We are in right in the middle of the high season of Soca & Carnival music. Another sweet Groovy Soca video by Lady Gypsy singing about the vintage wine from the good ole days before the influence of Jamaican dancehall. If you never heard about Lady Gypsy but the voice sounds kinda familiar, don’t worry: she is Fayann Lyons mother. Actually Lyn “Lady Gypsy” Steele won the Calypso Monarch title in 2010.
Wining has nothing to do with the drink wine, but with a dance common in the Caribbean which has a lot to do with body controll, bumper rotation and sex.
There is another 2012 tune – not really Soca but Kaiso, the modern successor of Calypso.
Another groovy soca video for this Trinidad Carnival season: Erphaan Alves – In Your Eyes, voiced over the Antilles Riddim. Production by Precision Productions.
But there is more:
A brandnew jump-up soca combination by Erphaan Alves with Machel Montano (Precision Productions again) can be downloaded for free and you should grab now:
Congo Tardis #1 is waving the flag for Tropical Bass in Australia! They are the first australian tropical / tribal soundsystem represented by the Melbourne based DJs and producers Ms Butt, Paz and Lewis CanCut. Their first offical Release, a 3-track EP with the appropriate title “Number One”, is out now, worldwide! To be honest, I really was looking forward for this, in my opinion it gives a very good overview of the variety of styles they play. There are elements of 3ball Guarachero, Cumbia, UK Funky, Kuduro, Dancehall, Bashment, Kwaito, Baile Funk, Afrobeat, Dub, Dubstep, House, Latin Funk and Disco, Soca, Swamp Funk, Krewe Beat. In other words: everything we call “tropical bass”. I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy this.
Prelisten the EP here and hit the “Buy” button, to cop it, if you like:
and make sure you’ll watch the official Video to the great Marawa the Amazing featured Single “Sweet Lime”
to check their dj skills, you can give this short promo mix a listen
Carnival is coming nearer and nearer – which is a good thing because the music output from Trinidad is getting hype till it’s climax end of February. New groovy soca single by Farmer Nappy, former singer at the band Xtatik. This song was produced by the producer team De Red Boyz from Barbados who did several successfull singles with him.
Video directed by Peter C. Lewis, also former Xtatik member.
New groovy soca by Trinidad’s Machel Montano – Mr Fete. This tune is already large in Trinidad at – you guessed it – fetes. A carnival fete is a large party with soca brass bands during carnival, usually open air. On some fetes there are 30 000 people and more attending.
Download your free Copy of the Coca Cola sponsored Soca Riddim for this years Trini Carnival. The groovy Rhythm was produced by Kernal Roberts and features voicings from Benjai, Lil Bitts, Umi Marcano, Screws and Devon Matthews. Check the Video Medley to preview all tunes and download your favourite ones from the official Coca Cola – Trinidad homepage!
Just in time for this years carnival season, Montreal’s Soca Don Poirier dropped his debut EP on New York based label Mixpak Records, today. The 4-track EP includes the two unreleased soca instrumentals “Work That” (free remix below) and “Who Got Di Riddim”, as well as two vocal tunes.
“Bring It On” is a powerful soca banger featuring the very talented South African Vocalist EJ Von Lyrik, while “Sak Te Gen Tan La” was voiced by Quebec based Rapper Imposs who transformed Poirier’s Riddim into an haitian carnival anthem.
