{"id":41468,"date":"2019-09-16T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/the-sound-of-soca-dub-and-electronic-calypso-from-1979-to-98-explored-on-new-soundway-compilation\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:11:00","slug":"soundway-body-beat-soca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/soundway-body-beat-soca\/","title":{"rendered":"The sound of soca-dub and electronic calypso from 1979 to 98 explored on new Soundway compilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29214 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/UNE-site-7_5.jpg\" alt=\"Brother resistance\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Party tested anthems from the Caribbean.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Photo : Brother Resistance<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Compiled <span style=\"color: #333333;\">by <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/soundway-records\/\">Soundway Records<\/a> label foun<\/span>der Miles Cleret and DJ\/collector Jeremy Spellacey, <em>Body Beat:\u00a0Soca-Dub and Electronic Calypso (1979-98)<\/em> traces the evolution of the genre from its explosion in the late 1970s right up to the period just before contemporary soca became established around the end of the 1990s.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Filled with up-tempo tracks from start to finish, Body Beat comprises 17 tracks of<br \/>\nsoca crossover, rapso, electronic calypso, and Caribbean \u2018soca-soul\u2019 described by the label as <em>\u201cobscure soca B-side versions, dubs, instrumentals and edits as well as vocal tracks.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zZuqY5YBh68\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lead single &#8220;I Want Your Love&#8221; by Peter Britto is the most recent track on the compilation, originally released\u00a0in 1998 and features the recognisable soca synth beat, along with Caribbean steel drums and horns.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Body Beat: Soca-Dub and Electronic Calypso (1979-98)<\/em>\u00a0is set to land this October. Pre-order it <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/body-beat-soca-dub-and-electronic-calypso-1979-98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party tested anthems from the Caribbean. Photo : Brother Resistance Compiled by Soundway Records label founder Miles Cleret and DJ\/collector Jeremy Spellacey, Body Beat:\u00a0Soca-Dub and Electronic Calypso (1979-98) traces the evolution of the genre from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[],"location":[8082,8322],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41468"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41468"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}