INTERVIEWSStream the SPIN Essential Compilation 'Moombahton Forever'

Dave Nada, Tittsworth, Munchi, DJ Ayres, and more wind it up

Moombahton, the pitched-down SoundCloud sensation we profiled back in 2011 continues its high-energy, mid-tempo rampage with a fantastic new compilation from moomba breeding ground T&A Records. The comp proves the internet sub-genre has long legs, is growing angrier and more festival-ready by the minute, and is ready to pretty much rule our summers for at least another year.

Says Puja Patel in our SPIN Essential review: "There's plenty of meat for the modern festival-circuit masses. Dillon Francis, the guy partially responsible for the in-your-face Maluca banger "Que Que," turns toward peaceable, sunshine-kissed glory with "Beautician," light waves of psyched-out trance synths washing over a shower of laser-show melodies that bounce around a syncopated bass line, the huge, trance-y builds dissolving into a laid-back groove rather than a wall of wailing synths. Whether such a no-rules, shifting-boundaries style can truly live forever is an open question, but regardless, this stuff has already lasted much longer than anyone expected."

Long live moombahton!

• 04:21PlayNadastrom, Billy the Gent & Long Jawns — Snake Juice
• 04:23PlayAggro Kids (Heartbreak & Rell) — Killa
• 05:18PlayTittsworth — Club 219
• 04:29PlayKingman Fire (Pickster & Melo) — Mami Whine It Up
• 05:31PlaySabo & Teenwolf — Vibracion
• 03:16PlayGTA — Alerta
• 04:56PlayCraze — How Y'all Feel
• 04:00PlaySazon Booya & Aglory — La Jungla
• 04:57PlayBro Safari & UFO! — Savage Beauty
• 05:32PlayValentino Khan & ETC!ETC! — Eat It (Original Mix)
• 04:04PlayDillon Francis — Beautician 2.0
• 03:33PlayMunchi — La Brasilena Ta Montao feat. Angel Doze
• 03:59PlayLeDoom — Deth
• 03:37PlayTorro Torro — Gotta Know
• 03:08PlayJay Fay — Dibby Dibby
• 04:24PlayNick Thayer & DJ Yoda — Da Wheel Klamp
• 05:10PlayDJ Ayres — Sueños