Some time ago we wrote a post about Scuola Furano, recommending them, mainly because of their original sound. Right, our surprise was when the day after posting that, we found what you see above. At the main index of their web page, where news about the band are announced, there appeared our magazine (together with Neonized, the spanish version of some posts of those which appear here). What a surprise! To appear at Furano’s webpage, a great honour, indeed! So we contacted them to check if they were interested on a little interview. The answer was Yes!, so here is the result that Borut has sent us.
First of all, could you introduce yourselves briefly? Your names, when did you start playing together and stuff…
Borut Viola and Marco Busolini, here we are. We met 10 years ago, we usually had long sundaymorning speeches about music (hip-hop) and things like that, then, in 2000 we started a friendship and decided to make “sumtin”… I bought an Akai S2800, an old-skool sampler, and with a Cubase old-skool version too we started to produce our first traxx. Influences: Crydamoure, Roulè, Daft Punk of course, Compost, Atlantic Jaxx… Riotmaker records, a little but very good independent label, received our first demo and decided to put our tunes in our first album: “Scuola Furano”.
How would you define your music?
Our music? In these years we heard a lot of styles, I discovered Chicago House, Detroit Techno, all House Music history, Northern Soul, Italian Goldies and, for sure, all the new club releases… I think like everyone I don’t like define my style but, I can normally say our music is a tribute to house music, sometimes club addicted, sometimes pop…
Which kind of stuff do you use to make your music and to play live sets?
In studio (my mac @ my room @ my bed @ my legs) I use ReCycle, Reason, Garage band and Logic. We also play real synth like a KORG MS2000, a KORG POLY800, a MICROKORG and a KORG ELECTRIBE (KORG addicted but unfortunately not sponsored). We played live last year, it was a good and funny live set, all the real machines beside my mac with Ableton LIVE and 2 MIC, future fake rappers were playing house music!
What do you think about the new and emerging french electro scene?
Mmmmhh… I think all the french and ” nu-rave” electro scene now is the freshest thing I can play in my set, till 3 months ago. Now I’m in a personal drama, all THAT scene sounds similar, so similar and everybody wants to play with rock drums, distorted basslines and acid sounds. If everybody sample something he don’t choose the sample, he choose the sound, it’s a “punk” way instead a ” groovy” way and I don’t like it so much… Do u remember Le Knight Club or the nu-rave gods, and my personal Gods + Hero, Daft Punk?
What kind of music do you usually listen to?
Usually new releases and oldies, all kind of. Call Classix NOT Bestsellah!
Are you planning to release anything within a short time?
Ok, it’s June 2007… Now or September we’ll release the SSHHHH!! E.P. for Mantra Vibes, then a compilation with old and new SF tunes, remixes and productions… In August we’ll enter in studio for the new album sound… Now you can download our unreleased remixes and production (2005-2007) on www.scuolafurano.com
If you had to mention 5 artists that you consider BASIC, which ones would you say?
By Borut
Daft Punk
Leroy Burgess
Jaques Lu Cont
Lucio Battisti
EPMD
And what about 5 indispensable tracks at the dancefloor?
By Borut
Madonna - Into the Groove
Michael Jackson - P.Y.T.
Daft Punk - Da Funk (Everybody remixed it… and I don’t know why!!!)
Le Knight Club - Holyday on Ice
Loose Joints - Is it all over my face?
Anything else that you would like to say to the readers of this blog?
Hola or Holla… It depends on if you are Spanish or GhettoEnglish…
They have also sent us some tracks, productions and remixes, so you can check how they sound.
Nothing else to say, but a thing to the italians: GRAZIE RAGAZZI!
And thank you all too.
>>> Tracks available at: http://www.scuolafurano.com
>>> Via: http://neonized.blogspot.com
