Posts tagged: calypso

Mixtape Mondays: Coppershot x Busy Signal, High Grade Sound, Major & Minor Productions

April 8, 2013

Words by Deejay Theory —

We’re broadcasting live from Tokyo this week, on my way back to San Francisco via a great week in Singapore. Spent the week DJ’ing and taking in 90 degree days capping off with the Big Wig Festival, where I also had the pleasure of backing Masia One (who just got off a SE Asia run with our boy DJ Autograph). As you know Mixtape Mondays never sleeps, and we’ve got another well-rounded edition with badness inna dancehall, blazing roots & culture, and original tropical vibes. Take it all in below.

Tags:bertie marshall, Busy Signal, calypso, coppershot, culture, faluma, high grade sound, Javelin, Keshorn Walcott, major and minor productions, Mixtape, Mixtape Mondays, one drop, Reggae, Roots, soca, Steelpan, Trinidad, Trinidadians

Toppa Top 10: The Best Caribbean Carnivals

February 8, 2013

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Words by Steve Bennett, Erin MacLeod, Jesse Serwer and Jillioniare—

Tags:Bahamas, Barbados, Barbados Cropover, Best Carnival, Brooklyn West Indian Day parade, calypso, Caribana, Carriacou, Cropover, Crucian Christmas Festival, Dominica, Fetes, Feting, Grenada, Grenadians, Haiti, Jacmel, Jouvert, Junkanoo, kanaval, Kanaval Haiti, Martinique, Martinique Carnival, Mas Dominik, Miami Carnival, Nassau Junkanoo, Nevis, Nevis Cuturama, Notting Hill Carnival, Port of Spain, soca, Spice Mas, Spicemas, St. Croix, St. Vincent, Toronto, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad Carnival, Vincy Mas, West Indian Day Parade

Truth and Rights: Celebrating Martin Luther King in the Caribbean

January 21, 2013

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Words by Jesse Serwer—

Tags:Bimini, calypso, Daddy Colonel, Dancehall, Jamaica, Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King in Jamaica, Martin Luther King in the Bahamas, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King songs, Max Romeo, Reggae, Saxon Studio, Scientist, Sizzla, The Bahamas, The Mighty Sparrow, Tippa Irie

Soca Survivor: The Return of Super Blue

January 11, 2013

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Words by Jesse Serwer—

Soca star Superblue

The biggest news in soca this month is the return of Superblue —father of Fay-Ann Lyons and Terri Lyons, and the originator of the jump and wave craze—to Trinidad’s Soca Monarch competition. The winner of eight Carnival Road March titles and a record five Soca Monarch titles will make his first entry into the competition in over a decade next month, going head-to-head against his own daughters and son-in-law, Bunji Garlin.

Tags:Bunji Garlin, calypso, Calypsonians, Fay-Ann Lyons, New Power Soca, New Soca, Power Soca, soca, soca monarch, Super Blue, Terri Lyons, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad Carnival, Trinidad Express, Trinidad Guardian

Throwback Thursdays x Sofrito: Lord Shorty, “Vibrations Groove”

May 10, 2012

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Words by Jesse Serwer—

“I want to introduce you to a brand new musical sound called soca…it starts with di bass drum.” That’s the late Lord Shorty (later known as Ras Shorty I), father of soca music, getting his James Brown on, with an instrument-by-instrument breakdown of his then-new creation.

Tags:calypso, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Les Difficiles de Petion-Ville, Lord Shorty, Mas Ka Klé, Midnight Groovers, Ras Shorty, soca, Sofrito, soul of calypso, Strut records, Trinidad