rolling soca / chutney / jab 2017

I've been sleeping on so much soca this year but the parallel riddim is just perfect for the warm weather we're having atm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJTKFEfmuo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJs5zR3dWCw

I've been listening to these a lot recently:

Dloxx / Machel - Take It Down

https://youtu.be/h3TXBwvf_uU

Lyrikal - Dedicated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kBkD6WYvCI

Bass / Trilo G - Take Over The Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PALbPaU34FA

Take It Down is amazing.

Feeling this (some great dancing too)

Naphtali - Doh Watch Dat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg-i0R9Jg4o

The dancing in the "Take it Down" video is great

this is just delightful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heQY8otg6YA

really dig Kaliffa's 'Helt Seriöst", dunno if it's soca exactly but that's what comes to mind when i listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kLTeOk_j7k

great video too
https://vimeo.com/221169867

great interview here. I had no idea Bunji's name was literally from bungee: http://www.afropop.org/39215/interview-bunji-garlin-and-fay-ann-lyons-on-soca-music-today

also if you missed it like me, the Buss Head video is high quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McPMyu5_3TI

that interview goes really deep. scroll down to the bit about "Raze" if you're pressed for time

this gets close to sounding like a song in the post-climax dance sequence in a phoned-in animated film but is actually so much fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s7JKsuZkXk

^Olatunji x System 23, "Bodyline"

and this Ola is just immense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgE9OIxs-o

love Sekon Sta on this afropop-y Folklore riddim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujVVzC13iN4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw7TpFMRD5s

^new and fantastic Nailah Blackman

this is secretly one of the best threads on ilm; "brek down de fence" "Your Time Now" and "take ah bathe" are def best of the year material for me.

For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Soca-Chutney-Jab Thread Spotify Playlist

The sample in Bodyline definitely reminds me of something... Triplets of Belleville maybe?

rolling soca &c. 2018