Soca Audioblogs

Carnival in Trinidad is coming up and that means tons of new sweet music. Before I was dependent on the file sharing network Soulseek. The soca music has no distribution in Sweden, the closest is Faluma in Germany. Soca is not released so much on Albums, more on CD collection and promo mp3 files.
Now there is a couple of good audio blogs specialized in Soca and Caribbean beats. Here is my favorites:

Soca Lime
A new site that seems to have a Caribbean origin. Good balance between artist info and comments by the writer. Really frequently updated lately, witch is real nice.
http://socalime.blogspot.com/

Cyan Wait
From the big song this year song by Lil'Rick. (See further down for video!) Both Soca and Reggae releases or as the blogger puts it: "Audioblog for Caribbean music - Soca, Calypso, Dancehall, Reggae and Urban Carnival Culture".
Riddims and Singles and strange pics to accompany it with.. =) This first audio soca blog I found. I think of European origin.
Big up!
http://cyanwait.blogspot.com/

Caribbean Stylez
This one is from France and in French. Don’t be afraid, its easy to find you way around. The bloggers are Beenij & Dj SpeeD. I know some of the other blogs are getting there tunes from this one, so nuff respect.. ;) Soca and Reggae / Dancehall. A lot of real releases in zip and rar if you know what i mean. Tons of posts and big ones too.
http://caribbean-stylez.blogspot.com/

www.2all.co.il/Web/Sites/reggaedancehall/
A bit strange but here we go; this one is from Israel! I had to check what country .il top domain was.. It’s in hebrish so impossible to read. Good they spell soca and dancehall in English. ;)
Tip: look at the link address instead... Big big post with single files. Not so good with titles for the songs, all has the address in the id3 tag instead of name of artist and so on. But it’s really really nice to see that some Israelis are bigging up the soca music... I'll cyan wait til I can go there to spinn... =) Dancehall, reggae tunes too.
http://www.2all.co.il/Web/Sites/reggaedancehall/

I'm always looking for more, so if you know some that I haven’t featured here,
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Two new videos from Lil'Rick

Two new videos produced by Jay Will. He has produced videos with Munga, Shaggy and Beenie Man and much more.
This two are of suburb quality and I feel really distressed that I’m missing Carnival in TNT this year.. Show me your nasty wukup, ignorant wukup!


Lil'Rick - Girls Gone Wild


Lil'Rick - Cyan Wait

Pics from Club Bacchanal part II

Hey, pics from the Bacchanal at Simba in Gothenburg the 8 of December are now up at www.soca.se.
Snakka, Jeepstar and Luddee rocked the mic and Soca Revolution Crew and the Fogels Breathren played the sweet music.
Check pics here.

Remix: Shurwayne Winchester ft. Collie Buddz - ALEQUA (Remix)

Hey, just got this one in my mail, its a remix of Shurwayne WInchester's Alequa. This time featuring Collie Buddz. Lyrics Written by Shurwayne Winchester & Colin Harper.
Music Composed & Produced by Shawn Noel & Natasha Andrews-Noel for MA$TAMIND PRODUCTIONS.


Listen here:

Shurwayne Winchester ft. Collie Buddz - Alequa (Remix)

Click here for download.

Christmas Evening

This is the real christmas day here in Sweden.
Eating all day, taking it easy... Now I'm here with a Gin and Tonic and just buzzing...
This video from Remy is wonderful:

Roland "Rem Bunction" Yearwood - Mr Santa Claus

Merry Christmas!

The day before the day. There is snow outside and the christmas spirit has arrived. Not the same as in Caribbean, but the parang helps.
We just come home from London and some business things. Now we going to relax here in Lidköping and just eat drink and relax.
Here is another Christmas gift from Parang Artist June Smith and us,

June Smith - Santa
June Smith - Parang Come To Stay
June Smith - Trini Women
and bonus:
June Smith - Baby Boy
We really like this one, its so sweet, catchy and romantic.

If you want to know more about parang music this myspace page is very good.

Merry Christmas!

Parang Mix!

Hello. Back from Gothenburg and madly tired. Club Bacchanal was real sick and everyone was real happy. Next time in Febuary.

I put together parang soca mix for Christmas. This is the first official mixtape from Soca Revolution. There will be alot more.
You can download it here, as one mp3 file or as a zip file with all the tracks split up and with cover art, perfect to burn on a CD.
Enjoy & MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!



dj_baccha-caribbean_christmas.mp3, 117Mb, 74min.
dj_baccha-caribbean_christmas.zip, 121Mb, 74min, incl cover art.

Mr Vegas & Destra - On the Floor

New song for Trini Carnival 2k8, Mr Vegas featuring Destra. Do you reconize the na na na? Like how the song is built with Vegas singen the lyrics first and then Destra sings it all over again. Destra really show she is topclass.


Mr Vegas & Destra - On the Floor

Club Bacchanal part 2 - December 8th

Club Bacchanal



Pressure Boom at Club Bacchanal December 8th in Gothenburg.

The 2nd round of Club Bacchanal offers, a summary of the past year. The best songs from 2K7 will be played, Road March-winners will be honored! Furthermore we will treat you with next years tunes for the carnivals in the Caribbean!

Resident deejay Baccha will teach you everything about the Soca-music.
How?
-By playing music that is going to make it impossible for you to stand still!


Is father Cristmas comming?
-No, it's too early, but we have JeepStar and Snakka San from Snakkas Kapell as well as Ludee whom are grabbing the mic and will do interesting stuff with the help of Soca riddims! Can..t be missed!

And it's ofcourse free entrance for those who chooses to wear carnival costumes!

When?: 8/12

Where?:Restaurang Simba, S:t Eriksgatan 3/Gothenburg/Sweden

Age?: 20 years +ID

All this for the price of: 60 skr

YOU ARE VERY WELCOME!

Check out the myspace page: www.myspace.com/clubbacchanal

The Zouk Trend in Soca

This year has had some big zouk inspired soca songs. The Road March of St. Vincent this year was a "cover" on the old hit by Kassav - Zouk la le sel medicament nou ni. You can see the video a little bit down, it makes me wanna play steel drums more then ever. The song has the same riddim just with new lyrics by Problem Child. You can read an article about him here in WE Magazine. Its really nice to hear the two music styles blend. The riddims of zouk and soca can be very similar, so similar it can be hard to separate them apart. One band that blends the two styles perfect is Triple Kay from Dominic.


Problem Child - Party Animal

Zouk La Sé Sel Médikaman Nou Ni

Kassav - Zouk la le sel medicament nou ni