Island Spice

Take a nice Busy Signal acapella, flip it on the soca tip, add some dub basslines and BOOM, you got Roma Soca! Italian producer Ion the Last Don grabs this “Picante” track, hypes it up and makes it even sillier, all while keeping it deeper than your average soca riddim with the unusual addition of a touch of bass weight. It clocks in at a short two minutes, but stays switching it up duing that short span. (Side note – for those tracks that simply repeat themselves rather than keeping it brief, you can choose where to automatically start and stop a song on iTunes. Just right-click/control-click the song, click Get Info, and go into the options tab.) Ion is a soca fiend and has a huge collection of mixtapes on his MySpace. Peep his Facebook to keep up with his riddims. (Photo by Inharris.)