Sound Revolt: For how long?
Nic Fanciulli: He’s been DJing since he was 13.

Sound Revolt: Apart from the DMCs. Is he still a bedroom DJ?
Nic Fanciulli: He’s played out a couple of times. The thing is I didn’t influence anyone at the club to book him for downstairs but he’s the only breaks DJ really at Maidstone.

Sound Revolt: It is rumoured you’re gonna have your own show on BBC Radio 1.
Nic Fanciulli: No.

Sound Revolt: You’re not gonna have it?
Nic Fanciulli: I don’t know.

Sound Revolt: You don’t know?
Nic Fanciulli: At the moment I’m just doing few things with them. I think my production and DJing are most important for me. They are brilliant people, they’re really nice but I have to focus on my music.

Sound Revolt: Tell me more about Andy Chatterley?
Nic Fanciulli: I first met Andy 6 or 7 years ago and we started working together for about 3 years doing a lot of the early Portent stuff and then we had a break for about a year. We did our own different projects and stuff and then we got back together 2 years ago and the first thing we did was the remix of “Dancing In The Dark”. Since then it’s been going really, really well. And for me personally, it has taken me to this point to make music I have really been into - like The Buick Project.

Sound Revolt: And why the name “Buick”?
Nic Fanciulli: Skylark came from the bar in San Francisco when I went to see Halo and Hipp-E play. And you know the cars?

Sound Revolt: Sure. Do you own a Buick?
Nic Fanciulli: No but it came from that.

Sound Revolt: What do you do when performing live as Skylark?
Nic Fanciulli: We do that occasionally. Keys, laptop, CDJs. Making it as live and interactive as possible. We’ve only done it twice but next time we want to do it all on Ableton with the 909 and 303 (Roland) to make it really analogey. We’re gonna take all our equipment out and just start tapping.

Sound Revolt: You have remixed “Flashdance”, which in my opinion is one of the worst tunes of 2004. Did you like the original?
Nic Fanciulli: This record is made by my really good friends – Ali and Sharam (Deep Dish). First time I heard it at Pacha and the crowd went nuts. It’s a good record. I don’t think I’d play it now but they asked us to do our interpretation of it.

Sound Revolt: I just couldn’t believe this tune got so high.
Nic Fanciulli: It’s mad. It was number 3 in England!

Sound Revolt: Alright, but I say it’s too simple! Nothing happens there. It could last for 5 minutes and no-one would even notice that half of the track is missing.
Nic Fanciulli: Yeah, yeah.

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