Sound Revolt: Time for collaborations: Underground Sound Of Lisbon?
Rui Da Silva: That's what kicked everything off. That was the collaboration I did with Dj Vibe. We did lots of big records: "So Get Up", "Dance Wit Me", "Are You Looking For Me" or "The Lights". It doesn't exist anymore but it was a very great collaboration.

Sound Revolt: Why did you break up?
Rui Da Silva: Just the way life goes. He's living in Portugal, working in Portugal, I'm living in the UK, working in the UK. The incompatibilty of times and places doesn't allow us to record together.

Sound Revolt: CocoDaSilva
Rui Da Silva: It's a collaboration I've got with Chris Coco who is a very good friend of mine. It's just the side project and we've just done a new track now called "The Shiva Chant" which is Kismet release number 17.

Sound Revolt: Do you often perform with Chris?
Rui Da Silva: We haven't performed live recently but we did a few performances.

Sound Revolt: You mess with the effects? I'd like to see that.
Rui Da Silva: I usually work with external machines but I didn't bring them this time.

Sound Revolt: Next project: The Obeah Men
Rui Da Silva: It's a different collaboration I've got with Terry Farley and we did a track for Junior and probably there will be more tunes in the future.

Sound Revolt: HyperDaSilva - is it gonna be a one time project?
Rui Da Silva: No. We've already done a second track. It's a collaboration I got with dj Hyper and I'm really really enjoying a lot of breaks that are being made at the moment. It's a more exciting scene than the house scene. And it just happened that "Future Music" - the technology magazine in the UK wanted to hook us up together to do a track. It worked very well and now we're going to do a few more.

Sound Revolt: I've noticed that your style is getting a lot of Middle East vibe. It seems that this region influences you a lot. Kismet in turkish means fullfilment of destiny which also fits my thesis. What do you see in Middle East?
Rui Da Silva: It's a cradle of western civilisation what I find fascinating and that's why it plays a big role in my life. I've just been to Israel, went to Jerusalem and it was a very spiritual experience.

Sound Revolt: Are you a religious person?
Rui Da Silva: Not really. I like everything that has got to do with the civilisation and the progress of human race. I think Jerusalem is a cradle of so many religions - it's such a spacious place. I'm more into spiritual things than religious.

Sound Revolt: And I left the hottest production for the end. Tell me about the effect of your collaboration with Mo Shic - "Gibberish". You played it tonight and I have to say that I was very impressed.
Rui Da Silva: "Gibberish" is gonna come out in Semptember or maybe in August. It comes out on Kismet and I'm looking forward to it. There's another track already but we only did one side so far. It's gonna end up coming out later in the year, probably close to Christmas.

Sound Revolt: What can we expect from you in the future? Any new projects and colaborations coming up? What about your album?
Rui Da Silva: I'm finishing the album which has been taking a long time because of dj'ing and developing my website (www.kismetrecords.com) where people can log in and download my music for an euro each. And that is like one of my main focus. Everybody is going into internet because the records get there before they even go on the promo. So it's the best place to go and get music.

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