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ARTIST
TITLE
Lif Up Yuh Leg An Trample
FORMAT
2LP

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HJR 009LP HJR 009LP
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RELEASE DATE
8/9/2004

2004 release. "Soca evolved in the 1970s from traditional calypso, which was seen as an increasingly insular form and was beginning to decline in popularity. As Trinidadian musicians increasingly travelled to New York to record, the new up-tempo style that developed became known as soul calypso (hence soca). Using more sophisticated recording techniques and incorporating influences drawn from '70s American soul, disco and funk, it swiftly came to rival reggae as the most popular form of music in the Caribbean. Trinidad inevitably remained soca's stronghold, but the freshness and dynamism of the new style soon attracted adherents from other islands such as Barbados, Antigua and Montserrat. Lord Shorty's 1974 hits Endless Vibrations and Soul Of Calypso brought soca to an international audience, while Arrow - not from Trinidad but Montserrat - had an even bigger international success with the 1983 global chart-topper Hot! Hot! Hot!. Such tracks were essentially good time party tunes. But soca has not entirely turned its back on the calypsonian tradition of political and social comment and Gypsy's 1986 hit 'The Sinking Ship' is credited with helping to remove the People's National Movement from the Trinidadian government. . . . By the 1990s, soca was expanding its horizons once again to take in influences from Jamaican ragga and dancehall and from hip-hop and house music. These new influences helped to create a harder-edged school of contemporary soca and gave birth to a new generation of young artists such as Bunji Garlin and Machel Montano. The new soca sound is not a uniform movement, as you can hear from the sheer diversity of the music on offer here. It also takes in the Indian chutney soca of Massive Gosine's 'Chrloo', for example. But the global transformation of the music since the early 1990s has both captured a younger generation that had given up on more traditional forms of calypso and soca and has created considerable generational friction with the calypsonian old guard. Yet there are also musical continuities which join modern soca and all its diverse influences to the days of calypso and the early soca pioneers." --John Child Features: Laventille Rhythm Section, Dawg E. Slaughter, Timmy, Maximus Dan, Andre Tanker, Massive Gosine, Denise Belfon, Bunji Garlin, Machel Montano, Michelle Sylvester, Bobo And Agony, and Machel Montano And Black Stalin.