Here´s the 1st remix I did for Gotan Project, this one for “Arrabal” with my brother Felix in 2006. DJ Sabo recently named our Gotan remix as one of his main inspirations in creating Bersa Discos #6, which later was a major influence for Dave Nada, the inventor of Moombathon: Sabo: “This is a tune by Gotan Project remixed by Haaksman and Haaksman in 2006 that I used to play a lot. It was on a 10 inch vinyl and the flip side had a sick Edu K remix too. Its not as electronic as today’s sound, but the idea of fusing dem bow rhythms with music that is NOT reggaeton, to me that is the principal idea of Moombahton. Listen to the break down at 3:30, this tune defintely inspired me to make Bersa # 6, so maybe this was Moombahton before Moombahton too??”

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If only The Smiths would be that cool!

Gee, this was a tough one! We received almost thirty remixes for our “Din Daa Daa” remix contest, and we got quite a few big remixes in our Dropbox. Naturally, about one forth of the contributions were Moombathon remixes, but then we also received a lot of housey reworks and a few pretty crazy ones. All in all it was great to get this great feedback, a big thank you to all remix contributors: Fed-Ant, O.live.R, HVK Remix, Hüpersonique, Laundrymix, Shantaram, DJ Smooch!, Gimmix, Sven S, Rootkitt, Nagumo, Ducks On Repeat, K.T.I.T., DJ Avatar, Hac Mac, Playground Bounce, Vidám, EJ Flores, Frederic De Varvalho, Hung Like A Horse, Chong X, Hush Hush Pony, Veit B , Keos Peet, Teazz, LA Yute and Technobears.

Some remixers immediately published their remixes which kind of spoilt the nomination procedure, nevertheless, after listening to the remix contributions all weekend, it was eventually clear who were the stand out remixers:

Our #1 is by Boogaloo

Our #2 is by Chong X

Our #3 is by Teenage Mutants

Boogaloo´s remix will be officially released on the “Rambazamba Remixed” compilation, out April 6th on Man Recordings!