The USA X Factor contestant, whom we actually wanted to win, is back with his first full single a rap and b crossover song with Wale. The sample is instantly recognizable and infectious and hopefully this will make a dent in the charts
Monthly Archives: August 2012
August 31, 2012
Marcus Canty x In and Out (Feat. Wale)
August 24, 2012
HDD Top 5 x Things to do this Carnival Weekend
Panorama
The Saturday before Notting Hill Carnival is all about steel bands. The Panorama steel band competition has been running for the last 27 years and this year will be no different. See the bands battle it out to become National Champions of Steel at Horniman’s Pleasance Park Kensal Road from 7pm. Panorama is highly recommended in our carnival guide by Poirier and Dan Bean!
Hipsters Dont Dance World Carnival
Saturday night we got your covered as we warm up for up carnival at Visions Video Bar with some of the world’s best djs in the tropical scene – Dre Skull, So Shifty, Murlo and more. Expect a whole heap of dancehall, soca, azonto and all things tropical, and we may even have some special guests dropping by on the night.
Hang out at a carnival soundsystem
Whether you want to skank out or just chill, spending some time at a soundsystem is a carnival must! Favourites from our soundsytem guide from last year and this year include Nasty Love, Channel One, Good Times, Lord Gelly’s and King Tubby’s
Follow the trucks
What would carnival be without soca! Pump your flags and feel like a bacchanalist while following the trucks on the carnival route, we highly recommend it! If you like a little bashment with your soca The Heatwave are offering you a chance to be a part of their party truck on carnival Monday and they promise mad tunes, free rum and millions of horns and whistles.
Enjoy some Caribbean food
Carnival food stalls are sometimes hit or miss but our food and drink recommendations from our carnival experts should help you out. HDD recommends the Munchies or Roti Stop stalls, and the top foods to eat are jerk chicken or goat, ackee and saltfish, and roti.
August 24, 2012
HDD Carnival Essentials
This week we and our carnival experts have told you where to go, what to eat and what to listen out for. We haven’t told you what to bring, below are our carnival essentials. Ten things you need to maximise your carnival experience.
1. Carnival is all about repping your counrty and pumpin yuh flag
2. It can get hot out there so a spare t-shirt is always helpful
3. A whistle is a definite carnival essential
4. Bitter lemon or any other mixer (Ting, Ginger Beer or Coke)
5. Party Machel Montano style with a bottle of rum (preferably Appleton Estate)
6. Styrofoam Cup is this year’s cup to be seen with
7. Remember Mr Vegas’ advice badman nuh drink outta straw but straws are pretty useful for mixing your rum and chaser.
8. Towel is dual purpose, excellent for waving round your head like a helicopter to power soca or for when times get hot and sweaty
9. Hand sanitiser for times when the port-a-loos have no soap left
10. This list would not be complete without an airhorn, hand pumped or gas airhorns are perfect for showing your appreciation for carnival anthems.
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Tagged airhorn, appleton estate, bottle of rum, carnival essentials, flag, hdd carnival guide, HDD Dance T shirt, hdd guide to notting hill carnival, notting hill carnival, notting hill carnival essentials, whistle
August 23, 2012
HDD and Friends Carnival Anthems 2012
Last year we asked some of our favourite djs, producers, artists and bloggers to recommend their favourite Notting Hill Carnival soundsystems, food stalls and anthems, and started to compile the HDD Guide to Notting Hill Carnival. This year we have added the following carnival anthems to the list. You can check out last year’s anthems here.
Jillionaire (DJ/Mazor Lazer)
J.Bo Tapes (Southern Hospitality)
There are too many Carnival anthems to mention, but I especially love the fact that some tunes only seem to come out for this weekend and still always shut it down… saying that I have never seen anything quite like the reaction to Lethal B’s POW when it first came around, 2005 I think. Crazy.
Alex (Tumbleweave Blog)
Other than the recent ‘family favourites’ (Gyptian, Vybz Kartel, Major Lazer, etc etc) there are a couple of riddims that for one reason or another I love to hear when possible. For example the Money Tree Riddim (and specifically Beenie Man & TOK ‘Ms World‘) sends me loco! I am also a big soca fan, and one track that I would love to hear (but don’t necessarily expect to) is Superblue’s ‘Signal For Lara‘ – it’s an ode to Brian Lara out of Trinidad and Tobago, and it is guaranteed to make my day every time.
Moroka (Producer / Pollinate)
Just for sheer power and movement in recent memory got to be the PALAAAAANCE.
James Hamlin (Breaking Bread Podcast / North London 40)
A tough question but I’ll refer to one of my favourite Norman Jay moments of all time. As the clouds broke to amazing sunshine after an hour of solid horizontal rain. Norman dropped Bill Withers “Lovely day” – I’ll never forget that.
Poirier (Producer)
I think my favorite Carnival anthem for this year is Shal Marshall ”Trouble“. Also, I have to big up Stylo G “Call Mi A Yardie” and I think the Deejay Theory Remix with a Bob Marley sample is an absolute killer for outdoor summer vibes!
August 23, 2012
The Large x Vibes Cyah done
The latest mix from The Large is perfect and just in time for carnival. Running through the best dancehall songs over the past few months including Mad Mi on the Bong Diggy riddim and a recent Kartel that is classic Kartel, Party Mi Seh. This is the mix to get you ready for Notting Hill Carnival, play it every day until then. Dont Forget you can catch The Large at our World Carnival party this saturday.
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Tagged Dancehall, jamaica, mix, music, raggae, shimmy shimmy, the large, vybz kartel