create the music I’ve felt was true to me. So that hasn’t changed overnight, that hasn’t changed since the the mega hit.

But what has changed is the ability to be here, for example, and have more of a worldwide audience listening to our creation. To our music. And so I really do feel that it’s a moment of appreciation for me.

I’m grateful that new doors are opening. New sceneries are available to us, new experiences are available to us. So gratitude? Yes. Have I changed as a musician? No.

Creepy Nuts on their creative process to create music:

DJ Matsunaga: So usually I create the beat in a really simple framework, fairly long, but then I send it to R-Shitei to swim in it, to experience it, to enjoy it, to iterate on it.

And so that’s the beginning of the process of iteration where one side who’s working on it sends back something and then there’s an expectation.

The expectation of meeting each other’s performance and creation.

Creepy Nuts on Dua Lipa “Illusion” remix collaboration, if they approached the remix differently than their original music:

DJ Matsunaga: Usually our tracks are rap based as where this was really a song based creation. And so that was unique and more so, it’s two different languages I had to blend together.

I though synchronizing two completely different languages may be difficult, but it turned out to be very enjoyable. I feel really lucky that I had the opportunity.

R-Shitei: My lyrics are usually my personal world. It’s my personal experience, it’s me at the core. In this situation, I’m entering an existing world, I’m coming into somebody else’s world.

So how do I enter into this existing world? And as the song “Illusion” goes, what’s my interpretation of this? How do I work into this creation?

And so something like David Copperfield and being split in half, that was something that wouldn’t have existed if it were not for this opportunity.

It was really enjoyable to experience something where another person already exists and he’s entering and moving into such a situation.

Creepy Nuts on their love of horror movies, favorites:

R-Shitei: I really enjoy the genre of horror, of course, anything that I’ve already sang about in my lyrics. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Grudge, J-Horror of course, but I also really like visual special effects that’s not CG.

Like the Halloween series and Hellraiser.

But from recent films, I really like Some like it Rare, Slaxx and Get Out are some of the titles that I appreciate.

THE NATURAL ARISTOCRAT: Thank you!

CREEPY NUTS: Thank you very much!

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More Call of the Night Coverage:

– Be sure to check out our Gabriel Regojo Interview on voicing Ko Yamori in the Call of the Night English Dub.

– Also watch our YouTube video of vampire girl Nazuna English dub voice actress Natalie Rial discussing the possibility of Call of the Night Season 2!

– Read our Call of the Night Episode 1 Recap to learn more about Kou and Nazuna falling in love along his journey to turn into a vampire himself… And stop going to school!.

We go over the main Call of the Night Characters and Cast in the anime adaption. You can get the Call of the Night Season 1 Blu-ray now on amazon.

Trivia: Call of the Night’s Japanese name is ‘Yofukashi no Uta’ just like the Creepy Nuts song of the same name.

– Read and watch more discussions with top musicians in our Music Interviews section!

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