Soca / Chutney / Jab

The Trini / Guyanese / Grenadan stuff tends to get a bit lost in the rolling dancehall thread so let's use this one to celebrate soca, chutney, jab, calypso, etc. Can be old or new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntyNcLybc0A

I really like Nadia Batson on the Antilles riddim. No Pressure is very good as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsvTJ-uGUOg

Jab from last year's Spicemas.

New JW & Blaze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y03YLLPgO48

The Ian Alleyne (Crimewatch host) parody in the middle is kind of adorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0sxdbJk6RA&feature=relmfu

Hasn't really been a vintage year for the Pungalunks Factory but this is growing on me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-rnvYqVdM

Kind of feeling this on the Hindi side of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8oVtqFw5fw

I could see this being pretty big at Notting Hill this year.

A few things i've been listening to recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVd-_B_Ry_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMc6TGezB2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7MZCZtRfm8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR7A3meb2oo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8u9tljQzvc

Rishi Mahato seems to have half a dozen not-quite-great but enormously catchy songs out at the moment. The only time i can get one out of my head is when another replaces it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOzP6-0HDcU

Saleem Beharry - Park Up Meh Car

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

Prophet Benjamin - No Lokani

"i know that i's a rasta, but still i love meh dahl
i want something to eat from up in Debe or Penal"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvfLuASBt7c

Anil Bheem - Freelancer

Truly the glamour boy of Chutney

Really like the mid-90s soca vibe on the Pungalunks-produced De Doggy by JunJeezy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsSi7x7exY

As a side-note / humblebrag something i wrote last year on soca / chutney is, mystifyingly, being included in a pan-Caribbean textbook to help kids improve their English language skills, which is amazing.

nice

really catchy songs! i'm not as well versed in trinidadian music as i should be, do you have a link to what you wrote?

Yes, is there a link?

Sorry for the late reply:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/apr/04/pop-musik-trinidad-tobago

I love Nisha Bissambhar's Wine Up Your Body:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeeWO8Qbrs8

I've had KI's Somebody Woman stuck in my head for a while too. Another with a strong 90s soca sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWPL85e56B4

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

Came out a while ago but i've been listening to Faye-Ann's We Doin' This Owah a lot recently?

Strangely misplaced question mark.

the answer is YES

Anyone feel like they've got a handle on this season? I've been clicking around Julianspromos on youtube but the volume is overwhelming

Not yet. It usually takes me until mid-Feb at the earliest.

are there mixes or radio stations you check? I need some hand holding :)

so this isn't just me asking for help. I quite like this Bunji tune:

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

I get my cousins to send me CDs!

This is a good forum though: http://www.islandmix.com/backchat/f16/

cheers! one other discovery this morning is Patrice Roberts' video for "Pong It", which is kind of a hoot and a worthy entry into the mini-genre of Caribbean videos featuring grannies

don't know how well known dr. jay is outside of toronto, but he's my source for soca tunes:

http://tunein.com/radio/Soca-Therapy-with-Dr-Jay-p474834/
http://g987fm.com/soca-therapy-with-dr-jay-2

"Pong It" has a nice classic soca feel to it. But I looked at the wrong video of it--- no grannies.

I think this is my favourite Prophet Benjamin song of the year so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spxV5ZPlwdc&list=PLOoBAEkGeyIfwRoDvOMJasCfWG_hsUM_M

nice! some crazy lyrics in that one. being left for your own grandfather, so sad

does anyone know of any good sites for buying soca mp3s. most of the ones i've found look really shady and i need to get my hands on a good quality mp3 of this for something i'm working on but can't seem to find anywhere that sells it (i can't buy from amazon us) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fved1egBwf4

I doubt I'll be any better at keeping track of the season this yea, but I really like this Town Thing riddim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibER8M1k2IU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvSjdXBmzEk&feature=youtu.be

^^^^ Excellent jab from Grenada.

i like this jab.

wau at this Olatunji:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8r9UtFvegg

http://www.socanews.com/music/charts/charts.php