Latin Freestyle: S&D

bump, tenuous madonna connections aside I am clueless. Where to start?

Clave Rocks
http://www.discogs.com/release/119203

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/the-bluffers-guide-to-freestyle.htm

Exposé probably aged best in my mind.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Expos%C3%A9

Luis Martinez/Lewis Martinee, along with Frank Diaz, was a damned good production team.

lots of ideas here:

Does anybody up in this bitch like FREESTYLE?

Some great albums (more or less chronological):

Two Sisters Two Sisters (Sugarscoop)
Trinere Trinere (Jampacked)
Cover Girls Show Me (Fever)
Expose' Exposure (Arista)
Company B Gotta Dance (Atlantic)
Pajama Party Up All Night (Atlantic)
Corina Corina (Cutting)

Also:

Sweet Sensation Take It While It's Hot (Atco)

On the peripherary (but hey, if you're gonna count the Pet Shop Boys): Shannon, Miami Sound Machine, Real Roxanne, Lisa M.

More sad boys to match the tough girls: Noel, Coro, Willie and Gil, Timmy T.

just about everything by CONNIE is great. She's at the top of my list. I also like SEQUAL. stuff on Joey Boy is generally good. anything with Pretty Tony production is generally worth checking out.

Latinos down here in Texas go crazy for this stuff. I've been meaning to check out one of those freestyle revival tours for awhile now.

Nocera's "Summertime, Summertime" is a killer as well. With freestyle, it's really all about bad vocals delivered with the utmost conviction.

Cool, that sounds like plenty to get me started. So far everything I'm hearing is perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8jRfWiLHGY&

okay, this would be my set if i were deejaying at a club tonight. i think there are clubs in springfield near me that might dig this mix.

corina – temptation (new school freestyle)
the brat pack – so many ways (do it properly part II) (the wild style dub)
raiana paige – rescue me (dub I)
debra torre – conceal your love (urban dub)
knight time – I’ve been watching you (animal’s club)
yvonne deleon – I can’t face the fact (oh, oh facts dub)
sa-fire – don’t break my dub
sa-fire – boy, I’ve been told (rascal dub)
sweet sensation – sincerely yours (charlie dee basement beat version)
sweet sensation – child of love (rock the house mix)
sweet sensation – never let you go (oh oh omar dub)
laissez faire – to be in your arms (club mix)
jaya – if you leave me now (terrific dub)
face – forever yours (club mix)
giggles – what goes around comes around (dub vocal)
charlie rock – missing you (club mix)

Jeez, do any of you amazing people have Nocera's "Summertime, Summertime" at an audio quality higher than 128? I love this track but being forced to listen to this tinny, thin sound is ruining my life.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9u12bd

I've always loved this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L0H_w9kBx8

ALWAYS had a soft spot for this stuff. Have worked with a couple of the key artists in the Canuck scene (yes, there was one) and even sang lead on a track myself some years ago!

okay, i made an actual tape mix yesterday and it's ALMOST perfect. and it differs somewhat from my list up above.

side a

the cover girls - inside outside (dub 1)

stacey q - give you all my love (underground mix)

shana - i want you (miami/club remix)

raiana paige - rescue me (club mix)

corina - temptation (new school freestyle)

sweet sensation - child of love (rock the house mix)

knight time - i've been watching you (animal's club)

charlie rock - missing you (radio mix)

side b

yvonne - there's a party going on (party dub)

sa-fire - boy, i've been told (rascal dub)

jaya - if you leave me now (terrific dub)

yvonne deleon - i can't face the fact (oh, oh facts dub)

diva - i wanna break night with you (dub mix)

sweet sensation - sincerely yours (charlie dee basement beat version)

expose - what you don't know (atomix mix)

another great tape to be made would be "Oh, Oh, Freestyle Goes Acid". cuz by the late 80's lots of freestyle singles were including acid remixes and i love those. my mix is pretty trad though. which is why i didn't put any hip-house remixes on my tape either. hip-house and acid were the future - or the now sound at the turn of the 80's - but the swift edits and killer drum programming of classic freestyle is where my heart lies.

ok THIS right here is the genre i really really want to get into and find out more about. mp3s, zips and/or recommendations of buyable compilations would be MUCH APPRECIATED. (pref not youtubes tho.)

uhh...Scott? YSI? Looks great.

see this thread too: Does anybody up in this bitch like FREESTYLE?

whoops, linked above.

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-826221-1212433303.jpeg
someone know the exact name for *this* version of 'Let me be the one' by Sa-fire?

diggin nocera

Awesome tune

posted this on the shannon thread but got little more than badtempered grumbling, it's good though so warrants being on here because of the blatant 'let the music play' nod in the intro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mvSHevf68o

also, this is AMAZING. brilliant example of latin freestyle 2010, hopefully it's the start of many more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfG-_JtFD_I

..for the Omar bit

Phyllis Nelson - i like you (nonSectRadicals Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OjvqGHtdU

üNN - sensor kling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng4cuwKNYOk

via maura, some Japanese freestyle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmHJkm6qqU

Not sure if this belongs here or on the Environ thread, but Morgan Geist's new project The Galleria is an explicit freestyle throwback/homage:
http://www.gottadancedirty.com/2015/06/02/the-galleria-calling-card-mezzanine-ep/

it definitely belongs here. so great!

Love this

Another "via maura" thing:

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/05/freestyle-trading-cards

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/specials/freestyle-oral-history/

Anyone remember the name of the now-gone-from-YT Toshiki Kadomatsu above? Brad?

Pretty Tony seems charming, throwing his gun at Trinere to make her sing at 4:30 AM.

watched this

http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2009/03/04/159342/TrueLoveDVDWeb.jpg

and discovered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRFGOqYKm-Y

This is the playlist you need.

My man!!

You left off a personal fave, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qltlG9zLGzg

oh man

Rocking that list right now!

Alfred, I’m very curious about your thoughts on a South African song that’s part of this little poll I organized the other day. I mentioned there how it somehow reminded me of Latin Freestyle (it must be in the air!)

(Nayobe’s “Please Don’t Go” features twice on your list btw)

https://www.laweekly.com/music/10-freestyle-jams-for-people-who-know-shit-about-80s-freestyle-music-8840009

4. India, "Dancing on the Fire" (1988)
Today, India is best known as a salsa singer; she won a Latin Grammy for her album Intensamente con Canciones de Juan Gabriel in 2016. However, her 1990 debut solo record, Breaking Night, is the link between freestyle and house with production from Jellybean Benitez, "Little" Louie Vega and Mantronik. The standout cut from the album is the Benitez-produced "Dancing on the Fire" with its dramatic synth lines and India's intense vocal workout. Originally released as a single in 1988, "Dancing on the Fire" is pretty late in the game for freestyle, which began to wane at the start of the ’90s, and the singer isn't all that well-known for her work in this area. Outside of her salsa records, India is widely recognized in the house music world, particularly for the now-classic Masters at Work track "I Can't Get No Sleep."

Alfred, did you get a chance to check out that song? I’m still curious what you think!

xp

this guy is an inspiration

There are basically only two demographics in the US who even know what “freestyle” music was and this is one of them https://t.co/ymjDywbMVK

— Arielle Castillo (@ariellec) May 10, 2019

amazing

at the end did he literally put a stogie in his mouth and say "take it eassss"..?

big time tommy knows the hurt

the more i learn about Tommie the more i relate to him pic.twitter.com/aLW0iR9jZw

— 🇲🇮🇰🇴 (@mikejonesfl) May 9, 2019

Tri- State Old School Forevah

look out for numba one
but don't step in numba twoooooooo

this guy is my new fav insta account

The milkshakiest of ducks, surely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtLVSyUgiro

he helped this youtube clip of the song go from 300 views (3 months ago) to 8,800

tommie spreading the gospel.

os 4 life

There are definitely some familiar tracks on this forthcoming comp, but it looks cool and I'm glad Ace put it together (I will buy it for sure): https://acerecords.co.uk/latin-freestyle-new-york-miami-1983-1992

It’s good (50% classics) but it also reflects some particuiar personal tastes that I don’t share. This is one of the few times when I think I would be a better compiler than Bob Stanley. But I don’t see how he could have come up with any obscure-but-great freestyle record that I haven’t already heard. I followed the genre closely through its entire lifespan, mostly by listening to WPOW Power 96 out of Miami.

Josefa, could you hit us with a personal top 10 or so freestyle tracks? I'm pretty much a neophyte, but I love this sound so much and have been trying to dig deeper

Sure, here are some favorites that are not on the Bob Stanley/Ace Records compilation:

Amoretto - Clave Rocks
Cynthia & Johnny O - Dreamboy/Dreamgirl
Natasha - Be Gentle with My Heart
Nayobe - Please Don't Go
Nice N' Wild - Diamond Girl
Nocera - Summertime, Summertime
Sa-Fire - Let Me Be the One
Sequal - It's Not Too Late
Shannon - Let the Music Play
Shy Rose - I Cry for You (this is actually Italian but was played to death on the Miami freestyle station)
Sweet Sensation - Hooked on You
Judy Torres - No Reason to Cry
Trinere - All Night

I've always liked this comp CD (although I guess it's been out of print a while).

..from that, I also love "(You Are My) All and All" by Joyce Sims. And Erotic Exotic, I'd almost forgotten about them. They were a Miami group I saw live back in the day.

Thanks, Josefa!!

I followed the genre closely through its entire lifespan, mostly by listening to WPOW Power 96 out of Miami.

love this

Yes to Nocera, Joyce Sims and many more here.

Not really sure what Two of Hearts is doing on a freestyle compilation but still it's a great track listing.

There simply aren’t many freestyle acts who weren’t from either New York or Miami, and the ones that weren’t were only tangentially freestyle-related such as Stacey Q (LA), Information Society (Minneapolis), or Nu Shooz (Portland)

The one “dud” act at the Freestyle Festival I attended a few weeks back was (unfortunately) from here in L.A. – but he’s not really a freestyle artist anyway: Egyptian Lover.

(he suuuuucked)

Egyptian Lover was clearly electro but I think he did have a big influence on freestyle too. After all, freestyle was spawned from electro. Countless freestyle records utilize the Kraftwerk “Numbers” beat in the same way Afrika Bambaataa used it in “Planet Rock”

I'm not a stickler for genre. "Two of Hearts" belongs on a freestyle comp. Heard it blast for months in summer and fall '86 on WPOW 96.5 Miami around the harder freestyle stuff.