EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Poirier - Get Crazy (feat. Mr. Slaughter)
(Photo: Guillaume Simoneau)
If the notes accompanying Poirier's excellent new Soca-themed EP, Soca Sound System, are to be believed, "Get Crazy" was recorded at a hotel in the wee hours of the morning following Poirier's DJ set at last year's New Yorker festival (yes, thrown by the magazine). This is alarming for a few reasons: 1) Soca, the Calypso-informed hybrid of dancehall and chutney music that originated in Trinidad & Tobago, is known for its relentlessly driving percussion, hardly what your fingers want to be bashing out on an MPC at five or six in the morning; 2) How did the neighbors not call the police worried those drums sounded like gun shots? We're assuming that Mr. Slaughter tacked on his verse after the fact, but maybe he didn't, and maybe Ghislain and Slaughter were just going at the track until far after the sun came up, ignorant of fatigue and noise complaints. I like that idea. The song is available exclusively for download below, so if you need something to pick you up off the floor this morning this is your jam. Soca Sound System is out now through Ninja Tune. Poirier is currently on a swing through North America, dates below.
Sounds like: 77Klash, Diplo, Machel Montano
Poirier - Get Crazy (feat. Mr. Slaughter)
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