LMAO (Leave Me Alone Opp)

MUNCHI - MAMBO DETONAO EP
NYEGE NYEGE TAPES | [NNT040]

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Out now on Nyege Nyege Tapes; I Love Mambo Mixtape + the Mambo Detonao EP!

This one, you guessed it, is all about Dominican Mambo. It is not the one you hear nowadays tho, this focuses on the early version of mid '00. Before the Dembow and DR Rap hypes, this was it and it pretty much redefined Merengue in the process.

From big budget, clean-cut Merengue of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the millennium saw it incorporating simpler midi-based sounds. It then went into looped Merengue samples with x-rated lyrics, until it became Mambo. Now fully produced within a DAW, the lyrics were either hilarious or way over the top (similar to Baile Funk).

Armed with an FL Studio crack, stock sounds, and malware-ridden Reggeton librerias, you were good to go. Yes, you probably had to reinstall Windows XP again, but who cares.

Completely out of tune, with most tracks sounding like it only had Sausage Fattener on the master, they seemed like fast sketches to later be fixed with a live band if it took off. This new entry-level meant that pretty much everyone with a DAW had a shot to make a hit.

Established Merengue artists looked at it in disregard, where it downgraded Merengue in their eyes, but it didn’t take long before they hopped on the bandwagon. As soon as it came into fashion it already went away, unfortunately, but in those short years that it dominated, it left a pretty big impact on me.

In 2010 I gathered all my favorites for the I Love Mambo mixtape on Dave Quam’s 'It’s After The End Of The World' blog. Fast-forward to a couple of years ago when I met Nihiloxica who linked me with Nyege Nyege and here we are - it is actually out there!

True to form, the songs try to keep the essence of what made me love the genre in the first place. Out-of-tune melodies, raw sounds, and fast Merengue rhythms.

Hope you like it!

I Love Mambo Mixtape + Mambo Detonao EP

Get The Cassette!

Munchi - Luis Esta Seguroski VIP

Sticky Feet (Live At The Gutter) [Bonus Track]

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EYESCREAM - CHOP SOUND: BUBBLING BATTLE PACK VOL. 1
SELEGNA RECORDS | [SEL012]

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This summer, the yearly carnaval in Rotterdam apparently tried to ban an entire genre due to it's "vulgar dance". 

The genre they were talking about is Bubbling.

Initially the sped up Dancehall riddims by DJ Moortje, it inspired a whole generation of Surinamese and Antillean youths in Holland. Later they mixed it with electronic elements, until it became a somewhat uncredited source of inspiration in Dutch electronic music. 

Fortunately there is finally a resurgence in the sound nowadays.

However, the most interesting part of Bubbling remains obscure. This was the soundtrack behind the Bubbling battles in the 90's. Dancers would face off 1-on-1 to these beats. By recontextualizing popular tracks, most got their own custom track for the occassion. 

It's as slowed down as the Chopped and Screwed beats of DJ Screw, while equally having the fast chopped up processing of Jungle and the mashed up flair of Breakcore. 

This hybrid sound which uses the riddims as breaks, is completely unique to Holland. Why is nobody making it?

Eyescream seemed to have that thought as well. After working on the concept for over a year, he presents his vision on Battle Bubbling. Without watering down the sound, he brought it back into 2023.

Involving Drill and Moombahton elements, while casually switching it up into Surinamese rhythms and Amen breaks - it's all in there. On one of the tracks you'll even hear DJ Blass styled Reggeton of the '00.

This is the first installment of the Chop Sound series. We hope you like it!

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Chop Sound

Monster

For Free Cheapskate!

Eyescream - Monster

Matthew Freakbones stars as The Dancer: an ex con and former rockstar in a series of misadventures while traveling across america

The Dancer

Freakbones' dirtiest, grimiest offering so far. Who is this vile creature? It's the Coyote Junkie

Coyote Junkie

1970's San Francisco, rocking the red Stratocaster like John Frusciante

Funky as a Junkie

cold open

Eating fish tacos Baja style, said goodbye on a road with style. Jet Ponies is a somber psychedelic underwater affair. With watery Rhodes keyboard, soulful acoustic guitar and stoned whispery vocals, this song is wild and gritty but there's a melancholy to it. 

Jet Ponies

Jumpmen/The Goat (feat. Merty Shango & the goat)

Breezeless Demo

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Jumpmen/The Goat (feat. Merty Shango & the goat)

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