It's basically Scene 2.0
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 2 February 2017 11:42 (seven years ago) link
Not sure how I came across this (maybe posted on the previous thread? But this is such a jam:
Iwer George - Take a Bathe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b6pe4nU9yo
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 2 February 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I think it was posted in the other thread!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 2 February 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
"Bacchanal" is superb
― rob, Friday, 3 February 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Am I the only one who feels like the drums on Olatunji's otherwise superb Tun Fo Meh are just a little too cluttered?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLhIkfvLshQ
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 6 February 2017 13:31 (seven years ago) link
I always feel like I'm fumbling the beat matching when I play it and that's not a good feeling, lol.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 6 February 2017 13:32 (seven years ago) link
So this soca remix of Indicator is definitely a thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id1MRxC5RI4
OMG
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 17 February 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
Bunji doesn't add much to it, but yeah that really works as soca
― rob, Friday, 17 February 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
is "Beat It" the Montano posted upthread that won't play now?
― rob, Friday, 17 February 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
No, I think that was It's Your Time. Beat It needs a post.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 17 February 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
so much steel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdl-MT_JcOI
― rob, Friday, 17 February 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
lol perfect screencap on that
― rob, Friday, 17 February 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
Kes's "Incredible" is so good, really nice balance of light and heavy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDXiXcMiglY
― rob, Friday, 17 February 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
and "Work Out" might be even better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOqPFQ3ndss
― rob, Friday, 17 February 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link
did Machel and Bunji's "Buss Head" get posted in the last thread? (we ought to consider not sticking to the calendar year for this one, its genuinely confusing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps2VMglVW6U
this has been a partic good season, no? I feel like the EDM crunch of recent years has softened and there's suddenly lush melodies everywhere
― rob, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 22:32 (seven years ago) link
Soca Monarch coming up on Friday iirc.
Chutney Monarch was a tie between Ravi B's Budget and Omardath Maharaj's Ramsingh Sharma.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E8EtPJS284o
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEwn8L7hTk
I have a soft spot for Omardath, not least because he looks like my dad given a makeover by a thirteen year old.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
Looks like Voice just won Soca Monarch if the Twitter commentaries are correct:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nV8_5SZFrI
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 February 2017 08:46 (seven years ago) link
4th place - Iwer George3rd place - Devon Matthews2nd place -Orlando Octave1st place - Voice
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 February 2017 08:48 (seven years ago) link
Thanks! Which songs though?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 25 February 2017 11:35 (seven years ago) link
Iwer - Take Ah BatheDevon - D JourneyOrlando - Single
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 February 2017 12:06 (seven years ago) link
Nice.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 25 February 2017 12:38 (seven years ago) link
excellent: "Far From Finished" is great! Single is fun too. Not sure I've heard the Devon before.
I also quite liked Budget--my wife thought it might be borrowing an old bollywood melody?
― rob, Saturday, 25 February 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
Liking this GBM Nutron as well:
"Non Stop"
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 25 February 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/3mM5thuX2R4
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 25 February 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
Front page Washington Post article--
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/leave-me-alone-trinidads-women-find-a-rallying-cry-for-this-years-carnival/2017/02/26/3888f116-f9e6-11e6-aa1e-5f735ee31334_story.html?utm_term=.dd8188aaf0c7
Every year, an onslaught of high-octane soca music is released ahead of Trinidad’s pre-Lent Carnival. The songs are new, but the themes are well-worn: Rum. Partying. And the allure of a woman’s gyrating body, preferably backed into a man’s grasp.
So it’s a little surprising that one of this year’s most popular Carnival tunes is a jaunty ballad performed by the 76-year-old music legend Calypso Rose and titled matter-of-factly “Leave Me Alone.” The song features a woman trying to party in the streets without interference from men, exhorting them to “leave me, let me free up.” And it’s being hailed as a feminist anthem.
“It’s like a rallying cry for women who just want to be able to have the option of enjoying their Carnival — Carnival being that space of freedom,” said Attillah Springer, 40, a Trinidadian writer and activist. “And then you have to deal with people who are trying to control how much freedom you feel.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 February 2017 13:04 (seven years ago) link
Calypso Rose is awesome
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 27 February 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
On the subject of calypso, Chalkdust just won his ninth Monarch title - overtaking Sparrow's record:
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170227/news/chalkdust-is-2017-calypso-monarch
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 27 February 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
that Bollywood song that the melody for "Budget" is borrowed from turned out to be this from Mela (1948): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn5GDsFiK1Q
― rob, Monday, 27 February 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Good detective work!
Full Extreme is apparently in front in the Road March race.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 08:43 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure it will win. Who else is it up against?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 10:22 (seven years ago) link
The closest competitor seems to be Machel's Beat It.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 10:24 (seven years ago) link
Putting my money on Full Extreme, then.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 10:27 (seven years ago) link
^ Such a banger.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 2 March 2017 10:10 (seven years ago) link
Officially the highest scoring song in Road March history - 556 plays.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 2 March 2017 12:33 (seven years ago) link
Full Extreme has a new video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DtNXHyh5r8
Probably a lot of crossover with 2016 but i have been listening to the following a lot:
Blaxx - Ranking Ting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3YIZhLcNcw
Nadia Batson - Loyalist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwgoza3plB0
Mya & Uncle Ellis - Ray Tay Tay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQSigO0CjA
Uncle Ellis has an interesting story - he is 58 and was sleeping rough in Port Of Spain for a number of years and became a local celebrity for hanging out and dancing to street-corner soundsystems. He ended up being hired at professional events and releasing records. There is a short interview with him here: https://youtu.be/K8UpG9U91h4
Bunji Garlin - Big Bad Soca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=050Iie2T6Cg
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 10 April 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
ILM's 2017 Rolling Soca Thread Spotify Playlist
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
I've been sleeping on so much soca this year but the parallel riddim is just perfect for the warm weather we're having atm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJTKFEfmuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJs5zR3dWCw
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 29 May 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
I've been listening to these a lot recently:
Dloxx / Machel - Take It Down
https://youtu.be/h3TXBwvf_uU
Lyrikal - Dedicated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kBkD6WYvCI
Bass / Trilo G - Take Over The Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PALbPaU34FA
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 29 May 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Take It Down is amazing.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 29 May 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
Feeling this (some great dancing too)
Naphtali - Doh Watch Dat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg-i0R9Jg4o
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 12:33 (seven years ago) link
The dancing in the "Take it Down" video is great
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
this is just delightful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heQY8otg6YA
― rob, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
really dig Kaliffa's 'Helt Seriöst", dunno if it's soca exactly but that's what comes to mind when i listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kLTeOk_j7k
great video toohttps://vimeo.com/221169867
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 15 September 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
great interview here. I had no idea Bunji's name was literally from bungee: http://www.afropop.org/39215/interview-bunji-garlin-and-fay-ann-lyons-on-soca-music-today
also if you missed it like me, the Buss Head video is high quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McPMyu5_3TI
― rob, Friday, 22 September 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
that interview goes really deep. scroll down to the bit about "Raze" if you're pressed for time
― rob, Friday, 22 September 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
this gets close to sounding like a song in the post-climax dance sequence in a phoned-in animated film but is actually so much fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s7JKsuZkXk
― rob, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
^Olatunji x System 23, "Bodyline"
and this Ola is just immense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgE9OIxs-o
― rob, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
love Sekon Sta on this afropop-y Folklore riddim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujVVzC13iN4
― rob, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw7TpFMRD5s
^new and fantastic Nailah Blackman
― rob, Friday, 24 November 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
this is secretly one of the best threads on ilm; "brek down de fence" "Your Time Now" and "take ah bathe" are def best of the year material for me.
For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:
ILM's 2017 Rolling Soca-Chutney-Jab Thread Spotify Playlist
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
The sample in Bodyline definitely reminds me of something... Triplets of Belleville maybe?
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
rolling soca &c. 2018
― rob, Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link