The creator of the Moombahton genre, Baltimore-based DJ Dave Nada came up with the hypnotic, exotic style of house music almost by accident. In 2009 while DJ'ing his cousin’s “skipping party” -- a noontime party where kids skip school to attend -- he chilled the crowd by pitching-down Afrojack's remix of "Moombah" by Silvio Ecomo & Chuckie and mixing it with some pitched-down reggaeton beats. The crowd went wild, so Nada returned to his home studio and recorded a series of edits and remixes in this style, which he dubbed Moombahton. In 2010, T&A released Nada’s Moombahton EP. A year later, Diplo hired Nada to select tracks for the Mad Decent release Blow Your Head, Vol. 2: Dave Nada Presents Moombahton. ~ David Jeffries