Moombahton (pronounced "Moom-buh-TONE") is a genre of electronic music that combines the sounds of dutch house / electro house and the rhythmic structure and tempo of reggaeton. It was created by American musician Dave Nada at a graduation "skipping party" for his younger cousin in Washington, D.C., in 2009. The specific event that stimulated Nada's development of moombahton was his slowing the Afrojack remix of the Silvio Acomo & Dj Chuckie song "Moombah" to 108 bpm. Because that beat per minute configuration nears that of reggaeton , Nada created the neologism "Moombahton" by combining the title of the track "Moombah" and the "ton" ending of the word "reggaeton" and applied it to his new genre. .
