Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Brostep)

[twothirdsmajority]

Moombahton is basically taking any Dutch House, Electro, Brostep, Dubstep or even Future Garage and slow it down to 108BPM and give it airhorns to make it sound like a reggaeton song.

There's even a Guardian article on it, and we all know a scene is legit if the Guardian is there:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicbl ... moombahton

And here's some Moombahton tunes for a listen:

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To be honest, i really enjoy this sound. It brings me back to a time when Reggaeton was actually fresh and wasn't polluted by BS artists like Daddy Yankee and Pitbull. You've even Toddla T and BBC 1Xtra endorsing it, so it's cool.

I even made my own and posted my own Moombahton remix above.

But seriously, it's not really a "new scene". It's basically just slowed down club music for Latinos who prefer it slow ala Dr.Dre

Sadly, this is one of those stupid Latino/Indie scenes that will be polluted by white fratboy douchebags within 6 months. I can see this being played at fraternities filled with collar-popped douchebags and Skrillex started playing Moombahton already, so it's fucked to begin with.

[Molzie]

not for me

[pkay]

this has been around for a bit now (at least in the states).

Nada kills it, ladies love it, not really drawing brostep parallels. I think what a lot of people define as 'brostep' is electro house influence.

[twothirdsmajority]

this has been around for a bit now (at least in the states).

Nada kills it, ladies love it, not really drawing brostep parallels. I think what a lot of people define as 'brostep' is electro house influence.

And the same applies to Moombahton.

[Sharmaji]

Nada kills it, ladies love it, not really drawing brostep parallels

^this

mixes nicely w/ a broad variety of stuff: that Jamie XX Adele remix, andthat recent Cardopusher on Iberian (Dembow Together) is a nice, groovin, heavy 113 bpm stomper...

and TBH i totally love that moombahton rework of "night"

[Rekkon]

i play alot of club nights that are non dubstep/dnb................ it goes off when done proper...i have some proper stuff on my souncloud!! respect to my fellow DC heads!!!

[LA_Boxers]

Was told about this about a year ago by some dude that runs an American blog. Thought it was a bit weak............then boom a year later it hits our shores!

[fractal]

Some of this works really well!

[fractal]

But then again, we Southern boys like to slow shit down

[sinestro]

Dig it. Dillon Francis is on top of this shit, Westside EP on Mad Decent kicks ass.



also Munchi is making some cool beats

edit:

kinda scared to post this here but, i did this mix for a friend a while back to show them what the sound was like, first half or so is mostly Moombahton.
http://www.mixcloud.com/Mierda_Nalga/br ... rbeam-mix/

[twothirdsmajority]

But then again, we Southern boys like to slow shit down

Yeah, it seems that anyone who lives between Atlanta to the nearest Mexican border prefers 'em slow eh?

[fractal]

But then again, we Southern boys like to slow shit down

Yeah, it seems that anyone who lives between Atlanta to the nearest Mexican border prefers 'em slow eh?

yuuuuup! i grew up an hour and a half from screw records.... it's in our blood man

even used to slow jungle down back in the day

[exfox]

i thought "moombahton" sounded quite stupid as a name, then i checked wikipedia and found this

Subgenres
Moombahcore - Boombahchero - Moombahsoul - Moombahcow

this said, i quite like some of the tracks the op posted, though i could not listen too much of it. but some of it is great.

[-[2]DAY_-]

definitely feeling this, thanks OP!
i didn't love much of those tracks but i really feel that riddim

[dj2slo]

But then again, we Southern boys like to slow shit down

it's in our blood man

this is true

[pkay]

But then again, we Southern boys like to slow shit down

Yeah, it seems that anyone who lives between Atlanta to the nearest Mexican border prefers 'em slow eh?

yuuuuup! i grew up an hour and a half from screw records.... it's in our blood man

even used to slow jungle down back in the day

Screw Records? Do you mean SUC?

Are you from Texas?

[-[2]DAY_-]

i poked around on youtube and really enjoyed this

[twothirdsmajority]

I've made a chilled moombahton edit of BRKLN CLLN by Joy Orbison:

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[remedy]

^ that just sounds like they re-recorded this track slowed down...



in fact Moombahton just sounds like slowed down uk funky or is uk funky just sped up reggaeton? (without the latin lyrics)
nothing new really is it? 'new styles' based around remixes always seem to have a short life span...

[twothirdsmajority]

^ that just sounds like they re-recorded this track slowed down...



in fact Moombahton just sounds like slowed down uk funky or is uk funky just sped up reggaeton? (without the latin lyrics)
nothing new really is it? 'new styles' based around remixes always seem to have a short life span...

You're actually correct. Dave Nada slowed down Afrojack's remix of Chuckie's tunes just to appease to a Latino crowd at a birthday party once, and thus Moombahton was born.

if you go to any Latino or Filipino nightclub right now, you'll definitely hear Moombahton or any dance track being slowed down to 108 BPM.