an entire sub-genre of this fast azonto stuff out there that is remaining largely elusive to me at the moment.
i'm kind of wondering how long it's been around and i've been oblivious as well. it wasnt until about 4 years ago when spinning around on a decent FM radio and discovering that every corner of the globe had emigrated to Dorchester and started up a FM -
some it documented here and putting French skills to use deciphering various creoles to dig a bit. at least the Cape-Verdeans call their hyperkinetic stuff Funana, the Ayisyens
Raboday, the Dominica
Bouyon, but then the Monteserrations who left after some giant volcano will put on drum-machine heavy stuff from 1987 which hits the spot (usually the vocal-less sped-up tech-y version of soca is the
"roadmix"), and Grenada and St Lucia seemed to always have had a bit more hard edge than the other islands for whatever reason. it seems theyve been doing it so long the vocalists know how to navigate the waters in some way beyond chicago's trademark 128K RAM short snippets
Gaza Girl Crew - Bad Chatte
am definitely curious about the deal with Portugal as well. seems to have a lot more space than the claustrophobia/overbearing grime thing (great in small doses but gimme RIVET B sides and Certificate18) almost like the villalobos/pronsato background thing
but never quite and in
certain ways reminiscent of darker elements starting
to distort bubbly stuff circa Pulse-X. NGOMA 20 (in case Zhao is too modest to mention his mixes) had a particularly brassy track which hinted at this
