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.
With the start of the new year a soca institution comes to an end: the MashUp Show on raggakings.net will be broadcasted for the last time! The legendary show started some time in 2003 and was the very first internet radioshow and podcast for Soca and Caribbean music. Plus the very first show for World Bass / Tropical – years before the genre came into existence.
Tonight on 2st of Jan. there will be a fantastic final show by Marflix, Hendrik and Danny. It will be a best-of show with all the greatest anthems, lots of fiyahwater and surprises.
Please tune-in tonight, join the chat and leave a comment, or browse through the archive of the show, packed with hours and hours of fine music.
Is there any better photo opportunity in the world than Carnival in Trinidad & Tobago? I doubt it! Beautiful people, spectacular costumes, beaming smiles, great atmosphere, sunshine… you name it. No wonder there are thousands of photographers lining the streets of Port of Spain and thankfully many of them share their pictures with all of us in the internet. Here are just two out of many links to nice photo sets on Flickr: Kiddies Carnival 2009 (by “dexout”) Old Time Mas (by “Look Out Barbados”)
Have a look and enjoy!
If you wanna dig deep into Crop Over Carnival and Bajan politics, Boyce Voice is must-read for you! Peter Boyce, Managing Director of Madd Entertainment Co. Ltd and Secretary of United Artistes of Barbados, has many inside views for his readers spiced with a humourous and ironic language.
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,…
The Soca Warriors reached the FIFA world cup and soca songs about this are released every week. Now all soca football fans can also play a online flash game called Soca Soccer. The music was done by German soca producer BeatCamp and the singer VolkanikMan.
I hope we’ll see some DeCooler readers in the highscore soon..
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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