Thanks! As long as they're Soca Season 2019 release dates are not a problem.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 2 January 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
New thread, cos why not:
'We're Jamming Still!' - rolling Soca, Chutney, Dennery, Jab and the rest 2020
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 09:41 (four years ago) link
Why not— uh, read Rob’s intro to this one:
I'm leaving the year off because Carnival season doesn't follow the regular calendar anyway and the last couple threads didn't quite justify dedicated annual threads--
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
i'm interested in what's happening now. i detest history
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
but yeah, point taken. too late now
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
my approach didn't exactly stimulate posting so I have no objection to this!
― rob, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
reviving this thread for this superlative floaty track from Martinique:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8UJl665mPM70 SHIINE ft. Nacho • Domino
(courtesy of D-40 on the [cruel, cruel] Summer Jams thread)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 21 August 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
you can’t stop the flow:
🀄️🀄️ Martinique to the world: 70 SHiiNE x Nacho • DOMINO 🀄️🀄️
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 21 August 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
https://www.nts.live/shows/death-is-not-the-end/episodes/death-is-not-the-end-9th-august-2020
Trini Calypso from the 1920s to 1940s .
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link
https://nhcarnival.org/
Notting Hill Carnival August 29-31Digital style
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 August 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
Don't often think of soca in a live band context, but Kes have released an excellent live album called 'We Home'. It's great to hear some absolute classics like 'Hello' and 'Savannah Grass' in this context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djlSmc9RYXs
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 3 September 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
haha, I'm only now watching the video and didn't realise it was 'live in the studio' but that would make sense
Another French overseas department in the house - je kiffe trop!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsFckB9WXVwPoplane ft. Momo Wang • Mo Lé
Poplane is from French Guiana, I see him referred to as “le Wizkid guyanais”. Appropriately enough, the video was shot in Africa (in Senegal, to be precise).
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 7 September 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
starting my Friday with this loveliness
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 September 2020 07:49 (three years ago) link
bump for this fun track from Aruba that I just happened across:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvLB6ngRaPQAtaniro ft. Steve Andreas • Dios Para Den
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
Tekisha Abel bringing the Suriname slackness, leaving a nation in disarray:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC6CrT1rIjUTekisha • Lolo Bal
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
I like this older one as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU75s_HgGFoTekisha Abel • Krin
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
enjoying this! don't get to hear much from suriname. i guess it's more reggae than soca?
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
not lolo bal though. wow, i love this.
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
could have posted it on the dancehall thread ad well, but preferring to spice up this thread with the non-Jamaican goodness.did you check out the Aruban banger I posted last month?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
yeah, it's a banger!
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
t’is an Aruban banger!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link
added the most recent tracks posted here to this integrated Rolling Spotify playlist for all the Caribbean music threads (soca, dancehall, reggaeton/dembow/urbano, Martinique, other caribbopop). we’re 75 tracks in, feel free to follow:ILM rolling Caribbean vibes 🥁🥁🥁
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 6 May 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
Thanks
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 May 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
new Tekisha Abel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaItVfBwHGITekisha Abel • Né Krooi
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
https://newsday.co.tt/2021/07/14/brother-resistance-dies/
RIP Trinidad rapso pioneer Brother Resistance
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
I'd never heard of Brother Resistance before he died (I've never really attempted to fully grasp TT music). Grateful for this overview of BR/rapso by David Katz: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jul/21/rapso-discover-the-pride-and-power-of-trinidads-rap-soca-music
Now I'm listening to his debut and it's totally excellent: https://brotherresistance.bandcamp.com/album/rapso-take-over
The Kindred track in that Katz piece also sounded rad
― rob, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
RIP Brother Resistance
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
RIP Jacob Devarieux , guitarist from zouk band Kassav from Covid
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 31 July 2021 03:00 (two years ago) link
http://tt.loopnews.com/content/gi-retains-chutney-soca-title-ramrajie-prabhoo-wins-queen-chutney
Chutney soca winners in T & T
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
seeing in twitter and IG that legend David Rudder just did a gig the other night in T & T
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
I tried a '22 soca mix the other day. I have to admit I wasn't super into it as a mix, but a few tunes caught my ear:
Kes x Dwala - Jolene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWZWV8hGyk
GBMnutron - Down Dey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pTeX_43Ttg
Keshav - Move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVG5IEu4SEQ
Nailah Blackman x Mical Teja - Dingolay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffaL6SeiJE
― rob, Saturday, 20 August 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
I really really really like this one. feel it could have across-the-board appeal. should do well in a decade poll in fact:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FWHavH6IQw
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 August 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
thanks for posting these updates!
― sean gramophone, Monday, 22 August 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
Yes thanks. I am also liking German-born, Barbadian vocalist Rupee's "First Wine" 2022 single. He's been around a bit and has a pop-soca and reggaeish feel on some cuts. He and Kerwin Dubois recently were in DC at a festival
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
xp I appreciate that, sean!
That is pretty nice, curmudgeon, thanks. I think you might be into this Trini-Haitian collab (so might we all in fact):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeMko3n-U7c
Kes x J Perry x Michael Brun - Liki Tiki
And speaking of Barbados, one thing I learned from my brief survey the other day was that this slice of Caribbean weirdness is apparently super popular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WlQ-7QjBGc
Father Philis - Brawling
― rob, Monday, 22 August 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
been a while since I treated myself to fresh soca sounds, so I’m very happy with this selection. the only one I was familiar with was “Jolene”. “Liki Tiki” is an instant favourite too, J Perry’s Kreyòl part in particular makes it.that Father Philis track is intriguing. he’s got a new one out, “Face Beat”, that’s even bigger than “Brawling”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKg6b_Hezb0Nailah Blackman just made a track with him (and Salty) as well, called “Teknique (Bum Bum Bum)”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJDazGrOgJE
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 August 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
I found some of the tracks posted last week on the Get Soca 2022 compilation on Spotify, and listened to the whole fun thing.a couple of highlights:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CFjp6JMucBoyzie • Stage In Life(on the Chips and Dip Riddim by jab masters Xpert Productions - Slatta and Lil Kerry are on it as well)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym1sqSc1414Blaxx ft. Linky First • Rum Ina Me Head(another jab track by the sound of it)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2KrqgzksD8 Raymond Ramnarine ft. Vicadi Singh • Mind Yuh Business(which has clear Indian inflections - does that mean this is “chutney”?)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 August 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
but my favourite discovery is this guy Umpa, who’s from Guadeloupe but is equally at home in the Anglophone and Francophone vernacular:the sparse “Plat” (which leans slightly more Kreyol) was on that comp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS0j2yb0XQ0…but then there’s also his most recent one, the maximalist “Bap” (mainly in English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYNZP9PxEQit sounded exhilaratingly familiar and then I realised: it could have been a Ball J Beat! Ghanaian azonto producer extraordinaire of tracks like “Lapaz Toyota” (as well as “Pooley” after he had adapted his style)(the man had that where’s my Grammy?!!!?!!! tag on his records long before Burna even entertained such notions (speculation, your honour!), let alone voice them)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 August 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
I'm pretty out the loop for decent soca. Feels like 2020/21 were bumper years but even my soca-nerd pals seem more interested in stuff like amapiano and cruise-beat these days. What's good?
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 10:43 (one year ago) link
Don’t know. Here’s some random Bermuda dj’s Spotify playlist from earlier this year
Droppin' this here again for the ppl that need it this week 👍🏾😆My 2022 Soca Top 20 Playlist https://t.co/gNykE8rocM— DJ Rusty G (@djrustyg) June 13, 2022
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
cheers!
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
Awesome Machel Montano February 17 soca and afrobeats and more Carnival show in Trinidad
I want to go to Trinidad for this awesome February 17 carnival show with soca and afrobeats artists . Saw Machel Montano do an incredible show @ the since shutdown Crossroads in Bladensburg once or twice & have seen a few of the others but not all. pic.twitter.com/WcqzQGA3Wz— Steve Kiviat (@SteveKiviat) February 11, 2023
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
Flyer for the show in the tweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cINEwJkzFSs
― CerebralCaustic, Monday, 13 February 2023 02:12 (one year ago) link
It's carnival season!
I'm loving both the amapiano version AND the soca version of Machel Montano x Hugh Masekela's* The Meeting Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJLkvKVkaMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDL_hr_n-c
*I know, right?!
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 27 February 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Haven’t listened to DJ Private Ryan latest soca mix but a New York Times mention of it is my reminder to listen
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 March 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
Bunji's Hard Fete is the definitive soca of the year for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97bq9Kjmr3E
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 12 March 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
Yeah it's an instant classic that one
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 13 March 2023 10:27 (one year ago) link
I’m not quite ready for that road yet, but I’m pretty sure I prefer the “N.M.G. Roadmix” to the original version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91PtPvDgtE
― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Monday, 13 March 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link