Wow. This month marked 10 years since I’ve made “Sandungueo”. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤯" title="Exploding head" aria-label="Emoji: Exploding head">
Back then, after looking up some blogs online I found out a month old post about a DJ by the name of Dave Nada that made this EP called Moombahton. A weird name and it was full of edits of Dutch House bangers that were slowed down to 108 BPM. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💿" title="Optical disc" aria-label="Emoji: Optical disc">
People kinda ridiculed it since it was a ridiculous idea to base an entire genre out of slowed down Dutch House tracks, but they were all extremely short sighted to say the least. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙃" title="Upside-down face" aria-label="Emoji: Upside-down face">
Dave’s Moombahton EP came out in 2 March 2010, a month later I saw this post on The Fader. That night on April the 19th, was the same night I made that entire EP. It was just pure inspiration. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Sparkles" aria-label="Emoji: Sparkles">
In my case I had been producing for some years by then, as a hobby that got outta hand. Reggeton is something that sparked something in me and got me to obsessively learn everything about it. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📚" title="Books" aria-label="Emoji: Books">
When I noticed that the main producers were recycling the same tracks 4-5 times, I got disappointed with it and tried to find that something which got me hooked on Reggeton. I found that in Baile Funk, Club Music and Breakcore. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤙🏾" title="Call me hand (medium dark skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Call me hand (medium dark skin tone)">
Combining different production methods with mainly Reggeton, I managed to make a shitload of hybrids while trying to find something that came close to what Reggeton gave me then. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏🏾" title="Folded hands (medium dark skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands (medium dark skin tone)">
This is what I realized what Moombahton was. Moombahton in essence a genre that slowed down Dutch House. When it was slowed down it sounded like Reggeton. 2 genres that were linked with eachother in a very subtle way. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👀" title="Eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Eyes">
Dutch House had elements of Bubbling in it, which was a genre originated in the Netherlands by speeding up Raggamuffin and evolved into it’s own genre. Reggeton is something that also evolved out of Raggamuffin into its own thing via Panama and Puerto Rico. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇱" title="Flag of Netherlands" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Netherlands">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇵🇦" title="Flag of Panama" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Panama">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇵🇷" title="Flag of Puerto Rico" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Puerto Rico">
In my mind all the fucking dots connected. Imagine my excitement. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤩" title="Star-struck" aria-label="Emoji: Star-struck">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥰" title="Smiling face with 3 hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with 3 hearts">
“Sandungueo” was the 1st track I made. I approached this being a Reggeton producer who also learned to make Dutch House tracks by then. Using it’s process of building up the track, while adding rhythms of Dominican Mambo and key features of Reggeton of that era.
“Vamo A Darle Slow” was the 2nd track. VIP of “Toma Essa Porra”, later part of my “Murda Sound” EP on T&A Records. I added Breakcore methods and the Playero sounds of oldschool Reggeton, since Dominican Dembow just popped up. This next to the B-more, Dutch House of the original.
“Pepe Volvio” was the 3rd track. Dominican Dembow was in the come up and “Pepe” was probably the track that made it’s popularity a fact. So it only made sense to make a Moombahton remix of it.
“Metele Bellaco” was the 4h track. After doing those tracks I tried to make a Club track, which ended up being this one. Using a B-more pattern, within the Dutch House/Reggeton framework proved to work pretty nicely.
“La Brasilena ta Montao” was the last track. Deep into Baile Funk, I had to try to involve this. Cumbia too. I was exhausted by now, pretty much ignoring any set rules. That& #39;s when I realized that I could put all my influences in this framework and it all would fucking work!
This is what became the blueprint of the Moombahton you know now.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏗️" title="Building construction" aria-label="Emoji: Building construction">
So I made a cheap ass cover with the limited skills that I had and put it out instantly. I went to sleep and when I woke up I appeared to have made the first actual tracks of Moombahton. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤯" title="Exploding head" aria-label="Emoji: Exploding head">
Later that year Dave linked me up, connected me with T&A for my first release and together with Tittsworth invited me to play at the first Moombahton Massive. I think that was what, my 3rd gig ever?https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">
O.G. SQUAD.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💯" title="Hundred points symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Hundred points symbol">
I wasn& #39;t even supposed to play here. Just as an indicator of the peoples Dave is, Nadastrom let me play half of their time. He hyped the crowd the fuck up and I feel that this was the shit that made people realize it was something special. Dave was key in a lot my shit pff https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏🏾" title="Folded hands (medium dark skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands (medium dark skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Red heart" aria-label="Emoji: Red heart">
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