Gearslutz.com - View Single Post - And where does reggaeton fit in to all this?

mars · 25th August 2006

Reggaeton is a straight-up Soca beat frim Trinidad. First the Jamaicans "borrowed" it for dancehall, now PR's grabbed it. Interesting how they locked it into one riddim/tempo tho. Trinis can never stick to one thing for very long and are always changing things up. Soca gets faster and faster every year - up to about 170 now from 110/20 in the 80's. Funny thing is most kids in Trinidad call that beat a "dancehall beat", and are now trying to mix Reggaeton with Soca! Maybe that'll slow things down.

Still, I never thought I'd see the day when offbeat, syncopated snare would top the US charts.

25th August 2006	#30
mars Gear maniac Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 196	Reggaeton is a straight-up Soca beat frim Trinidad. First the Jamaicans "borrowed" it for dancehall, now PR's grabbed it. Interesting how they locked it into one riddim/tempo tho. Trinis can never stick to one thing for very long and are always changing things up. Soca gets faster and faster every year - up to about 170 now from 110/20 in the 80's. Funny thing is most kids in Trinidad call that beat a "dancehall beat", and are now trying to mix Reggaeton with Soca! Maybe that'll slow things down. Still, I never thought I'd see the day when offbeat, syncopated snare would top the US charts.