'We're Jamming Still!' - rolling Soca, Chutney, Dennery, Jab and the rest 2020

I actually have a little playlist going of 2020 Carnival tracks that I only just realized has tons of stuff I never posted here, so prepare to be spammed

Machel's "Boss Wine" has a sorta Badman Pull Up energy to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjntOj95RKI

Bunji's "The Struggle" brings the gravitas but stick around for the horn line:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KgvbgO2UK0

I think I posted this in the last thread? Nailah & Olatunji "Woi Ya"; pure vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1upH9vnmR68

Kes, "Dushi":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xv0Ku0Aos

Rob you got Spotify? I know it's bad and hated but it's the easiest way for me to hear stuff

for complicated personal reasons it's a Google Music playlist--I'm happy to share it if that's of interest? I do have a Spotify account too and could reproduce it there, but I might wait until I've narrowed things down a bit so I'm not doing the same thing on two services

here it is; "ton" was an exaggeration:
https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXynu2TMm8tPMi6JH6wSkNvpj2szeLwgRvtI5wxfvzs6Hukl9M2nGjdDA2-k-GRFHW09QiHM1GbIAdZ0qQuxYm18itGoCyg%3D%3D

btw dog latin, I might have posted this in the old thread but I think you'd particular like this (?) Folk Tale Jouvert riddim, which is like soca carib-horrorcore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMf-XgHpv88

oh shit this one is epic, Bunji & Sheriff--the team who brought us Differentology--on "The Sound":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nHH6HIEfjk

xp loving this! not on Spotify yet so I'll have to make a note of it in my brainbank

bunji garlin tune is a slammer too

Blaxx tune has a real spooky Jab aura despite not being from Grenada.

(reminds me of this from 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGd26NGvcm4)

Meanwhile, here's a driving bit of carnival power-soca from Asa Bantan and (my faves) Jus Now - Fete is Fete

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

whoops, sorry that was totally the wrong song. Here it is

Asa Bantan x Jus Now - Fete Is Fete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAf9kBRHEmc

Fete Is Fete Is Phat As Phuck

agreed

lovely stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzgAnZk9N7A
Voice • Dancing Away

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961228611/showdown-verzuz-caribbean-livestream-battle-instagram?fbclid=IwAR3rffrGspO1TOzfp8emEg0wCXks9ziU2qjSR3vUqNUOLyep5_kIPdXO9QA

Showdown debuted last October with artists Alison Hinds from Barbados and Patrice Roberts from Trinidad. Andrew Bailey of Perception Management, which co-produced the series, says that rather than begin with a dancehall pairing— which Verzuz had already done with a performance by Jamaica's Beenie Man and Bounty Killer — the team elected to showcase soca music, the fast-paced child of Trinidadian calypso and the soundtrack of Caribbean carnival.

"The reason we went with soca artists was because it was a genre that hasn't been represented in Verzuz. Dancehall had been represented, so we wanted to do something for the culture," Bailey says.

New thread for a weird year:
2021 Soca Season: Carnival is cancelled, but the music keeps flowing