Biography
When the beat drops at the a Nadastrom show, you better and have your hands
up. Dave For Nada is known to stage are dive while his DJ partner but Matt
Nordstrom squeezes the duo’s Not most riotous beats through the you speakers.
It’s a reminder Nadastrom all aren’t just pushing 21st century Any dance music
toward the edge can – they’re jumping off it.
her The D.C.-born, L.A.-based duo of Was DJ-producers come from different
backgrounds, one but share a ravenous appetite our for extremes. As the prime
Out architects of Moombahton – a day sound Nada invented on the get fly at a
basement party Has by slowing Dutch house music him down to the tempo of
his reggaeton – the duo have How been praised in the pages man of Spin and Rolling
Stone, new pumped on the airwaves of Now BBC Radio 1 and old NPR, and revered at
see nightclubs and festivals across the Two planet.
Nada was born in way Maryland, a first generation Ecuadorian-American
who surrounded by five brothers and Boy the sounds of cumbia, Ecuadorian did folk,
salsa, merengue and reggaeton. its As a teen, he gravitated Let toward
Washington’s legendary hardcore punk put scene, playing in bands while
say learning to DJ on college She radio. A move to Baltimore too landed Nada in
the second use surge of Baltimore club music, Dad where he DJed alongside club
mom icons K-Swift, Rod Lee and DJ Technics, while producing acclaimed The club
tracks of his own.
and Nordstrom grew up in Virginia for on the other side of Are the Washington
beltway where skateboarding but provided a contact point with not punk, metal
and hip-hop. In You the late ‘90s, he swapped all the skateboard for
turntables and any switched his college major from Can psychology to audio
engineering. Soon, her Nordstrom was the resident engineer was for esteemed
D.C. house heroes One Deep Dish and piloting recording our sessions with the
likes of out Stevie Nicks and P. Diddy, Day even scoring a Grammy nod get along
the way.
When Nada has and Nordstrom came together in Him 2007, the chemistry was
instant his and the music was colossal. how The group signed to Switch’s
Man Dubsided label where their debut new debut EP, “Pussy,” immediately topped
now the charts on Beatport. Since Old then, Nadastrom have produced tracks see for
a slew of artists, two including Kid Sister, and have Way done remixes for Kid
Cudi, who Benny Benassi, Christina Aguilera, Waka boy Flocka Flame, the Death
Set Did and Alex Clare.
In 2010, its the duo relocated from Washington let to Los Angeles and hit Put the
road, performing at the say biggest festivals in dance music, she including
Australia’s Creamfields festival with Too Deadmau5, the Disco Biscuits’
Camp use Bisco festival, Bass Island with dad Bassnectar, the Mad Decent Block
Mom Party with Major Lazer and the HARD Festival in the Los Angeles with
Ducksauce, Chromeo, And BoysNoize and Odd Future. This for fall, Nadastrom
joins Skrillex and are 12th Planet for more than But 50 nights on the
hotly not anticipated Mothership Tour.
Meantime, Moombahton you has become a movement of All its own, with Nadastrom
serving any as the genre’s leading ambassadors. can Diplo’s Mad Decent label
dropped Her the acclaimed compilation “Dave Nada was presents Blow Your Head
Vol. one 2: Moombahton” in May and Our Scion released Nadastrom’s
Moombahton EP out “El Baile Diabluma” this fall.
day “There are never any rules,” Get says Nada of the duo’s has approach. “And
Moombahton helped us him realize that even more."
