Making good music is at the heart of it – Soca duo

The soca and ragga soca duo which goes by the name ‘Dymez x daPixel’, is about to launch its music on Itunes, Amazon and Tidal music sharing platforms, so as to target a wider demographic.

In a recent interview, Claydon ‘Dymez’ Roache revealed that very shortly, Vincentians in the Diaspora would be able to access and purchase the music produced by him and the other half of the duo, Elrico ‘daPixel’ Hunte.

“First you doing music, it starts as a love, but at the end of the day it’s a business, so you have to generate finance somehow. By selling your music online, it shows me that your fans support you off stage. Although they could listen on Youtube, some might want to buy, so that they can support you, support the craft because they know you are spending money all year round,” said Dymez.

The soca artiste of three years explained that making good music is at the heart of why he produces songs; elaborating that “If you don’t make good music it doesn’t make any sense making music.”

The ‘Work Him Out’ artiste said that since revamping their production from Dancehall and Rap to Soca songs and changing the name of their studio from Evolution to Island Shack in 2015, they have been able to master their own type of soca they call ‘In-the-car’ music. He described the music to be soca that can be listened to all year long, outside of the carnival season.

The biggest private show the duo has performed at so far has been H2O, the carnival wet fete, while the biggest show overall has been Soca Monarch.

Dymez recapped that in their first attempt at soca in 2015, they released ‘Drinkers Anthem’ and ‘Bend Up’ and by 2016, their songs, ‘Work Him Out’ and ‘Malice’ were hits, which they performed at Soca Monarch that year.

In 2017, their songs ‘Stagga’ and ‘T’ill it Done’ both made it to the semi finals of Ragga Soca, and he revealed that they again enter the 2018 Soca and Ragga Soca Monarch shows.
“People think when you enter, you enter to win the competition. We don’t enter to win a crown, we enter because it’s another avenue to meet your fans, it’s another avenue to perform and better your craft,” Dymez said.

The ‘Don’t hold me malice’ artiste said their 2018 song ‘Body’, a slow wine song which already has a music video on Youtube and ‘Jump & Ah Dip’ featuring Hypa 4000, were created in a way to captivate all types of soca lovers. ‘Vinyl’, a song off the Island Shak’s Vinyl Riddim and ‘Jump Off’ on Kubiyachi’s Overdo Riddim has also been released for 2018.

Dymez said for this year, their target group is young adults and teenagers, and they are pushing to ‘put a face’ to their music.

On the matter of performing, Dymez believes that it is a learning process but he has come to realise that understanding the type of crowd, understanding daPixel’s vybe when performing so as to know when to speak; and breathing properly are critical to their good performances.

For more details on music from Dymez x daPixel, their Instagram handles are @ise_dymez784, @ise_countadapixelz and @islandshakent and their contact are 784-495 4077 or dxdpkings@gmail.com.