Calgary Soca

The crew takes one last 'Jump up' this week before both the F.F.C fete in Calgary, and leaving for Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. The entire show focuses on some the hottest 'riddims' of 2013. Turn up the volume 'cause this one is on Fire!  mp3 Download coming soon

Get familiar with the biggest hits of the season.  Drew delivers a 74min mix of only the best Soca and rest assured these will all be featured at the FFC fete!  Stream it from on your Mixcloud app or take the digital copy with you, either way enjoy 2013's most popular soca hits Download mp3

As Carnival 2013 comes ever closer, we narrow down the playlist to the biggest hits for the season plus update everyone on the massive Soca Monarch Related news that happened in the past week. Download mp3

Below are the artists that have qualified for the Finals of the competition happening on Friday February 8th 2013 in Trinidad and Tobago.  There were a few surprises as some of the favourites going into the semi finals last Sunday at the Arima Velodrome, didn't move on the next round. Its still a very strong field and all eyes will be on the Hasely Crawford Stadium on 'Fantastic Friday' to see who takes the crown this year. Digicel International Groovy Monarch Finalists: DEFENDING MONARCH: Machel Montano 1.Farmer Nappy 2.Destra 3.Denise Belfon 4.Blaxx 5.Benjai 6.Ravi B 7.Patrice Roberts 8.Drupatee 9.Iwer George 10.Nadia Batson   Play Whe International Power Monarch Finalists: DEFENDING MONARCH:Machel Montano 1. Super Blue 2. Shurwayne Winchester 3. Lil Bitts 4. Swappi 4D 5. Destra Garcia 6. Devon Matthews 7. Benjai 8. Fya Empress 9. Talpree 10. JW & Blaze For more information go to the Soca Monarch's official site: http://bit

We continue with the hits for 2013 Carnival in T&T. This week we focus on the Power Soca Hits. Enjoy Download mp3 Terry Lyons - Wake it up Kes & Kerwin Du Bois - Disgustin  Devon Matthews - Start It Up  Skinny Fabulous & Machel Montano - Monstrosity  Bunji Garlin - Vikings Coming  Swappi - Cha-Os  Blaxx & Roy Cape All Stars - Scatter  Ziggy Ranking - Whole Day  Faye Ann Lyons - Eff  Iwer George - Unfinished Business  Bunji Garlin & Talpree - Bad Like We Kes - I am Carnival  Michelle Xavier - I Cyah Wait Adrian Dutchin - Jook  Machel Montano - Witch Doctor  Shurwayne Winchester - We Control D Road  Denise Belfon - Taking Everything  Destra Garcia - Rip D Runway  Nadia Batson & SASS - Gutter  Nadia Batson - Doh Tell Mi (Intercol Riddim)  Kerwin Du Bois - Yuh Role (Intercol Riddim)  Bunji Garlin - Journey Continues (Intercol Riddim)  Machel Montano - Energy High (Intercol Ridd

This week we finally get a chance to dive into the hits for Trinidad and Tobago Carnival 2013. The crew goes through some of the favorites for the International Soca Monarch as the official list of artistes competing in the Semi Finals was released this week. Enjoy! Download mp3

Don't miss Tobagonian legend, Calypso Rose in Calgary on January 17th at the Gateway (on SAIT campus) With special guests Socalled. Tickets are $12 at the Gateway, MC107, & Sloth Records. $16.50 at Ticketmaster . Doors at 8pm. 18+ only Check out the clip below of her on stage just last year in our province at Edmonton's Folk festival

Thanks to the Trinidad Guardian Site we have the list of the Semi Finalists for both the Digicel International Groovy Soca Monarch and the Play Whe International Power Soca Monarch competitions for 2013. Noticeably absent from the line-up is former Groovy Monarch, Kes .  Now, as the reigning champion in both the Power and Groovy categories, Machel Montano should be automatically in the finals, but we'll wait on an official announcement before we are certain. Changes to this year's Soca Monarch rules no longer allow anyone competing on 'Fantastic Friday' from performing at any other event on that Friday night into Saturday morning without facing a 'a significant penalty'.  Machel also awaits sentencing, set for Jan 17th, after being found guilty last month on 5 criminal charges .  How these circumstances affect the Soca superstar remain to be seen. Machel did reassure fans however that he would be present for all 2013 Carnival engagements at the 'S

As promised, below is a more complete mix featuring the best Soca Songs for 2012 .  These songs would have all impacted in their respective countries and parties around the world for last year's Carnival Seasons. The mix is NOT just of the hits from Trinidad Carnival, but rather encompasses other Jumpy, Power, Sweet, Groovy, Ragga, Spice Mas, etc, Monarchs and RoadMarch tunes . There were literally HUNDREDS of tunes that came out last year.  This is the BEST of The BEST that we could squeeze into 80mins . Enjoy! Download mp3 I Am Soca - Kerwin Dubois & Patrice Roberts  Bam Bam Talk (SVG Ragga Soca Monarch) - Fya Empress  Cya Fail Me [Antigua Groovy Monarch] -  Tian Winter  Wining Addiction -  Shurwayne Winchester  Surrender [Official Remix] -  Farmer Nappy f. Lady G.  Single Forever (Chutney Soca Monarch) - KI & 3Veni  Spice Island Summer (Spice Mas Groovy Monarch) - Shortpree  Runaway - Kerwin Du Bois Feat. Bunji Garlin  The People's Cham

We played the best of 2012 , but it definitely wasn't our best show. We kicked off 2013 with what was to be a mix of all the h its from Carnivals across the Caribbean in the last year. The crew made it in to the studio to find that there was a problem with some of the hardware and, after trying for 15min to get it fixed, abandoned the mix idea and just delivered the music directly from Drew's laptop. With the show cut short, some of the 'Best Of' tracks had to be dropped for the sake of time and what we are left with is the 'abbreviated' version of the 'Best Of' Show. We still had a ton of fun in the end, and Drew promises to have ANOTHER complete mix for us (ALMOST DOUBLE THE SONGS) by the weekend to make up for this week's mishap. Either way, enjoy and Happy New Year! by Calgarysoca on Mixcloud