MUNCHI

Moombahton, tropical bass

Label : T&A, Mad Decent

Country: Dominican Republic, The Netherlands

This Dominican producer from Rotterdam is one of the most promising and innovative producers to date in this new genre – Moombahton.

Rajiv Munch, famous worldwide as “Munchi”, has very quickly become a big player in the worldwide club scene, pioneering Moombahton as well morphing new forms of Juke, Bubbling, Cumbia, Kuduro, Breakcore, Bmore and more. Having already toured the US playing with Dave Nada, DJ Sabo, Diplo and the Mad Decent team, dropped a couple of tracks on MIA’s notorious Vicki Leekx mixtape and hit summer festivals (main stages at Sonar, Roskilde, Fusion, Sfinks) in Europe this year he’s been getting bigger with every move.

One should not mention Munchi at this point without mentioning “Moombahthon” a new genre of music which crosses Reggaeton with slowed down Dutch House. Although DJ Dave Nada is credited with creating the genre, it is Munchi who is the most consistent production whiz affiliated with it.

Dave Nada about Munchi “I’d say the best one in the game right now is Munchi from Rotterdam. He’s the new kid on the block. He’s 21 years old and has been producing Reggaeton and Club music for a good while, and he stumbled upon my Moombahton EP and became reinspired to create some new shit ha. He’s an incredible producer, he just kinda legitimize the sound and push it in an exciting new direction. ”

Festivals: WOMEX (Denmark), Sonar (Spain), Roskilde (Denmark), Fusion (Germany), Sfinks (Belgium), Ethnomechanica (Russia)

LINKS

http://soundcloud.com/munchi_productions
http://munchiproductions.blogspot.com

PRESS

…..he’s got mad skillz, has Munchi, with the intricacy of Skrillex, the sonic heft of Diplo and the flexibility of a Pharrell. The Guardian

Hij werkt met toonaangevende muzikanten als Diplo en M.I.A., en staat wereldwijd op grote festivals. Hoe de 21-jarige Rotterdamse producer en dj Munchi boegbeeld werd van de internationaal opkomende dance-stroming moombahton. SAUL VAN STAPELENRC Dutch newspaper

In the spring of 2010, an unknown kid from the Netherlands named Munchi sent Dave Nada a handful of Moombahton tracks, which he passed around to his friends. Since then, Munchi has gone from being a few DJs’ best kept secret to a highly sought-after producer. He’s been cranking out monthly promo EPs all year, and when Tittsworth and I reached out to him about doing an EP on T&A, he sent us everything from Baltimore Club, Kuduro, Baile Funk and Cumbia to House, Breakcore and deep Dubstep. But genre labels do Munchi a disservice, as every track combines elements from different styles and influences. A Dominican kid living in Rotterdam, he has been making reggaeton with Dutch influences since way before Dave coined Moombahton, and all sorts of weird shit before “Tropical” became a blanket term for the global bass movement. Simply put, he’s our favorite new producer and his tracks are fucking insane. Best Of Munchi Mix maddecent.com

Swaggering dancefloor wickedness from Rotterdam’s Munchi for Tittsworth’s T&A imprint. Some real heavyweight tracks in here, fusing all manner of club sounds from Bubblin’ to R&B, Kuduro and B-More in one deadly dope sound. The original ‘Shottas’ works on an enhanced Bashment House wine with acute injection of Bubblin’ syncopation, beefed up in the Club edit, while ‘Tomma Essa Porra’ hits up a spiky Reggaeton/Kuduro sound with pointillist snares and chest caving kicks. ‘Murda Sound’ meanwhile goes on a heavy fusion of B-More, Electro House synths and rinsing chops. On a slower tip, ‘Hope’ sounds like a Joy Orbison track played at 33 instead of 45 and the excellent ‘Madre, No Llores’ drifts into R&B hyperspace tracked by cold radar bleeps and Burial-esque vocals. Killer. Murda Sound Boomkat.com

When Dave Nada slowed down some Dutch house tracks to reggaeton speed and stumbled across a new sound that he eventually called moombahton, he had no idea that half a world away, a 21-year-old Dominican producer living in Holland would be inspired to take the sound to the next level. Munchi was already a music freak who’d spent years obsessing over reggaeton, not to mention bachata, Baltimore club, kuduro, baile funk, bubbling, breakcore, dubstep, and a litany of other sounds, but his Moombahton Promo EP and the seemingly endless stream of releases and tracks that has followed, most notably his bonkers remix of Datsik’s “Firepower,” all of which are available as free downloads, has offered some of the nascent genre’s first truly original work. xlr8r.com

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