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For those of us who were able to catch the tail end of the 70s, and those of us who literally had to practice our dance
moves before we left the house on Saturday night, Freestyle was a blessing and a curse at once, There are alot of
theories out there on why the music was called freestyle, here is mine. Disco was a contact dance style ,it had turns,
it had a style of delievery,it had an attitude. If you didn't know how to dance Disco ...you stood at the bar with your
drink all night.
So when Pretty Tony's " Fix it in the Mix " and Akfrikka Bambatta's " Planet Rock "came on for the first time alot of
us just stood around scratching our heads. We got on the dancefloor and just started moving to the beat or "
Freestyling " no particular way of doing it. It was a fusion of 70's disco and 80's breakdancing music, produced
entirely on drum machines and sequencers. Vocals provided by young hispanic singers from New York and Miami.
Surprisingly though the first charted single in this genre was Shannon's " Give me Tonight " this New York style of
Freestyle was embraced by the local breakdancing crews for it's electronic style. Though I don't consider it true
Freestyle. Trying to trace back one of the first true sounding Freestyle records I'd have to say it was between Jenny
Burton's " Remember what I Like" (1983) or Debbie Deb's " When I hear Music" ( 1983) Jenny's sound was a little
more polished than Debbie's which had a more street feel, but you could hear the style developing . The Freestyle
beat was born. The music began pouring in, here in Miami clubs exclusively played this music Casanova's, 98th
Aero Squadron,Mystique, Gambits, Skylight Express,Parallel Bar (Bakery Center ), Rick's Bar,Visions of
Kendall,Baker Street,Crown Liquors, and many more began capitalizing on this sound that still has a strong
following here in Miami today.1992 came to an end, so did the Freestyle era. As with Disco in the seventies,
Freestyle never truly died.
moves before we left the house on Saturday night, Freestyle was a blessing and a curse at once, There are alot of
theories out there on why the music was called freestyle, here is mine. Disco was a contact dance style ,it had turns,
it had a style of delievery,it had an attitude. If you didn't know how to dance Disco ...you stood at the bar with your
drink all night.
So when Pretty Tony's " Fix it in the Mix " and Akfrikka Bambatta's " Planet Rock "came on for the first time alot of
us just stood around scratching our heads. We got on the dancefloor and just started moving to the beat or "
Freestyling " no particular way of doing it. It was a fusion of 70's disco and 80's breakdancing music, produced
entirely on drum machines and sequencers. Vocals provided by young hispanic singers from New York and Miami.
Surprisingly though the first charted single in this genre was Shannon's " Give me Tonight " this New York style of
Freestyle was embraced by the local breakdancing crews for it's electronic style. Though I don't consider it true
Freestyle. Trying to trace back one of the first true sounding Freestyle records I'd have to say it was between Jenny
Burton's " Remember what I Like" (1983) or Debbie Deb's " When I hear Music" ( 1983) Jenny's sound was a little
more polished than Debbie's which had a more street feel, but you could hear the style developing . The Freestyle
beat was born. The music began pouring in, here in Miami clubs exclusively played this music Casanova's, 98th
Aero Squadron,Mystique, Gambits, Skylight Express,Parallel Bar (Bakery Center ), Rick's Bar,Visions of
Kendall,Baker Street,Crown Liquors, and many more began capitalizing on this sound that still has a strong
following here in Miami today.1992 came to an end, so did the Freestyle era. As with Disco in the seventies,
Freestyle never truly died.
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