Producer and sound engineer Kasey Phillips will introduce the world to a new sound in soca on September 17.
Phillips will do so through his new riddim called Turbulence. Artistes Melly Rose, Sekon Sta, Dev and Mical Teja are featured on it with their songs Wah Ya Want, Slam Bam and Take Front respectively. Phillip is the CEO and co-founder of Precision Productions which has captured many Road March and Soca Monarch title, its website says. He has also worked across multiple genres including calypso, reggae, R&B, gospel, rap, hip-hop, pop, chutney-soca, and dance music.
A press release described the sound as a "novel blend of soca."It said, "Amidst all the world faced in the last year, the team dug deep and concentrated on bringing into being a novel blend of soca. One which combines siren sweet melodies to draw in listeners, balanced with a heated baseline built to maintain a timeless pace."Experimental yet artful, this is a twist to soca that defies time, place, or live festivals..."It was a riddim that he had for a while and was about to release when the pandemic hit, Phillips said. He then told himself to take his time and figure it out. He added that the pandemic gave him time which is not usually present during the Carnival season.
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With the extra time, Phillips was able to do visuals, shoot music videos with all of the artistes and take the time needed to finish the production while also rolling out a marketing plan, mastering his craft more and upgrade and learn new tools and techniques. That was a great luxury not usually given in soca, he said. There will also be a music medley video dropping with the riddim.
This riddim is Phillips' first since the pandemic because he was working on the construction of his new studio, Crystal Room Studio, in Los Angeles, US. The studio's website says its mission is to provide the highest quality, using its state-of-art facility, high-end equipment and world-class sound engineers backed by over 20 years of experience.Phillips said he moved to LA six years ago and in doing so his goal was to build a studio and base there. He began doing so as soon as the pandemic hit. He said the process of building the recording studio was in the middle of the pandemic and it was difficult as everything was shut down. “Availability for workers, equipment, materials, everything got affected. But they got the studio done and that was part of the reason why the music took a slight back seat because the focus was to build the studio and kind of have a new home base.”
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The studio is part of his wider goal of reaching an
