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go on, please

― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

Is it true that soca classes are usually a cover for evangelical Christianity?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

what do you mean by "classes"?
there's plenty of mentions of god in soca, but i don't see it as covert, sinister or even slightly threatening.
i think you maybe need to look at why you think this.
anyway, if the soca night i went to a couple of fridays ago was in any way evangelical, colour me well and truly, erm... evangelized.
lukey, i'm busy right now and will tell you more later but try to get your hands on these for now:

"bumpa catch a fire" timmy
"bonnie and clyde" destra garcia
"craziness" machel montano
"toro toro" machel montano and xtatik
"lend me a hand" maximus dan
"lose your way" fayann lyons
"bhangra" sharon darlington
"indian man" denise belfon
"wine and bend over" denise belfon and ghetto flex
"tempted to touch" rupee
"if i can't have you" rupee

― stelfox, Monday, 6 September 2004 14:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

Someone had told me that they'd had friends who'd had this experience. I am increasingly certain that I have confused soca with something else, so don't mind me.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

Carnival in Brooklyn today!!!!!!

And the route is one block away from my house, and it's a sunny day!

3.5 million people expected. I was awoken by the sounds of:

"the band coming" - shurwayne winchester
"is carnival" - destra & machel
"get on bad" - onika & bunji garlin

getting a late start on the day.

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

Soca - what is it?? - RFI - S/D
Soca Recommendations?
tell me about Soca
electronic soca- S/D?

and last but not least!!! the links in this thread still work:

1XTRA links for your listening/viewing pleasure - Soca and FYA

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah the problem wth these old threads unless they're regularly revived is that they become... old

― stelfox, Monday, 6 September 2004 18:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

My most-played soca tracks on iTunes...

Money Makers Bunji Garlin
Jah Love - Bunji Garlin
Get On Bad - Bunji Garlin
Move up to my bumper - Candice *GET THIS IF YOU CAN - IT'S A STONE-COLD KILLER*
Trample - Dawg E Slaughter
Up in the Air - Destra Garcia
Bata Bet Destra - Garcia
Clear De Way - Ghetto Flex
Soca Dancing - Ghetto Flex
Brooklyn Anthem - Iwer George
Soca Train (main) - Maximus Dan
Hottie dance - Militant Hottie Dance
Married Man - Natahlee
Skin to skin - Rupee
If You Only Knew - Rupee feat. Destra
Work - Shurwayne Winchester
Blaze - Spida
Negative Vibe - Destra

― stelfox, Monday, 6 September 2004 18:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

continuing tunage report from today's parade in bk:

"up in the air" - destra
"soca train" = maximus dan
"bachelor" - scrunter(? forgot the artist?)
"trini 2 da bone" - david rudder
plus a few songs i didn't recognize

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

Just get as many Mighty Sparrow records as you can. It begins and ends there.

― MC Frosty Flake, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh no! Old threads! Run away!!

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

Doesn't Sparrow definitively *dis* soca in his song "Soca Man"?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

Just get as many Mighty Sparrow records as you can. It begins and ends there.

no it doesn't.

and i'm not saying old threads are useless but if you want to get any up-to-date info they aint gonna help much - unless, as i said, they are regularly updated.

― stelfox, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

bachelor is by scrunter. not surprising he remains unmarried, though. i mean would you want to trade in your perfectly good name to become "mrs scrunter"?

― stelfox, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

Dave stop being snotty. Paul Sci-fi Soul's thread, the last one that I linked up there, has got amazing video which will be interesting to anyone who's interested in soca. It's from all the way back in February 2004.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

I saw Machel Montano & Xtatik at the Crossroads, outside DC last night. Mostly fun fun fun.

― Steve K (Steve K), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

I did not realize how popular Montano is with the ladies. They were ringing the stage, and grabbing him and jumping on stage to hug him.
Everone was jumping up and down and many were waving flags froom their homelands(mostly Trinidad flags). There were about 500 or so people there. I think I saw one other white guy than me, and about 3 white gals (if such demographic issues interest any of you).

― Steve K (Steve K), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wayne Marshall was asking on his Wayne and Wax blog when/if Simon Reynolds referred to soca being like the techno sub-genre 'happy hardcore.' I think Reynolds did say it, not sure when. Soca does have that rep.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2005 13:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think Stelfox only posts on Dissensus now. ... Mighty Sparrow's touring the USA right now, you old-school calypso fans...

― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2005 17:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

bump to the super-fast soca beat.

― curmudgeon (Steve K), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Plenty of soca artists coming to DC in a few weeks for DC Carnival. I still maintain that with the proper marketing Machel Montano could win the support of a crossover audience as he nicely incorporates rock, r'n'b, and more into his danceable soca sound. He will be in DC at a location tba Carnival night June 28th.

― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2008 13:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Another year, another DC Caribbean Carnival parade, concerts, club shows. I still like me some soca

― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 June 2009 14:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Another year...and 5 years since I saw and was wowed by Machel Montano and band, but I can't seem to convince anyone that his "jump-up" music is more unique than that of many soca performers...

― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

Soca always gets dismissed by some the way they dismiss some techno.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

RIP Arrow of "Hot, Hot, Hot" fame. Dead of brain cancer at age 60

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/06/134266543/wile-or-wine-10-soca-songs-for-carnival-season

still love the soca (and Machel Montano's music especially)

― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 March 2011 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/06/24/caribbean-carnival-parade-shorter-but-still-on/

Friday June 24th:
Flags Till Morning (soca fest) from 10 pm till 4 am featuring Iwer George, Makamillion
Leonce , Yankee Boy Diamond, Pumpa, Lyrical Orlando Octave, and Razor Show at The Hampton Center, 207 W. Hampton Place, Capital Heights, MD
Tickets are available in advance at Crown Bakery 202-291-3009 ;Under The Coconut Tree 240-764-8301; Island delights 443-426-7601

Machel Montano and the HD Band from 9pm until 4 am at DC Star Nightclub, 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE.

Chutney Soca Affair from 9 pm until 4 am featuring Rikki Jai, X3ME International ft. Slnya Lakhan, Major Tassa Band, Calypsonian Saga, DJs Wayne, Easy E, and Daddy O at Mirage Hall, 1401 University Blvd., Hyattsville, MD. Tickets $35 More At Door Tickets On Sale at Crown Bakery, 5409 Georgia Avenue NW, Caribbean Grocery
7505 New Hampshire Ave., Takoma Park, MD

― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 June 2011 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

The chutney event should be pretty great - if only for Rikki Jai.

― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Friday, 24 June 2011 19:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Friday, 24 June 2011 19:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

I should get the latest Soca Gold comp. It has a Rickey Jai cut

― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 June 2011 04:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Rikki I mean

― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 June 2011 04:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

some of my fave soca tunes:

― bitch = women (The Brainwasher), Monday, 27 June 2011 04:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

XP, the new Soca Gold isn't great. Not sure it's worth having, unfortunately.

The 2010 edition was good, though.

― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Monday, 27 June 2011 08:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Is there a better 2011 comp out on another label? Or do you just think the 2011 slate of songs is not as good; or did the label pick the wrong carnival hits?

― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 June 2011 13:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

Honestly, 2011 wasn't a vintage year. I haven't heard much worth getting excited about.

― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 21:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

agreed, from stuff i've heard last year's tuneage was better, though i also thought that the 2010 batch was distinctly weaker than the one from 2009 - so maybe it's just me getting a bit tired of soca, i dunno? i'm definitely much more into chutney nowadays, lost of strong songwriting in recent years (esp. the Pungalunks Factory stuff) and rum-monomania is always fun!

a few straight up soca tunes by chutney gals i'm loving at the moment:

― Mind Taker, Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

I thought 2010 was pretty good but Palance and Barman kind of overshadowed everything else.

Something Harder is definitely one of the best of 2011.

― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

don't really check for this stuff anymore but palance video is always and forever a go-to antidote for boredom:

― r|t|c, Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

never properly got into "Palance" myself (the song, that is - the video is beyond awesome of course!), but "Barman" is the shit... kinda into the video for that one as well, just a bunch of terminally uncool dudes who think wearing tight t-shirts and sunglasses makes them cool - the kind of people who are basically barred from US/western-Euro pop imagery, even in this brave new post-Jersey Shore world

i'm still catching up with recent soca & chutney - anything else from 2011 you'd recommend ShariVari?

― Mind Taker, Thursday, 30 June 2011 23:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I want to check out the new David Rudder album Random Notes

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

I like Bottle Of Rum (Machel), Gift Of Soca (Bunji) and People's Champion (Benjai) on the 3Zero riddim but none of them quite hits the mark.

Soca 2012 belongs to Nadia Batson, for me:
-ShariVari May 2012

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:50 (11 months ago) Permalink

thanks. Was out at a dancehall 'n' soca night a few weekends ago, but need to figure out song titles.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:54 (11 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

is it just me or soca basically completely mental?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:36 (8 months ago) Permalink

as in crazy? or something else?

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:10 (8 months ago) Permalink

both!!

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

i was at carnival this weekend and soca basically seems like funky gabba

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, there's been a tendency towards more frenetic riddims in power soca in recent years.

― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

haha yes "power soca" is a good way to describe what i was hearing

one of the floats was sponsored by a soca radio station (can't remember the name) and their tagline was something like NO TALK - ALL SOCA - 24/7

i was like, that almost sounds like a threat

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:36 (8 months ago) Permalink

But someone always has to complain and mock:

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/why-i-detest-the-notting-hill-carnival/

Gosh, I’m just so liberal and open-minded and Notting Hill Carnival is such a beautiful union of so many cultures! OMG! Rum punch and soca music and jerk chicken and Bob Marley!” It’s OK, you’re not being marked on anything. You don’t have to force yourself to dance awkwardly to homophobic bashment tunes and if the food is not to your taste it doesn’t make you a racist. Calm down, once Tuesday comes around, you can go back to crossing the road from the mumbling Rastafarian man that scares you.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

why would you post something so shit here??!

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

i mean that is just an obviously miserable person who happens to be wrong about everything, not that rare

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:43 (8 months ago) Permalink

otm. its not that hard to find horrible ppl we dont need to re-post them

― just sayin, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

I guess just because I have sadly seen similar such nonsense re the Washington DC Caribbean Carnival. The universality of annoying whiners about carnivals.

I saw online some great photos as well

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

here's one i took -

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:50 (8 months ago) Permalink

here we go - Flagz Radio - 24/7 SOCA NO TALK JUST SOCA

http://www.flagzradio.co.uk/radioplayer/player.html

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

Carnival in Brooklyn is Monday September 3rd

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

The Brooklyn one has a decent line-up - Machel Montano, Mr Vegas, Black Stalin, etc.

― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:56 (8 months ago) Permalink

Miami one is in October I think.

I saw Machel Montano once and think he's great, but I see he's getting flack from old-school Calypsonians for sucking up to Olympic participants (and only doing so with fellow soca artists and not old-school folks who prefer more commentary in their lyrics)

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:26 (8 months ago) Permalink

There's been a backlash brewing around Montano for a while. Partly because he's probably the only soca star who regularly features on records by big international performers and partly because he's so entrenched at the top of the industry at home. He doesn't come up with a lot of exceptional material but his fanbase is so solid it gives him a huge advantage when it comes to carnival competitions.

― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

great photo, Tracer

― rob, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:18 (8 months ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/branding/1555291/machel-montano-trinidadian-soca-star-looks-beyond-carnival-signs#0CdRJKt9CXjtLc0v.01

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 April 2013 03:43 (1 month ago) Permalink

Superman costume is a nice touch.

The first single to come from Montano's AZ deal will be a remake of "Mr. Fete" due this summer, featuring French R&B singer Matt Houston. "

Ladysmith Mombazo collaboration could be more interesting, but wh knows.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 April 2013 13:38 (1 month ago) Permalink

Not a massive fan of Machel but it would be great for soca's international profile.

― Des Fusils Pour Banter (ShariVari), Thursday, 4 April 2013 13:56 (1 month ago) Permalink

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