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badga tek · Post by **badga tek** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:21 pm

Anyone into their soca? Any tune recommendations? A lot of the stuff I've heard (not that much at the moment) sounds quite good, I'm liking the energy but a lot of the tunes are ruined a bit by some proper bait melodies/choruses. Be interested to hear some darker stuff maybe

BaronVon · Post by **BaronVon** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:31 am

Bunji Garlin - Flags and Colours
Carnival anthem.Pure cheese but brilliant

Dawg E Salaughter & Rikki Jai - Drinking Rum
Class tune Soca/Dancehall vibes

Its all about Machel Montano the King of Soca check any of his stuff really.

Think you might have trouble finding dark stuff,its a little too warm there for moody vibes.Darkest tune i can suggest is Shurwayne Winchester feat Elephant Man - Adrenaline.Not really dark but a bit more aggy Dancehall style.

badga tek · Post by **badga tek** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:14 pm

Cheers man, I'll check that out.

alec.tron · Post by **alec.tron** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:12 am

Just had a really great dancehall evening again (after ages not beeing to any dancehall thingy) on the fusion festival with King Kong Sound.... so I ve been looking around but couldn t find anything...
So, do you guys have some recommendations for some free soca / dancehall mix resources ?
Thanks,
c.

ozols man · Post by **ozols man** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:49 am

Badga Tek wrote:Be interested to hear some darker stuff maybe

lol good luck

kotchinyard · Post by **kotchinyard** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:31 pm

Yeah, i've been meaning to get some soca as well. Always hear some banging stuff at carnival but never really know who to check out.

kenneth sulu · Post by **kenneth sulu** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:45 pm

KOTCHINYARD wrote:Yeah, i've been meaning to get some soca as well. Always hear some banging stuff at carnival but never really know who to check out.

That's because it basically sucks when you're not at carnival/on holiday.

Yes, Soca is one of my pet hates atm and i feed it regularly.

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:51 pm

my 2 favourite soca tracks:

destra ft shurwayne winchester - come beta

denise belfon - indian man

total killer carnival carnage!

notable mentions to iwer george each and every.

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:00 pm

she's the first lady of soca and she is bad!

denise belfon - work it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1aR7Sq0rs

this is what it's all about with main man iwer george!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0HAF1zYy1o

and here's the you tube audio for 'come beta'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crpd6v81mD8

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:12 pm

i think i've killed this thread with overenthusiasm lol

deville · Post by **deville** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:50 pm

maximus dan - cello riddim
thats a dark one. proper.

flipw · Post by **flipw** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:54 pm

the soca (and the reggae) collections on VP Jamaica label are usually good

badga tek · Post by **badga tek** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:56 pm

Completely forgotten about this thread. Big up for the recommendations, I'll get on it.

And if anyone's interested, I'd recommend

Machel Montano - We Not Givin Up
Iwer George - Fete After Fete
Isaac Blackman - To The Ceiling

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:09 am

it's sickeningly cheerful and bouncy.

just LISTENING to it for 10 minutes makes me tired.

juakali · Post by **juakali** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:29 pm

DeVille wrote:maximus dan - cello riddim
thats a dark one. proper.

yeah, look for Maximus, also 3Canal...
I'll look into it, you are going to hear mostly "jump and wave" outside of the Caribbean. There are some darker and moody tunes "Mud", "Jumbie", that play for Jouvert (the morning b4 Carnival in T&T)...

on it

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:15 pm

carnival was something of a revelation on this front, i haven't enjoyed myself like that for a long time

so soca is a bit of a catch all term right? i've read the wikipedia page and it hasn't told me so much. i always thought soca implied a specific rhythm, but it seems that i was wrong about that?

some of the stuff i heard at carnival was crazy, 150 bpm, four to the floor, thunderous bass, wild percussion, amazing vocals

where in london or on the internet is good to go to buy / be advised on this stuff?

socool · Post by **socool** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:31 pm

I'm fond of Soca. My fave tune so far is Sugar Daddy feat. Ms. Thing - Sweet Soca Music (rmx)... it uses those Beatles' strings that the Verve sampled for Bittersweet Symphony.

It's on this mix I made longside some jungle, reggaeton and dub.

tha_illsta · Post by **tha_illsta** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:54 pm

Gwarn tha SOCA gang one time!!!!!!!

YO' CHESS'S'S

How 'bout :

The roof is on fire - Nigel and Marvin

A biggie from carnival '97 (or around then)

and P.S. it NEVER sounds so good UNLESS you have the MASQUERADE float in your bedroom...

badga tek · Post by **badga tek** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:04 pm

elgato wrote:so soca is a bit of a catch all term right? i've read the wikipedia page and it hasn't told me so much. i always thought soca implied a specific rhythm, but it seems that i was wrong about that?

My somewhat limited definition of it (and I know someone's gonna shoot me down and correct me) is that soca is to calypso as dancehall is to reggae. Faster, more upbeat and modern and influenced by a wide range of other genres internationally

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:14 am

Badga Tek wrote:My somewhat limited definition of it (and I know someone's gonna shoot me down and correct me) is that soca is to calypso as dancehall is to reggae. Faster, more upbeat and modern and influenced by a wide range of other genres internationally

Agree with that. Neat way of putting it.

What gets me stuck is explaining Dancehall to your average mainstream person. If I say it came from Reggae I'll get "like Bob Marley?" so I end up saying "like Sean Paul... but better".

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