The Genre Clash - Mombahton vs Glitch-Hop

Left: Diplo, Mombahton puveyor. Right: Koan Sound, Glitch Hop providers. You get the impression none of them could care less...

So this is the mid-tempo clash, on the one hand you have the smooth blissed out rythms of Mombahton, on the other the in your face and bassy beats of Glitch-Hop. As ever, we'll be looking at the 3 main factors: general style, best artists and popularity before the verdict. (And of course sharing two typical tracks from both genres.)

General Style: Mombahton. Around about 108 bpm, with dutch synths and Reggaeton rhythms, and generally some kind of bongo thing going on. Its quite hard to define mombahton because there's kind of two camps, one more reggae and one more dutch.

General Style: Glitch Hop. Slightly faster at 110 bpm, taking more cues than electro house and dnb basses than the hip hop in its name. Its all about the drop here, based around a reese style wobble and added levels of complexity. NB that glitch-hop drops tend to be a tad more melodic than say dubstep, especially if done by Koan Sound. (I'm not really talking old style, more the  new sound.)

Best Artists: Mombahton. Diplo, Major Lazer, Dave Nada, Afrojack, Knife Party.

Best Artists: Glitch-Hop. Not as well populated, mainly done by Koan Sound, The Glitch Mob and Skrillex from time to time.

Popularity: Hard to define purely because of the higher quantity of mombahton than Glitch Hop, but the higher popularity of Skrillex and Koan Sound on the glitchier side of things. I'm going 7 for both.

The Verdict:

There is a 45% chance you skipped straight here, you unappreciative sod but there is nought I can do so instead I will say this: Though Diplo and co are very talented, we might as well bow down to Koan Sound as supreme overlords. Glitch Hop  are the victors this week.