Calling all music producers!  Want to be involved in something huge? Moombahton has become one of the fastest growing and most highly demanded genres within the EDM world, so here’s your chance to really become involved within this music evolution.  Moombahsoul pioneers Sabo & David Heartbreak will be releasing Moombahsoul Remixes: Volume 1 & 2 featuring tracks from themselves as well as other notable Moombahton producers.  And so now, they are looking to help share your work.

This 108 bpm subgenre is covered with R&B samples, soul, and hip hop, with one main objective: to bring EDM and urban crowds together, all on one dance-floor.  Heartbreak has a popular Moombahsoul Vol 1-3 EP series, which features Moombahton ambassadors Nadastrom, Munchi, & Sabo.  Like other remixes, it would have been difficult to clear the samples used amongst it’s release, so Heartbreak put it out for free.  Sabo and Mad Decent asked Heartbreak for a track for their Moombahton Remixes EP and that’s when Sabo introduced him to Legitmix. Legitmix frees remixers from traditional music clearance concerns by enabling them to sell a “Legitmix file.  Legitmix also makes it easier for consumers who don’t own these tracks to purchase them.  This is a way that both remixers and the artist’s sample get credited and paid.  Sabo states, “It’s not just about remixers getting to sell their work or even that the artists we build on get credited and paid.  It’s that everyone wins and sample-based producers don’t have to hide.  The music we’re making is music of the future.  So why not use technology of the future to release our work?”

So, what’s in it for you and your Moombahsoul masterpiece? Not only will Mixmag, Vamos Promo, and Biz 3 publicizes your work, but it will be featured on the Moombahsoul Remixes:Volume 1 & 2 EPs and winners get to keep 70% of the sale of the Legitmix file of their remix.

Here’s how Mixmag.com would like for you to enter:

1. Make a soulful moombahton track sampling any big hip-hop/soul/R&B sample taken from iTunes (no mashups please).

2. Go to www.legitmix.com, click ‘submit your remix’ at the top and follow the step-by-step instructions.

3. Tag your work ‘Moombahsoul Remixes’ and price it at 50 cents.

4. Heartbreak and Sabo will choose from the remixes with the most page views, so make sure to promote your work using the Legitmix social media tools.

5. If you want to submit a track you’ve already made, make sure it’s not available for free download. It’s fine to leave a preview up on Soundcloud to promote your work, but replace the Soundcloud download button with a ‘buy’ button that links to your Legitmix page.

The deadline to enter is November 21st 2012. Usual Mixmag Terms and Conditions apply.

For contest details and how-to screencasts, visit www.legitmix.com/moombahsoul.

Volta Bureau‘s latest collaborative effort with long-time friend Gwenno (of The Pippettes), a remix of of her August release “Ymbelydredd,” adds a signature hypnotic pulse and house beat to the whimsical and emotive indie-pop tune that tells of young summer love, uncertainty and mischief.

Volta Bureau’s effortlessly mesmeric touch makes it easy for listeners to slip away into a daydream of a youthful, carefree affair in Gwenno’s hometown of Cardiff (see lyrics in the original Welsh, and English translation, at the bottom of the post).

“Ymbelydredd (Volta Bureau Remix)” is available for listen and free download below.

Gwenno - Ymbelydredd’ (Volta Bureau Remix)

Release date: September 4th 2012

Lyrics (courtesy of Gwenno’s tumblr) -

Ymbelydredd (Welsh)

Gorwedd yn yr haul, smygu drwy’r prynhawn

Trafod ein breuddwydion, beth yw’r ots am nawr

Does na ddim byd gwell na gwastraffu oriau ym mharc y Castell

A sleifio mewn i’r sinema heb dalu ceiniog a byta hufen iâ

Drwy’r hâf diddwedd dy gariad di yw’r ymbelydredd

Paid a rhoi ofn i fi, ti di tynu fi nôl

Beth sy ‘da ti gynnig nawr ni’n ffrindiau ‘to?

Croesi dros y bont, ffrog o C&A

grwp o ddynion yn gwaeddu “pwy sy’n gwarchod chi heno”

Drwy’r hâf diddwedd dy gariad di yw’r ymbelydredd

Paid a rhoi ofn i fi, ti di tynu fi nôl

Beth sy ‘da ti gynnig nawr ni’n ffrindiau ‘to?

Paid a rhoi ofn i fi, ti di tynu fi nôl

Beth sy ‘da ti gynnig nawr ni’n ffrindiau ‘to?

Radiation (English)

Lying in the sun and smoking through the afternoon

Discussing our dreams, not worrying about the now

There’s nothing better than wasting time in Castle park

And sneaking into the cinema without paying and eating ice cream

Through the endless summer your love radiates

Don’t scare me, you’ve pulled me back

What do you have to offer now that we’re friends again?

Crossing the bridge, dress from C&A

A group of men shout “who’s babysitting you tonight?”

Through the endless summer your love radiates

Don’t scare me, you’ve pulled me back

What do you have to offer now that we’re friends again?

Don’t scare me, you’ve pulled me back

What do you have to offer now that we’re friends again?

Providing us with yet another excellent remix, Darren Williams, aka Star Slinger, takes Jessie Ware’s ballad “Wildest Moments” and turns it into a deep, sexy hip hop influenced track. Named by the Guardian “the best new act of the year by miles” in 2011, Star Slinger continues to produce polished beats using soulful vocal samples and a strong bassline. Influenced by J Dilla, Daft Punk, Armand Van Helden and Pete Heller, this Manchester artist has the ability to transform original tones into a completely different mood. He will be playing this weekend at Lollapalooza in Chicago, sharing the stage with profound artists such as Salva, Skream & Benga, Paper Diamond and Calvin Harris.

Jessie Ware – Wildest Moments (Star Slinger Remix) by Star Slinger

I was sitting in Good Stuff Eatery this afternoon, and all of a sudden “Higher Love” came on. After getting over the embarrassing mistake of thinking it was a Genesis track, I realized that there must be a couple amazing DJ edits out there. If Todd Terje could do it with Paul Simon’s “Diamonds,” who out there had taken a crack at this track?

Dimitri from Paris, of course.

Dimitri cruised through U Street Music Hall just a few short weeks ago and blew the place to the ground with disco that dreams are made of. And this edit is no exception. I should have figured, given his incredible edit of Prince “Wanna Be Your Lover” and his rework of Sister Sledge’s “Thinking of You.” And no, you have to go search those for yourself.

The next time you’re on a rooftop party, just do it.

Paris/Berlin-based production and DJ duo Terranova (Fetisch and &ME) recently released their Question Mark Remixes EP via Kompakt, featuring vocals from Scandanavian underground rock vocalist Tomas Høffding (of WhoMadeWho) and remixes from KiNK and Adam Port.

KinK’s remix evokes a dark, emotive storm with the addition of rain sticks, dark synths and a chalky bassline -

Tomas Høffding’s falsetto drips over Adam Port’s deep, thumping, percussive tribal remix -

Grab Question Mark Remixes over at Beatport.

Hear Kompakt’s best at U Street Music Hall on May 24th when label-head Michael Mayer spins open to close. More information here.