Freestyle will never Die! Freestyle Forever Forever FREESTYLE !!! Man I still pump my Freestyle almost everyday in my car or in my truck, at my job, in my garage at home when working on motorcycles or race car, and when I go to Portugal in Europe at the beaches there and at my parents house over there! That's when I use my dads BOOM BOX Lol!! Ha ha ha! Hell Yea!!!! I married a freestyle chick and now we have 3 little new generation freestyle heads!!!! Keep up the good work and never stop!!! You have to keep it going!
Freestyle and house for me came from the same roots. Tye roots of clubs and what was going on in the clubs. So why when house started getting big, freestyle records had house versions and dub mixes. I’m in San Francisco, but always look at NYC for trends and what was going on in the clubs from the mid 80’s. Ppl. Out here bc they didn’t have the radio and club background, music was separated. But I always considered the same as all being good dance music. When I NYC first went to NYC in 87, everything was one and considered good music like I did. House, freestyle, hip hop and the NUC clubs played it all. I remember buying loose touch bad of the heart with I think George Lamond on Lagosa records.
Being from Chicago, and having been a Program Director for a Chicago radio station that programmed House, Freestyle and Hip House Music, it is my opinion that although it is all dance music, Freestyle and House Music do not necessarily come from the same roots. They have different elements, and different origins. You can track Freestyle to 1983 Shannon (Let The Music Play), although the term did not become popular as a genre until around 1986 with TKA, and The Cover Girls being prominent acts of the era. Jesse Saunders "On and On" was a 1984 Chicago track, while Marshall Jefferson's "Move Your Body" debuted in 1986, while JM Silk's "Music Is The Key" was released in 1985. Yes, George Lamond was the lead in Loose Touch on Ligosa Records, released in 1987...all dance music? Yes, but definite differences between House and Freestyle Music...
Freestyle will never Die! Freestyle Forever Forever FREESTYLE !!! Man I still pump my Freestyle almost everyday in my car or in my truck, at my job, in my garage at home when working on motorcycles or race car, and when I go to Portugal in Europe at the beaches there and at my parents house over there! That's when I use my dads BOOM BOX Lol!! Ha ha ha! Hell Yea!!!! I married a freestyle chick and now we have 3 little new generation freestyle heads!!!! Keep up the good work and never stop!!! You have to keep it going!
To this day - Freestyle Rules!
Freestyle and house for me came from the same roots. Tye roots of clubs and what was going on in the clubs. So why when house started getting big, freestyle records had house versions and dub mixes. I’m in San Francisco, but always look at NYC for trends and what was going on in the clubs from the mid 80’s. Ppl. Out here bc they didn’t have the radio and club background, music was separated. But I always considered the same as all being good dance music. When I NYC first went to NYC in 87, everything was one and considered good music like I did. House, freestyle, hip hop and the NUC clubs played it all. I remember buying loose touch bad of the heart with I think George Lamond on Lagosa records.
Being from Chicago, and having been a Program Director for a Chicago radio station that programmed House, Freestyle and Hip House Music, it is my opinion that although it is all dance music, Freestyle and House Music do not necessarily come from the same roots. They have different elements, and different origins. You can track Freestyle to 1983 Shannon (Let The Music Play), although the term did not become popular as a genre until around 1986 with TKA, and The Cover Girls being prominent acts of the era. Jesse Saunders "On and On" was a 1984 Chicago track, while Marshall Jefferson's "Move Your Body" debuted in 1986, while JM Silk's "Music Is The Key" was released in 1985. Yes, George Lamond was the lead in Loose Touch on Ligosa Records, released in 1987...all dance music? Yes, but definite differences between House and Freestyle Music...