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Music for the Masses: Soca Bacchanal 2026 (Audio)
How de music sweet so! Labor Day weekend is the time for "liming" with family and 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. (Part 3 of an annual series.)
"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:
- Happy People / Destra
- Lost In Trinbago / Sherman de Vries, DJ Private Ryan, Zebee & Mela Caribe
- Nice Time / Machel Montano
- Sha La La / Nessa Preppy & Freetown Collective
- Aisha (Original Mix;Asot 449) / Gaia
- Carnival Break-Up / Fay-Ann Lyons & GusBus
- They Will Know / Jamesy P & Fryktion
- Panorama (feat. Kes, Patrice Roberts, Lady Lava, Kerwin Du Bois, Jimmy October, Mical Teja, Zerimar, Yung Bredda, Lyrikal & Hey Choppi) / MadLypso
- Mas / Mical Teja & Freetown Collective
- WANNA PARTY / Ding Dong
- GOAT (feat. Diplo) / Major Lazer, America Foster & Bunji Garlin
- GOAT (feat. Diplo) [Precision Productions Bouyon Mix] / Major Lazer, America Foster & Bunji Garlin
- Cyah Behave (Unplugged) / Voice
- Liki Tiki / Kes, J Perry & Patrick Michael Brun
- Bolly Bounce / DJ Private Ryan, Jus Now, Ravi B & Destra
- Nonsense / Skinny Fabulous
- Callaloo / MagicX
- Bare Good Vibes / Shal Marshall
- Dancing in the Streets / Mela Caribe, Machel Montano & DJ Private Ryan
- Origins / Nailah Blackman
- Always the Same Eyes (Andres Luque Remix) / Erre
- Bacchanal Mode / Preedy & Patrice Roberts
- This Is Love / Stamina Smurf & Fryktion
- How ah Livin / Farmer Nappy
- Bad Gyal / Patrice Roberts, Nailah Blackman & XplicitMevon
- Just A Taste (feat. Kes) / Tano
- Bad Gyal / Erphaan Alves