2021 Soca Season: Carnival is cancelled, but the music keeps flowing

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!

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)

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"

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

now we're rolling! Thanks, rob!

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

mentioned in that article, Motto's "Uber Everywhere" is an anthem*:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLmLrfthu0I

*not just for Uber, Inc. lol

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 me

Just in:

- “Uber Everywhere” is top notch

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

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)

“Properly” also a proper jam

Swappi's properly is... strangely kartel-like in that one part. I love all of it.

it has some vybz for sure! annoyingly not on streaming in my neck of the woods though

I can't find it anywhere outside of youtube, unfortunately. I need an mp3 badly.

always puzzling to me when this happens and there's a professional video

Nadia Batson's A Love Note to Carnival is giving me all the feels tonight:

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

Loving how Machel channels Wizkid on the approriately titled High Life (Beach Chair Riddim)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EarA7zSmmQ

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

This is sumptuous. Can't wait for summer

Aisha Noel - One Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRu4Dx0pq6k