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El-A-Kru “Fully Loaded” - Digital release

El-A-Kru’s new Album “Fully Loaded” is available as download in almost all digital music stores.

El-A-Kru - Fully Loaded

Antigua Road March results

1st: Papi - Lord Sattalyte (played 78 times)
2nd: Fury - Red Hot Flames (played 22 times)
3rd: Ben Ova - Lord Sattalyte (played 19 times)

source: imix

Lil Rick won Party Monarch 2007

1. Lil Rick - Cyan Wait
2. Mr. Dale - Soca Junkie
3. Khiomal - Bashment Bacchanal

Lil Rick

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Bunji Garlin on tour in Europe

Bunji Garlin on tour in EuropeThe original Fireman and Soca/Dancehall Artist Bunji Garlin from Trinidad & Tobago is touring Europe, backed by Berlin’s Reggae-Soundsytem Supersonic.

Dates:
28.06.2007 - Berlin, 103 Club (ls. Supersonic & Soca Twins)
29.06.2007 - München, Backstage (ls. Supersonic)
30.06.2007 - Mannheim, Rude 7 (ls. Supersonic & Soca Twins & Dee Buzz)
04.07.2007 - Paris (ls. Supersonic)
06.07.2007 - Hamburg, Waagenbau (ls. Supersonic)
07.07.2007 - Stockholm (tbc)
10.07.2007 - Rototom Festival (Italy) (ls. Supersonic)

Krosfyah for download

Krosfyah BandKrosfyah 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

The Ma$tamind Project

Shawn NoelShawn “Da Ma$tamind” Noel and Natasha Andrews from Ma$tamind Productions will release a new Soca Compilation called “The Ma$tamind Project” in December 2005. This Album features tracks by Bunji, Shurwayne, Faye Ann and many more. check the preliminary tracklist and listen to some snippets from the album:
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Explainer Interview at Calypso Archives

John Child and Dmitri Subotsky from The Calypso Archives interview their very special guest Explainer and play a selection of his greatest hits in their new radio show.
Some improvements where made on their Website: The Artist Discographies are now also viewable with Firefox / Mozilla Browser and a Result listing of the T&T Panorama Competition since its inception in 1963 (together with where to find the vocal versions of the tunes on record/CD) is online.

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KMC Album release at US Label

KMC Soul on fire album coverTrinidads famous Soca Artist KMC is set to release his Album ‘Soul On Fire’ on his new Label Sequence Records in the USA. The album, which is named after the artiste’s popular single Soul On Fire (came out in June at Sequence), will be released on October 4 at the Hyatt Hotel, Miami. After doing eight albums from 1997 (Soca Bashment) till 2005 (Circle Of Love) on his own, this will be the first release from a four-album deal with his new label. The second single, Love, which is a new song from KMC, will be released in Trinidad this week and in New York by the end of November.
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Socabase.com launched

A new contribution to the Soca & Calypso community is online:
Socabase.com is a database and search engine for soca & calypso music data. You can search and browse for artists, tunes, riddims, albums and producers. There are also short audio samples of many soca riddims available (in low quality). The informations are linked with each other.

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Bajan CDs 2k5 - Pt. 1

Monstapiece - The Next ChapterKrosfyah - TimelessThis week the new Monstapiece CD will be released called ‘The Next Chapter’. It’s the 7th year that Peter Coppin brings out his famous Compilation. Beside some big Bajan names like Lil Rick & Keann it also features Dawg-E-Slaughter, Bunji Garlin and Vybz Cartel. Last week Krosfyah already brought out their new Album ‘Timeless’ which features 14 Tracks.
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Vincy Roadmarch

Vincy Roadmarch results:
1. DJ 20 feat. Poorsah - Googa
2. DJ 20 - Bush Doctor
3. Fireman Hooper - Madder Than You

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New Monstapiece and Lil Rick Releases

The manager of Bajan’s famous Soca label Monstapiece told decooler.com, that the new Monstapiece Album “The Next Chapter” will be released on July 9th together with Lil Rick’s new CD called “Spontaneous”. About the rumours that there’ll be 6 new Riddims by Peter Coppin this year, he said this is not true.

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Dead Or Alive on Video

Snapshot from Video - Look De Band ComingShurwayne Winchester and his band Caribbean Traffik Jam worked last week on the video of the roadmarch song 2k5 “Dead Or Alive” which will be released in April. As last year with “De Band Coming”, they hope that they will win again in the “Soca Video Production” category at Soca Awards.

[ad] 2k5 Soca CDs now available at faluma.com

2005 Soca CDs
Visit faluma.com to check all new 2k5 Soca CDs from Trinidad Carnival.

Rampartap captures chutney soca crown

Heeralal Rampartap has won the International Chutney Soca Monarch for a third time. He copped the title after performing his two hit selections Kay-Paharie and Run For Meh Life, before a large and appreciative crowd at Skinner Park, San Fernando.