I do....a select few freestyle tracks with other 80's genre music makes for a lively set at some of the places that I've played at recently. I just dug up Dino "Nighttime Lovekind" in my stash, good stuff.

not outside my house

i think if i dropped it at my gig...id get the stares

like spinning it though...makes me feel like a lil kid at the roller skating rink


good times

I do regular rotation.

ha ha, Last friday I did a middle school dance and this kid requested Stevie B and Johnny O.

I drop a few now and then... late into the night before closing.. I usually do a set of whatever someone requests... and now and then its Freestyle...

Giggles, Judy Torres, Sa-Fire, oooo and "Running" by Information Society.

my thoughts exactly. i haven't touched this stuff in years and thought it would be cool. to be honest, some of the "dub" versions are pretty cool. forgot about those.

I do, peeps in the D still like it sometimes.

I always do a freestyle set people luv it here in ny especially in staten island. I even go to the concerts

guidos love freestyle

You cant do a party in brooklyn and not play a little freestyle.

I definitely get requests for it still. If it's an older Mexican crowd, definitely. Not being racist, I'm Mexican myself.

I think alot of DJ's in the bay still have/play FREESTYLE.

i just finished a high energy club with 60 tracks and 30 of them are freestyle.
i will post it soon.

detroit was one of the most popular places to hear freestyle.

i cant play freestyle at the club because of rap music right now.
all the young people dont like positive music. ( im being honest )

POSITIVE MUSIC?? They dont even like hearing music that makes sense anymore... Its a shame, but I'm sure its what older peeps were saying about us, (They just didnt have a forum to discuss it in)

^learned something new. never thought detroit was into freestyle.

Works in LA just fine.

dopeness. I been trying to dig for old freestyle classics recently.

theres always dope shit with banging beats you can drop in on the regular.

lisa lisa - can i take you home
nocera - lets go
toni tony tone - feels good (more new jack-ish??)

gotta dig my brain and remember more to look out for.

who sings "Summertime Summertime"

this is a staple in the freestyle set

Watchwww.youtube.com

nocera

A lot of new RnB is freestyl-ish:
"Get It Shawty" - Lloyd
"Just Fine" - Mary J
"Icebox Remix" - Omarion
The list goes on.



It's not racist to point out that certain ethnic groups like certain types of music.

Pajam Party - Yo No Se........one of my favorites. Seduction, Cover Girls, Expose, Nocera, Stevie B., Corina, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, Madonna, Lil' Louis.........WOW!

Think Southwest Detroit....

Actually somebody sent me a MySpace bulletin about a Freestyle gig starting on Thursdays at Grand Central down in Harmonie Park, right around the corner from DNA where Herrera spins. It was a no cover thing and I was seriously thinking about checking it out.

If I remember some big names in Freestyle were coming in for a upcoming party.

i may have to check it out.

after looking through more vinyl, i didn't know i da so many stevie b records.

also found originals of lil suzy- take me in your arms & Jaya.

Some "Lil Suzy"-Take me in your arms...During a set gets the crowd hyped.

Watchyoutube.com


sorry, but this is too funny since we are talking about Freestyle

When i grew up in N.Y.C. years ago (when Freestyle was exploding) - Cover Girls - "Show Me" was & IMO - still the anthem that best describes that era.

i usually drop a freestyle track when i'm doing an old school house set. i like debbie deb or stevie b.

i play it all the time. that's the heat right there

freestyle is the shizzle....i feel like a kid rocking a bright yellow shirt with plastic pink and lime green budweiser glasses all over again.


the 80's rocked

i opened up for lil suzy,johnny o,george lamond and local freestyle acts here in detroit at club bleu a while back.

here is the link to some pics of the events.

www.syclonepro.com

this music is one of the reasons i wanted to be a dj at the time.

great pics.

You just rickrolled us!

by the way, is that really freestyle?

Damn....i hate it when I get rickroll'd a piece of me dies everytime

Yo, payne. That freestyle party sounds hot. Is it gonna be a weekly joint?

That's fuckin awesome.

I love a lot of 90's freestyle too.... lots of good filipino bay area singers... buffy, jocelyn, pinay, kai, etc....

freestyle is the shit...too bad not many places cater to that crowd.

lol no


foooled you

I love to spin freestyle. I spin mobile and I always get requests for it being I live on Long Island. Lot of guidos out here. It just makes you want to dance. If you don't like freestyle there is something wrong with your ears!

+1

I get regular requests for it, especially at weddings.

And the funny thing about this thread, and I swear I kid you not, I just finished about a 30 minute freestyle play session in my music room seconds before reading this thread! lol Good shit meynard!

Yeah, I think so, I am still looking for the myspace post about it. I saw it on somebody's page (friend of a friend) but I can't remember who...

No info at Grandcentral website of course.

LOL, I never knew about rickrolled:

wiki.answers.com

Payne, if you find it forward it to me on myspace. do it!

Will do if I find it, damn I went back my history and still don't see it.

I got a freestyle mix posted at ivelement.com on the radio player...

freestyle bash coming soon here in detroit!!!
coro,safire,noel

check out the flyer here
i66.photobucket.com

i will be spinning the after party.

Okay, found it but I guess that is a Latin/Salsa night that they are doing weekly:

s71.photobucket.com

i71.photobucket.com

My bad - here's how I fucked up...

I guess they are bringing in Noel, Coro, and Safire for the Wednesday before Thanksgiving (it is the background of the MySpace page - that's what fucked me up and confused me, I thought Grand Central was all Freestyle too.

img507.imageshack.us

Damn, these guys make it hard to find out shit about their parties. If I didn't know a little about webdesign they would be fucked as promoters:

Here's the whole flyer - it's at the Masonic Temple:

s71.photobucket.com

FUCK Ticks are $45 in advance??? Is Safire gonna blow me too for that price?
How can they make money - freestyle isn't that big here.....

here's the dudes my space page but it's set to private:

www.myspace.com

im sure it will be a good turn out!

my boy dj dan tavares and dj ritmo will be spinning!

and if every thing stays in place im doing the after party.

Funny how the scenes are SO segregated here. That whole latin scene is on it's own, but there is also a nice size black reggaeton scene here.

A lil taste for you youngins who werent around back then. Those of you who use this list should thank Nik for scratchtools cuz i woulda never typed this.

þÿ"FREESTYLE/& More - You'll Never Find Another Love.mp3"
FREESTYLE/06 - Give Me Back My Heart.mp3
FREESTYLE/09-Sweet Sensation - Never let you go (1).mp3
FREESTYLE/80's Freestyle - Tina B - January February.mp3
FREESTYLE/80s Freestyle ~ D'Zyre - Forever Amo'r.mp3
FREESTYLE/80s Freestyle-Hanson & Davis - Hungry for your love.mp3
FREESTYLE/80s Freestyle-Noel - like a child.mp3
FREESTYLE/Animotion - Obsession.mp3
FREESTYLE/C Bank - I Won't Stop Loving You - Freestyle Greatest Hits Vol. 2.mp3
FREESTYLE/C-Bank-One More Shot.MP3
FREESTYLE/Corina - Give me back my heart.mp3
FREESTYLE/Coro - Where Are You Tonight.mp3
FREESTYLE/Cover Girls - 80'S FREESTYLE - Inside Outside.MP3
FREESTYLE/Cynthia - Thief Of Hearts.mp3
FREESTYLE/Dance Freestyle - Body & Style - Listen To My Cries.mp3
FREESTYLE/Eileen Flores - Touch Me With Your Heart.mp3
FREESTYLE/FREESTYLE & DANCE_LATIN RASCALS - Arabian Nights.mp3
FREESTYLE/Freestyle - Cynthia - Endless Nights.mp3
FREESTYLE/Freestyle - India - Dancing on the fire.mp3
FREESTYLE/Freestyle - Latin Rascals - Mandolay (1).mp3
FREESTYLE/FREESTYLE MKG-TEARS SHED.mp3
FREESTYLE/FREESTYLE(TPE-Then Came You).mp3
FREESTYLE/Freestyle-Facination - Why you wanna go.mp3
FREESTYLE/Freestyle`s - Greatest Hits - Safire - Don't Break My Heart.mp3
FREESTYLE/Freeze - AEIOU.mp3
FREESTYLE/George LaMond & Brenda K. Starr - No Matter What.mp3
FREESTYLE/George Lamond - Look Into My Eyes.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - 99 ½ of you.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Black Betty.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Black Box - Everybody Everbody.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Boom Boom Boom (lemme hear u say).MP3
FREESTYLE/House - Cover Girls - Inside Outside (1).mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Cover Girls - Show Me.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Cynthia & Johnny O - Dream Boy Dream Girl.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Diamond Girl.mp3
FREESTYLE/house - Erick Morillo - Keep Movin.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - George Lamond - Bad Of The Heart.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - George Lamond - Look into my eyes.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - George Lamond - Where Does That Leave Love.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Good Life (Magic Juan Mix).mp3
FREESTYLE/House - House music all night long.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - India - Dancing On The Fire.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Jellybean - The Mexican (1).mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Joyce Simms - You Are My All In All.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Judy torres - I wont stop loving you.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Judy Torres - Come Into My Arms.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Judy Torres - I'm So In Love With You.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Judy Torres - No Reason To Cry (Remix).mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Judy Torres - No Reason To Cry.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - La Flavour - Mandolay.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Lil Louis - French Kiss.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - lil louis - House mix.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Lil Suzie - Take Me In Your Arms.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - I Wonder If I Take You Home.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Lisa Lisa And The Cult Jam - Can You Feel The Beat.MP3
FREESTYLE/House - Lisette Milendez - A Day In My Life.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - LNR - Work It To The Bone.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - MKG - Tearshed.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - MONSIEUR FUNKY MIX- DEEP HOUSE.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Nayobe - Please Don't Go.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Noel - Silent Morning.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Nunu.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Soave - Crying Over You.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Stacy Q - Two Of Hearts.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Stevie B - Spring Love.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Sweet Sensation - Love Child.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Sweet Sensation - Never Let You Go.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Sweet Sensation - Take It While It's Hot.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Tiana - First True Love.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - TKA - Louder Than Love.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Todd Terry - Party People (Club Dub).mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Two In A Room - Wiggle It (Just A Little Bit).mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Two Without Hats - The Breeze.mp3
FREESTYLE/House - Yolanda Mills - When the Pieces Fall.mp3
FREESTYLE/House -Haddaway - What Is Love.mp3
FREESTYLE/House -Snap -Rhythm is a dancer(mix).mp3
FREESTYLE/House Classics - Walking on Sunshine.mp3
FREESTYLE/House-The Untouchables (Old School MAW)-Dance to Rhythm.mp3
FREESTYLE/Information Society - Pure Energy.mp3
FREESTYLE/Information Society - Running.mp3
FREESTYLE/Information Society - X-Men.mp3
FREESTYLE/Information Society - Xmen (Theme).mp3
FREESTYLE/Jock Jams - I've got the power.mp3
FREESTYLE/Johnny O - Fantasy Girl.mp3
FREESTYLE/johnny o - highways of love.mp3
FREESTYLE/Judy Torres - Love Story.mp3
FREESTYLE/KLF - 3 AM Eternal.mp3
FREESTYLE/Latin Freestyle - Coro - Can't Let You Go.mp3
FREESTYLE/Latin Freestyle - Love Letter (1).mp3
FREESTYLE/Latin Freestyle - Tonasia - Wondering.mp3
FREESTYLE/latin hip hop - Safire - Boy I've Been Told.mp3
FREESTYLE/Lisette Melendez - Together Forever .mp3
FREESTYLE/Nayobe - Second Chance For Love .mp3
FREESTYLE/Noel - Like A Child.mp3
FREESTYLE/Noel - Silent Morning.mp3
FREESTYLE/Old School Freestyle - Giggles - Love Letter (Club Mix).mp3
FREESTYLE/Robin S - Show Me Love.mp3
FREESTYLE/Safire - Don't Break My Heart 2002 [Moran Anthem Mix].mp3
FREESTYLE/Safire - Don't Break My Heart.mp3
FREESTYLE/Set U Free (Planet Soul).mp3
FREESTYLE/Snap - I've Got The Power (remix).mp3
FREESTYLE/Stevie B - Spring Love.mp3
FREESTYLE/Sunbelt- Spin It.mp3
FREESTYLE/Tamia - Careless Whisper.mp3
FREESTYLE/tatu-showmelove.mp3
FREESTYLE/TechnoFreestyle - Suave - Crying over you.mp3
FREESTYLE/TKA - Come get my love .mp3
FREESTYLE/TKA - Crying Over You 1.mp3
FREESTYLE/TKA - Maria.mp3
FREESTYLE/TKA - One Way Love.mp3
FREESTYLE/TKA - Scars Of Love.mp3
FREESTYLE/TKA- Tears May Fall.mp3
FREESTYLE/TKA- Wondering.mp3
FREESTYLE/Two Without Hats - (Try Yazz) Esa Lo.mp3
FREESTYLE/Two Without Hats - 3 on a Mic.mp3
FREESTYLE/Two Without Hats - Boriqua posse .mp3
FREESTYLE/Walking On Sunshine.mp3
FREESTYLE/Yolanda Mills-when the pieces fall.mp3

^funny....i have dug up most of those on vinyl the other day.

yo im stupid. wtf is freestyle?

Don't worry young 'un. I grew up on the s**t and didn't know it was called freestyle for the longest time. =P

Just think of songs like "let the music play" from Shannon. It's songs with that type of "sound". That moog bass synth, those tight programmed drums.... it was very popular music from the 80s. It seems to still be very popular in Cali. I haven't played a freestyle song in YEARS. But some people say they still play it and get a good crowd reaction from it. I don't know if I believe 'em tho... lol

i played science - masquerade last friday @ divne and the women where dancing.
lol



CMOS -- latin rascals use to play in a garage down the street from me. (soutwest detroit ) they would practice everyday ( loud as hell. lol!

they went to new york and blew up for a while.

everyone has to leave detroit to blow up......... lol

I guess what I meant was playing a set of freestyle. lol. I could easily see how somebody could slip a song in there. I'm just not so sure about slipping 4 or 5 songs in there.

yea that would be kinda hard....lol!

You get a great reaction from latin crowds for freestyle.

I don't think people will appreciate freestyle unless they grew up listening, grooving to that stuff.

Freestyle seems to be popular amongst the latino and filipino crowd and up in the bay area.

Most freestyle artists are Latino probably 95 percent except information society ( which isnt even freestyle) Shannon and nyobe are black and I think lil suzy is Italian other than that mostly all others were Latino. And a little off topic cynthia used to be hot back in the day, she kind of let herself go. And she's also the cousin of k7. Don't know where I was goin with that just sharing useless info

It never even crossed my mind that most of the freestyle artists are latino. I learned something today!

Tavares?? haha, that's the name of the best strip club I've ever been to. Its in San Luis Potosi, MX>

heaven must be missing an angel by tavares ... Good song' , classic

I love freestyle but the songs are mad gay. Every song is some dude with a high voice singing about some chick hes sweatin, lol.

+1

Haha...

Not inside my house!! :)

cmos to say its gay is crazzy bro.
its different kinda singing.
it takes alot of talent to sing.....

i agree today it might sound different because music changes.
(( everything new is all negative )) so a guy and a girl singing about love is gay??

lol

im a white ( hillbilly looking ) lol.!!!

but i been listening to freestyle forever.
since 1987.

lmao cmon man, i love the stuff but listen to the soung louder than love and tell me its not kinda gay. hahahahaha

soung=song

it's not the "manliest" songs, but it sure beats soulja girl.

stuff brings back a lot of memories.

I think "Springlove" is the prototypical Freestyle song. Or maybe "Show Me" or "Fascinated".
"Leet The Music Play" is probably the best example for the uninitiated.

I wish I could play more Freestyle. A few months ago, a chick was wanting Debbie Deb, so I tried "When I Hear Music". Cleared the floor, had to mix out of that shit fast...

cmos louder then love is probably one of my favorite freestyle songs bro.

your saying you like it but its gay.which one is it bro? lol

^let^ (wipes drool off chin)

i agree you cant play freestyle to a young crowd they will look at you like your being gay ( but that is because the radio has them brain washed bro ).

know i understand my parents being mad when i played eazy e,nwa and esham!!!

the music is getting worse and crippiling are young generation's mind.

i was in the mall last week and this young girl came behind me and started freaking me singing crank dat. i looked at her and wanted to put her in a head lock!!! ( i dont hit women ) but i was!!!! lol

a couple weeks ago my manager at the club told me not to play rap at all.so i started playing break,house,techno,trance and i had so many request coming for rap it was crazzy!!
i enjoy that music but the young crowd dont!
thats because of radio and the branding of the record labels.

both. I love freestyle ive even gone to beatfest a few times. Ok maybe gay is the wrong word.

Look at the first line of that song:

Remember when we said goodbye
I wiped my tears, you didn't cry


Cmon man them lyrics is a lil iffy. whens the last time you heard dudes singing about crying over some chick.

Not gay, just very EMO...

There u go, gay was the wrong word hahahha.

lol

They always used to be crying over some lost love back then...

not the most recent, but Jodeci- Cry for you.

sorry , i had to! lol!

lol

justin timberlake, usher, omarion



waddup shadow, i'm not dead. completely forgot you had sent me a text. LOL

i had a gig for you!
i guess i will forget your phone #.
lol

dammit. i hate this building i work in. i don't get cell service at all so when i leave work i get all of my voicemails and texts at once and forget to get back with people.

its all good bro im joking!!!

big ups Nik. CMOS, i've got all these on Wax & then sum...originals too (doubles at that)

played at two 20year highschool reunions... they ate outta tha palm of my hands :)

yo Sniffs, it was Nocera

yea where old school mike

The owner at my saturday spot tried to put a ban on freestyle cuz the "thuggish" crowd in detroit likes it...

whatever.

I told him he was nuts.

WHAT?!?! That's crazy! Tell him to comare the lyrics of any Freestyle song to any Top 40 Rap/Hip-Hop.

It didn't have anything to do with the songs. I think he likes freestyle, its the "crowd". I dunno what the hell he was talking about.

That seems to be par for the course in the mitten.

I still spin that stuff at a weekly breakers sessions.

No doubt. You are you goin to cali today?

:) i'm begining to feel like those 'ol dudes that hang on to their Elvis hairdo's & outfits all doin the twist & jive...where i'm totally lost in the 80's and not afraid to be proud of it :)

Yeah man, throwing clothes in a bag, droppin' a deuce and I'm outta here.

nice one. Have fun. yo, we seriously gotta get on the grind...
hit me up when you get back. I've been slackin lately.

I just snorted green tea laughing so hard...

Can't forget about Coro & Tiana. Brings back memories of da BX, NYC

I drop a few in a set for a cycle trainer to use in her training sessions.

Hmm look what I found in the crates today:

i82.photobucket.com

I put "Let The Music Play" in my prepare window at the club tonight, but didn't get around to playing it. I gotta remember to throw it in tomorrow night. I also gave some thought to putting "Don't Stop The Rock" in my prepare window, but didn't. At leat this thread has me thinking about Freestyle...

3.14 mentioned "Running", which reminds me I actually did play a couple minutes of "What's On Your Mind" last weekend...

thats awesome!!

the instrumental.
i have the accapella to let the music play.
that song is a classic.

whats on your mind is a good song along with running.

im gonna play some freestyle to night.

Im goin to a freestyle concert next saturday at the taj mahal in ac. I have been to all the freestyle concerts at the taj they do one every year. Also I used to go to thanksgiving eve at the copacabana but they closed. This year performances include judy torres, coro stevie b two without hats johnnie o cynthia tka cover girls information society lisette melendez Shannon. I missed a few but last year c an c music factory killed it and coro and two without hats always tears the roof off... Good stuff

I love freestyle. Great for fun & practice, but you might want to trim down a few small blocks if you're actually playing out.

[Note: How can I copy an ITunes playlist if I want to post it???]

I have what I consider the "best of" Freestyle, but I don't know how to post it!

If you are on a Mac you can select that Playlist, Go File>Print and choose Song listing> Text Only

and then Print to PDF and it will open in Preview (or Adobe Reader). Then you can copy the text and paste it here.

Depending where I'm spinning I'm still dropping a freestyle set. Out here in NY and FL there still is a crowd for it. Guidos and Latinos love it. It's like a flashback drug.

Arabs love it too!

lol----yea they love it more then mexicans here in detroit area.

( just stating the facts ) lol

I think freestyle in the south is a little different that it is in other parts of the country. I'm from NY, and I grew up listening to most of the songs listed. I never thought of them as freestyle. I called it, either "Latin House" or "Hip-House". When I moved to Atlanta and started to DJ in Skating Rinks they asked for Freestyle and it was songs like "Egyptian Lover", "Electric Kingdom", "Clear", "Perfect Beat" with a little Debbie Deb.

I still play Freestyle either way you look at it, but it's usually my transition to some booty shake classics.

When I moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi in the mid 90's, I was overwhelmed with the number of requests for "Spring Love", "Egypt, Egypt", "The Promise" and "Security".

lol ..

i played egyptian lover last night @ my gig and people looked at me like i was a dinasaur....... lol

im in ac right now and just saw the freestyle concert in ac at the taj mahal. Yes im drunk. Anyway the covergirls Put on a good show and i would bang all three cover girls.also judy torres was also good but the best acts were tka and stevie b. Wow. Stevie b flew in from Miami wearin all white and played all his hot tracks. When spring love came on the place went nuts.

i just finished up a wedding here in San Pablo, played RunDMC's 'Uptempo' then mixed in Stevie B's 'Spring Love'

ohhh my god!!!!
uptempo is one of my favorites mike!!!

Here's my current Freestyle playlist

1. Clave rocks / Amoretto
2. I Won't Stop Loving You / C Bank
3. I'll Be Loving You / Collage
4. Fascinated / Company B
5. Funky little beat / Connie
6. Temptation / Corina
7. Show Me / Cover Girls
8. Change On Me / Cynthia
9. When I Hear Music / Debbie Deb
10. Lookout Weekend / Debbie Deb
11. l'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me Expose
12. Point Of No Return / Expose
13. Seasons Change / Expose
14. Wishing On A Star / Expose
15. Let Me Be The One / Expose
16. Come Go With Me / Exposé
17. Don't stop the rock / Freestyle
18. Bad of the Heart [George Lamon / Georg…
19. I Remember What You Like / Jenny Burton
20. Fantasy Girl / Johnny O
21. Come Into My Arms / Judy Torres
22. Take Me In Your Arms / Lil Suzy
23. All Cried Out (The original) / Lisa Lisa a…
24. Can You Feel The Beat / Lisa Lisa and T…
25. Crush On You.mp3 / Lisa Lisa and The …
26. I Wonder If I Take You Home (feat. Full F…
27. Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam - Lost In Emoti…
28. Together Forever / Lisette Melendez
29. Please Don't Go / Nayobe
30. Computer Age (Push The Button) / Newc…
31. Jam on it / Newcleus
32. Jam On It / Newcleus
33. Diamond Girl / Nice & Wild
34. Silent Morning / Noel
35. Yo Little Brother / Nolan Thomas
36. I Can't Wait / Nu Shooz
37. Boy I've Been Told / Sa-fire
38. Give me tonight / Shannon
39. Let The Music Play / Shannon
40. Crying Over You / Soave
41. 80's Freestyle - Soave - Crying Over Yo…
42. 80's Freestyle - Soave - Crying Over Yo…
43. Dreaming Of Love / Stevie B
44. I Wanna Be the One / Stevie B
45. Party Your Body / Stevie B
46. Spring Love / Stevie B
47. When I Dream About You / Stevie B
48. Because I Love You / Stevie B
49. Set It O! / Strafe
50. Set It O! (Extended Remix) / Strafe
51. I'm Hooked On You / Sweet sen…
52. One Way Love / T.K.A.
53. Tell It To My Heart / Taylor Dayne
54. Tell it to my heart (club mix) / Taylor Da…
55. Ill Be All Youll Ever Need / Trinere
56. 80's Freestyle - Will to Power - I'm Drea

Didn't read the thread, it was too long. I just wanted to say Freestyle is Awesome.

Niros

not to be a dick but I don't think jam on it is freestyle.

its not. lol
neither is strafe set it off.

but still good music.

true blue scooby doo woopie doo

It's Electro... the cousin of Freestyle Music.

I love Freestyle. Fuck if people think it's OLD. It still gets heavy rotation when I'm looking for ideas in creating new music.

What about:

April- Special Love
Kopper- Second To None
Connie- Experience
Tolga- Leave it all behind
GT- I need you
Stephanie- Get away
Meg- Lover girl
Sequal- Im over you
Sandee- Love desire
& More- Youll never find another love
Johnny O- Memories / Highways of Love
TKA- Scars of love

-Some of my fav's

good tunes dj rickgee

i religiously mix 2Live Crew's "Throw that P" into the break down of April's "Special Love"

mike you do that mix all the time?
lol

pretty much... i'm a one trick pony :)

old dog, no new tricks :)

lol --- i know your a good dj.

somebody should a freestyle mix on the stickam show. maybe i'll do. the guys are mostly spining house.

i would love to see a freestyle mix

i might do one this week. i'll post the time if i go on.

+1

ivmez if u make a freestyle video I'd there any way u could post a link for youtube so I can watch it on my iPhone . For some strange reason the iPhone only allows video from youtube

i did a mix with breaks,house,baltimore house,techno and the other half is freestyle . starting at like 30 min freestyle starts.
here is the link

www.zshare.net

i'm not making a video. i want to spin live on stickam. a bunch of guys on here are on stickam. they spin evry night. check it out.

you guys missed my guest set LOL I threw in some freestyle

nice.

dk al also did some freestyle.

Where can you find Freestyle instrumentals? Most of those beats would sound hot under the new top 40's.

lol.

there not alot but there some out there.

just look into the street jams collection there instrumentals here and there.

Make a loop of an instrumental passage.

i wish i could find my copy of this

Uncle Jamms Army - Dial-A-Freak
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i can't even find it on iTunes :-(

yes, most definitely, old school funk and freestlye definitely works with that crowd.

ah man, check out Ice T Watchwww.youtube.com

i had no idea homie could pop/lock

That was a crazy mix.... Brought me back to highschool....
Do you have a play list?

One of the first 12" I bought, if I recall "Whats your sign" was on the flipside

T was the man back then, what you know about Ice T's "The Coldest Rap", (1983)that shit is old school, on the electric funk tip...

ice t - reckless is my shiznit!!!

Wow took me back to when I broke alot of those joints in the 80's! being in between NYC and Philly spinning in Jersey you had best of the both worlds spinning these jewels! The Dance Music by Tom Silverman listed the BPM's if yoy didn't know how to count them your own! Anyway some the best produced music ever is freestyle as it's been named now back just was club music I can't see how if you drop it correctly there would be a problem I turn young dj's on to gems all the time!

ah man u got it going on here...i actually DJ a freestyle night here in orlando fl, every 1st Friday we have different artist come and sing live....we just had giggles, but she sucked...we had Noel, he was really good....and David From Nice n wild...he was good..but man i love taken it back to the oldskool.

yea freestyle music is the shiznit!!

for some reason i had a urge to make a freestyle cd.

i wish it was top 40 right now instead of all this garbage coming out ( duffle bag boy,soldier boy ).i always try to fit in old school freestyle when i play.
whenever i do some young kids ( 18-24 ) ask me to quit playing techno!! lol
and then i get in defensive mode and tell them its not techno.

the young generation is poisoned!!!

Sundays on ktu 103.5 in new Is freestyle night with judy torres. Its hot shit. If your not from ny u can listen at ktu.com

I love Freestyle. The homiez look at me crazy everytime They hear me playing it.
Some people just don't understand.

same here - detroit is f*cked lol!

You simply can not do a party in Cali without a Freestyle Set...I do clubs from San Diego, Los Angeles up the Bay Area and always get requests for it esecially with the Latino Partyers

I hated freestyle back in the day. But when I listen to it now, it brings back memories :-)

I used to go pick up Mix CDs at Planet Rock in Detroit every week. Alot of em got lost or stolen when I moved here to Phoenix but I still got about a few and of course my vinyl. Next gig I get I think I'm gonna play a whole Freestyle set as opposed to Ghetto Tech that I normally play. Time to shake things up a lil bit. Anybody know of the best MP3 stores with the best selection of Freestyle?

wow i was going to say hit up stevie o but he already hit up the thread lol

I definitely end up dropping some Freestyle jams at my gigs. I got a gig on the 27th and I will do it again. Anyone who's from Los Angeles knows about the Aqua Net Set Power 106 used to have every Friday at noon.... Classic!

Freestyle is still hot in good dosages... The Bay still has love for Freestyle but its mainly the 25+ crowd that can appreciate it most.

Pretty Poison - When I look into Your Eyes, it's going round and round on the original 12" as we speak.

I can still throw it in toward the end of the night, I'll drop a 20 min power set or so...

My saturday night gig in Chicago is all Old School Classics, House and Freestyle - the club is called Studio 63 (www.studio63nightclub.com)

We do monthly Freestyle concerts - we bring in all the Freestyle Acts, Lil Suzy, George Lamond, Coro, Stevie B, Judy Torres, Cover Girls, Cynthia, Lisette Melendez, Corina and so on....

I actually hosted a Freestyle show every Friday on the radio too, but I quit the station back in October...

I have a ton of freestyle mixes and pics from our events on my DJ website.
Feel free to check them all out

www.Supreme-Sounds.com

yeah I would say it would be death to the dj if you played for 25& under in the bay area...but we still do some freestyle appearances and drop of a few songs here in there, especially in san jose...

I hear its still playable in texas and in miami...latinos stand up...

Freestyle is a must ion any party in southern cali. Definatly what someone said up top . The latin crowd 20 plus ask for it all the time

yea 25 and under in the Bay wouldnt understand... One gig where It was mainly 27+ folks, I started dropping Angelina, Buffy, Jocelyn Enriquez, Josette, Spanish Fly and Collage, They started going crazy and loved it.

Freestyle foreeeeeeeeeever!

Freestyle will never die - to many people love those classics and now alot of those classic freestyle cuts were redone - they have a house/electro beat to them now :)

Yea I heard a Collage Electromix the other week. Brought back some Nostalgia of Windmills and taggin' busses with Shoe Polish. hahah

Hearing Bad Boy Bill spin this ONE SONG on the old WBMX mixes made me fucking love and appreciate Freestyle forever.

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Honorable mention:

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freestyle is the shit!!! i try to sneak a few in after midnight. gotta be careful though, cuz if it doesn't have autotune it's not a go!

reading this blog is the hilarious thing ! thanks people! The one with the club banning freestyle cause the thugs were acting up - That is classic! freestyle brings back memeories of all the italaian and latin kids in the back of my high school gym dancing while all the black dudes in the front would b*tch and complain to the dj about changing the music and putting that Nice and Smooth on! lmao! I have all my Mic Mac records still - I'm going to record them and upload them to Serato - Maybe I'll throw in one on New Years Eve (I have a party at a club) just for ol' times sake! R.I.P. Sandee (Member of the group Exposé)

Me interviewing George Lamond
vids.myspace.com

Me interviewing Cynthia & Fast Eddie
vids.myspace.com

Me interviewing Lil Suzy
vids.myspace.com

good job strike it up!

i opened up for her here in detroit @ club bleu.

also johnny o,george lamond @ the the same place a couple months later.

she is awesome live.

Another Chicago/BMX classic from the iTalio Disco era (before Freestyle)

vids.myspace.com

Tapps - Props on that Strike iT Up....

Memories...

LOL I was watchin the goody goody hip hop mix video, where lisette melendez takes a bath in milk :)

Thanks Shadow and Art...

Art - a side note to the Tapps video...we got the keyboard player Allan drunk at the club after their performance and he kept promising me and the other DJ that he was taking us to Europe on tour! LOL

Damn it im still waiting!!!!!!!

Tapps have quite a few good tracks. I like some of the Italo/Hi-NRG stuff too. The Flirts are great. Way different then Freestyle though.

I do really like the overall sound of Freestyle in general.

What kind of gear do you think they were using? Some of the sounds used in the rhythms are killer, I wonder how they got them. Anyone know?

Tapps is ok, but my favorite Hi-NRG was Lime!

Here's a tricky one but some one might know. What freestlye song sung by a girl has the line "why did you leave me lonely?

My favorite Freestyle artist has always been Frankie Boy. "She's Leavin" is my all time favorite Freestyle song but I could never find his records or much information about him. Then just last week I found out Frankie Boy grew up to be Frankie J......I can't believe I couldn't put 2 and 2 together cuz I'm a big Frankie J fan too.

I'm from SA and visiting the DFW area right now and they are ROCKIN' freestyle on 98.3.

My friend is marrying this rich pain in the ass Long island chick, (total bridezilla) I don't want to go to the wedding except that she has hired tka to do a set so that should be cool. I should say K7 and the swing kids, simce tka has been broken up for 20 years. I hope she gets Stevie-B also

That's awesome. Music's gonna be great.
I gotta record some Freestyle CDs for my wife's cousin's 40th.
There's gonna be some Freestyle in them as well as some 80's Electro Funk & Disco.

get the freestyle explosion series from thump records.

Naw, I have some much vinyl from the 80's.
I don't any more Freestyle CDs.

I don't need any more Freestyle CDs
LOL

I Still play some of it....& have some in vinyl the i play.

does any one of you cats remember issac-in my heart

Unique are you from the staten island area? A guy I golf with owns a place called es-cas and there was a freestyle party last week an the Dj's name was unique. I didn't make it but I heard it was good.

Just checked your profile saw your from LA. Small world

I've been slowly but surely transferring Freestyle Vinyl to mp3 (YES 320!!!)

It sucks that for the most part it never really took off, but I like that it's still in pretty good demand which makes the Vinyl kinda rare...difficult to find =o)

All time favorite and Queen of Freestyle - Judy Torres!!
[[[No Reason to Cry]]

ha ha. wish i had the time to transfer all my freestyle vinyl to mp3. anyway, here's a recent vinyl freestyle mix: freakonomix.com

track list:
Sweet Sensation - Hooked On You
India - Dancing On The Fire
Sweet Sensation - Take It While It’s Hot
Sassa - When The Time Is Right
Stevie B - Dreaaming Of Love
TKA - Your Are The One
Noel - Like A Child
Cynthia - Change On Me
Stevie B - Spring Love
Sandee - Notice Me
Sa-Fire - Love Is On Her Mind
Coro - Where Are You Tonight
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Sweet Sensation - Never Let You Go
Jaya - If You Leave Me Now
Stevie B - I Wanna Be The One

I used to live in SI. Whats the scene like up there these days. It seems like everything and everyone is exactly the same since I left.

lrock it sucked then n has gotten progressively worse lol

good mix for using all vinyl.

yo if anyone in brooklyn or ny wants to get together and throw a freestyle/80s electro/80's pop party i am DOWN.... i'm comfortable enough with my masculinity to say i geek out to this shit and my favorite freestyle song is "Funky Little Beat" by Connie:

I want to get to know you better
Seems like we bot belong together
You rock my body like no one dares
Full force with lots of care

I'm in

Sniffles, CMOS, Paid, Stevie... where u @?

im in bk... i could do a thurs or a sunday

thanks gotchuckz. ya. like i wrote in the post, hadn't listened to those records in like 15 years. had a hard enough time remembering where good mixing breaks were. ha ha.

i still spin freestyle...

it still in rotation down here in dallas

freestyle is a huge part of me being a dj.

i play some freestyle videos every night. always seems to go over well

ME

Shannon - Let The Music Play
Judy Torres - Can't Get Enough

That's it.

yo benny b i'm down! email me at djwalkoff@gmail.com so we can talk about throwing this party. i live in nyc so either here or bk would be all good.

for the rest of my freestyle fans here's a quick 35 min. mix i recorded live in july09 -

djwalkoff - live on deck 3 / www.box.net
tracklist: Cover Girls, Lisa Lisa, Nocera, Stevie B, Connie, New Order, Cover Girls, Judy Torres, Rochelle, The Other Two, Elissa, Afrika Bambaataa, Freestyle, Pirate Works, Egyptian Lover, Connie, Kraftwerk, Ultracynic, Josette, Buffy, Angelina, Rockell, 2 Bad Mice, MC Shy D, Afro-Rican, Menage

where you spin at?

Here's a few Freestyle mixes I posted a few months back.

www.mediafire.com

1. Joyce Sims- All In All
2. Nu Schooz- Point Of No Return
3. Nancy Martinez- For Tonight
4. Giggles- Love Letter
5. India- Right From The Start
6. Cover Girls- Inside Outside
7. Lisette Melendez- Together Forever
8. Lydia Lee Love- Don't Take Your Love Away
9. Sandee- Notice Me
10. Pajama Party- Yo No Se
11. Tolga- Leave It All Behind
12. Alé- I Wanna Know
13. Kopper- Second To None
14. Noel- Silent Morning
15. TKA- Scars Of Love
16. Cynthia- Endless Nights
17. Exposé- Come Go With Me
18. Sa-Fire- Boy I've Been Told
19. Sweet Sensation- Take It While It's Hot
20. Corina- Temptation
21. India- Dancing On The Fire
22. Dzyre- Forever Amor
23. Johnny O- Highways Of Love
24. TKA- You're The One
25. Sa-Fire- Love Is On Her Mind
26. Noel- Like A Child
27. Giggles- He Said She Said
28. April- Special Love
29. Trinere- Can't Get Enough
30. Debbie Deb- I'm Searchin'
31. Connie- Experience
32. Tracie Spencer- Symptoms Of True Love
33. Will To Power- Say It's Gonna Rain
34. Stevie B- In My Eyes
35. Daize- Girl


Here's a quick Hi Energy/Disco/Freestyle/whatever mix:

www.mediafire.com

1. Tapps- Burning With Fire
2. Trans- X- Living On Video
3. Stop- Wake Up
4. Tyrants In Therapy- Too Tough To Cry
5. Stacey Q- Insecurity
6. Tapps- My Forbidden Lover
7. Soif De La Vie- Goddess Of Love
8. Desire- Crazy
9. The Flirts- Danger
10. Lime- Babe, We're Gonna Love Tonight
11. Sunbelt- Spin It
12. Miquel Brown- So Many Men
13. Nightlife Unlimited- The Love Is In You
14. Stacey Q- Two Of Hearts
15. La Flavour- Mandolay

Freestyle, Disco and Old School house has never died in my heart. I started in 82 electro funk, classic hip hop scene then merged into freestyle, 80's disco, euro italo, new wave here in L.A and Orange County area..there is not one mix i dont throw in some classics..i will do this till i die.

Just read this, Im late as always, but freestyle is my shit and I feel I can definitely contribute to a freestyle party. I also have a lot of followers that love freestyle. Seek out a spot and I will def help get it going and do a set.

Im here. Rickgee i just dled your mix I will listen to it during my jog tomorrow.
good times

yea lets do it guys - pause

Are you the legendary benny benassi?

nope. just a legend in my own mind

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