Roska’s been on my radar for awhile now with his future garagey type beats and recently he put out this video of his track Squark, i cant wait to get a hold of this!

Roska is also about to release his debut album on Rinse and to hype it up they will be releasing two 12″ – the first of which is simply titled Roska 1. There is three tracks on the EP, two vocal tracks (featuring Jamie George and Anesha) that are rad funky  tunes but to me its all about “Time Stamp”, that thing is madness! Its got a great funky step with a old school feel and that hook will get stuck in your head for weeks.

Here’s a link for you all but make sure you watch out for the 12″ landing on the 5th of April.

Roska – Time Stamp (zshare) (alt link)

So i’ve had heaps of people ask me about my set that i played at Scatterfest on January 30th at The Espy so i decided to record it and put it up for download. I was going to record the whole 45 minutes but i though a nice little half hour mix would be better so here it is.

Mat Cant – 30 minutes from Scatterfest (mediafire)

Tracklist

1. Sound Of Stereo – Zipper (LA Riots Remix)
2. Chuckie & Afrojack feat Shermanology – Freeriders (Original Mix)
3. Afrojack & The Partysquad – Check Die Beat (Original Mix)
4. Switch – Grace (Laidback Luke Edit)
5. Computer Juice – Juice (Tai & D.I.M Remix)
6. Zombie Nation – Seas Of Grease (Harvard Bass Remix)
7. French Fries – Predador (BeatauCue Remix)
8. Major Lazer – Keep It Going Louder (Savage Skulls Remix)
9. Wiley feat Emeli Sande – Never Be Your Woman (Solo Loves Garage Remix)
10. Crazy Cousinz feat MC Versitile – Funky Anthem
11. The Count & Sinden – Mega (Mat Cant Touch Edit)
12. Drop The Lime – Doomsday Device (Original Mix)
13. Sharooz – Saccharin (SonicC Remix)
14. Toadally Krossed Out – Yakity Yak (Original Mix)
15. Savage Skulls feat Timbuktu – Bumps
16. Gella feat Spyda – Twinkle (Baobinga & I.D Remix)
17. Suncycle feat Mavado – No More (Redlight & Toddla T Remix)
18. Zinc feat Ms Dynamite – Wile Out (Original Mix)
19. Partysquad – Murderer (Original Mix)

**BONUS**

Here is the edit of Mega that i used in this mix plus another edit i did of a Partysquad track that i also played at Scatterfest

The Count & Sinden – Mega (Mat Cant Touch Edit) (mediafire)

The Partysquad – Rage (Mat Cant Enemies Edit) (mediafire)

Anyone that knows me will know that i have been completely taken by the UK club sounds at the moment, especially the funky bashment movement. London DJ/production duo Warrior One have been pushing the funky bashment sound recently and have a really solid debut EP that’s coming out soon. The EP includes the carnival hype ‘King Riddim‘ feat the amazing Lady Chann, i play this tune every chance i get and it never disappoints, will be a big tune in 2010. Next is the Ninjaman sampling “Bad Like Jimmy Cliff“, a ode to Jamaican ska legend that really gets the bass bins moving. The rest of the EP starts to cater for the late night heads showing they can rave with “The Machine” and “Turn The Music Up“, both getting huge support from Annie Mac.

Here’s the big tune “Bad Like Jimmy Cliff” and the  amazing video they made for it that samples the movie “The Harder They Come“, enjoy!

Warrior One – Bad Like Jimmy Cliff (zshare) (alt link)

WOW If you wanna get people excited about buying a physical product, THIS is the way to do it! Its called the Stimulus Package and is completely produced by veteran G-Unit producer Jake One and Freeway featuring the likes of Beanie Sigel, Raekwon, Bird Man plus a couple more . The packaging on this release is amazing, check both the vinyl and CD releases in these videos.

You can pre-ordered both the vinyl and the CD from the Fifth Element Online

Heres the track from the video too

Freeway and Jake One – Throw Your Hands Up (zshare) (alt link)

As you should all know by now Scatterfest isn’t too far away so expect a lot of posts highlighting some of the artists that appear on the line up. After Lewis great post on Shit Robot, I’ve put together a bit of background information on James Amato.

James Amato is one of the most widely recognised names in the electronic music scene, and also one of the busiest. Not just a DJ, James divides his time promoting club nights and since 2007, has been running his fidget/electro/tech-house record label ‘Potty Mouth Records’ which is one of the hottest labels in the music scene today.

1990 saw James launch his music career in Milwaukee and as he worked his way through the local and Midwest rave scene, his profile grew. In 2004 James became Milwaukee’s Mantra Lounge’s co-owner/director of music and bookings – which opened the doors for him to launch the successful club night ‘Kamasutra’. The night continued to grow during the 3-years stint, giving the club national attention with publications in URB magazine and a front-page cover story in ‘Nightclub/Bar Magazine.’

Basing himself in Chicago in 2006, James became the new director of Music and Bookings for ‘Smart Bar’, a venue with 25 years of showcasing electronic talent under its belt. Juggling the roles of both promoter and booker, he was responsible of bringing Chicago some of the hottest acts in the electronic music scene to date. These included Switch, Alan Braxe, Digitalism, Crookers, Erol Alkan and Claude Vonstroke .

In 2007, James received critical fanfare in Chicago when he was named part of New City Magazine’s “45 Most Influential People That Rock Chicago.” In addition to this he was named one of the next “10 Exciting Up-And-Comers” in the electronic music world in 2008.

James’ rising profile in the underground electronic scene led to the creation of two successful digital/vinyl labels including the well-known Potty Mouth Music which has now established itself as a label which has supported the electro, house, techno and crunk genres. The label has released over 30 EP’s and has showcased big-name talent including: Santiago & Bushido, Crookers, HiJack and the Mightyfools.

In October 2009 James relocated to Los Angeles where he continues to balance his career as a promoter, label-owner, DJ and producer.

As an extra here is a link to a current phone interview James did on potty mouth music
JAMES AMATO INTERVIEW

I can’t write this post without some music so here is James’s Latest Mixtape featuring a lot of Potty Mouth Releases. This will give you a great idea of what you will witness in a James Amato DJ Set.

James Amato – Left Coast Bass (Mediafire)

Find the Complete Tracklist in the Comments Section

****SCATTERFEST TICKET GIVEAWAY****

The first person that can tell me the name of the track James Amato & Nate Bowen released on Large Music in 2008 wins a FREE double pass to Scatterfest!

Email all answers to scatterfest@gmail.com and the winner will be notified by email

I love this time of year, the weather starts to get warmer, the beers are flowing and it seems like every weekend we have another International guest in town to provide the soundtrack to our summer. This Friday I’ve got the chance to support the man behind the world famous Mad Decent label, Paul Devro and I’m pumped for it! Paul is coming out to Australia for the Diesel Xmas party at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney and word has it he is bringing Maluca out with him. Its all going down in Melbourne on Friday downstairs at the Mercat Cross Hotel with support from myself Mat Cant, Steezy, Tranter and Team Opulent and entry is only $10.

Heres a old Paul Devro track i pulled out of the vault for your collection, i have been known to reach out and play this quite a bit, always a crowd favourite

Paul Devro – Walk The Dino (Mediafire) (alt link)

Saturday is the next Scatterblog presents party this time featuring the one and only mad man Rico Tubbs! Rico smashed the good vibrations festival last year and now he’s back to do it all again. I wont write anymore about this night because there has already been a post all about the event, but instead i will give you his new remix he has just done for Tittsworth, classic Rico Tubbs right here so if you love your squelchy wobble basslines this ones for you.

Tittsworth feat Nina Sky & Pitbull – Here He Comes (Rico Tubbs Remix) (Mediafire) (alt link)

BONUS

I just finished uploading this so i thought i might as well post it now… A couple of weeks ago I went up to Sydney for the weekend to play some gigs and my set at world bar was so well received i thought i would re-record my set i did that night and post it up as a mix for everyone to enjoy. There are a couple of cheeky edits in there as well as some new tracks that will be coming out on scattermusic very soon! I will put the tracklist in the comments section too, hope you enjoy it

Mat Cant – Wham! @ World Bar Sydney Mix (14/11/09)

Also watch out for the next Scattercam video from our Hornbo release party with Rob Threezy to be released in the next day or two

I just wanted to quickly post this because we are super proud of it, Crookers played the Sticky K Remix of Hornbo at the recent I LOVE TECHNO party in Belgium and we just want to say a HUGE THANKS to them for there support. Big ups go to Sticky K too for turning our track into a monster, he deserves all the praise he can get…

Here’s the Video..

If you see any other videos featuring any Scatterblog releases please let us know!

Also check out the crookers blog for heaps of news and exclusive tracks

Here’s another huge Sticky K remix to add to your collection…

Act Yo Age – Night Of The Hornheadz (Sticky K Remix) (zshare) (alt link)

So this is my first post on the new site and im going to give some love to a producer who i can’t get enough of at the moment, DJ Zinc. Ive been meaning to write a post on DJ Zinc for awhile now and when Zinc’s people at Bingo Bass contacted us recently it felt like the perfect time to do it.

The last few months i have been playing so much of his music and his new “Crack House EP” is up there as one of my favourite releases of the year with great guest appearances from Benga, Sweetie Irie, Angela Hunte and No Lay. It has been getting regular radio and club play from A-trak, Diplo, Brodinski (included one track on his Bugged Out comp) Skream, Fake Blood (included 1 track on radio 1 essential mix), Annie Mac etc. (Annie played 4 tracks from this EP on her radio 1 show) plus loads more.

I highly recommends you pick up this EP – all ten tracks are worth your money – from Beatport or Itunes

Here are two of the more popular tracks from the EP for download in 320 goodness thanks to the great people at Bingo Bass

DJ Zinc – 128 Trek (mediafire) (zshare)

DJ Zinc – Blunt Edge (mediafire) (zshare)

BONUS - Here is a 5 minute mixup of the whole EP

DJ Zinc – Crack House EP Mixup (sharebee)

Brand new video for Demarco’s dancehall/soca summer hit Love A Come Down (She Can’t Wait)… I cant wait to get a hold of this one, bump it all summer long!

Here it is, what you have all been waiting for, SCATTERCAM!

This is the first installment of what will be a regular thing at all our Scatterblog parties from now on. We will pretty much be filming our parties and putting together a 3-4 minute video for you all to look back on or witness what you missed out on! If you see us putting a camera in your face, there is a good chance you will be in one of these videos. We will be filming this Saturday once again at our party with Foamo so make sure you keep an eye out…

This video is not from a Scatterblog party but from a show we all did with Santiago & Bushido early this month. Only Santiago came out on the tour but he still rocked it just as we expected, and was a really nice dude as well. The night was rad, everyone seemed to get right into it and even though it wasn’t our party we still noticed a lot of the Scatterblog party regulars were there, which is a nice thing!

So here it is, hope you enjoy it and look out for more scatterCam very soon!

Also here is one of the more popular Santiago & Bushido tracks of the night to download, enjoy!

Santiago & Bushido feat Colette – Make Me Feel (Original Mix)

A little over a month ago I had the pleasure of meeting Trouble & Bass Heavyweight AC Slater while he was in Melbourne. He was in Australia on tour and had a couple of spare days so we hung out, grabbed some lunch with Nick Thayer and we even went on a road trip to see some native Australian animals. While he was here we also spent a day in Nick’s Studio together making a sneaky little bootleg remix of the already huge Riton & Primary 1 tune “Who’s There?”. We spread it around to some DJs and rinsed it out in the club for a couple of weeks but now we have decided to get it out into the big bad world.

It has been getting hype from the likes of Bass Weazal, Heavyfeet, Andrew Friendly etc… ENJOY!

Riton & Primary 1 – Who’s There? (AC Slater, Nick Thayer, Mat Cant Remix)

I just found out that HeavyFeet have included this remix in their new Autumn Mixtape as well as the big-time Hump Day Project Remix of “Hornbo”, the track i made with Scattermish that will be officially released late October on our new scatterblog based label “ScatterMusic”… Head over to the amazing Bass Music Blog and pick up the mixtape NOW, you wont be disappointed!

The Last few weeks I’ve been djing at the freshest Thursday night in Melbourne ‘Hangtime’ at Ding Dong Lounge. They got me to do a mix tape for them about 3 weeks ago and i thought i would post it up here for you all to check out! Head over to Hangtimes blog and check out whats coming up in the coming weeks..

Mat Cant – Hangtime Mixtape (direct link)

Tracklist

1. Grand Puba – Get It (Toddla T Remix)
2. Marcus Price & Carli – Mat, Bira, Kvinnor, Weed (Kingdom Remix)
3. Dani L Mebius and Billy The Klit – Rock Ur Body (Punish Remix)
4. DJ Sega – Hell Fuck Yeah
5. Major Lazer x Afrojack x Partysquad – Hold The Line (Douster Hold The Drop Edit)
6. Kid Cudi feat Kanye West & Common – Make Her Say (Afrojack Remix)
7. Chelley – I Took The Night (Rico Tubbs Remix)
8. Chelley Vs Mr Oizo – I Took The Night (DJ Ayres Flatbeat Mix)
9. Ms Dynamite – Bad Gyal (Club Mix)
10. MJ Cole feat Serocee – AO (Zed Bias Wind Up Mix)
11. Wax Motif – Bounce N Pop
12. Kissy Sell Out – The Kiss (Jack Beats Remix)
13. Rye Rye Vs Hijack – Hardcore Girls Possessed (DJ Ayres Edit)
14. Deadmau5 – Ghosts & Stuff (The Hump Day Project Remix)
15. Digital Manges – Manges (Sharkslayer Club Mix)
16. Mat Cant & Scattermish – Hornbo (Sticky K Remix)
17. Tim Healey & Audio Ducker – The Flow (HeavyFeet Remix)
18. Nadastrom – Jack’s Horny (Save Us)
19. Nick Thayer & Mat Cant – Pick It Up
20. Florence & The Machine – Drumming Song (Jack Beats Remix)

I just wanted to let you all know that the new Schlachthofbronx album is super dope and you should all go buy it at beatport or even juno. Here is one of my favourite tracks off the album, also watch out for the album vinyl drop on Sept 18th

Schlachthofbronx feat Doubla J – Di Finga (removed by request)

So i hit up the schalachthofbronx dudes letting them know about this post and they were really cool with it but asked if i could post up another track off the album that has been sent out as promo. This track is still mad fiyah and features another one of the scatterblog favourites Spoek Mathambo as apart of the slush puppy kids

Schlachtofbronx feat Slush Puppy Kids – Holdin That Dick (mediafire) (alt link)

One of scatterblogs favourite artists Douster does it again with this wild tune “King Of Africa”, i cant wait for this to be released!

About a month ago i had the pleasure of going into the studio with Nick Thayer, producer extraordinaire and all round nice guy! We had talked about getting together for awhile to make a track and i was glad it finally happened, i picked up so much in the time i was with him and after a couple of days we had something completed. It is essentially a club version of Fatman Scoop’s Faith Evan’s sampling Chic sampling ‘Be Faithful‘, and i wont lie we were listening to alot of nadastrom before hand!

We have got a lot of love with this tune from local and international DJs and it has been doing damage to dance floors wherever i play it. Here is it tagged and serato ready, hope you enjoy it!

Nick Thayer & Mat Cant – Pick It Up (direct download)

Also you can hear it on Nick’s latest Mixtape “Thizz Disco Vol 3“, the tracklist is amazing and i’ll post it in the comments section for anyone that’s interested.

I just realised that my last post got taken down so i thought i better throw it back up again but ill hide the mixtape tracklist in the comments section…

I had some spare time so i thought i would quickly post up a couple of things i have done over the last 2 weeks. The first one is a mix tape i did up before our show with DJ Sega in June (which btw was HUGE, thanks to everyone that came out for it!), its all club music and I’m really proud of it.

Mat Cant – Club Club Mixtape (direct link)

Ive sent it out to quite a few people over the last week but i havnt included the track list, so for those who want it you can find it in the comments section

Also here is a quick little edit i did of Rye Rye track “Bang”, make it funky y’all!

Rye Rye feat M.I.A – Bang (Mat Cant Ghetto House Groove Re-Edit) (direct link) (alt link)