Weblog for Caribbean music – Soca, Calypso, Pan and Carnival Culture – Est. 2003
Not many of you might have heard of Malo. Marlon ‘Malo’ Webster is the reigning 2007 Carib Soca Monarch of Guyana. He took the title this year on Sunday 18 February with the song “Give it to me”. According to our knowledge he has no web presence, but we have two video clips for you:
Malo’s Soca Monarch show
Malo live at Soca Storm on May 19 2007
Krosfyah is Barbados’ favourite Soca-Band nowadays. From 1995 till now, they brought out one album every year for Crop Over. Faluma Digital together with Krosfyah rereleased the complete backcatalog at many music download-shops like iTunes, finetunes, junodownload, napster & more. An overview about Krosfyah’s discography plus download-links to all their CDs and songs one can find at the website of Faluma Digital
More speculations on the so-called “Soca Mafia” in Trinidad & Tobago and the Chinese Laundry – Machel Montano – Iwer George – triangle, which influences or almost controls DJs, promoters and upcoming artists.
For anybody who knows anything about Trinidad, money speaks volumes. Bribery is a very big aspect of getting things done in Trinidad. Once the money speaks you can get anything. [..] Upcoming and regular artistes in Trinidad cannot compete with this force because the money is too much. DJs do not stray from what Chinese Laundry wants because he has hand in a lot and determines who will or will not get work.
This is a world premiere: Mastamind Productions and the soca label Faluma just released the first online-only album. Year after year many soca productions get lost cause they never made their way into the stores and are hard-to-get. Now they are available worldwide without wait and high shipping costs. So no excuse any longer for supporting pirates…
The Missing Files is a compilation of unreleased soca tunes produced in the last six months.
For the past 2 years Mastamind Productions have been releasing song after song and while some of their music have been made available for purchase on there annual album, Da Mastamind Project, there were some tunes that we enjoyed via the airwaves, but wasn’t available legally anywhere for purchase. So on 04/23/07 Mastamind Productions along with their label Faluma Records, released their first all digital album, entitled Mastamind Productions: The Missing Files. This album features 16 tracks, which were released from June 2006 to February 2007. It features artistes such as Tallpree, Leon Coldero, Lyrikal, Squeely Dan, Nadia Batson, Adrian Dutchin, Ms. Alysha, Daria (Impack 2), Shaft, Mel, Chantwell, De Postman, Third Bass, and Kevon Carter. When Speaking to Shawn “Ma$tamind” Noel, he harped on the importance of making our music, SOCA music, available for purchase. It is a very sad when the pirates on the corner have your music available for purchase before you do. (Press release)
Get one of the best soca mixes ever made for free:
Jammers Collective – Small Island Invasion Vol. 1
Music from St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Dominica, Grenada, Antigua, St. Lucia and more. Artists like Seventeen Plus, Flying Cloud, Nu Vybes, Ajamu, Better Band, Educator, Rolling Tones, WCK,…
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