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Maddzart took SVG roadmarch 2010

DeCooler — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:36:46 +0000

Maddzart won the 2010 roadmarch in St. Vincent with the song “The King Road”. Congrats!

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Video: Bunji Garlin – Brave

DeCooler — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:02:08 +0000

Brand new video by ForceFed of Bunji Garlin’s tune “Brave”:

Bunji Garlin – BRAVE (Official Music Video) from ForceFed Blog on Vimeo.

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Kurt Allen T&T Calypso Monarch 2010

Julia — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:29:05 +0000

Kurt Allen dethroned defending monarch Chalkdust on Dimanche Gras and became Trinidad & Tobago’s 2010 National Calypso Monarch. With his sharp-tongued political commentary “Dey too bright” he convinced the audience as well as the jury.

Kurt Allen’s winning Calypso Monarch performance on sunday night:

Sources: Trinidad Express, Bandwagonist

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10th Anniversary of Kitchener’s Death

Julia — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:00:06 +0000

Yesterday it was already ten years since the one and only, the Calypso genius, The Grandmaster, Aldwyn Roberts aka Lord Kitchener left this world.
At least his music stays with us forever and isn’t Carnival just the right time to commemorate this great man…

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Why Machel Montano is doing no shows this carnival

DeCooler — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:41:12 +0000

Did you already wonder about the very few appearances by Machel Montano this carnival? A series of articles in the Guardian tries to explain his motives behind the decision to keep a low profile this season. Read now part 1.

The decision of soca superstar, Machel Montano, to refrain from live performances during the Carnival season is possibly one of the most difficult decisions he had to make in his long musical career. Many fans and revellers consider this move as creating a vacuum in live musical performances during these Carnival celebrations. However, this musical move can be a very strategic manoeuvre if Machel utilises this period to re-evaluate his guiding philosophy in relation to where he wants to take the music. Many local musicologists and older commentators have attributed blame to Montano for the direction of soca music in the last decade, since the local media have always touted him as the major flag-bearer of the new generation of soca performers in the post Rudder/SuperBlue era.

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Spirit of Carnival

Julia — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:07:14 +0000

The first release out of the Catalyst Music Camp for 2010:
“SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL” by MR. Slaughter
Produced by Tony Brown for Mad Architect Music and Michelle “Miche” Williams for Catalyst Music.
Press text by Mad Architect:
Mr. Slaughter has been captivating audiences since the early days of Xcaliber Sounds. Known as a man of multiple talents, he is one of the few disc jockeys to cross over into the performing artist arena. With hits such as Pokey, Carnival I Love You & Tic Toc, he has been an act capable of bringing unique and mesmerizing ideas to the soca market.

This year is no exception. His latest release, Spirit of Carnival, is a 2010 offering that fully engulfs the emotions, energy and flavour of carnival season. It has elements of Jouvert, groovy and ragga soca all in one cohesive presentation. Visualizing this song on the road Carnival Tuesday, one can imagine the Spirit of Carnival taking full possession and causing carnival bliss.

Spirit of Carnival was co-produced by Michelle Miche Williams for Catalyst Music and Tony The Mad Architect Brown for Mad Architect Music. This song is one of the first tracks from their new campaign entitled The Unity Sessions. The Unity Sessions is a project created by the two production camps in an effort to spread more unity amongst the soca genre. They hope that by showing that producers and artists can work together as a team, it would be the early model that would facilitate soca into a more world recognized and profitable genre of music.

Cooperation is the key for overall success says The Mad Architect. I was happy to work on this project. There was a lot of talent involved between all the parties involved. The creative energy was so high at points that it was hard to sleep while working on this. But we pulled through and I hope it shows what the power of working as a team can do. And this is only the first project. I am excited to see what the future holds for future Unity Sessions. This is truly what the Spirit of Carnival is all about. Coming together as one and celebrating life. I think in these days of economical and social turmoil, we forget what Carnival is really all about.

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Second Annual Soca Music Awards (UK)

DeCooler — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:06:59 +0000

After a few weeks of online voting, the winners of the Second Annual Soca Music Awards were presented last night. The event took place in London and the audience was entertained by live acts such as Scrappy, Miss Desire, Soca Johnny and more.
Below you find a list with the awardees.

Congratulations to this year’s winners!

Best International Male Artist – Brother B
Best International Female Artist – Fay-Ann Lyons
Best International Soca Collaboration – Patrice Roberts & Machel Montano (Tempa Wine)
Best International Soca Producer – KC Phillips
Best Soca Track – Little Wine (Brother B)
Best Soca Music Video – Bacchanal (Destra)
Best International Band/Group – Kes The Band
Best Album – Hott (Destra)
Best UK Calypsonian – Akima Paul
Best UK Male Soca Artist – Scrappy
Best UK Female Soca Artist – Miss Desire
Best UK Soca Track – Jouvert Mornin (Scrappy)
Best UK Soca Club DJ – QT 2Hype
Best UK Male Soca Radio DJ – DJ Shaker
Best UK Female Soca Radio DJ – Hyper Spice
Best UK Soca Radio Station – Tempo Radio
Best UK Soca Producer – Soca Child
Favourite Mas Band – Bacchanal Mas
Favourite Steel Band – Mangrove
Favourite Event – Soca Frenzy
Contribution to Saint Lucian Music and Culture – Xtreme Mas
Contribution to Grenadian Music and Culture – Amanda Smith
Contribution to Antiguan Music and Culture – Antiguan Princess

via socanews.com

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Vincy Road March 2009

Julia — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:50:12 +0000

This year’s St Vincent Road March title winner is Problem Child with “Madhouse”. The winning tune was produced by Fryktion.
It is their 2nd Road March title in just three seasons, after winning in 2007 with “Party Animal”.

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Machel Montano’s Tribute to Shel Shok

Julia — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:19:10 +0000

The video below shows Machel Montano’s tribute to one of the greatest Soca producers, Sheldon “Shel Shok” Benjamin, who finally lost the battle against cancer on Tuesday 9th June 2009.
He produced hits such as “Dance With You”, “In Your Timin Girl”, “Roll it Gyal”, “Madder Than Dat” and riddims like “The Best Riddim”, “Six Speed Riddim”, etc. He is gone, but his music will be around forever.

Recorded at Radio City Music Hall on 13th June 2009.

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New Video: Shurwayne Winchester – You (Energy)

Julia — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:52:37 +0000

New video by Trinidad & Tobago’s superstar Shurwayne Winchester of his 2009 carnival hit “You” (Energy). Directed by S* Felix and Lisa Wickham.

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