US$17.00 plus S&H

Rich, robust and sizzling hot us the world’s best sound that jumps out and grabs you. Electrified by talent, tenacity and dynamism of prolific producer/arranger Anastas Nass-T Theodore Hackett, SOCA CROSSOVER is a workshop in experimentation – it is an electric work where Trinidad and Tobago’s most ingenious musical minds pull from genres as diverse as the islands’ cosmopolitan population and cultural heritage.

The music is delicious. You bite into the sweetness of the Caribbean. But you can taste the world. Its rhythmic richness is rooted in deep multicultural dimensions. Soca is a rugged and erotically explosive music charged with the steamy sweetness of American soul music. Flavoured with such unique cultural and musical spices, this work represents crossover rhythms and raw rhymes from Africa to the New World and from the Caribbean to you.

This lyrical feast is also peppered with political satire and sexual innuendo. The steamy island sound will make you sweat. You won’t sit until the cd stops and even then there’s no guarantee that you can stop the sound that’s pumping away in your head.

Calypso or Kaiso, is the mother of Soca. In its original expression, calypso is an Afro-Caribbean interpretation of African songs transposed across the Middle Passage by enslaved Africans shipped to Trinidad and Tobago. Although this unique sound originates in this twin-island republic of carnival, steel pan, limbo and fete, Soca music has transcended its time and space to embrace many genres, cultures and many people.

SOCA CROSSOVER is a melodic mix of soca and calypso with reggae, yard style dancehall, rhythm and blues, funk, techno, house, hip hop, rapso and rap. The chantwell voice and lore of the African griat is ever present in singers such as Machel, Ataklan, brothers Nigel and Marvin, General Grant, David Rudder, and other seasoned practitioners who whip up crafty concoctions that tell the spirited story of the indulgences and taboos of Trinidad and Tobago.

1. Jabmolassi (Socaopera) – Machel featuring Tasha
2. Carnival Stories – Nigel & Marvin Lewis
3. Stress – Iwer George
4. Wet Dem – Violators
5. Vibes – Anslem Douglas
6. Boom Boom Family – Machel Montano featuring Lloydie Stiff
7. D’ Best – Culture "B" featuring General Grant
8. Emancipation Day – David Rudder featuring Nigel Lewis
9. De Hill – Laventille Buketeers featuring Ataklan, Nass-T, Nicholai and 3 Canal
10. Oil Down – Karla Gonzales featuring Culture "B"
11. Rapso Man – Ataklan featuring Breeze
12. Hurt Up Mih Head – Violators