So Good! This is everything i wanted and more, the song for the summer gets the video it deserves. Will this catch on? I hope so, we here at HDD are READY FOR DI ROAD!
Tag Archives: soca
May 21, 2013
Bunji Garlin x Differentology
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Tagged bunji garlin, fete, music, nigel watson, pop music, soca, spanish guitar, trinidad, world carnival
May 9, 2013
The World On Regent Street
This Sunday 12th of May central London’s Regent Street will be transformed into a traffic-free street festival celebrating cultures from across the globe. Countries taking part include Argentina, China, Egypt, Great Britain, Turkey and Trinidad and Tobago – you can visit an Argentinian wine bar, watch a Chinese lion dancing performance, learn about Egyptian papyrus illustration, chat to Wallace and Gromit, enjoy the delights of an authentic Turkish coffee shop, or listen to caribbean steel pans.
HDD fam Trini Gladiata will be hosting the Trinidad and Tobago stage which will feature dance workshops, and performances from CSI Steelband, 3Canal, and HDD favourites Jus Now. See you there for a rum cocktail!
More information here or on the facebook event page
March 28, 2013
Trinidad James x Females Welcomed
The second best song off the mixtape gets a video by the legend that is Jonathan Mannion (All those DMX covers you love and plenty more iconic work). Mannion’s trips to Trinidad pay off to create another signature James video. all the naysayers who got made when Def Jam signed him might want to rethink those thoughts. James is here to stay and as an artist that throws back to his Trinidad roots often we will support his stuff. Before the lacklustre rap remix of his hit debut single he release the soca remix featuring Shaggy, Machel and erm Pitbull (who does have a long history with Soca stars to be fair to him).
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Tagged jonathan mannion, machel, music, pitbull, soca, trinidad james
March 25, 2013
Strictly Riddims No 8 Mixed by Salivation Army
Inspired by dancehall riddims and the recent work of two of our favourite producers Murlo (Quartz EP) and Dubbel Dutch (Self Help Riddim), we have decided to launch the HDD Strictly Riddims mix series focusing on our favourite instrumentals. With this series we hope to increase appreciation for dancehall riddims and instrumentals as we feel that in dancehall the productions and producers don’t often get the props they deserve. The eighth mix in the series is by Canada’s Salivation Army, we finally go international! You can catch Salivation Army at gigs across Canada and with Poirier at their No Vacancy party. In this mix are some of the greatest producers of all time, some brand new soca riddims that ruled Carnivals and one of our favourite riddims Church Heathen (Rodigan even included it in his Fabric Live mix).
You can download the mix here here
You can check out more of Salivation Army’s mixes here
Posted in Blog, HDD Strictly Riddms Mix Series
Tagged Dancehall, free music, mix, music, reggae, salivation army, soca, strictly riddims
March 24, 2013
The Large x Fresh Fruit
The Large dropped her new mix late Friday afternoon and we had to post it this weekend because it’s that good. The Fresh Fruits mix combines all that she loves dancehall, soca and its musical cousins. Exclusives from Murlo, Rizzla and more and drops from Machel and more. This mix is great and will be in the running for best of the year. There is such a great balance of stuff on here and many slept on songs. For example Spice’s Nincompoo which won’t get as much love as it should from other musical outlets. Go listen to it now, also artwork by Robin Clare is not to be sniffed at.
Fresh Fruits Mix by the_large
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Tagged busy signal, chronix, dance music, Dancehall, house, mix, music, robin clare, shimmy shimmy, soca, the large