Weekend Music – RUCKUS!

Ladies and gentlemen – meet Moombah.

The quick backstory: This is an entirely new (and entirely exciting) subgenre of dance music. Basically, a DJ in Washington DC (where a bunch of other zany subgenres of music originated) started slowing down his reggaeton tracks from their originally-produced 130~ish BPM to a much slower 110~ish BPM. The results?

Kids went crazy.

guy going crazy

Dramatization

So, producers started taking that same island reggaeton feel and backbeat, creating new tracks with hard electro instrumentation at 110~ish BPM, and playing it in clubs. The results?

Kids went even crazier.

Kid going crazy

Dramatization

Fast-forward 2 years, and meet one of the most talented guys making the kids go crazy – Valentino Khan. Making a name for himself by remixing the entire Watch the Throne album, Valentino looks like he might just complete the Danger Mouse-esque rise to fame. If this first release (which came out on MadDecent 8 months ago and was co-produced by equally talented, but harder to write about Will Bailey) is any indication, this scene is going to make a lot of kids go alot of crazy.

This is madness.

 

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