Tagged: Machel Montano
Stream: Machel Montano f. Busta Rhymes, Olivia and Fatman Scoop, “Make It Shake”
Soca superstar Machel Montano returned this week with the dance-floor obliterator, “Make It Shake.” The track has all the elements of a crossover club banger—a guest spot from Busta Rhymes channeling his inner Snoop Lion, … read more »
Stream: Popcaan, “The System”
We’ve heard soca star Machel Montano’s version of Dre Skull’s new Loudspeaker riddim, “Go Down,” and now here’s “The System,” another rendition of the riddim from Portmore Empire supporting character turned fast-rising dancehall star, Popcaan. … read more »
Stream: Machel Montano, “Go Down”
Trinidad’s Machel Montano, International Soca Monarch winner for the past two years, and a national pop star for the last 30, takes a break from extreme BPMs and flag pumping on “Go Down,” his track … read more »
Machel Montano: Delirious
Machel Montano is just your everyday genre-mashing, world-saving, hook-obsessed secret soca megastar. I first see Machel Montano after being in his country for the sum total of five hours. I leave the sundappled Piarco International … read more »
GP 129: Dingolay / Onyenze / Ramajay / Tigerstyle / Zuzuka Poderosa
This edition of Ghetto Palms ended up being kind of a greatest misses for 2010—the only thing the beats really have in common being that I’m kicking myself for not including them in an earlier … read more »
Ghetto Palms 127: Jillionaire / TOK / Poirier / Schlachthofbronx / Swappi / Soca Rave / Exclusives!!
While I was digging into the green revolution in Detroit, the ghetto palms world kept right on spinning, so here is a quick catch-up: about the time NY was getting into Christmas bashment, Brazil set … read more »
Skinny Fabulous f. Machel Montano, “Duracell Plus” MP3
And here we have it, finally, the most literal soca song invented: two Caribbean superstars actually wigging out on a jam-ass beat about having unrelenting juice of recently charged batteries, in a genre that makes … read more »
K'Naan f. Machel Montano, "Wavin' Flag" (DJ Power Remix) MP3
A few yeas back you couldn’t go past the corner bodega without hearing MIMS’ remix of “This Is Why I’m Hot” (featuring Baby Cham and Junior Reid). The same goes this year with the drone … read more »
Machel Montano, “Wine on Me (Hold Yuh Riddim)” + “Drive” MP3s
Yesterday our good friend Nicholas P. Catchdubs tweeted, “I wanna play gyptian ‘hold yuh’ on the FAO Schwartz piano from Big.” Which is a tweet with about as much simple genius as the riddim itself—there … read more »
Video: Machel Montano f. Lil Jon & Pitbull, “Floor on Fire”
You can never really go wrong with live footage from Carnival whether or not you’ve made a crunk soca anthem. It’s like free advertising for Trinidad… YES WE WANT TO COME WILD OUT WITH YOU, … read more »
