Nic Fanciulli is a hard man to pin down. After being bitten by the music bug at the age of 16, Nic has barely stopped to take a breath; moving from local DJ hero in his hometown of Kent, to Ibiza residencies and full-blown world tours. That’s without even mentioning how he found the time establish to his own label Saved Records.

In the time it’s taken to organise our quick chat, Nic has crossed five international borders, and by the time this article will have been written he will have crossed another six. By the time you’ve read this, Nic will have visited four of Earth’s seven continents and played in upwards of twelve cities, spanning ten different countries, before arriving for Australia’s Summadayze tour. A tour he’s been looking forward to because before commencing his most recent Asian tour, Nic admits he spent eight weeks in the studio and is keen to see a dance floor ready for some fresh sounds.

As busy as his tour schedule is, in the past year Nic has managed to compile and release a compilation for the revered Global Underground label, and drop no less than fifteen of his own tunes, while putting his name on many more remixes still. His sound? Ever the humble artist, Nic potters around labels such as house, techno or tech house, but with releases such as his Dusty House Room EP on Joris Voorn’s Rejected Records label pulsing with summer vibes, we can read between the lines.

Its half past eight on a Tuesday morning and Nic is back in dreary England, far from the sun-drenched shores of Bali where he spent the final few days of his Asian tour. Nic epitomises the nice-guy persona as he reassures us we aren’t waking him, even though we kind of the get the feeling that even at this early hour, he’s pressed for time.

At what point did you have to stop spelling your name for people?

[laughs] I’m still doing it now. I don’t get as many flyer mistakes anymore, because we double check them all the time. I’ve had every variation of Fanciulli under the sun. It seems like one of those kind of names.

There’s a phrase that seems to follow you around, that describes you as the “next big thing in house music”, is that’s a lot of pressure to live up to?

You don’t really read into stuff like that, you just sort of take it as a compliment and then move on. There are so many talented people that are doing so well in house music at the moment that you can’t really take all the credit. It’s actually a really good time to be in house music at the moment because a few years ago it was all minimal, but now I think that if you listen to a lot of the DJs around, a lot of them sound a lot more confident in that traditional house sound.

So are you bringing back that ‘traditional’ house sound?

Yeah, but I’m not trying to follow any rules or anything like that. I’m just making music that I’m into playing at the moment. I’ve just done an EP for Rejected and a single for Paul Ritch on his **Quartz label. I also just finished a remix for Josh Wink’s [Ovum] label.

We’ve got you coming in for the Summadayze tour, what can we expect from you?

I think the last time I was in Australia was in January and I’ve been in the studio a lot since then so I’ll be bringing a lot of new music. I’m doing New Years in Sydney and then the rest of the tour around Australia. [It’s a] tour that I’ve been looking forward to for a while actually, because there are a lot of good DJs that I’m really into.. Carl Cox, Eddie Halliwell, Danny Howells, and there is going to be a lot of good music played. I’m going to be bringing a lot of my new sounds to Australia.

Do you think there will be any friendly rivalry between the artists to give a better performance than each other?

I don’t think so. I think the guys that we’re on tour with are a really great group of people. I know all of them pretty well, or most of them. From 2ManyDJs to Cox, they’re really humble and really nice people. I don’t think it’s the DJs that really have the issue; I think it’s normally the agents or managers [laughs].

I saw you copped a bit of flak on Twitter recently, what was the deal?

Yeah, we worked that one out. Stuff like that doesn’t really bother me because I know that you pretty much go to a gig and do your thing and try to acknowledge as many people as possible. [Basically], we spoke and I said to him, what’s the issue? He said I was in New York and that when I was leaving the club, I shot out without saying goodbye to anyone. I told him that I had a flight to catch and that I was really sorry, and he turned around and said thank you for taking to time out to sort of, explain.. I now know why you had to leave really early and I’m looking forward to seeing you soon! So it was the one and only time I think I’ve seen that before and I felt I dealt with it in the right way, but sometimes you’ve just finished a gig and you have a 9am flight, you can’t really hang around.

Catch Nic Fanciulli on his final show this weekend at Summafieldayze at Doug Jennings Park on the Gold Coast, and have a listen to his mix in ITM-FM while you’re at it.