Loving the Crazy Duck Riddim atm
Problem Childhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwihx5qgCkM
Nadia Batson:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUgg8GQQkQI
Lyrikalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Ga0K0kkCA
Shal Marshall:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42SFYrn3Cbo
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 8 February 2021 21:53 (two months ago) link
nice one longneck, thanks for starting this. I don't feel too bad about sleeping on soca last year for obvs reasons, but I'm in the mood now (and just bumped the Nailah thread with "Farmer" which is a warm afropoppy jam).
Dang though, I was not expecting to find that "Private Party" video genuinely moving -- doesn't help that T&T was the last big holiday I went on.
Crazy Duck is v cool, power soca but slightly muted makes sense for the times
― rob, Thursday, 11 February 2021 14:39 (two months ago) link
Swappi's "Properly" came out back in June but is an anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bLQIA0Ub-U
― rob, Thursday, 11 February 2021 14:42 (two months ago) link
That soca is almost always about social life in the present means this season is going to be quite the time capsule:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZODay563c
Preedy, "Wine Pon Live" (skip to 1:00 if you just want to hear the song)
― rob, Thursday, 11 February 2021 14:47 (two months ago) link
I should def have been listening to soca in June, absolutely love this Nessa Preppy & Salty tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvzxTwi8Rwg
"Pull Up"
― rob, Thursday, 11 February 2021 14:58 (two months ago) link
great to see this thread getting some well-needed love.
my friends who run the weekly Super Soca Show on Ujima.fm (well worth a listen on Saturday lunchtimes btw) were remarking that while Soca is party music, when of the key themes running through it is a feeling of yearning: a need to de-stress, to let go and to party. So to that extent, the messages and themes can be easily reworked to suit lockdown times
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:01 (two months ago) link
otm, I was having more or less the same thought watching this Iwer George video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4oOc78ss08
technically 2020 season so I won't post it, but I'm only hearing "Splash" for the first time and wauu
― rob, Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:08 (two months ago) link
looking forward to checking all these (and the Nailahs) out. can I point everyone to the where's d'scene? rolling soca, chutney, jab & other caribbean pop thread as well? I use it these days, every now and then, to post bangers from the non-dancehall and non-soca countries in the Caribbean, and it could do with a lot more love!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:15 (two months ago) link
thanks for the reminder bc, I think I unbookmarked that at some point due to self-inflicted soca thread confusion (btw I wouldn't be offended if you decided to start a thread with a clearer title)
― rob, Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:21 (two months ago) link
I just posted Nailah's version on her thread, but the Tender Touch riddim is gorgeous laid-back afro-soca, which Olatunji always excels at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXQ041PJzU
"Angel"
― rob, Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:41 (two months ago) link
Teddyson John & Kerwin Du Bois' "See Dem" almost invents socadelia but I'm not quite sure it works?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGNBti3Ld-E
― rob, Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:51 (two months ago) link
now we're rolling! Thanks, rob!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 12 February 2021 15:27 (two months ago) link
p good reflection (note to Fader: it is 2021) on the current scene:
https://www.thefader.com/2021/02/17/without-carnival-soca-artists-made-2020-theirs
― rob, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:37 (one month ago) link
mentioned in that article, Motto's "Uber Everywhere" is an anthem*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLmLrfthu0I
*not just for Uber, Inc. lol
― rob, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:42 (one month ago) link
ha, I’m in the very middle of finally checking these out. my main findings so far:- I love the Crazy Duck Riddim- I am extremely sure Teddyson John & Kerwin Du Bois' "See Dem” works incredibly well for meJust in: - “Uber Everywhere” is top notch
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:00 (one month ago) link
ha yeah I was shuffling my soca playlist the other day and "See Dem" came up, I was like "what is this?? it's amazing!"; just needed fresher ears I think
― rob, Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:08 (one month ago) link
this takes a minute to build up but then it's monumental:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KkC8uU0OC0
System32 & Shal Marshall, "All Day" (the whole 24 Hour riddim is prob worth checking out)
― rob, Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:24 (one month ago) link
“Properly” also a proper jam
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 18:17 (one month ago) link
Swappi's properly is... strangely kartel-like in that one part. I love all of it.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:32 (one month ago) link
it has some vybz for sure! annoyingly not on streaming in my neck of the woods though
― rob, Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:47 (one month ago) link
I can't find it anywhere outside of youtube, unfortunately. I need an mp3 badly.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 20 February 2021 20:25 (one month ago) link
always puzzling to me when this happens and there's a professional video
― rob, Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:16 (one month ago) link
Nadia Batson's A Love Note to Carnival is giving me all the feels tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjntjwvlswA
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 21 February 2021 00:17 (one month ago) link
Loving how Machel channels Wizkid on the approriately titled High Life (Beach Chair Riddim)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EarA7zSmmQ
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 23:30 (one month ago) link
Kerwin's 'See Dem' upthread is something special, the way it hardly has any beats on it but still sounds iconic and like something you could see people getting down to. No doubt it will get versioned to fuck, and I'm all for a big Road version myself
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 01:05 (one month ago) link
This is sumptuous. Can't wait for summer
Aisha Noel - One Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRu4Dx0pq6k
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 5 March 2021 12:59 (one month ago) link