Hi guys,
Recently a lot of tracks popped and i don’t know if a sub genre is starting.
They are around 110 bpm, the beat is classic 4/4 with claps on 2nd and 4th kick, and it’s filthy, with dubstep-like sounds (i don’t wanna debate about what we nowadays call dubstep etc..)
Exemples i got are :
Porter Robinson - Unison (Knife Party remix)
(this one starts at classic electro house 128bpm but then goes down to 110)
Feed Me - Pink Lady
Is that a recognized sub genre ? Does it have a name or people just classify that as electro house ?
earl panda : thanks, but can we call that moombahton cause it’s not really dutch house slowed down imo, it’s more like dubstep with slow electro house drums.
Moombahton is a genre of electronic dance music that was created by American DJ and producer Dave Nada [1] (aka Dave Villegas) at a high school homecoming “skipping party” for his younger cousin in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2009.[2] The specific event that stimulated Nada’s development of the Moombahton genre was his slowing the Afrojack remix of the Silvio Ecomo & DJ Chuckie song “Moombah” to 108 beats per minute. Because that tempo nears that of the reggaeton, Nada created the neologism “Moombahton” by combining the title of the track “Moombah” and the “ton” ending of the word “reggaeton” and applied it to the genre.
Between fall 2009 and spring 2010, Nada perfected his vision of the new genre in the recording studio utilizing intuitions and insights garnered from the “skipping party” experience to create a five track EP of newly-minted Moombahton tracks that was released in March 2010 with the promotional assistance and support of DJ Ayres and DJ Tittsworth at T & A Records [3]
However, Nada’s “Moombahton” was much more than simply “Dutch House pitched down to 108 BPMs.” The original Moombahton tracks feature not only the standard moombahton 108 BPMs but also 1.) chopped vocals, 2.) layered acapellas, 3.) extended and enhanced build-ups, as well as the introduction of 4.) new drums and percussion elements. These signature characteristics of the genre are known as the “5 elements of classic moombahton.”
Moombahton genre of music has gained most of its popularity beginning summer 2011.
Zaniac, did you listened to the tracks i linked ? I mean, the video you gave is pure crap imo, and taste apart, the only thing it has in common with the tracks i linked is the bpm..
Both Porter Robinson’s and Feed Me’s track have just NO-THING to do with slowed down dutch house/raggaeton..
Never mind, thanks for the info about moombahton, my list of shitty EDM tracks is getting bigger
genres these days, remember when trance was trance and house was house?
now we have like a million different subgenres to the point that its getting pointless to categorize tracks other than by bpm and by how the track “feel” hahaha
Well comming from the land that gave birth to reggaeton, it’s safe to say they are having a sort of revival playing that shit from 1989 “Dembow” or “reggaeton revial”
i don’t have any clue about this genre (or most probably ) but just wanted to chime in to say i really liked that porter robinson mix posted by the OP. the dirty bass wobblyness really makes sense there - rather than just being there in a *step kind of way… cool…
Ok, no offense but that kind of behaviour is really annoying.
“Oh yeah i’m 42 years old, been working in my local club of 35 years, owwwwh yeah good times, old times, you shitty young generation can’t understand house music, it’s a spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing…”
I guess we can’t even imagine how it was, owww theses glorious days of house music. If i want to know if this subgenre has a name, to make looking for the same type of songs easier, can’t I ?
You are an embittered and pretencious guy that thinks he has heard and seen everything about music, and i guess you play on turntables of the swag, because ooowhhh house music is pure, awesome, and way above my shitty-emo-kid-electromoobahtoncoremoronstep.
Hope you got the point and you’re not upset about that, but really, that “I’m a boss” mentality pisses me off.
Unless you strictly follow one genre of music, I don’t understand how you can call yourself a dj of electronic music and not know moombahton at this point. What’s the point of hating on the genre? It gives djs a whole new bpm range to play around with. It has a familiar house type beat, but it’s at a tempo that girls can shake thier ass too (females loooove moombahton btw). Also Dope, the track zaniac posted is the same genre that you posted. How can you insult Zaniac’s musical competence when you know little to nothing about the genre. Que Que was one of the biggest/most popular moombahton tracks this year. Moombahton has many different flavors/sub genres from moombahcore to moombahsoul. Just like HOUSE music has many different styles from tribal to tech to electro.
Edit: Also Quenepas, other than the similar bpm range, that is not moombahton at all…and that stuff is not really getting hot because that was just not a good song period… There is a strong influence/infusion of dancehall/reggaeton/kuduro/bailefunk music happening in electronic music right now though dubbed Global Bass.
The borderline between tech house and techno – where I operate today, techno house? – is so blurry nowadays so it’s kind of pointless to classify some songs. Usually if I hear a more accentuated open hi-hat it’s more tech house than techno. Anyway, the best is make your own definitions of musical styles and apply those when categorizing music. I’ve done that multiple times for Beatport purchased music, for example.
) but just wanted to chime in to say i really liked that porter robinson mix posted by the OP. the dirty bass wobblyness really makes sense there - rather than just being there in a *step kind of way… cool…