at the ambassadors reception… those who keep following the truck stay strong – keep breathing exhaust. the black lung is a test. hold it up like a teuton with a shoulder bag full of dubs. which is to say that the soca twins have given away a double mix of summer08 soca. LDN take note this saturday… mighty sparrow, fay ann lyons, kevin lyttle & jamesy p in town. rain rain go away, come again another day.
Soca Twins – Addicted to Soca CD1
Soca Twins – Addicted to Soca CD2
First, here’s an all Steve Gurley mix I’ve been listening to quite a lot lately. I am flagrantly ripping this from the dubstepforum, where it was ripped from Uptown Music Forum, where it was posted about a year ago. The mix was done by someone named AverageJoe, an ordinary DJ with a funny Homer Simpson gif as his MySpace default.
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And now some pictures from last Friday.
The first is of Mr Eliel Lucero skankin’ (to some really good Roots music Matt was playing earlier in the night) in his brand new Dutty Artz tee! Get yours!
And here I am, standing around (yeah, i’m mad bcuz i’m only) in my plain old regular tee— waiting for that lite tropical pink.
And here’s Yellowman, AKA Geko Jones. This man spins and dances behind the decks like a mutha, (but then again, he falls into a state of deep concentration at times.) I’m not sure who’s the better dancer behind the decks, Matt or Gex? I don’t think Rupture dances behind his decks. Maga Bo doesn’t either. Well, I’ve never seen them dance behind their turntables anyway. Have you? If you have, I need photo-or videographic evidence of these two men getting down. 
Maga Bo, author of Archipelagoes —a monster I can’t find the words to describe—, here manning the controls at the bottom of a bluest ocean with weird fishes and creatures swimming over his head and around him, while at the same time modeling tee shirts by designer Ghislain Poirier. Oh, Big Poppa Ghis (© Rupture), thanx 4 D Gros Beats. One beer wasn’t enough.
(I don’t have a single picture of Matthew Shadetek for some reason, and the man wasn’t scarce either. I apologize for that.)
And the people, the people, the party people…
Yes, lady on the left can shake it like a salt shaker.
My, my.. dazzling, beautiful brown eyes…
Go ladies.. all you stereotype ladies
Getting hazy and sweaty right about here.
Goodnight.
This one is a scorcher, my first encounter with “ragga-hop.”
The Caribbean’s answer to Beyoncé, Triniti is a soulful songstress, sassy singjay, and hard-hitting deejay wrapped in an irresistibly exotic package.
Nuff said.
Ms Triniti – Wi Burnin (Woy Yoy Yoy)
Which one is Ms Trini?
Machel Montano ft Shaggy – Whining Season rmx
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwoJcel1dJo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbA5OYfsn90[/youtube]
[[Oye familia! — one of my favorite inter-peoples, Word the Cat, will be duttying things up in here from time to time! lets WELCOME THE CAT -Rupture]]
the road mix strips it down to the drums. follow the truck. more haste less speed. it’s carnival time.
this mix still breathing exhaust
sanell dempster – heat (road mix)
fay ann lyons – get on (dizipline road mix)
kes the band – de remedy (badman dizipline road mix)
machel montano – blazin d trail (road mix)
roy cape all stars f/ blaxx – breathless (road mix)
roy cape all stars f/ blaxx – breathless (illusion mix)
one republic f/ timbaland – apologyze (dizipline soca mix)
carnival starts with j’ouvert. I-Wayne said soca is “dancing with demons“. that’s just people getting open in the masquerade… 3canal bring dutty mas. paint and mud.
“They say mas’ is a jumbie. It just gets inside your blood. It don’t make sense… For the rest of the year you are not going to take off your clothes and put nastiness on your body and walk down the road and wine on your head and jump with strange men. It requires taking a certain amount of risk. There is that dark, scary element to it. It is a literal journey from darkness into light.” from.
soca resources: masala / soca lime / cyan wait / more 3canal / chutney soca mix
