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Music for the Masses: Soca Bacchanal 2025 (Audio)
How de music sweet so! Labor Day weekend is the time for "liming" with family friends – so mek wi party, West Indian style! Featuring a high-energy mix of Caribbean carnival soca, we invite you to join the bacchanal, fête, jump-up – whatever you choose to call it, it's a celebration of Mas (masquerade), from Port of Spain, Trinidad to Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid globe-hopper and armchair traveler alike. You might want to pack a map and a sandwich. Catskill resident "DJ Neva" is an ethnomusicologist, producer, and long-time cultural activist, specializing in music from the entire African continent, as well as the Caribbean and Latin America, the Maghreb and Middle East, and the Roma (Gypsy) diaspora. Formerly the producer of "Continental Drift" on WBAI-FM and New York International on Haitian community station Radio Soleil in NYC. The show is broadcast live from Catskill, NY.
Playlist:
- Johnny Glamour / rusowsky & Las Ketchup
- Sugar Bum Bum / Siparia Deltones, Hugh Masekela
- Tabanca / Etienne Charles, Terri Lyons
- Road Meeting / Fay-Ann Lyons
- Gimme Everyting / Len Boogsie Sharpe
- PARDY / Machel Montano
- Shake Down / Mr. Killa
- You Alone / Imani Ray
- Greatness / V'ghn
- Fettin Mood / King Bubba Fm
- Mind Yuh Business / Raymond Ramnarine
- High Mas / David Rudder
- Bacchanal Time / Lyrikal
- Talk About This / Faith Callender
- Round & Rosie / Nailah Blackman
- Soca Legislation / Teddyson John
- Stress Bout Dat / Adam O
- Music Is Life / Nessa Preppy
- Pushing / Pumpa
- Runaway / Mical Teja
- Doh complain / King JayDee
- Hard Fete / Bunji Garlin
- Essential Need / Patrice Roberts, Shal Marshall
- Mas Go Play / Erphaan Alves
- Easy / Destra
- Ah Love It Here / Ricardo Drue
- Market / Nadia Batson
- Rum Mas & Party / Zoelah, Problem Child
- Up / Sanell Dempster
- Build Ah Fence / Patrice Roberts
- Search Party / Preedy
- Jub Jub / Kes
- Canicule (feat. Arèndi) / Bilix