recomend me some soca

"bumpa catch a fire" timmy
"bonnie and clyde" destra garcia
"craziness" machel montano
"toro toro" machel montano and xtatik
"lend me a hand" maximus dan
"lose your way" fayann lyons
"bhangra" sharon darlington
"indian man" denise belfon
"wine and bend over" denise belfon and ghetto flex
"tempted to touch" rupee
"if i can't have you" rupee

And the route is one block away from my house, and it's a sunny day!

3.5 million people expected. I was awoken by the sounds of:

"the band coming" - shurwayne winchester
"is carnival" - destra & machel
"get on bad" - onika & bunji garlin

getting a late start on the day.

and last but not least!!! the links in this thread still work:

1XTRA links for your listening/viewing pleasure - Soca and FYA

Money Makers Bunji Garlin
Jah Love - Bunji Garlin
Get On Bad - Bunji Garlin
Move up to my bumper - Candice *GET THIS IF YOU CAN - IT'S A STONE-COLD KILLER*
Trample - Dawg E Slaughter
Up in the Air - Destra Garcia
Bata Bet Destra - Garcia
Clear De Way - Ghetto Flex
Soca Dancing - Ghetto Flex
Brooklyn Anthem - Iwer George
Soca Train (main) - Maximus Dan
Hottie dance - Militant Hottie Dance
Married Man - Natahlee
Skin to skin - Rupee
If You Only Knew - Rupee feat. Destra
Work - Shurwayne Winchester
Blaze - Spida
Negative Vibe - Destra

"up in the air" - destra
"soca train" = maximus dan
"bachelor" - scrunter(? forgot the artist?)
"trini 2 da bone" - david rudder
plus a few songs i didn't recognize

no it doesn't.

and i'm not saying old threads are useless but if you want to get any up-to-date info they aint gonna help much - unless, as i said, they are regularly updated.

Plenty of soca artists coming to DC in a few weeks for DC Carnival. I still maintain that with the proper marketing Machel Montano could win the support of a crossover audience as he nicely incorporates rock, r'n'b, and more into his danceable soca sound. He will be in DC at a location tba Carnival night June 28th.

Another year, another DC Caribbean Carnival parade, concerts, club shows. I still like me some soca

Another year...and 5 years since I saw and was wowed by Machel Montano and band, but I can't seem to convince anyone that his "jump-up" music is more unique than that of many soca performers...

Soca always gets dismissed by some the way they dismiss some techno.

RIP Arrow of "Hot, Hot, Hot" fame. Dead of brain cancer at age 60

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/06/134266543/wile-or-wine-10-soca-songs-for-carnival-season

still love the soca (and Machel Montano's music especially)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/06/24/caribbean-carnival-parade-shorter-but-still-on/

Friday June 24th:
Flags Till Morning (soca fest) from 10 pm till 4 am featuring Iwer George, Makamillion
Leonce , Yankee Boy Diamond, Pumpa, Lyrical Orlando Octave, and Razor Show at The Hampton Center, 207 W. Hampton Place, Capital Heights, MD
Tickets are available in advance at Crown Bakery 202-291-3009 ;Under The Coconut Tree 240-764-8301; Island delights 443-426-7601

Machel Montano and the HD Band from 9pm until 4 am at DC Star Nightclub, 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE.

Chutney Soca Affair from 9 pm until 4 am featuring Rikki Jai, X3ME International ft. Slnya Lakhan, Major Tassa Band, Calypsonian Saga, DJs Wayne, Easy E, and Daddy O at Mirage Hall, 1401 University Blvd., Hyattsville, MD. Tickets $35 More At Door Tickets On Sale at Crown Bakery, 5409 Georgia Avenue NW, Caribbean Grocery
7505 New Hampshire Ave., Takoma Park, MD

The chutney event should be pretty great - if only for Rikki Jai.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-lbinf_qSs

I should get the latest Soca Gold comp. It has a Rickey Jai cut

Rikki I mean

some of my fave soca tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GshbRsJ1MQk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N13mqln-QI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kYlbxH5aI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59c8fllt1OU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJy7kC9mLk

XP, the new Soca Gold isn't great. Not sure it's worth having, unfortunately.

The 2010 edition was good, though.

Is there a better 2011 comp out on another label? Or do you just think the 2011 slate of songs is not as good; or did the label pick the wrong carnival hits?

Honestly, 2011 wasn't a vintage year. I haven't heard much worth getting excited about.

agreed, from stuff i've heard last year's tuneage was better, though i also thought that the 2010 batch was distinctly weaker than the one from 2009 - so maybe it's just me getting a bit tired of soca, i dunno? i'm definitely much more into chutney nowadays, lost of strong songwriting in recent years (esp. the Pungalunks Factory stuff) and rum-monomania is always fun!

a few straight up soca tunes by chutney gals i'm loving at the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvZNBeV8cts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlu594zNYdE

I thought 2010 was pretty good but Palance and Barman kind of overshadowed everything else.

Something Harder is definitely one of the best of 2011.

don't really check for this stuff anymore but palance video is always and forever a go-to antidote for boredom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXB5BWG3JxM

never properly got into "Palance" myself (the song, that is - the video is beyond awesome of course!), but "Barman" is the shit... kinda into the video for that one as well, just a bunch of terminally uncool dudes who think wearing tight t-shirts and sunglasses makes them cool - the kind of people who are basically barred from US/western-Euro pop imagery, even in this brave new post-Jersey Shore world

i'm still catching up with recent soca & chutney - anything else from 2011 you'd recommend ShariVari?

I want to check out the new David Rudder album Random Notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UnPkSSfYHw

lol

I like Bottle Of Rum (Machel), Gift Of Soca (Bunji) and People's Champion (Benjai) on the 3Zero riddim but none of them quite hits the mark.

Soca 2012 belongs to Nadia Batson, for me:
-ShariVari May 2012

thanks. Was out at a dancehall 'n' soca night a few weekends ago, but need to figure out song titles.

is it just me or soca basically completely mental?

as in crazy? or something else?

both!!

i was at carnival this weekend and soca basically seems like funky gabba

Yeah, there's been a tendency towards more frenetic riddims in power soca in recent years.

haha yes "power soca" is a good way to describe what i was hearing

one of the floats was sponsored by a soca radio station (can't remember the name) and their tagline was something like NO TALK - ALL SOCA - 24/7

i was like, that almost sounds like a threat

But someone always has to complain and mock:

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/why-i-detest-the-notting-hill-carnival/

Gosh, I’m just so liberal and open-minded and Notting Hill Carnival is such a beautiful union of so many cultures! OMG! Rum punch and soca music and jerk chicken and Bob Marley!” It’s OK, you’re not being marked on anything. You don’t have to force yourself to dance awkwardly to homophobic bashment tunes and if the food is not to your taste it doesn’t make you a racist. Calm down, once Tuesday comes around, you can go back to crossing the road from the mumbling Rastafarian man that scares you.

why would you post something so shit here??!

i mean that is just an obviously miserable person who happens to be wrong about everything, not that rare

otm. its not that hard to find horrible ppl we dont need to re-post them

I guess just because I have sadly seen similar such nonsense re the Washington DC Caribbean Carnival. The universality of annoying whiners about carnivals.

I saw online some great photos as well

here's one i took -

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8303/7871067636_b4e6816c2c_b.jpg

here we go - Flagz Radio - 24/7 SOCA NO TALK JUST SOCA

http://www.flagzradio.co.uk/radioplayer/player.html

Carnival in Brooklyn is Monday September 3rd

The Brooklyn one has a decent line-up - Machel Montano, Mr Vegas, Black Stalin, etc.

Miami one is in October I think.

I saw Machel Montano once and think he's great, but I see he's getting flack from old-school Calypsonians for sucking up to Olympic participants (and only doing so with fellow soca artists and not old-school folks who prefer more commentary in their lyrics)

There's been a backlash brewing around Montano for a while. Partly because he's probably the only soca star who regularly features on records by big international performers and partly because he's so entrenched at the top of the industry at home. He doesn't come up with a lot of exceptional material but his fanbase is so solid it gives him a huge advantage when it comes to carnival competitions.

great photo, Tracer

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/branding/1555291/machel-montano-trinidadian-soca-star-looks-beyond-carnival-signs#0CdRJKt9CXjtLc0v.01

Superman costume is a nice touch.

The first single to come from Montano's AZ deal will be a remake of "Mr. Fete" due this summer, featuring French R&B singer Matt Houston. "

Ladysmith Mombazo collaboration could be more interesting, but wh knows.

Not a massive fan of Machel but it would be great for soca's international profile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU3qhoP9_X8

Kerwin Du Bois' December 2011 "Bacchanalist" still sounds great

Du Bois's a busy guy--songwriter, performer, dj and more

http://www.islandmix.com/backchat/f16/

soca chatboard forum

Major Lazer with Machel Montano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgwYMWe83RY

Diplo adding more soca to his sound!

Saw a mention of the Differentology album in the Washington Post as a best recent release.

Its Caribbean Carnival weekend in NYC:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/2014-labor-day-carnival-schedule-article-1.1919612

lotsa related events and late-night shows

Destra's animated video for "Lucy" is p.intense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvQ4zRHMLo

ha, that's great! feeling this afrobeatsish Olatunji track too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTMiz4C0_SQ

has anyone come across a 2015/carnival mix they'd recommend? this looks interesting, but it's nearly 3 hours: https://soundcloud.com/djprivateryan/private-ryan-presents-soca-brainwash-2015

x-post-- wow, just saw that Destra animated video in an Erin MaCleod April 3rd article in the Guardian.

animated jiggling bottoms...

Its been ten years now since I was wowed by seeing Machel Montano and band live. Alas, I wimped out on seeing him this weekend at a late-night DC gig. Checked out photos and Instagram video and it looked like a fun, packed (almost 2,000 or so) show. I need to catch up with his music. He never quite had the crossover success I thought he could achieve years ago. I still like his more tuneful stuff better than his straight-forward speedy soca dance numbers

http://www.afropop.org/24811/west-indian-carnival-coming-to-new-york/

Carnival time in NYC