I really really really like this one. feel it could have across-the-board appeal. should do well in a decade poll in fact:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FWHavH6IQw
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 August 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
thanks for posting these updates!
― sean gramophone, Monday, 22 August 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
Yes thanks. I am also liking German-born, Barbadian vocalist Rupee's "First Wine" 2022 single. He's been around a bit and has a pop-soca and reggaeish feel on some cuts. He and Kerwin Dubois recently were in DC at a festival
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
xp I appreciate that, sean!
That is pretty nice, curmudgeon, thanks. I think you might be into this Trini-Haitian collab (so might we all in fact):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeMko3n-U7c
Kes x J Perry x Michael Brun - Liki Tiki
And speaking of Barbados, one thing I learned from my brief survey the other day was that this slice of Caribbean weirdness is apparently super popular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WlQ-7QjBGc
Father Philis - Brawling
― rob, Monday, 22 August 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
been a while since I treated myself to fresh soca sounds, so I’m very happy with this selection. the only one I was familiar with was “Jolene”. “Liki Tiki” is an instant favourite too, J Perry’s Kreyòl part in particular makes it.that Father Philis track is intriguing. he’s got a new one out, “Face Beat”, that’s even bigger than “Brawling”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKg6b_Hezb0Nailah Blackman just made a track with him (and Salty) as well, called “Teknique (Bum Bum Bum)”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJDazGrOgJE
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 August 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
I found some of the tracks posted last week on the Get Soca 2022 compilation on Spotify, and listened to the whole fun thing.a couple of highlights:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CFjp6JMucBoyzie • Stage In Life(on the Chips and Dip Riddim by jab masters Xpert Productions - Slatta and Lil Kerry are on it as well)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym1sqSc1414Blaxx ft. Linky First • Rum Ina Me Head(another jab track by the sound of it)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2KrqgzksD8 Raymond Ramnarine ft. Vicadi Singh • Mind Yuh Business(which has clear Indian inflections - does that mean this is “chutney”?)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 August 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
but my favourite discovery is this guy Umpa, who’s from Guadeloupe but is equally at home in the Anglophone and Francophone vernacular:the sparse “Plat” (which leans slightly more Kreyol) was on that comp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS0j2yb0XQ0…but then there’s also his most recent one, the maximalist “Bap” (mainly in English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYNZP9PxEQit sounded exhilaratingly familiar and then I realised: it could have been a Ball J Beat! Ghanaian azonto producer extraordinaire of tracks like “Lapaz Toyota” (as well as “Pooley” after he had adapted his style)(the man had that where’s my Grammy?!!!?!!! tag on his records long before Burna even entertained such notions (speculation, your honour!), let alone voice them)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 August 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
I'm pretty out the loop for decent soca. Feels like 2020/21 were bumper years but even my soca-nerd pals seem more interested in stuff like amapiano and cruise-beat these days. What's good?
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 10:43 (one year ago) link
Don’t know. Here’s some random Bermuda dj’s Spotify playlist from earlier this year
Droppin' this here again for the ppl that need it this week 👍🏾😆My 2022 Soca Top 20 Playlist https://t.co/gNykE8rocM— DJ Rusty G (@djrustyg) June 13, 2022
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
cheers!
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
Awesome Machel Montano February 17 soca and afrobeats and more Carnival show in Trinidad
I want to go to Trinidad for this awesome February 17 carnival show with soca and afrobeats artists . Saw Machel Montano do an incredible show @ the since shutdown Crossroads in Bladensburg once or twice & have seen a few of the others but not all. pic.twitter.com/WcqzQGA3Wz— Steve Kiviat (@SteveKiviat) February 11, 2023
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
Flyer for the show in the tweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cINEwJkzFSs
― CerebralCaustic, Monday, 13 February 2023 02:12 (one year ago) link
It's carnival season!
I'm loving both the amapiano version AND the soca version of Machel Montano x Hugh Masekela's* The Meeting Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJLkvKVkaMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDL_hr_n-c
*I know, right?!
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 27 February 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Haven’t listened to DJ Private Ryan latest soca mix but a New York Times mention of it is my reminder to listen
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 March 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
Bunji's Hard Fete is the definitive soca of the year for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97bq9Kjmr3E
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 12 March 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
Yeah it's an instant classic that one
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 13 March 2023 10:27 (one year ago) link
I’m not quite ready for that road yet, but I’m pretty sure I prefer the “N.M.G. Roadmix” to the original version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91PtPvDgtE
― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Monday, 13 March 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
IG is showing me an ad for Soca Gold 2023
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 03:31 (ten months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/22/well-play-until-our-teeth-drop-out-the-long-remarkable-lives-of-britains-windrush-era-musicians?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3kxUo678ukrRMUY7Bs2J30fY_t-tsq0HO7KnPYt4qZL4yg5AG1DEgqhK8_aem_th_AV9d3cRWfGL5S8Cevm0MShCRgVjBJgy_qXP-X5xmiuTlOFWtpHd3hZ_jQP1AAACA-nM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 June 2023 12:58 (ten months ago) link
Article is about Immigrants to UK still playing music and their legacy
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 June 2023 13:00 (ten months ago) link
BRINGING TOGETHER THE BIGGEST NAMES ACROSS THE GENRE, “CARIBBEAN MUSIC AWARDS” UNVEILS FIRST SET OF PERFORMERS====ALISON HINDS, JADA KINGDOM, DEXTA DAPS, KRANIUM, NAILAH BLACKMAN, DING DONG, RUPEE, LILA IKE SET TO HIT THE STAGE FOR CARIBBEAN MUSIC’S NIGHT OF CELEBRATION WITH CONFIRMED APPEARANCES BY SPICE, BABY CHAM, TONI-ANN SINGH AND MORE===REGGAE LEGEND BERES HAMMOND TO BE HONORED WITH AN ELITE ICON AWARD===“CARIBBEAN MUSIC AWARDS” WILL TAKE PLACE LIVE FROM THE RENOWNED KINGS THEATRE IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK THURSDAY, AUGUST 31 AT 8 PM ET HOSTED BY 3x GRAMMY AWARD-WINNER WYCLEF JEAN
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:11 (eight months ago) link
I have been sleeping on Ding Dong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UwKrek6gks
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:26 (eight months ago) link
Have liked Alison Hinds for a while, still need to catch up on many others in soca world
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 August 2023 18:49 (eight months ago) link
Super Blue just did a late night, poorly advertised gig in DC area .
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 August 2023 16:16 (eight months ago) link
http://tt.loopnews.com/content/denyse-plummer-has-died-calypso-world-mourning-again
RIP Denyse Plummer
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 19:33 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FKMW-9DvC0
Fallon “ What do want Santa” posted on YouTube a year ago ,
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 20:06 (five months ago) link
Actually “Wey yuh want Santa” parang
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 20:07 (five months ago) link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/made-in-trinidad-screening-with-filmmakers-natalie-hill-adele-bertei-tickets-736828272197?aff=ebdsshios&fbclid=PAAaYNqTa_prkW7lQHewckmuceJztgcuNCJCslKBozXuWDr8zZj7v0tcoy5LU_aem_AZaL0mJ5NxVkkfOYJj8HOo9thpm0b32VA-6vLBd4Fycu-osMndTBS9uGNnEuAgwf50Q
Natalie Hill and Adele Bertei for a very special screening (1st in decades!) of Made in TrinidadMade in Trinidad (First Screening in Decades! Filmmakers Natalie Hill & Adele Bertei in Person!)The Philosophical Research Society proudly welcomes producer and directors Natalie Hill and Adele Bertei for a very special screening of MADE IN TRINIDAD, their barely seen, incredible documentary on Trinidad’s Carnival celebrations. Produced in 2001, their film toured the festival circuit to acclaim, but did not receive distribution – a casualty of the early aughts film industry’s unfortunate indifference towards ethnographic filmmaking. Now, twenty-two years later, PRS is excited to share a rare screening of this wonderful film!
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 January 2024 21:59 (three months ago) link
That’s Feb 17 in Los Angeles for that soca in Trinidad film screening
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 January 2024 22:01 (three months ago) link
Vivien Goldman article on the assassination of Trinidadian Rebel Sixx , who she first started listening to while living in Jamaica during Covid
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/vivien-goldman-jamaican-bass-bad-mind
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 February 2024 16:54 (two months ago) link
I still need to finish the article
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 March 2024 15:22 (two months ago) link
https://www.bam.org/film/2024/one-hand-dont-clap?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_content=film-onehand-ig-o-post&utm_campaign=film
Restored doc One Hand Don’t Clap about soca and calypso showing in Brooklyn through Thursday March 14
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:26 (one month ago) link
Has there been any remarkable soca this past year? Trying to catch up....
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:20 (one week ago) link
I'm putting on a soca night in Bristol on Saturday, so I hope to hear some good stuff.
I've fallen off with soca recently. I omky really know Hard Fete and Anxiety from the last season
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 23:09 (one week ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZRPtvSdjBvqTHqbW0gUCG
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 April 2024 18:39 (one week ago) link
https://www.caribbeanlife.com/machel-montano-crowned-2024-tt-calypso-monarch/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 April 2024 18:48 (one week ago) link
Ooh nice thanks for this!
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 26 April 2024 00:08 (one week ago) link