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12 January, 2012 | 6.10AM

Argentina’s Guti and his pianos

Electronic music producers are by and large a bunch of deviants, but even going by those standards Argentina’s Guti sure is one colourful reprobate.

As a child, Guti was a jazz pianist and did very well for a small boy from Buenos Aires. Then the teenage years hit, and, like all teenagers, he rebelled and ran off to join a rock band. But unlike most adolescent music projects, Jóvenes Pordioseros, or Young Beggars in English, happened to be hugely successful. The band achieved gold record status in Argentina and were singed to Warner Music, no less. Guti played keyboards in the band and for a while he lived like a rock god.

Then when that chapter of his life finally came to an end in 2009, Guti did what most rock stars never do and became an underground house music producer. Loco Dice was the first to notice Guti’s talents and signed him to his respected Desolat imprint.

Relocating to Dice’s hometown of Düsseldorf, which he describes as “a really nice small city,” Guti began quietly releasing juicy house rhythms full of Latino and jazz spirit. His album Patio de Juegos (Playground) dropped in March 2011 on Desolat to great acclaim, and he has been touring like an electronic music radical ever since.

He has also had releases on Luciano’s Cadenza, Davide Squillace’s Hideout, Guy Gerber’s Supplement Facts, and London’s Defected. And last week he dropped ”Keep It” for Satoshi Tomiie’s SAW Recordings, his first solo single outside of Desolat since he was signed to the label in 2009.

“Keep It” is SAW Recordings’ most anticipated release in quite a while, not least because it features a remarkable remix from label boss Satoshi Tomiie, who hasn’t released any new music in a couple of years. There’s also an infectious, underground, drum-heavy house jam from Guti on the B-side, called “Bam!”

Tomiie’s “Keep It” remix is the first track to come out of his new studio. The Japanese house pioneer spent over 24 months building a new studio in his New York City apartment, which was finally completed last year. Tomiie will release more singles and remixes in 2012, including a collaboration with Melisma label boss and Cadenza contributor Dani Casarano.

Here, in this exclusive interview, Guti chats about his breakthrough 2011 year, his love for pianos, and his relationship with Satoshi Tomiie.

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13 May, 2009 | 2.22AM

Nic Fanciulli: How to run a record label in 2009

Nic Fanciulli sits in a bar named Suite 701 in Montreal on a lazy Sunday. He sips on a beer, and admits he messed up.

“I took my eye off the ball a bit with the label and I’ve held my hands up so many times about it,” he says, hiding his hands under the table. “I got sidetracked with touring, and I got sidetracked with remixes and lots of other stuff that I wasn’t used to at the time...I was signing records by mistake, I was signing the wrong records, I was signing records and not putting them out for a year...there were so many faults that I did and I’ve learnt from the mistakes.”

That slippery period was two years ago. Since then, Nic Fanciulli’s Saved Records has become one of the most consistent labels hailing from the UK with a wealth of excellent house and techno artists releasing music through the label. Saved has become so successful that London’s newest superclub Matter offered Nic Fanciulli a bi-monthly residency.

Here in a lengthy audio interview, Nic Fanciulli talks about how to run a dance music record label in 2009, and how he saved Saved Records. Our chat discusses everything from online promotion, the A&R process, building a family of artists, digital versus physical, piracy, and brand identity.

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12 May, 2009 | 8.20AM

Nic Fanciulli brings a Montreal warehouse to life

A solitary male, all in black, stands outside 13 King Street in Montreal on a Saturday night. Rain patters quietly onto the concrete sidewalk, forming pools illuminated by dark yellow street lights. Opposite an old factory mourns. The road is dead.

A car approaches, drives past the man and stops. Inside, two girls squint through a dripping car window, smile at each other and pull up to the sidewalk. The car’s headlights disappear, and the girls climb out.

Their stiletto heels scrape on the ground as they head towards the man. They whisper something to him in French, and he swings open a heavy metal door behind him.

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9 May, 2009 | 8.34PM

Nic Fanciulli takes on Toronto

Nic Fanciulli [a] opens the heavy dark wood door of room 1511 in Toronto’s Pantages hotel. “Ugh, you woke me up,” he grunts, stroking his stomach.

It’s 12.59am. Nic’s DJ set starts in one minute and he’s still in his white boxer shorts. Luckily, Nic’s touring partner KOS is already at the venue This Is London, holding the fortified booth.

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9 May, 2009 | 1.32PM

Audio interview: Nic Fanciulli’s Global Underground ‘DJ 001’ mix CD

Nic Fanciulli [a] sits in a busy diner in the centre of Toronto, Canada, on a gloomy, rainy Saturday morning.

His eyes are lazy, as he sips on a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice surveying the cheese omelette in front of him. He pours a small puddle of maple syrup onto his plate. “Note to self. Maple syrup goes well with everything,” he says with a smile.

Last night was the second successful stop in a whirlwind North American tour that will see the British DJ doing 21 gigs in 32 days.

In this audio interview conducted this morning at Fran’s diner on 113 Bond Street, Toronto, the British DJ explains what it felt like to put together a mix for the world-renowned dance compilation label Global Underground and how he put the ‘DJ 001’ mix together in his studio. He also speaks about the impressive, wide-ranging tracklist for the compilation that is already garnering praise from critics and fans alike.

“I spent six months doing preparation, working on records for the album, and then three days before I changed it all again as you normally do with compilations,” he says.

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8 May, 2009 | 1.34PM

The first night of Nic Fanciulli’s tour: Chicago

Nic Fanciulli puffs on a cigarette at 646 N. Franklin Street in Chicago. A train rackets overhead, clanging on rusty steel girders that scream renovate me. A man in a wheelchair with no feet asks for change. The only thing that shines is the moon and a flashing yellow light.

Fanciulli exhales and drops his cigarette, staring at some imaginary point down the street like a captain anticipating stormy weather starboard. It’s the first night of Nic Fanciulli’s Global Underground North American tour and by God, it better go well.

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7 May, 2009 | 7.48PM

Nic Fanciulli’s Traktor tips

Nic Fanciulli’s laptop will be by his side for the next 32 days whilst he tours North America.

He’s a fully converted digital DJ and uses Native Instruments’ digital DJ software Traktor for all of his gigs.

But what is it about Traktor that Nic loves so much? How does he use it to improve his DJ sets? What is Nic’s Traktor set up like?

I conducted an audio interview with Nic to find out.

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7 May, 2009 | 8.21AM

Who is Nic Fanciulli in 2009?

The superstar DJ is dead. The superclub is defunct. The beat is still going.

Nic Fanciulli [a] lives in a post-superstar DJ world. He is part of a new generation of dance music jocks who have far more talent than they do luck.

Fanciulli represents the second wave of globetrotting DJs who unlike their predecessors, work hard, get paid modestly, and do almost everything themselves. They’ve learnt from the mistakes of those who’ve spun before them.

There is no sense of entitlement, there is no rampaging ego, there is only love and gratitude.

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4 May, 2009 | 1.02PM

Top 10 DJ Chart

KOS [Various artists]

When I join Nic Fanciulli on tour on Thursday, I’ll also get the chance to hang out with KOS who is one of the most promising new DJ talents from the UK.

With both Nic and James Zabiela heavily supporting the London-based producer and DJ, and KOS [a] on the books of the influential DJ agencies Bullitt bookings and Club Class, there are plenty of people tipping him for greater things.

KOS put together this Global Underground pre-tour Top 10 DJ chart for us, which showcases the deep techno and house sound that has become synonymous with his popular Familia club nights in Britain. It also gives some clue as to what to expect from him during the tour.

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3 May, 2009 | 3.08AM

Beatportal to join Nic Fanciulli on tour

This week I’ll be joining Grammy nominated DJ and producer Nic Fanciulli [a] on the road for the start of his monumental worldwide tour. On Thursday I’ll hook up with Nic in Chicago for a gig at Spy Bar, and then I’ll be superglued to his side till Sunday through Toronto and Montreal.

Nic Fanciulli is undeniably on a roll at the moment thanks to the recent successes of his Saved Records [l] imprint, that has quickly established itself as one of the leading labels in British techno. His eye-opening new mix for Global Underground which was released last week is quickly gaining critical acclaim.

Being asked by leading electronic music proponent Global Underground to launch a brand new compilation series is no mean feat, and Global Underground director Andy Horsfield explained in a statement that the choice of Nic was based solely on merit.

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