Freestyle Tracks I Side A – DJ Davie K
November 1990 – Boston, MA
Analog Feed, re-mastered to CD in Paris, May 2002
Freestyle music is no longer a mainstream or popular form of music; these recordings are more than 20 years old, pretty unbelievable when one looks back to how popular this form of music was in the USA in the 80’s and early 90’s. Freestyle was big in NYC, Miami, Chicago and in other large cities with large Hispanic/Latin populations.
Today, Freestyle is still played over the NYC and Miami airwaves, although I am sure other cities in the US and possibly in other countries still play these “oldies but goodies”.
The Freestyle music formula: what some would call “lovey-dovey” or “lollipop” lyrics, expressing love and pain in relationships over electronic music arrangements (rhythmic drum patterns from 120 bpm to as fast as 130 bpm – the norm was around 120-124 bpm).
I was in NYC in 89 and loved listening to this kind of stuff on HOT 97, or booming out of the bass bins on some Hispanic’s beat jeep. Even then it was a slightly guilty pleasure. The raw emotion is so touchingly cheesy, but there were some great beefy pop songs with snaggy hooks that rattled around in your head for years. Ay papi!
This mix is super nostalgic feeling (despite the fact that I didn’t listen to freestyle at all until about 10 years ago). Love the length of the two parts, calling back a time when mixtapes were made on cassettes… And when the avatars on here were all cassettes. Big fun here.
Freestyle Tracks I Side A – DJ Davie K
November 1990 – Boston, MA
Analog Feed, re-mastered to CD in Paris, May 2002
Freestyle music is no longer a mainstream or popular form of music; these recordings are more than 20 years old, pretty unbelievable when one looks back to how popular this form of music was in the USA in the 80’s and early 90’s. Freestyle was big in NYC, Miami, Chicago and in other large cities with large Hispanic/Latin populations.
Today, Freestyle is still played over the NYC and Miami airwaves, although I am sure other cities in the US and possibly in other countries still play these “oldies but goodies”.
The Freestyle music formula: what some would call “lovey-dovey” or “lollipop” lyrics, expressing love and pain in relationships over electronic music arrangements (rhythmic drum patterns from 120 bpm to as fast as 130 bpm – the norm was around 120-124 bpm).
just on the download
welcome to the b0x
reminds me of the state liverpool, late 88 early 89
😉
lookin’ forward to the b-side
I was in NYC in 89 and loved listening to this kind of stuff on HOT 97, or booming out of the bass bins on some Hispanic’s beat jeep. Even then it was a slightly guilty pleasure. The raw emotion is so touchingly cheesy, but there were some great beefy pop songs with snaggy hooks that rattled around in your head for years. Ay papi!
This mix is super nostalgic feeling (despite the fact that I didn’t listen to freestyle at all until about 10 years ago). Love the length of the two parts, calling back a time when mixtapes were made on cassettes… And when the avatars on here were all cassettes. Big fun here.
oooo cassette avatars.. cheers for the memory jig, i think i was a tdk sa90 😉