Tagged: soca
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: 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 »
Trinidad Carnival 2011 Roundup: This Is As Close As We Got
On this the last day of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, we can’t help but feel like we missed out on all the pageantry, booze, and bacchanal of 2011. Nonetheless we’re amped to see some … read more »
GP 131: Super Cat x Hardhouse Banton / Maximus Dan x So Shifty / Ragga / Trinitech
Where to start—Libya in turmoil, revolution spreading like a virus from North Africa to Real Africa (and not sure whether its worse when they report it that way or when they just don’t report it). … read more »
Kes The Band, “Wotless” MP3
In West Indian culture the term wotless is usually ascribed to someone behaving in a manner that would bring shame and disgust to themselves, their family, or bystanders who are willing to join in with … 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 »
Benjai, “Wine To The Side” MP3
All over the world right now multi-generational shops of women are ordering feathers, sequins and spandex from China, preparing costumes for Karnaval/Carnaval/Carnival cruising season. In those sewing rooms they’re probably setting stitching pace against the … read more »
The Heatwave’s Carnival Bashment Mix MP3
Whether you’re in Brooklyn or Notting Hill, West Indian Carnival weekend is a good opportunity to reflect upon the year in soca and dancehall, when DJs really bring out their A game to pump up … 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 »
