Bouyon Music Playlists
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ROAD MIX on Spotify: Bouyon Music 2026
The official Bouyon Shattaz road mix: new bouyon releases, bouyon soca and Dominica carnival energy in one Spotify playlist, updated for the 2026 season.
ROAD MIX on YouTube
The video side of the mix: bouyon performances, carnival clips and new drops on the Bouyon Shattaz YouTube playlist.
Trending bouyon songs on YouTube
The bouyon songs running YouTube right now, pulled from the popular shelf of the Smokiller channel. Tap any cover: every one of them plays inside the ROAD MIX playlists.
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15K viewsBryson Tiller - Bouyon Shattaz Remix (prod. Smokiller)
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Smokiller is Sean's bouyon artist and producer brand: the man behind the Bouyon Shattaz remixes, flipping Afrobeats, pop, rap and R&B into bouyon and keeping the Wrecketeng sound alive. Watch the Coi Leray Players bouyon remix and subscribe on YouTube.
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Bouyon playlist guide
Every bouyon playlist and mix that matters, in French and English.
Best bouyon songs
The bouyon songs to start with, from WCK classics to the new school.
Learn the bouyon
What is bouyon music?
The full story: jing ping and cadence-lypso roots, WCK, and the soup that became a sound.
People also ask: 100 bouyon music questions
The basics
What is bouyon music?
Bouyon is a high-energy music genre from Dominica. It blends jing ping, cadence-lypso and traditional dances such as bele, quadrille, chante mas and lapo kabwit with modern electronic production.
Where does bouyon music come from?
Bouyon comes from Roseau, Dominica, where it was created in the late 1980s. It is the island's signature carnival sound.
Who created bouyon music?
The band WCK (Windward Caribbean Kulture), formed in 1988, pioneered bouyon by fusing jing ping with cadence-lypso. Roots, Stems and Branches (RSB) and First Serenade were the other founding groups.
What does the word bouyon mean?
In Antillean Creole, bouyon means a soup or gumbo: many ingredients cooked in one pot. The music takes its name from that mix of styles in a single sound.
How do you pronounce bouyon?
Bouyon is pronounced boo-yon, like the French word for broth. In Dominica's Kweyol it names both the soup and the music.
What language is bouyon music sung in?
Bouyon is sung mainly in Kweyol, Dominica's French-based Creole, with English and French mixing in as the genre travels through Guadeloupe, Martinique and the diaspora.
Is bouyon music from Dominica or the Dominican Republic?
Dominica, the small English and Kweyol speaking island in the Lesser Antilles, not the Dominican Republic. The two are different countries, and bouyon is Dominican (Dominica) music.
Why is bouyon called soup?
Because like a bouyon soup, the genre cooks many ingredients together: jing ping, cadence-lypso, bele, quadrille, chante mas, lapo kabwit, mazurka and zouk, all in one pot.
What is bouyon music also called?
In Guadeloupe and Martinique bouyon is commonly called jump up music. Its fusions carry their own names too: bouyon soca, bouyon gwada, bouyon-muffin and Wrecketeng.
Is bouyon a type of soca?
No. Bouyon is its own Dominican genre. It shares carnival DNA with soca, and the two fuse as bouyon soca, but bouyon's jing ping and cadence-lypso roots make it a different sound.
Who is the King of Bouyon?
Asa Bantan, real name Asa Edwards, from Grand Bay in Dominica, is known as the King of Bouyon and the Bouyon Boss. He is also the name behind Dominica's Breakfast Fete.
Who is the Prince of Bouyon?
Reo is billed as the Prince of Bouyon, a CMA 2026 nominee carrying the new generation of Dominica's sound, heard for example on Joli BB with Maurane Voyer.
What is the national music of Dominica?
Dominica's signature sounds are cadence-lypso and its faster descendant, bouyon. Jing ping is the island's traditional folk band music, played on accordion, banjo and percussion.
Is bouyon popular outside Dominica?
Yes. Bouyon is huge in Guadeloupe and Martinique, strong in Saint Lucia, French Guiana and Saint Martin, and growing in Paris and the Caribbean diaspora through diaspora parties and social media.
What is the bouyon flag emoji combo fans use?
Fans pair the Dominica flag with rocket and globe emojis, as in the Bouyon Shattaz rallying tag #bouyontotheworld, a push to carry Dominica's sound worldwide.
What does bouyon sound like?
Fast drums, heavy bass, bright keyboard riffs and call and response Kweyol vocals at carnival tempo. If soca is a parade, bouyon is the truck everyone is jumping behind.
Is bouyon the same as jump up?
In Guadeloupe and Martinique, yes: jump up is the local name for bouyon music. In Dominica it is simply bouyon.
History and roots
When did bouyon music start?
Bouyon started in the late 1980s in Roseau, Dominica. WCK formed in 1988 and built the first bouyon sound from jing ping and cadence-lypso.
What is jing ping?
Jing ping is Dominica's traditional folk music, played by bands with accordion, banjo, shak shak, gwaj and boom boom. It is one of bouyon's two parent sounds.
What is cadence-lypso?
Cadence-lypso is the Dominican genre of the 1970s that fused Haitian cadence rampa with calypso, led by Exile One. It is bouyon's other parent sound.
What is WCK?
WCK stands for Windward Caribbean Kulture, the Roseau band formed in 1988 that created bouyon. They are recognised as the Bouyon Pioneers.
Who were the first bouyon bands?
The founding bouyon groups were WCK, Roots, Stems and Branches (RSB) and First Serenade, all from Dominica.
What is lapo kabwit?
Lapo kabwit is a traditional Dominican drum made with goat skin, central to chante mas and jing ping. Its rhythms drive classic bouyon percussion.
What is chante mas?
Chante mas is Dominica's carnival masquerade song tradition, sung in Kweyol with lapo kabwit drums. It feeds bouyon's call and response party energy.
What traditional dances are inside bouyon?
Bouyon blends the bele, the quadrille, the mazurka and the heel and toe polka traditions of Dominica with jing ping and cadence-lypso.
How did bouyon reach Guadeloupe?
Bouyon travelled from Dominica to Guadeloupe through touring bands, carnival exchanges and the shared Kweyol language, and Guadeloupe built its own harder scene, bouyon gwada.
What is the history of the World Creole Music Festival?
The World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) in Roseau is Dominica's flagship festival, three nights of Creole music at Windsor Park that anchor the island's independence season and showcase bouyon at home.
Did bouyon come from cadence-lypso?
Yes, in part. Bouyon is what happened when WCK plugged cadence-lypso and jing ping into modern keyboards and drum machines at the end of the 1980s.
Styles and comparisons
What is bouyon soca?
Bouyon soca is the fusion of Dominica's bouyon with Trinidad soca. The term was popularised by producers outside Dominica, mainly in Saint Lucia, blending 1990s bouyon rhythms with soca songwriting.
What is bouyon gwada?
Bouyon gwada is Guadeloupe's own bouyon scene: a harder, faster local evolution of the Dominican sound, in French and Creole, built for Gwada sound systems and carnival.
What is shatta bouyon?
Shatta bouyon is the fusion of Martinique's shatta dancehall with Dominica's bouyon: shatta vocals and bounce over bouyon riddims.
What is bouyon-muffin?
Bouyon-muffin is a fusion genre mixing bouyon with ragga and dancehall vocals, one of bouyon's first offshoots, followed in Dominica by Wrecketeng.
Reketeng or Wrecketeng: which spelling is right?
Wrecketeng is the official spelling, per DJ Cut, the founding pioneer of the style; reketeng is a widespread internet misspelling. The style grew in Dominica after bouyon-muffin, rebuilding existing songs over bouyon instrumentals with sampled melodies and rap influenced vocals.
What is old school bouyon?
Old school bouyon is the original 1990s sound of WCK, RSB and First Serenade: live band energy, jing ping and cadence roots, and the first electronic riddims.
What is gospel bouyon?
Gospel bouyon carries bouyon rhythms into church: the same drums and drive, with praise and worship lyrics in Kweyol and English.
What is modern bouyon?
Modern bouyon is today's production style: programmed drums, synths and samples, trap and dancehall influences, built by a new generation of producers in Dominica and the French Antilles.
What is the difference between bouyon and zouk?
Zouk is the French Antilles' smoother, romantic dance music from the 1980s. Bouyon is faster and rawer, a carnival jump up sound, though zouk is one of the styles cooked into bouyon.
What is the difference between bouyon and shatta?
Shatta is Martinique's dancehall: sparse, heavy bass bounce for dance moves. Bouyon is Dominica's full band and riddim tradition, faster and denser. They fuse as shatta bouyon.
Bouyon vs Dennery segment: are they the same?
They are cousins, not twins. Dennery segment is Saint Lucia's fast, raw party sound; bouyon is Dominica's genre with jing ping and cadence roots. The scenes trade artists and riddims constantly.
What is a bouyon riddim?
A riddim is the instrumental track several artists voice in turn. In bouyon, a hot riddim can carry a whole carnival season, with every singer bringing their own song to the same beat.
What is instrumental bouyon?
Instrumental bouyon is the riddim without vocals: pure drums, bass and keys, used by DJs, dancers and producers, and searched by fans who want the beat alone.
What is a bouyon remix?
A bouyon remix flips an existing song, Afrobeats, pop, rap or R&B, onto a bouyon riddim. Smokiller's Bouyon Shattaz remixes are a leading example of the format.
What is bouyon music 2026?
Bouyon music 2026 is the current season's sound: new releases for Mas Domnik and the World Creole Music Festival, tracked on the ROAD MIX playlist by Bouyon Shattaz.
What is bouyon music in French called?
In French it is musique bouyon, and the French Antilles scene covers it as bouyon musique, with top searches like bouyon danse and playlist bouyon in Guadeloupe, Martinique and France.
Places
What is bouyon called in Guadeloupe and Martinique?
In Guadeloupe and Martinique, bouyon is commonly called jump up music. The French Antilles became bouyon's second home, with their own scene called bouyon gwada.
Is bouyon big in Martinique?
Yes. Martinique runs on bouyon alongside its own shatta sound, and Martinican singers like Maurane Voyer collaborate across the two scenes.
What is bouyon's link to Paris?
Paris is the diaspora capital of bouyon: French Caribbean parties, producers and labels push the sound there, and the biggest French-side bouyon business now runs through France.
Is there bouyon in French Guiana?
Yes. Bouyon plays across French Guiana's carnival and party scene, part of the same French Caribbean circuit as Guadeloupe and Martinique.
What about bouyon in Saint Martin?
Saint Martin is a production hub for bouyon: producers like Denmath, from Saint Martin and based between Nantes and Paris, make bouyon, shatta and soca riddims for the whole region.
Is bouyon played in Antigua?
Yes. Bouyon and bouyon soca are staples of Antigua's carnival and fete scene, fed by the same Eastern Caribbean touring circuit as Dominica and Saint Lucia.
Where is bouyon danced the most?
On the road at Dominica's Mas Domnik carnival, at Guadeloupe and Martinique carnivals, and at French Caribbean fetes from Roseau to Paris.
What is Mas Domnik?
Mas Domnik is Dominica's carnival, billed as the real mas: traditional mas, pageants and bouyon powered street bands through Roseau.
What is J'ouvert in Dominica?
J'ouvert is the pre-dawn opening of carnival: paint, powder, mud and bouyon riddims in the streets of Roseau before the day bands come out.
When is the World Creole Music Festival 2026?
WCMF 2026 runs Friday October 23 to Sunday October 25, 2026, at Windsor Park in Roseau, Dominica: three nights of Creole music to close the independence season.
When is Dominica Carnival 2026?
Mas Domnik, Dominica's carnival, is the island's big pre-Lenten celebration in Roseau, with J'ouvert, pageants and two days of bands powered by bouyon.
Is bouyon played at Notting Hill Carnival?
Yes. London's Caribbean diaspora carries bouyon to Notting Hill Carnival, part of the genre's growth beyond Dominica and the French Antilles.
Artists and producers
Who are the biggest bouyon artists?
The pillars are WCK, Asa Bantan and Reo, with a new wave of singers and producers across Dominica, Guadeloupe and Martinique pushing the sound every carnival season.
Who is Asa Bantan?
Asa Bantan, real name Asa Edwards, is Dominica's Bouyon Boss from Grand Bay, one of the genre's biggest live draws and the name behind the island's Breakfast Fete.
Who is Reo?
Reo is a Dominican bouyon artist billed as the Prince of Bouyon, a CMA 2026 nominee whose Joli BB with Martinican singer Maurane Voyer crossed both scenes.
Who is Maurane Voyer?
Maurane Voyer is a singer from Martinique, not Paris, who works across zouk, shatta and bouyon, including Joli BB with Reo.
Who is G'z Up?
G'z Up (@gz_upp) is the lead artist of FIX UP, one of the bouyon releases Bouyon Shattaz pushed in 2026. The track first circulated via a source account, but FIX UP is G'z Up's record.
Who are Dcamp and Lewismelo?
Dcamp and Lewismelo are Dylan and Lewis Campbell, a Guadeloupe bouyon duo whose track BOUYON rides the French Caribbean circuit.
Who are the top bouyon producers?
Bouyon production runs from Dominica to the French Antilles: names like HYPNO, Savion, Denmath, MB On The Track and Smokiller build the riddims behind today's releases.
Who is HYPNO?
HYPNO (@hypnoticbeatz) is a bouyon producer whose track Mauvais Plan runs at 160 bpm, a flex of bouyon's speed as a signature.
Who is Savion?
Savion (@prod.bysavion) is a young bouyon producer whose fresh snippets Bouyon Shattaz showcases as the next wave of Dominica production.
Who is Denmath?
Denmath (@prod.denmath) is a producer and sound engineer from Saint Martin, of Haitian heritage, based between Nantes and Paris. His riddims include Tropical Riddim and Harley Riddim (2022), and Koko Bwa's Tarif (April 2025).
Who is MB On The Track?
MB On The Track (@mbonthetrack) is a bouyon producer, the self styled Diamond Producer, known for Rock Bouyon and custom beats made to order.
Who is Smokiller?
Smokiller is the bouyon artist and producer brand of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, who is Dominican-born: he flips Afrobeats, pop, rap and R&B into bouyon as the Bouyon Shattaz remixes, produced Klass Money's Throw Dat (Bouyon 2026), and keeps the Wrecketeng tradition in his sound.
What is Wrecketeng?
Wrecketeng is an earlier Dominican style built on sampled melodies and rap influenced vocals, a root of today's new bouyon and RnBouyon. Smokiller's collaborative project announced in December 2025 set out to document its origins.
Are there women in bouyon?
Yes, and growing: singers like Maurane Voyer work the bouyon circuit, and women artists and producers are a rising force in the French Caribbean scenes. Bouyon Musique tracks the movement on its women of bouyon page.
What is Bouyon Shattaz?
Bouyon Shattaz is a Dominica rooted bouyon media platform: it documents the scene daily, runs the ROAD MIX playlist funnel, and is building a French Caribbean distribution network so Dominica benefits from its own music.
What is Bouyon Konet?
Bouyon Konet is the network umbrella Bouyon Shattaz is building to connect the bouyon platforms, so interviews, photoshoots, memes and releases roll out together while the sound stays organic and rooted in Dominica.
Who is the most famous bouyon singer?
Asa Bantan is bouyon's most famous headline name, with WCK as its founding band and Reo leading the new generation as Prince of Bouyon.
Making bouyon
How do you make a bouyon beat?
Start from the riddim: fast drums inspired by lapo kabwit and jing ping patterns, a heavy bassline, bright keyboard riffs and space for call and response vocals in Kweyol.
How fast is bouyon music (BPM)?
Bouyon is a fast genre and tempo is part of its identity: it is built for dance and carnival. Producer HYPNO's track Mauvais Plan, for example, runs at 160 bpm.
What is a bouyon drum kit?
A bouyon drum kit is a producer pack of the genre's drums: lapo kabwit style kicks and percussion, snares, shakers and riddim loops for building bouyon beats in a DAW.
What is a bouyon type beat?
A bouyon type beat is an instrumental made in the bouyon style for artists to voice, sold and shared by producers as type beats in the bouyon BPM and drum language.
What instruments are used in bouyon music?
Traditional bouyon uses lapo kabwit goat-skin drums, tambour bele, accordion, shak shak (maracas) and boom boom, layered today with keyboards, drum machines and synths.
How do you dance to bouyon music?
Bouyon is danced the carnival way: fast, free and high-energy, on the road and in fetes, following the riddim with waistline movement and jumps when the beat drops.
How do bouyon producers release riddims?
A producer drops the riddim, artists voice their versions, and the strongest cuts carry the season. Listings move through platforms and pages like Bouyon Shattaz, then to streaming.
Can I get a custom bouyon beat?
Yes, producers like MB On The Track take custom beat orders by DM, and Bouyon Shattaz connects artists and producers through its network.
What software do bouyon producers use?
Bouyon producers work in standard DAWs like FL Studio, building riddims from drum kits, loops and samples in the genre's fast tempo range.
How long is a bouyon song?
Bouyon songs are built for fetes and radio in the French Caribbean format: short, high-energy tracks, usually around three minutes, with the riddim doing the heavy work.
Listening and events
Where can I listen to bouyon music?
Right here: the ROAD MIX players are embedded at the top of this page. The full guide to bouyon playlists and mixes is on BouyonMusique.com.
What is the best bouyon playlist?
The ROAD MIX by Bouyon Shattaz is the working answer: new bouyon releases and carnival classics in one Spotify and YouTube playlist, updated for the 2026 season.
What are the best bouyon songs to start with?
Start with the classics from WCK and the modern anthems from Asa Bantan and Reo, then work through the bouyon songs guide on BouyonMusique.com, which sequences the essential tracks.
What is the best bouyon mix?
A great bouyon mix sequences classics and new drops by energy, not just release date. BouyonMusique.com breaks down the best bouyon mixes and where to hear them.
What are the newest bouyon songs in 2026?
The 2026 season's releases roll out for Mas Domnik and WCMF. BouyonMusique.com tracks new bouyon 2026 as it drops, and the ROAD MIX playlist stays current.
What is a shatta playlist?
A shatta playlist collects Martinique's dancehall sound; Bouyon Shattaz's shatta playlist guide sits next to its bouyon coverage because the two scenes share artists and crowds.
What is a bouyon mix?
A bouyon mix is a DJ blended set of bouyon tracks, mixed nonstop for fetes, the road and the gym, as opposed to a track by track playlist.
How do I get the ROAD MIX playlist?
Follow @bouyonshattaz on Instagram and comment ROAD MIX on any post: the Bouyon Road Mix playlist is sent straight to your DMs. The players are also embedded on this page.
Is bouyon music on Spotify?
Yes. Bouyon playlists like the ROAD MIX (Bouyon Music 2026) live on Spotify, and bouyon artists release there every season alongside YouTube and Audiomack.
What is Dominica Carnival called?
Dominica's carnival is Mas Domnik, billed as the real mas: the Caribbean's most traditional carnival, with sensay and old mas traditions plus bouyon bands.
What happens at the World Creole Music Festival?
Three nights of concerts at Windsor Park, Roseau, mixing bouyon with zouk, kompa, soca and Afrobeats, plus fringe events around the island during independence season.
What is the future of bouyon music?
Bouyon's future is French Caribbean scale with Dominican roots: more production, more diaspora reach, and a fight to keep ownership and credit in Dominica, where the genre was created.
Why do people say bouyon to the world?
It is the fan and platform rallying cry, hashtag #bouyontotheworld, for carrying Dominica's homegrown sound to global ears without losing its origin.
How can artists submit music to Bouyon Shattaz?
Artists and producers reach Bouyon Shattaz through its Instagram @bouyonshattaz: the platform reviews submissions, showcases new talent and connects producers with artists through the Konet network.
What does a bouyon distribution network do?
It moves releases from Dominica's artists onto French Caribbean platforms and playlists with credit and revenue tracked, the model Bouyon Shattaz is building with its Distribution and Rights Desk.
What bouyon songs are trending now?
The ROAD MIX playlist is the live answer: Bouyon Shattaz updates it with the season's trending bouyon songs as they break in Dominica and the French Antilles.
Can I book bouyon artists for events?
Bouyon artists tour the carnival circuit and the diaspora. Bouyon Shattaz's network connects promoters with artists and producers across Dominica and the French Antilles.
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