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

Also, every time Machel on "High Life" sings: "Hope you have a good day and everything is o...kay", it hits me so hard in the feels I get pinpricks behind my eyes.

I like the occasional steel drum pings on the Machel Montano cut too. Some of his flow and melodies just hit you, as noted .

Saw him live some years back and it was a great late night gig. While some soca acts just tour using backing tracks , he had a full band . Big crowd and lots of energy. Montano had lots of charisma onstage

not really hearing the SA house in the Bantu Village Riddim, but I love it just the same!

(when it starts I'm immediately reminded of the beat on Iyanya's "Kukere" tho)

(xps to dog latin)

also, can I get an amen for Olatunji's "Riddim We Want"? such a joyous banger, with a true carnival of sounds in the mix

it’s heresy, I know, but for my own convenience/pleasure more than anything I made an integrated Rolling playlist for all the Caribbean music threads (soca, dancehall, reggaeton/dembow/urbano, Martinique, other caribbopop). we’re 72 tracks in, feel free to follow:

ILM rolling Caribbean vibes 🥁🥁🥁

I like your brand of heresy, breastcrawl.

ha some years I combine my soca & dancehall playlists and sometimes I don't, though that's more just to keep things manageable

I'm not sure how I missed longneck posting it in March, but MM's "High Life" is great!

Bantu Village: this was new to me but really lovely, but not sure I should be trusted here as I pretty much like every single afro-soca riddim I've ever heard lol. I do think I hear what you mean by SA house, dog latin, though the *thump* is super muted

Olatunji put out like half a dozen classics this season iirc

catching up on those Olatunji classics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOx9es8EyaY
Olatunji ft. Good Times Ahead • Black Liberation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3NPFvo9Qo
Olatunji ft. System32 • Doing It

guy is *creative*

oh wow I'd missed "Black Liberation" -- that is fire

This super-minimal mashup of Meri Makhna Meri Soniya and Buni Garlin's Big Bad Soca is pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ktdjvCfGXA

nice remix

yeah, very dope

I read something somewhere suggesting that my old-school fave David Rudder might release something new. I think he lives in Toronto now

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/barbados-queen-republic-ceremony-prince-charles-rcna6901?fbclid=IwAR3DMjpw2NW8XpGa_wjCNY-jKIrwwUo-tlRVyvLPeLy07uyj_0ORvsx_7Zw

Barbados cuts ties with the Queen and celebrates

Any soca in 2021 best of lists?

Here we go!

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

That was "DECORATE" by 2MV & Keshav

Everything I hear by Aisha Noel I love, and "The Realest Thing" is no exception

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lKx_U-X6jI

oh I love that Noel track

the fete is over here right now (bring your own rum!):

where's d'scene? rolling soca, chutney, jab & other caribbean pop