Booster Shot: Soca Gold 2009 is almost here. See who made the cut!

VP Records is preparing to release Soca Gold 2009. Since 1997, it's been apretty fair sampling of some of the biggest songs in the Soca world. (Well, every now and then I feel they doing people favours, but you didn`t ask me!)

This year, let me be the one to point out the elephant in the room. Is it just me, or are there some obvious omissions? There's even a few tracks listed below that you probably can't even remember! What's up with that?

So there are other releases circulating around the net, but I took the liberty of fixing the spelling errors, and throwing in which carnival each song was ORIGINALLY released for.

Anywhoooooo, Soca Gold 2009 drops on June 9th! So, you`ve got about a month to save up your pennies.


Here`s your sneak peak at which "hits " made the final cut!


1. HANDLE YA BIZNIZ - Edwin Yearwood (Crop Over 2008)

2. BACCHANAL - Destra Garcia (Trinidad 2009)

3. TUSTY Roy Cape feat. Blaxx (Trinidad 2009)

4. HEAD BAD Skinny Fabulous (Vincy Mas 2008)

5. PLENTY GAL Bunji Garlin & Beenie Man (Trinidad 2009)

6. SOCA DAGGERING Jamesy P. (Trinidad 2009)

7. TIGHT - Peter Ram (Crop Over 2008)

8. LOOKING HOT - Patrice Roberts (Crop Over 2008)

9. WINE UP ON ME - Zoelah (Vincy Mas 2008)

10. JEPP STING NAINA Remix - Kees, Ravi, B. & Hunter (Trinidad 2009)

11. YEAST - KMC (Trinidad 2009)

12. SHE SEXY NOW - Sean Caruth & Jamesy P. (Trinidad 2009)

13. PUT SOME WINE ON ME - Rita Jones (Trinidad 2009)

14. SEXY BOO - Trini Jacobs (Trinidad 2009)

15. WRONG GAL - Red Plastic Bag (Crop Over 2008)

16. BASHMENT WINERS - Lil Rick (Crop Over 2008)

17. RADICA - Kenneth Salick (Trinidad 2009)

18. CARNIVAL AGAIN - Biggie Irie (Crop Over 2008)

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Booster Shot: More International Soca Awards Results

I now have the official press release from the Soca Awards Organization.

Here are a few results that were missing from my post yesterday. Congrats to all the winners!

Female Soca Vocalist of the Year - Mo Wuk, Patrice Roberts

Best New Male Soca Artist of the Year
Problem Child

Problem Child in Toronto (2007)

Male Soca Vocalist of the Year

Carnival Please Stay by Shurwyne Winchester

Shurwayne in St. Vincent (2006)

Soca Duo or Group of the Year
3 Canal

Best Soca Compilation Album/CD of the Year
Soca Gold - Various Artist 1 2008

Over All Soca Chutney Artist of the Year
Hunter

Over All Soca Chutney Band of the Year
JMC Triveni

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The Rounds: Red Hot Flames album about to drop...SCYATTAH!!!!

Good Evening Soca Lovers,

I'm Nurse Karen and these are Dr. Jay's Rounds. The calendar says it's summer now, and all attention focuses on the Caribbean. If you're looking for me this time next week I will be in sweet St. Vincent and the Grenadines preparing the place for Dr. Jay's arrival.


Belated birthday greetings to Sheldon "Shel Shok" Benjamin. of the big band Atlantik. I missed you last rounds, but we'll catch up next weekend at Insomnia in SVG.

Some of Atlantik liming at GLOW SVG last year.

(Shel Shok is the long one in the back!)

Last week's ragga soca monarch competition proved to be a big upset at Victoria Park. Zoelah fans: if you haven't heard by now, your girl's performance of Wine Up On Me simply did not cut it for the judges, leaving her out of the top 3. From all accounts Zoelah, who had performed at Wet Fete (in the rain) the night before was sounding PRETTY hoarse. So top marks went to Dani-O instead, who shocked onlookers with a stellar performance of Gimme Mo. Next up was Skarypon with Forever, and Galanaire in third place with "Do YOU"


Summer time means summer music, so if you haven't already picked up your copy of Soca Gold 2008, now would be the time to make that happen. It's currently ranked #1 on the Billboard Reggae charts (Dah don't really make sense to ME, but whatever!) VP records chose big tracks from Big Artistes like Mr. Dale's Soka Junkie, Faye-Ann Lyons – Get On, and Ricky T "Pressure Boom!"

2008 TT Road March Queen Faye-Ann in Toronto last month

Right around Caribana time, our friends in Antigua will jumping up in the hot sun as well. So, naturally, that means a new batch of jam band music is cooking up as we speak. Look out from a new album from Red Hot Flames. Oungku is real excited about the CD. The title will either be called SHAOLIN TEMPO (you know how West Indians love dey Kung Fu) OR it may be called "SCYATTAH"! He says this album is going to be a musical bomb – A weapon of Mas' disruption, so that's what people will do when it drops! Look for it the first week of July!

I'm Nurse Karen and those were Dr. Jay's Rounds. Take a moment to check out (Nurse) Karen (Etc) at Mustard Seeds dot net over the next three weeks, as I keep you up to date with my Vincy Mas diary. I'll also be taking in St. Lucia's soca monarch finals, to stay tuned for pictures and video from that! Now, back to de docta...

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