In case you haven't noticed, MOOMBAHTON is blowing up! With a recent feature in SPIN Magazine - 'Hot New Sound: Moombahton Goes Boom!' - the genre has gone from Dave Nada's luck party foul to the electronic world's new big thing. Last Thursday I had the pleasure of spending the day at IDentity Festival in Bristow, VA. Seeing Modeselektor, Chuckie, Nervo, Le Castle Vania, Avicii, Rusko, and Kaskade may have been enough for most, but I couldn't stop there. Why? Moombahton Massive VI.
Back for its month residency at U Street Music Hall (my favorite dance venue in the entire District), the Massive brought out all of the stops, with 16 of Moombahton's top producers spinning live to a packed house (so packed, that the walls were beading sweat). Needless to say. the party was off the hook. I got there around 12:30am and was able to see Dave Nada, Sazon Booya, Billy The Gent, Heartbreak, Munchi, and Sabo all take to the decks and spin their biggest tracks, all in less than an hour and a half. In an excellent review by Moombahtonista, MMVI was described as:
...a family reunion as trial by fire. Moombahton's top spinners were at moombahton's top venue, all wanting to exceed the expectations set by the five previous events. They did. New York City duo Sazon Booya hd a dancing masked shaman in the booth grooving to their heavily Latin groove. Munchi, overjoyed to finally be back in the states, was a booth moshing mess of rampant glee, dropping his now legendary moombahcore edit of Datsik dubstep tune "Firepower." In high flying lockstep with the tune's energy, it was the perfect live commercial for the transformational power of the genre. Six foot five inch David Heartbreak looms over his laptop as not so much a DJ but a tropical bass overlord, as when his 80 inch wingspan arms swing wildly and clap, Zeus is throwing down thunderbolts from the heavens, and no matter how hard you move, you have no other option than to be overwhelmed by the power of his productions.
20-year old Miami prodigy DJ JWLS and Richmond's Long Jawns collaborated on the major league Vibrate Chick EP with new father Billy the Gent, and in watchin them, as well as DC's Obeyah and Cam Jus, you understand that this genre as movement has permanence. Listening to the tremendous, genre bending work of established top tier professionals like LA's Sabo, Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom, plus adding in their own unrestrained plethora of influences, we are possibly looking at music as the keystone of a perpetual revolution. Given that the genre has no rules, it can evolve at the speed of life, absorbing international experiences into an extravagant and populist sound.
So yea. That's that. The Moombahton Massives are truly special events to celebrate a genre that you truly need to see to believe. Many are quick to call Moombahton abrasive or irritating. And yea, if you're trying to relax and enjoy some easy-listening tunage, popping in Dillon Francis' remix of Hitz by Chase & Status may not be the right choice. Save that one for the clubs. But Moombahton has become more than just dirty dutch house music slowed to a 108 reggaeton beat. With new Moombahton sub-genres like Moombahsoul popping up daily, there are more than enough "chill" tracks (i.e. Tactic - I Don't Wanna Be Right or Jaime XX - Far Nearer [Nadastrom & Sabo Moombahton Edit]) for the haters.
Do yourself a favor. Listen to Moombahton.
@djbasscamp
Datsik - Firepower (Munchi Moombahcore Rmx) by Munchi Tactic - I Don't Wanna Be Right by Tactic
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