I’d assume that most of our readers have some very basic understanding of how the music industry works, am I right? At least enough to understand that the usual story goes: Work crazy hard till your hair falls out (ladies included) and maybe then one day you might get somewhere. Well thankfully I’m not actually that bitter, it’s hard get that way when you see  dope artists getting theirs which brings me to the whole point of the post, Scatterblog favorites the Mad Kids.

We first started receiving their tracks through our inbox a while back and since then they’ve continued to step up their game massively with every promo. Now they’ve really making waves, attracting the attention on industry heavyweights such as Mowgli and Sinden so if you’ve been sleeping then it’s really time to get your learn on. They have a new ep out on It_Tizz records titled Trans-Euro Express and it’s a damn fine representation of their sound. We’re not giving you the tracks though, go to the store (buy) and give them a little bit of support. (before you sigh with frustration remember how expensive it was when you had to buy 12’s?). What we can give you here though is something else from their back catalog, a dope little tropical house number named Mumboi. Enjoy that 808 cowbell!

Mad Kids – Mumboi

In case you don’t know already, Scattermusic will be presenting the one and only Douster this Saturday (here) and well, we’re super exited. If I had a coin for every time someone sung praises for Douster on this blog then I’d be a rich MF so I’ll resist going there for now, just know that this party will be off the hook! While we all gear up for this one i’ll be doing a live tropical themed mix on Kiss Fm from 1-2pm tomorrow (Australian eastern standard time). Expect a hefty chunk from Douster’s back cataloge as well as a handful of random, soon to be released tracks from our own Scattermusic label. follow the link below to the station website where you can listen online.

Kiss Fm Melbourne

…and while we’re embracing the spirit of tropical club music lets cop the  coconut tree riddim. I love this stuff.

Coconut Tree – Version (ysi)

I’ve never done this before but hey, 2010 just seems to be kickin’ off in mad fashion so I feel the need. Here is the official Lewis CanCut January chart presented in a top 5, Hi Fidelity style. Maybe the reason I’m so exited is that it’s local tracks that seem to be killin’ it best right now. Makes sense, who better to produce for a Melbourne dance floor besides a Melbourne dj right? Anyway making it brief, the Slap n Dash drum dub of Ja’ Maan! by Edu K is doing wonders for me right now. It’s as if they’ve bottled up a little bit of the insane energy from their show and given it over for others to use. Also, recent Scattermusic addition Swick has created a monster with his remix for the upcoming Dirty Beats release, believe me it’ll be big. Whenever I play it people come to the decks asking “what kind of music is this”.

Anyhow here it is, a January chart in strict order.

1 – Dirty Beats – Alone In The Jungle (Swick remix)

2 – Edu K – Ja, Maan! (Slap n Dash drum dub)

3 – Dj Mouse – Amantes Del La Waracha

4 – Edu K – Jumpin’ n Pumpin (Wildlife remix)

5 – Lewis CanCut – Get Low (Spin Laden remix)

Of course I have to give a little something away so here’s the link for the Dj Mouse track. Take a good listen, this sound will be huge this year.

Dj Mouse – Amantes Del La Waracha (ysi)

Shit Robot is like one of those ever elusive characters in dance music but maybe thats just due to a lack of online content, hard to tell sometimes you know. The history I remember hearing is that Marcus Lambkin (SR) originally worked in punk circles until James Murphy lent him a bunch of old drum machines and let him figure it out. While that’s probably fiction, it would explain the raw dancefloor sound sounds he’s become associated with over the years (rockers make notoriously great dj’s such as Edu-K and Dave Nada). It’d probably be more accurate for me to just say Marcus met James while running club nights in New York and well, the rest is DFA history. ‘Wrong Galaxy‘, his first record going back a few years, blew minds with it’s mix of rough drums and loud arpeggiated synths but it was this remix of Kaos‘s Panopeeps that first put him on my radar (buy). If I had a nightclub based on a disused space station drifting through distant galaxies that’d be my soundtrack. Here’s a little something else he sent through for us to anticipation up his upcoming Scatterfest appearance. It’s his burning remix of ‘No Time’ by Juan Maclean, get it while it’s hot.

Juan Maclean – No Time (Shit Robot remix) (ysi)

Shit Robot and others play at Scatterfest with full Scatterblog support, Saturday 30th of January here in Melbourne at the Esplanade Hotel. Tickets are just 20+bf and are available Espy online, from the Espy Bottle shop, Polyester Records, Missing Link and Northside Records.

Just before the end of the year I put this mix together as a farewell to 2009, before the thing got posted though I ended up disapearing into the tropical depths of Australia’s north-east for a much needed break (This photo is actually taken about 5 minutes away from where I was staying by dj Ms Butt). Anyway though about the mix, I guess it was a summery of the sound I have DJing over the last few months, perhaps with a slight nod of where things might go in 2010. Everyone seems to once again be getting a little too comfortable, maybe meaning the whole scene is going to soon flip again.

Lewis CanCut – Summer Mix 2010.

• 1   -  Basti Crub – El Latino.
• 2   -  Mike Dunn – Magic Feet.
• 3   -  Dj Malvado – Puto Mekie.
• 4   -  Pharoah Zap – Loony Party Wine.
• 5   -  Edu K – Jumpin n Pumpin (Wildlife remix).
• 6   -  Nick & Danny Chatelain – Katrinyla (Buff Buff remix).
• 7   -  Dj Manuel Palafox – Canto Africano.
• 8   -  Dj Mouse – La kuinna.
• 9   -  Eric Rincon – Dime lo qe Bailas (Tribal Monterrey).
• 10 -  Dj Mouse – Cyrus.
• 11 -  Sonora – Del Oro.
• 12 -  Gregor Salto vs Seductive – Underground Mexer.
• 13 -  Bounty Killer – Stand Firm (Mat Cant took the night edit).
• 14 -  Party Squad – Pull Up.
• 15 -  Ronny Santana – En La Nagla (on the ass) feat Jordy.
• 16 -  Dj Znobia – Patchy Luanda.
• 17 -  Mat Cant & Scattermish – Hornbo (Lewis CanCut remix).
• 18 -  Daniel Haaksman – Kid Conga.
• 19 -  Lazy Jay vs Bonde Do Role – Gasoline Tomahawk.

In relation to the space-blog-time continum I came across this record thirty billion years ago (re: about 12 months) but i’m yet to know who the artist even is. It’s been a curiosity thing I guess and the basis for many nerd discussions speculating on possible origins (ps: nerds, Scatterblog has your shit I swear). Listen to it and first thing you’ll say is “well damn, thats a poor mp3″. Maybe so but honestly I ripped this 320 straight from the record. Listen closer and it’s actually like these guys are rapping over a low quality file and then recording into a mini disc or something. Beats me. Anyway isn’t the point of a blog to provide information, not ask for it? What the hell’s happening to the world?

Unknown – Unknown. (ysi).

When I was real young the only music I thought came from the polynesian islands was cheesy old white dudes in flowery shirts playing sentimental trash on a ukulele. That seems so strange now but for reals thats all i’d seen till I was older. I know now that the Pacific is home to some of the most powerful music in the world and if you’ve seen a live log drumming band then I dare you to disagree. Luckily living so geographically close means I have had opportunities to see this stuff live and every time I’m torn between whether to stand there with my jaw dropped or dance frantically, usually ending in a strange mixture of both.

Over time I’v collected some polynesian drum records from markets and second hand stalls for both sampling and listening. There is actually a lot of it around if you know where to look, even some pretty cheesy exotica records can often have a traditional drum track hidden in there somewhere. Anyway posted down below are three of the best I’v come across.

Saloman et on Group avec Kapuhia – Maha U-Paoa of the Pigs (ysi)

Saloman et on Group avec Kapuhia – Manava Nukuhiva (ysi)

The Polynesians – Tanga T aHura Hura (ysi)

Also on a more modern take I highly recommend catching melbourne band Grriilla Step if you ever have the chance. They combine traditional drumming and dance routines with programed beats, crumping and turnable stuff. The support set they did for Buraka Som Sistema’s last visit to Melbourne was off the hook. Below the promo video will give you an insight into the kind of energy unleashed during their show.

This post is well overdue, I’m not even sure why their production hasn’t landed a post at ye ol’ Scatterblog until now. Their previous tack Capoeira No Se got heavy play in my sets for weeks. Time to make amends for all that though as I introduce to you MadKids, the dj/production duo from Montreal. They can do that thing where your production stays relevant to dance music’s fickle trends, yet always retains a unique and consistent character. So on that note, the two pieces they’ve just sent through are packed full of blips, white noise, bugged out percussion and everything else thats slaying dance floors right now. Keep ‘em coming please MadKids.

MadKids – Porcelain Fountains. (ysi) file removed as requested

MadKids – La Danse Des Maladroits. (ysi) file removed as requested

We’ve taken down these files as they have now been picked up for release by Dandy Kid Records. MadKids official Ep out soon. Congrats and best of luck! Label interest can never be far behind with music this dope.

Shout out to previous Scatterblog contributer Paz for putting me onto this stuff, a fellow fiend for all kinds of regional music it would have been understandable for him to keep this one to himself. Mexico has style of hard tribal rave music referred to as Guarachon, kinda like a sped up cumbia I guess. This stuff has been getting a little blog love lately but is surprisingly still pretty hard to track down. I’m yet to even come across a myspace for most of these artists which I’ll admit makes it all the more appealing in an era where the internet makes everything so accessible.

If your like me then you might not listen to many dj mixes, jaded by trillions of playlists containing nothing more than this months biggest clubs hits, sewn together seamlessly  in Ableton. Believe me though when I say this mix by Dj mouse is the shit! It’s possibly the best representation of the Guarachon sound, just listen to balance between banging drums, hype rave riffs and all out cheesy hooks.

Dj Mouse – Especial Session. (ysi)

And because I know you’ll be disappointed If I don’t give up a track for you to file away in your Serato have this banger by Dj Makency & Dj Nectar. Like Mouse, these guys are titans of this sound.

Makency & Dj Nectar – Canto Yemaya. (ysi)

Just one more thing, when looking online for info about Dj Mouse I came across perhaps the worst Dj profile shot in the history of recorded music. Some guy from Portugal with the same name. Does that blue armchair in the background make you wanna party or what.

All I want in a track right now are some clean, sparse drums and a mean swing. Actually you can probably forget about the other instruments altogether, leave the occasional whistle or chant but other than that I don’t need much. With this direction my sets have gone in lately there are several names coming into heavy rotation, not the least of which is Gregor Salto. This guy is a production powerhouse with a hefty amount of work drifting around the nets, just enter his name into the top right of your screen if you don’t know already. What grabbed my attention though was his track ‘Mexer’ and what then made me lose my shit altogether was the Funkin Matt 3am remix. So minimal and wobbly but at the same time it’s just straight up club music.

Gregor Salto – Mexer (Funkin Matt’s 3am remix). ysi

Gregor Salto – Bumba Bounce (edit). ysi

Scatterblog does disco! Normally a hustler of upfront club music I’m gonna change things up for this post with as we bring you a free download of the new ep from the elusive Melbourne boogie-soca-disco-afro-cosmic master, Pharoah Zap. As tropical flavours shape up to be the sound of our Melbourne summer, we’re all been collecting warm beat driven tracks like a bunch of crazies and perhaps neglecting groove based music on the same summer tip. Time though to fix that, pour a little rum and wear your best cane hat a little lower.

The Pharoah had his personal assistant call me from the studio and request a remix which I was happy to supply in return for a small island in the south pacific. Not a bad trade considering all I did was bump the tempo, add some compulsory blips and an occasional elephant. Anyhow, without any further lies I bring you ‘Discreole’.

1 Loony Party Wine (road mix).

2 Gunja Ass

3 Olive Oil

4 Gunja Ass (Lewis CanCut remix)

And I shouldn’t forget to mention the cover art is also produced by Mr Zap.

This one turned up in our blog email box recently and to be honest it was the title alone that prompted me to hit the download link. Alone In The Jungle turned out to be totally off the nose and I immediately went into a frenzy trying to find more online info. All I really found out is that they are a production and DJ duo from Tijuana Mexico, that smash parties with a bazillion dubplates. Anyhow the Dirtybeats have a pretty interesting myspace so excuse my slightly lazy research and check it out.

This is a little edit I put together which has been serving me well in my slower club sets. Recently several batches of second hand Cumbia have come through my local record shop providing a gold mine of samples. Thanks to Ms Butt for putting this one aside for me.

I’v come across soooo much Kuduro music lately that I couldn’t help but put some more up. This stuff is pure fire in the club, just listen to the percussive frenzy that is Tira Makossa. I could spend the next 40 years programming drums before ever getting close to this, ah well.