MOOMBAHTON CONTINUES TO SLOW DOWN AND OBLITERATE YOUR LIFE…in other news water is wet…

Moombahton wins and knocks more people on their ass than Felix “Tito” Trinidad

Well, kudos to the rest of the media world for getting up on something we clearly said first. Dave Nada’s chopped and screwed Dutch house and electro alchemy is at this very moment the most accessible sound in the EDM universe. Want proof? Well, here goes the latest on the Moombahton front…

The most popular song of Winter Music Conference in all likelihood that wasn’t Dennis Ferrer’s “Hey Hey”? Sources would say it was likely Afrojack’s remix of Silvio Ecomo and Chuckie’s “Moombah.” You know that bassline when it lopes instead of thumps as the base element of the moombahton sound.

Diplo and Switch as Major Lazer drop Moombahton sounds five minutes into their live set, something half of the TGRIOnline “Hustlers of Culture” witnessed live in Baltimore on Wednesday night. And the crowd went wild.

Dave Nada dropped a FANTASTIC mix that serves as a primer to this warmest and sexiest of sounds for the good folks over at Fools Gold. It’s the first of many winners for the new sub-genre.

Our friend of the site Calgary’s DJ A-Mac has just dropped a remix of Mastiksoul’s “Baila Bonitao.” It may be the first authentically Latin track to get a dose of the potent electro warping, and is another bright and eminently danceable winner.

And the grand champion sound in all of this? The Nadastrom reworking of Steve Starks’ “Lydia.” Having heard Starks’ original track in various states over the last year, to hear a Moombahton edit of it really takes the track to a most amazing place. A Latin electro stomper, if you didn’t know any better, you’d think the track was a precursor to this Moombahton craze. But it isn’t. Nada and Nordstrom take the core elements of this VERY Latin orchestration to their logical ends, ends that didn’t even exist in EDM until, well, three months or so ago. Starks’ track, which I still remember as “Boricua Anthem,” is now a plus sized party giant with arms and legs that is aiming to destroy everything in its path. Starks and Nacey’s EP is solid, but Nadastrom elevates it to being the must cop smash of the moment, just to hear what else the Nouveau Riche homies can bring…