So we have been planning a Scatter Soundsystem tour of the East Coast for some time now. Its almost here and it will be bigger and better than the performance we put on at Golden Planes Festival earlier this year.  As the tour gets closer we have some warm up rehearsal shows in Melbourne planned with the first being this week. The guys from “Sum Of Us” have asked us to come and headline their first official party at Brown Alley this week. This crew is a joint effort from some of Melbournes biggest and best promoters who are aiming to put on rad parties filled only with local talent. Its looking like a show not to be missed so come get dutty with Melbournes best dance acts.

We are going to be giving away some double passes over the next few days here in lead up to the gig so stay tuned. Ill start it off now by giving one double pass to the first person that can tell me the length of the tune below, which by the way is a d-floor bomb for those into the Scattermusic sound. The new Sandro Silva ep is large and this tune certainly exemplifies the kind of sounds we have been and will continue to push here.

Sandro Silva – Urbanize (Original)

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Something awesome is just around the corner, in case you haven’t heard Malente now has his very own label titled No Brainer Records and the first offering is now ready to drop October 15th. Release number one, the aptly named Oh My God is an absolutely  killer (watch the above preview for proof) collaboration between the man himself and Moston. Stay tuned for more info.

SCM-008 – Hector & Nate – Jomo EP
Out Oct 5th.

Hector & Nate – Jomo
Hector & Nate – Habbekrats
Hector & Nate – Slurp

It’ll be here very soon!!!!!!

Bout time i finished up the post on these dudes. They’re doing some crazy shit lately – actually for a while – but they’ve been much more active on my radar since Nadastrom were here and they played us some rad Starks & Nacey tunes.

If you don’t already know, Steve Starks and Nacey’s background lies in Washington DC. They’re both part of the Nouveau Riche parties (with Gavin Holland) which i’ve only been hearing and reading good things about. They’ve got a bunch of tracks floating around the interwebs, and have had a couple of releases (solo and together) on that bit of hot, T&A Records.

Basically i’m just gonna throw up 6 (yeah i know, it was too hard to narrow em down) of my favourite tracks that they’ve given us.

Nacey – Six Million
This tune is just straight fun, like too much fun! I’m in bed writing this but as i listen i wanna jump up and have a pillow fight with a pack of girls in bonds…

Steve Starks – You Don’t Want None
Ultimate ghetto synth classic in this one. The classic Hip Hop/Dance hybrid that we’re all about at Scattermusic. HYPE.

Armand Van Helden – Witch Doktor (Steve Starks Remix)
A bit bmoreish in sound, but tuff not cheesy. The big bass and horns in this make guaranteed big room hit.

Old Money – Buena Mah Muvu (Starks & Nacey Remix)
Doooope modern club Hip Hop jam here. Great movement and drums, with a smooth arse original vocal.

Radioslave, Dubfire – Grindhouse (Steve Starks Bootleg)
I love how deep the original Dubfire remix is of this, I still play it. But Starks completely flips the song on it’s head. Still big and dirty but with a completely new sound and tune.

Starks & Nacey – Summer Madness
I dig this tune purely for it’s change-up at 2:15 – real summer vibes.

Tips:
Keep an eye out for their ultra remix of Rampage & Nader – track 3 in this mix.
Grab their TRO/Lydia EP and Starks’ Git Em EP (previewed below), all on T&A.
Watch this space for more Starks & Nacey!!!

Steve Starks – Git Em EP by T and A Records

Our neighbours Generation Bass have started up a new label. In the video above is what you can expect from the first release! Keep an ear out…

A free track given to us by Sharkslayer thru Top Billin to wet your appetite for Saturday night…
(From their Swamp Dubs EP)

Sharkslayer – Who Is He

SHARKSLAYER – SWAMP DUBS VOL. 1 by SHARKSLAYER

This weekend The Espy and Scattermusic will be throwing down a super dope party. More specifically, on Saturday 14th we have Sharkslayer (FIN), Mighty Fools (NTL), Beataucue (FRA), Neoteric (CAN) and of course our very own Scattermusic Soundsystem will be tearing up the Gershwin room for a night of futuristic, bass fueled madness. These are acts  that we’ve wanted at our parties for a very long time now so we’re pretty freakin’ pleased to finally bill them (ie we’re all getting ready to go bat shit crazy on the night an slightly embarrass ourselves). I’m still not even sure quite how all this will fit into one night but we’ll find a way.

Tickets will set you back 28+BF (Thats like 7 clams per international act!!!!!!) and are available online through OzTix and Epsy Online. Doors at 9pm.

In the spirt of coming together for the tour, Neoteric, Beataucue and Sharkslayer have put together this collection of brand new tracks. The fact that you’ve already read about 175 words of our site means I wont need to persuade you on this mix, it’s just a straight no brainer.

Neoteric x Beataucue x Sharkslayer – Aus Tour Mix.

Tracklist

Mowgli – Belly Dance (Solo Remix)
LA Riots – Bombah (Mowgli Remix)
Headshotboyz – NIA
The Shoes – Stay the Same (Harvard Bass Remix)
Mom & Dad – Bazic
Foamo – Here Comes
Nujax – Beat Gon Boom
Smalltown Romeo – Love Tempo (Malente Remix)
Gingy & Bordello – Vapourizer (Rynecologist Remix)
Manaré – Voodoo
Flutuance & Dreamtime – Make
Yeah! Woho! – Pushing
Emperatron – King Riddim (Sharkslayer remix)
Dooze Jackers – Euh!
Canblaster – Chicken Run (Rob Threezy remix)
Sam Tiba – Barbie Weed (Subkittenz remix)
Green Velvet – Harmageddon
Nacey – Six Million
La Riots – I Want to
Tony Senghore – Burnin’
Beataucue – Untitled
Noob – Benga
Savage Skulls & Douster – Bad Gal (Crookers rmx)
Laserkraft 3D – Nein Mann
Skrillex – With your Friends

Bonus Round!

Win yourself a double pass to this show by answering one simple music nerd question. In this clip, who’s remix of Manges is Teisto playing? Email your answer to scattermusicpublicity@gmail.com, First correct answer wins (obviously).

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I’m currently touring Europe with the Cumbia Cosmonauts, and Berlin is also on our itinerary (playing at Club Magnet and Cafe Zapata) in September.  But one of the main men in Berlin we are keen to meet is Man Recordings head-honcho Daniel Haaksman - who we are playing with on the Generation Bass stage at the Incubate Festival (Netherlands).  So here goes my interview with Daniel Haaksman, watch out for more exclusive Scatterblog interiews with European producer powerhouses we are meeting on tour…

M > Saca La Mois DJ!!

D > Daniel Haaksman

M: Man Recordings HQ is in Berlin.  Is that just coincidence, or why have you chosen Berlin?

D: I moved to Berlin from Frankfurt in 1997 when I fell in love with a Berlin girl. Even though we split only after one year I decided to stay there as Berlin´s the only big city in Germany which offers a lot of space and cheap rent apt., so for artists of all kinds it´s the perfect place as you can follow your art 24-7 and not do it as a side job.

M: I have to say every remix of yours I’ve heard explodes the dancefloor (and there are many!).  How do you do this? Do you have a formula or secret production technique? We want to know!

D: Well before starting Man Recordings and getting into music production I was DJing for many years. When I make tracks or remixes I make them from a DJ perspectiving aiming to achieve maximum mayhem on the dancefloor.  There´s really not a formula for this, I also try to not stick with one BPM format but rather program all kinds of tempos and grooves for my remixes, all depending how the original track inspires me.

M: How would you describe the musical philosophy behind Man Recordings?

D: It started as the European platform for baile funk, and until today it´s the only label outside of Brasil that has dedicated to this sound. The last five, six releases were opening up to a more musically open reference system, where baile funk is one reference, but also music from Africa and the Carribean is becoming more included with artists such as Ku Bo or Bert On Beats. . But the over all philiosophy would be: Man Recordings releases fresh, exciting, nostalgia-free music from all over the globe.

M: Initially Man Recordings mainly released Baile Funk, what made you start a label so strongly representing Baile Funk?

D: In 2004 I released the compilation “Rio Baile Funk Favela Booty Beats” on my old label Essay Recordigns (which I ran from 1996 to 2004). When I saw how well the compilation was selling and what a global media resonance it created, I decided to start Man Recordings, establishing a multi leveled platform for baile funk in Europe. Still up until today it´s really hard to get hands on really good baile funk tracks, and especially collaborate with Rio funk artists, so Man was conceived as a label which would release the hard to get tracks from original producers such as Sany Pitbull, DJ Sandrinho, DJ Edgar or Amazing Clay, and artists such as Edu K and parallely establish an artist network in which producers from Europe and MCs from Brasil could work together. The Funk Mundial series for example is one of these platforms: I started it in 2006 when noticing that I was missing musical “bridges” in my DJ sets, i.e. tracks that would lead from baile funk to European club music. A lot of baile funk tracks are released in 128kps or 160kps MP3s, so when played on a high-quality European club sound system the tracks would usually sonically fail when mixed with some other electronic dance music tune. So I asked producers like Stereotyp, The Count+SInden and Crookers to make their versions of baile funk and sent them sample-folders of baile funk. On top of that, I sent them baile funk acappellas which I recorded in Rio with various MCs. The series had ten different releases and I´m happy to say that all producers made very individualistic adapations of baile funk – and all tracks worked perfect as “bridges” in clubs and became real anthems, such as “Tamborzuda” by The Count And Sinden or “Para De Graçinha” by Crookers.

M: In the past few years there have been a number of musical styles from Africa and Latin America making an appearance in European/North American/Australian club scene such as Baile Funk, Kuduro, Cumbia etc.  Do you see these as fads or is there an increasingly inclusive musical revolution happening?

D: I think baile funk kicked off this new wave of music which emerges from cities that were formerly considered peripheral, being located in the “3rd world”. And considering the fast paced fashion of dance music, all the styles you mention have become fads. Nevertheless, I think those styles are representing a musical revolution. With the advent of the internet and file sharing, music from these formerly peripheral cities all of a sudden travel at high speed across the globe. Before the internet, it was always labels and media channels that would decide which music from which part of the world the audiences in Europe, Australia, Japan or US could listen too. Now that these barriers are gone, and music from the most obscure cities all of a sudden gets discovered or put into new contexts. But this is not only happening in the rich countries, also in places like Brasil, Colombia or Angola this accelerated speed of travelling music has effects, I mean look at Guarachero in Monterrey, Mexico which is a blend of speeded up Cumbia and European electro. Ten years ago, we wouldve heard of this music on one compilation, now you can watch and hear it unfold in real time as also the kids in Monterrey are blogging, doing mixtapes and sharing music so the whole world can follow it.

M: Any piece of advice to young and aspiring producers who want to hear their music explode in clubs all over the world?

D: First, find your own style, no problem if you try to emulate the styles of your favourite producers first, but then at one point take it from there and create an original sound. Then try to release as much quality tracks, remixes or mashups as possible, add some theme oriented mixtapes, the not-so-good tracks should remain on your hard drive, try to release at least one track every two weeks or at least once a month, no matter if it´s on a blog, label or mixtape. But most of all: Tell a story with what you do.

M: This year is the fifth anniversary for Man Recordings.  Any special parties or releases planned?

D: There´ll be the “Valeu” compilation, released in early September, featuring exclusive tracks and remixes by Crookers, Zombie Disco Squad, Seiji, Schlachthofbronx, Oliver $, Edu K and many others, additionally we are planning a string of Man Recordings parties across Europe from September until November, and then hopefully a Man Rec party in Australia in March 2011.

M: What is the future direction of club music according to Daniel Haaksman?

D: I think a large part of mainstream club music will remain in the disco/house/techno continuum, but on the fringes it will continue to innovate. Watch out for producers from cities you never dreamt of having a club music scene.

Buy Daniel Haaksman’s latest release “Hands Up EP” from Beatport and download his unreleased remix of Classixx below:

Classixx – “I´ll get you” (Daniel Haaksman Remix) by Daniel Haaksman / Man Rec

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The last few weeks have extra been large with festivals, tours and big gigs between the bunch here at scatterblog,  its now at the point where im becoming scared for my health. The parties have all been huge and there is no off-time this week as our fav dj/producer is back in town.

Tomorrow night Late Night Date and Sweat It Out have teamed up to produce a label party crammed with local talent. Filled with the labels signings from Melbourne and Sydney and the king of quirkly left field dance Douster. Im expecting this to be one of the parties of the year and very much looking forward to representing the scatterblog crew by doing a vs set with Mat Cant that will be one full time freak-out show. Dress lightly and don’t forget to bring a towel!

First up im giving away 3 double passes to the first three people who can tell me the first two words spoken in the song attached for download below. Make sure u send your answers to this email: scattermusicteam@gmail.com

Busy Signal x Crookers x Douster / I jus wanna fuck (Douster remix)

Douster has given us some exclusive heat here yet again. This tune rocks the dance hall dance vibe juuuuuuuust right for me. Crazy hook vocals, punchy kicks and a synth hook that rolls so dope. Im tipping this will be dropped by the man himself tomorrow night and i just cant wait to get dutty wit it. No more about the song, just download it and send your answers in if your from Melbourne and wanting to party tomorrow night.