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Is there any hardcore West Indian Remix fans still left on MP?

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    Is there any hardcore West Indian Remix fans still left on MP?
    If so, I wanted to find out what you guys think of the current state of west indian remix music.
    What are some things you would like to hear? What are some things you want to stop hearing?
    Do you find yourself still listening to the newer remixes or would rather listen to the older stuff?

    I think it's been about 10 years since De Joint & Big Shat Ent ended operations.
    LED and VP Premier were pushing CDs for a few years after until both went the USB flash-drive route.
    Mixxx4u is still around surprisingly but mostly releases monthly music packs.

    Does anyone know what was the last official CD to physically release?
    Also, what are your favorite CDs that released exclusively on Soundcloud?

    It's funny you mention prime M4U days being 2008, I would argue it was 2003-2007 ish. The reason why I say this because that was the time period of Bassic 2, Caribbean Spice, Solid Gold, Final Mixes, Special Request, My Style, Addicted, Take it to the Dancefloor, Party Starters, Main Event 1 & 2, Scorpian King, Masterpiece, Project XS, Top Notch, Starlite, Irresistible, Prescription, Bring De Bhariat, Under De Maro, Cane Cuttah, Bar Anthem, Happy Hour, Kanghan, Starbai Stargyal, Jukebox, Just Dance, Time 2 Wine, Backyard Jam and so many others.

    When Roger split away from KBIS and started up DeJoint in 08/09 I think, he took Mr. Stylistic, Indiflo, VP Premier with him. While also introducing guys like Excellence Sound Krew. DeJoint in their prime dropped so many classic CDs like Hire Car, Everlasting, Forever Chutney, Wedding Nite, Rockstar, Rumdog Millionaire, Push Over, Retrospect.

    Then Big Shat came along and completely took over the Indian remix scene by really focusing on classic songs from the 60s and 70s. CDs like Triple Threat, Triple Delight, RK Classics, Gunmaster G9, Bombshell, Revivor, Midnite Mixes 1 & 2, Memory Lane 1 & 2, Sugah Plum 1-3, Baktrack 1 & 2, Let's Get Ready to Disco. Soft Spot, Bottoms Up, Weh Meh Rum Deh, Summerslam, Intoxicated, Blockbuster, Lovers Paradise.

    DeJoint & BigShat ran the west indian CD scene up until 2014ish. Their releases became really scare after. B Side Classics from Hopewest was given to me in 2016 to upload on here as it was an un-released BigShat CD.

    Stylistic went back to KBIS and put out Rollback in 2014.
    Vp went off to do his own thing. He focused more on blended CDs made by younger mixes.

    The older CDs were definitely more iconic. We can look at back at Project XS for having the first remix of Aisa Lagta Hai. We can look back at Starlite for having the famous Ah Kahin Door remix. And there's so many more examples of that with older CDs.

    The new CDs on Soundcloud are just remixing the same songs over and over. Sure, the remixes sound clean, good beats and nice bassline. But they don't bring anything new to the table. Just recycling the same old songs, we have heard remixed the past 20+ years. There are some guys on there like Aliem and Shotty who know rare Indian music but they don't release full CDs on Soundcloud, only piece piece song mixdowns.

    Also, now you got these guys on Soundcloud who make these bass heavy remixes for their car, so technically speaking the remix is really poorly done, but just because of the bass, these young kids love it and blast in their car systems.

    I checked the M4U site, looks like the last physical CD was Indian Gold 6 by Dj Spinz. Wow
    It's crazy how they're selling a 100 song indian pack for $25.
    But yet selling a 30 track "blended" CD for $12.
     
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    In my opinion, I don't think the remixing scene was the way it used to be. If I was to compare from prime M4U days (like 2008 KBIS for an example) or when BigShat and DeJoint was around, I find them a bit more "iconic" as the modern remixes, which I find repetitive IMO because a lot of the newer remixers tends to add a dembow or soca riddim, which is respectable, but it won't send the West Indian remix market like it used to be because the scene is so saturated with soca or dembow beat remixes or the dancehall mashups, etc. And I also haven't been paying attention to the remixes or "CD releases" on SoundCloud as I lost a lot of interest in the remix scene 4 years ago or so, as I was convinced that it won't be as good, and I haven't heard a good or decent remix in a while, and although I don't play or listen to them often, I like the older 2000s remixes as opposed to more recent things. And I don't think there was any physical CDs except for Breeze Out 2 with GTVSC (GT Vibez) on M4Us site; M4U is doing the music packs or single track remixes which is keeping them alive imo because there's no new CDs after Breeze Out 2. Other than that, I haven't heard anything new on disc as everything is being released on SoundCloud or YT, or the USB approach like you've mentioned.
     
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