I was in Houston for a couple of days for work. And this Reggaeton stuff is HOT down there. It's all over the place. I heard about 2 hours of it on the radio and liked it a lot. You can see sub-genres forming in it already.
I bought a CD down there to bring back. Anyone know of clubs that play the hot Reggaeton?! I need more of this--I need the latest tunes.
hip hop clubs mix reggae, reggaeton, top 40 and the like into their nights. Just start club hoppin till u find it. You can try Penang in Reston VA, I know the DJ specializes in Reggae and Reggaeton and if ur lucky the managment might let him do his thing (I'd suggest a friday night, i used to work there and the bamma situation there has been put under control a little bit.)
PM this guy---->(Wintermann)<----Maybe just one n on the end of his name.....anyway, he's hot with the Jungle/Reggae/Ragga. :smileyparty:Originally Posted by PYVND
Reggaeton is actually an hispanic offshoot of Reggae, mostly Puerto Rican I think, it's not related to Jungle or anything DnB.
I have a decent amount of Reggaeton tracks but I pretty much never get occaison to play them. Only place I've heard them on the radio around here is 99.1, and I'm sure you're most likely to find Reggaeton in Latin clubs.
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thanks for the enlightenment man. ummmmm......i guess people should just disregard my last post on this thread.:werd:
Reggaeton is horrific... I can't stand that shit... its a bad combination of Salsa, Merengue and Reggae...
"I like to mooooove... When the bassline drops, and the voice is hot, bitch, thats the time i get the itch to get on the floor and move move move until im sore!"
There are people that said similar things when jungle was first being played. I was not one of those people. Reggaeton kicks ass! It's got bass, it's got drums, it's got weird noises. What else do you want?! Besides, anything new is good. If it's crap, it's good because it's new.
Logictheorist, you should make a mix CD with your Reggaeton records. I'd buy it and I'm sure others would too. If only for the novelty of it.
i despise reggaeton, same fuckin beats... different lyrics to each reggaeton song
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Agreed! :blingbling:
It will be over soon! Like all other pop music! Raggaeton> :jeffrey:
Well I don't particularly like Jungle either. But thats besides the point. Reggaeton is mainstream crap. I love new music, I am an extremely open-minded person. But as a lover of both Latin Music and EDM I don't see it fitting into either very well over the longrun... its garbage.
"I like to mooooove... When the bassline drops, and the voice is hot, bitch, thats the time i get the itch to get on the floor and move move move until im sore!"
Yeah i have to hear the stuff all day long at work, because I
work with almost all people of Hispanic/Latin roots. Oi, its like nails
on a chalkboard to me now : /. good at times though. -&rew
ah so you have begun to discuss what my people dance to...yes, yes. Dude, I know so many people back in PR that groove to reggaeton or "perreo" as its called over there, literally translated means "hustling" or some sort, its hard to describe. The music started in the early 1990s with Playero, the stuff was just a reinterpretation of reggae and dance hall...with spanish rhymes. Back in the day you had your big names, Vico C, Wiso G, etc, etc. Just as with hip-hop, reggaeton has become international. You may not think that right now, but trust me...it's been a slow process to arrive in the United States but people in Europe are dancing to the stuff already. The birthplace is mainly the carribean, particularly Puerto Rico. I agree with some of you who have stated that the beats are always repeated. Yo..I dispise that. The reason that is is because reggaeton is known for its drums, just like certain reggae tracks have their 'riddims'. However there are many people who are becoming leaders and influential in the genre, particularly in the live performances (they do all the music live, beats, horns, the whole shabang). I know that LaMega here in NYC (no relation to La Mega in PR) hosted Megaton or something like that, a huge showcase of the biggest names in Reggaeton in MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. This is not a fad, this is a new fusion.
And its going extremely mainstream now thanks to N.O.R.E. and his track with Nina Sky, Daddy Yankee, Tego Calderon, and others...I'm sure you know it already....the chorus goes: "Boricua, Morena, Dominicano, Colombiano...Oye Mi Canto". That track is now the anthem of mainstream reggaeton...it's on MTV!!!!! When I first saw the video my jaw literally dropped...reggaeton is now mainstream, on mainly caucasian pop stations, etc. It's ridiculous...
it also means that spanish culture is integrating more. And if your a hispanic that hates reggaeton...yo wahtever, its not your thing. Im not fond of all reggaeton because the production can be bland and the singers (oh my god...THEY ARE SO FUNNY) yeah... But the best guys in the scene right now are Daddy Yankee who's original and proving himself in different markets in the country, Wisin y Yandel, and some others. Oh and a reggaeton artist just got signed to Rockafella....how big is that shit huh?
oh...yea...Reggaeton drum 'n bass coming your way too ;P
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Yeah , i like it .... i used to listen to it alot in guatemala when i was there ...and have continued to listen to is here .... I know some latins that don't like it and some americans that don't like it , but you know we all have different opinions here and everyone will post them , so i am here to post that reggeaton (sp?) is awesome !!!!!!!!!
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this is fuckin LOCO mang!!!
i lived through the birth and development of reggaeton, it began as lowfi homemade cassette tapes you passed around. back in its early years (90-93) it was the ghettoest, funnest and most frowned upon music, i used to love that shit. it took over 5 years to get commercial puertorican radio play (some reggaeton radio shows here&there), now its all over rican radio and TV (radio stations playin it pretty much 24/7, reggaeton musicvideo channels, all politicians makin reggaeton campaign jingles this past election year) and all over the world.... but now it SUCKS hermaphrodite-donkey-in-heat ASS. the majority of those fuckers cant sing to save their lives but they believe they're opera quality, same fuckin beats, same fuckin degrading ghetto lyrics - the shit eventually got old.
i guess is the same story repeating itself: when underground its hip&cool and goes to crap when it hits the mainstream (sidenote - the genre was originally termed just "Undergroun' ", "Reggaeton" is the commercial post-Y2K name)
want some good new stuff? listen to Tego, the guy is forefront.
classics? listen to dj playero's 'Playero 37' and dj nelson's 'The Noise 2', the most degrading and dirty yet awesome, probably because it was original.
the stuff in the middle is mostly pure reclycled gargabe.
but hey, more power... when i saw daddy yankee being interviewed live on TRL i almost crapped my pants, for several conflicting reasons, that is.
i have to agree with you there ....... alot of it is crap .... when i listened to it a long time ago it was very original ....... now everyone uses the same beats that the more popular ones are using ..... but i still like most of it ........... it makes me want to dance and that's all that matters to me
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