Rocket Riddim (2021) – Eclectik Music

Rocket Riddim landed in spring 2021 as a compact, road-ready soca set from Eclectik Music, with the kind of bright, driving energy that fits Carnival season even without a big headline boast attached to it. The lineup keeps the focus on the vocal cuts: Black Starr’s “B. B. B. ”, Keytinna’s “Woye, ” Ebony Empress on “Woulé, ” and Ezra D’ Fun Machine’s “On Di Road” all sit over the same instrumental, and the rhythm itself has a clean, percussive bounce rather than a muddy, overstuffed arrangement. Eclectik Music keeps the package tight with eight tracks over about 25 minutes, and the instrumental included here makes the production side easy to hear on its own. In the label’s catalogue, this feels like one of those straight-ahead soca riddims built for singers first and mixdowns second.