MOOMBAHTON

Dave Nada is one of the nicest, down-to-earth artists that I have had the pleasure of meeting this past year. Dave is so friendly and approachable. Every time I see him perform he is smiling and having a great time. He gets the crowd moving whether its a public block party in Philly, Steve's Bar Room in DC, or a cousin's friend's basement. Dave recently released a little mixtape which is hosted on DJ Ayers website.

Here's the back story

"I probably shouldn't tell this story, but here goes. Lo ciento Tia Sona!...

My little cousin Jean-Pierre is a huge Nadastrom fan and he's about to graduate from high school. Him and his boy Mike are notorious for throwing these wild skipping parties. For those that don't know, "skipping parties" are when you throw a house party mid-school day and you tell all your friends that morning and everyone who knows about the party skips school to go wild out. Word of mouth only too, no internet/paper trail. Anyhow, around their homecoming last fall they asked if I could dj one of their skipping parties and I, being the supportive/bad seed cousin that I am, agreed. They had a beat up system, but like 329439 speakers all over Mike's basement so it sounded huge. They told me it would last about an hour because cops usually bust it up. The house/neighborhood was right by the woods so it was convenient to bounce and hide if need be.

Anyhow, so here we are at Mike's empty house around 11:30am and everything is set up. Kids start pouring in around noon and the music starts. Mike and JP are dropping Batchata and moving into Reggaeton. This shit was getting crazy. 20 minutes in and the place is PACKED, all latin kids. Haha! I was gettin mad nervous (oldest dude there) and JP was like "yo you gotta go on soon primo!" and I'm thinking "fuck I cant play house/techno shit, I'll get jumped" so I had the idea of slowing down some of the tropical/dutch house stuff I had on cds. Afrojack's "Moombah Remix" being the biggest tune, I said fuck it and turned that shit down to 108 bpm. JP told all his people about me so bamas starting cheering when I went on, haha. And that's when shit popped the fuck off. The minute that "t-t-t-t-turn up the bass!" part came in and dropped the place went insane! I played it all the way til the end and then did the same to Sidney Samson's "Riverside" and EVERYONE is yelling the "riverside motherfucker!" part and shit was just too much. I was losin it and told myself "I need to make some edits of this shit!" And thus, Moombahton was born.

Long story short, neighbors complained a good 15 minutes into my set and threatened to call the cops. Half the party started to bounce and then a few minutes later Mike yells "cops on the way!" and like clockwork this party was done. All in about an hour. I parked down the street and drove both my cousin JP and Mike back to school so they can catch the end of their classes as if nothing ever happened."

-Dave Nada

Dave Nada - Moombahton  by  user81796

Also check out Nadastrom's Ya'll Aint Yeti mix here.

Be on the lookout for "Salad Days" a mixtape from Stereo Faith and Nadastrom.