Another way to spell compas. Literally meaning "beat" or "rythym" in Spanish. Kompa is a Haitian music genre with the stylings of Cuban contradanza, Son Cubano, jazz elements and African rhythms, and Dominican merengue. Unike Zouk, it is sung in mostly Haitian Creole.

An easy way to explain kompa is that it is the Haitian version or r&b. A beat with piano, drums, guitar, and sometimes with saxophones or trumpets. Some say that dancing to kompa is like having sex on the dance floor because when dancing to kompa, your abdominal area is mostly used like grinding or just moving side to side on/with your partner.

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Kompa and Beat commonly abbreviated as K&B, is a sub-genre of Kompa, also spelled Compas, originating from Haiti, which combines elements of Kompa, Zouk, Gospel, Pop, R&B, Hip Hop, Reggae, Country, R, Latin, and Electronic Dance Music.

KOMPA DRILL often mistakenly referenced as CREOLE-Trap, is a combination of Haitian Kompa, and Sample Drill music.

Characteristic features of KOMPA DRILL production include rap-talk-singing, Flow, “kata” (rim shot) (tresillo, live drums, (typically 80 to 120 beats per minute, or BPM), catchy short riff, Autotune, loops, 808 glides, ear-catching and singable melodies with manipulated Background vocal.

KOMPA DRILL uses replayed samples of older Kompa tracks by composing derivative version of the sample played live by an actual studio or session musician, thus giving it a nostalgic yet modern twist.

Key stylistic elements:

Call and Response, Chant-Rap, Vocalese, Ostinatos and rapped lyrics originated from the real-life experiences (often rap-sing in Haitian French-Creole, Crenglish, and CreoSpañol, FranSpañol which usually feature a guest artist or who 'd contribute a guest verse.

Other elements include a 12 bar bridge section played with a 5/4 timing over Rasin Mizik, (Haitian roots music with more pop-based melodies).

The lyrical content of Kompa drill music tends to be bawdy, cryptic, gritty pithy, provocative and full of voye pwen,” or “sending a point.”

A notable label of this kind of Kompa Drill Music is Negre Marron Records, an Int-y Independent internet record label which was founded in New York City ) 2018) by Rene Guemps.

The Haitian Kompa Music style of World Music or Global music,

It's often referred to simply as"Konpa Etno" in Haitian Creole, .

Though sang by Artist or singers of Non-Haitian origin, the instrumental s or bavkung tracks arw usually accompanied by live Kompa musicians of Haitian origin.

Simply put, it'a a hybrid style which incorporate elements of one or many genre of Non-Haitian music and combine them with Kompa themes, Musical Structures and Instruments

Singable-Melodies , Scales, modes, mysical Inflections

Modern instruments include:
electromechanical such as Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument, Keytar, Telharmonium, Hammond organ, Drum machines, and Electronic Drum kits, Key board/Keytar, Electronic Guitar, Bass guitar, and Keybass

Electronic Music Technology or Electronic Musical Instruments such as Modern synthesizers, Sequencers, Sampler, Loops, Sound effects, MIDI
Drum machines, Modular synthesizer, Percussion, Personal computer,and Digital Audio Workstations (DAW), sound bites, sound effects can be used as well.

Other traditional ethnic instruments include: the didgeridoo, Sitar, Steel drums, pedal steel guitar

Kora (West African Harp, the Pan flute, Berimbau, and the Yoruban drum

A notable label of this kind of Ethno-Kompa is Negre Marron Records which was founded in New York City 2018 by René Guemps.
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The term White Kompa is used to describe Haitian Kompa music sung by non-Haitian or French-Caribbean singers or artists.

usually Feature a lead vocalist and 2-3 backing Vocalists and sometime a guest-vocalist who 'd contribute a guest verse.

Characterized by and performed on typical musical instruments which are played only by Kompa musicians of Haitian origin.

Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a variants.format

The recorded songs are often between three and five minutes in length.

Unlike Kompa Diect which which is very lyric-oriented-The lyrics in White Kompa songs don’t usually have any deep meaning,often the lyrics are frivolous and encourage dancing dancing due to it use of dance-oriented rhythms which generally dance to a mid-tempo with a 1-2 beat.

The origins of the genre and term was pioneered by Negre Marron Records' CEO and label Director René Guemps who always thought - if language was the barrier that stop Haitian Artist from crossing over or become mainstream to other mwrket - why not bring artist of non-Haitian Origin and have them crossover to Kompa music.

FYI: This is the first time in the history of the Haitian Music Industry (HMI) that a record label will be selling the beauty of an international artist from another race as a concept in a market that's not his or hers.

Kompa-Room-Live is the Haitian style of the Boiler Room (a global online music broadcasting platform commissioning and streaming)
The difference between the two are: Kompa-Room-Live only showcase up and coming Haitian DJs and only play the latest Kompa and Beat hits in front of a live audience on an open dance floor.

During the live Kompa-Room-Live session the DJ is filmed and recorded using an Omnidirectional_camera which shoots in 360° format that's connected to a personal computer which broadcast to Haitian and Beat Music fans on Youtube and Facebook Livall over the world.

During Kompa-Room-Live the attendees are positioned in front of the DJ booth while dancing, which is really the main attraction at Kompa-Room:

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