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The term refers to both a tremendously popular rhythm, which forms the basis of reggaeton, and the spare, pummeling off-shoot from the Dominican Republic.
- 1 2 3 Mota, Jennifer (2019-10-06). "The Rise Of Dominican Dembow". TIDAL Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ↑ "From Reggaeton to Dominican Dembow. A Timeline to the Hottest Music Genre Around". HipLatina. 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
... [Dominican dembow is] a direct descendant from the world-wide phenomenon that is Reggaeton Music...
- ↑ Houghton, Edwin (2017-09-06). "15 Essential Reggaeton Tracks That Are Not 'Despacito'". Vulture. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
DJs and producers in the Dominican Republic also latched onto the dembow beat... speeding it up, stripping it down, and repeating it endlessly as a bed for club-friendly call-and-response shouts. Dominican dembow, as the variant is known, was born.
- ↑ Exposito, Suzy; Leight, Elias (2019-11-07). "Dembow Took Over the Dominican Republic. Can It Take Over the World?". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
The reason Dominican dembow gallops may have to do with the island's historical preference for uptempo merengue, says Cabezas. "Dominicans are used to dancing to merengue at incredible high speeds," Cabezas explains. "In order for dembow to work in the average club, it had to be fairly fast."
- ↑ Exposito, Suzy; Leight, Elias (2019-11-07). "Dembow Took Over the Dominican Republic. Can It Take Over the World?". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
In a different era, the genre might have stayed there. But one of the defining musical movements of the decade has been the digitally-enabled spread of Spanish-language music to populations around the globe...
- ↑ Mota, Jennifer (2019-10-24). "8 Underground Dembow Tracks You Should Know". Remezcla. Retrieved 2024-02-13.