Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Brostep)
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 2:04 am
by 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:
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.
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 2:06 am
by Molzie
not for me
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 2:40 am
by 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.
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 5:17 am
by twothirdsmajority
pkay wrote: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.
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 5:55 am
by Sharmaji
pkay wrote:
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"
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:48 am
by 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!!!
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 7:38 am
by 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!
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 7:54 am
by fractal
Some of this works really well!
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 7:56 am
by fractal
But then again, we Southern boys like to slow shit down
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 11:11 am
by sinestro
Dig it. Dillon Francis is on top of this shit, Westside EP on Mad Decent kicks ass.
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 1:21 am
by 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...
Re: Opinions on Moombahton anyone? (Slowed down House/Broste
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 1:34 am
by twothirdsmajority
remedy wrote:^ 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.