The party stand jumped to the soca music from the megawatt speakers, the Carib girls gyrated their stuff and the rhythm band on their drums maintained a steady beat that became almost hypnotic.
Also leaving the scene was Caribbean soca star Alphonsus Cassell, better known as Arrow, who recorded the soca dance hit "Hot Hot Hot".
Although zouk possessed an undeniably local French Antillean character, it also had an international orientation that enabled it to compete commercially with foreign genres such as reggae, soca, and especially salsa, which enjoyed a strong appeal in the French Antilles in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
One hybrid musical form, "punta rock," blends Caribbean soca, calypso, and reggae styles with merengue, salsa, and hip-hop.
Folk music has declined partly because of imported musical styles such as calypso, reggae, soca, and pop.
Traditional ring dances and quadrilles are still practiced, and dancing to the beat of goombay (sometimes also known as rake and scrape), calypso, or soca (a blend of traditional calypso and Indian rhythmic instruments) music is a popular pastime.
News International, the NHS and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) were also victims of the group, who lived as far apart as London and the Shetland Islands and never met in person.
Gwent Police and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) targeted addresses in Cardiff, Penhow in Monmouthshire, and Marshfield, Newport, in South Wales.
The latest purity figures, compiled by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) show that the average purity of seized cocaine had dropped from 33 per cent in 2007/08 to 26 per cent in 2008/09 and that a third of the seizures consist of as little as nine per cent.
In the days before his death, Scotland Yard and the now-defunct Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) had intelligence that he was about to receive a gun from another man, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, and launched an armed surveillance operation.
"We dealt with a team a while ago that had a director of operations and a director of finance, and they actually called them that," says Bill Hughes, the appointed director-general of SOCA.
