Like...

Id Rather Spend The Bad Times - Thelma Houston
Everything Will B Fine
I Wonder If I Take U Home
Can U Feel The Beat - Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam
music by Lil' Suzy
Kinda Girls We Like - New Edition

paisleypark4 said:

New Edition and Thelma Houston aren't freestyle. I made three freestyle comps that I'll post when I get home. I can't remember exactly what the tracklisting was right now.

What do you mean by "freestyle"?

dreamfactory313 said:

It used to be called 'Latin hip-hop' back in the day. Cover Girls, Sweet Sensation, Sa-Fire, TKA, George Lamond, etc.

sextonseven said:

Yes those songs are freestyle, they have that same exact sound that Lisa Lisa had. That past 80's bleep boop almost techno sound to it.

Oh ok. Well how about Stevie B?
He is one of my biggest guilty pleasures. I love his stuff!

"Party Your Body"
"Spring Love"
"Because I Love You (The Postman Song)"

and there was this song called "Diamond Girl". Im not sure if that was him, but I think it was. He made some great late 80s, early 90s "freestyle".

dreamfactory313 said:

"Diamond Girl" was by Nice And Wild. That's a classic.

sextonseven said:

tryin 2 download it now off WInMX, waiting for network reply

I love "Diamond Girl". If u dont dance 2 that 80's gem, u must have a hole in your soul.

paisleypark4 said:

he said "good freestyle" lol

lookout weekend- debbie deb
Dont break my heart-sa-fire
Love letter-Giggles
How can we be wrong-Trinere
Out of control-Corina
Scars of Love-TKA

i would recommend....

expose
lisa lisa and the cult jam
debbie deb
alisha

paisleypark4 said:

Personally, I think it takes more than a few bloops and bleeps to make a real freestyle record, but what do I know?

I was never into freestyle but I got into these:

Any of SWEET SENSATION's Hits...I loved their cover of LOVE CHILD

Also liked Cover Girls' WE CAN'T GO WRONG (is there such a thing as a freestyle ballad?)

TheRealFiness said:

Whats wrong with "Diamond Girl"?

sextonseven said:

Well if u put Lisa Lisa on any one of those records they can be counted as because its about the sound, not the artist.


Anyway..i dont know about this one but what about "The Men All Pause", or would that be closer to electro? I dont know kinda sounds both..

Hey guys im tryin 2 find these songs, aint none of em coming up damn. I gotta go 2 the weka sto and do sum lookin this weekend for more electro and freestyle

paisleypark4 said:

"The Men all pause" is far from techno....I would consider that like 80's r&b/funk....


my freestyle joints I can recommend are....


Let me be the one - Expose

Yo no se - Pajama Party

Hooked on you - Sweet Sensation

Temptation - Corina

Can you feel the beat - Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam

Silent morning - Noel

Give me tonight - Shannon

Bad of the heart - George LaMond

Summer girls - Dino

Let's go - Nocera

Because of you - Cover Girls

Play at your own risk - Planet Patrol

If you leave me now - Jaya

There playing our song - Trinere

TheRealFiness said:

No you didn't!

boriquateddy said:

What, no Safire!?!?!

Chico1 said:

I've never known what freestyle music exactly was. After reading some of the posts, would Chaka Khan's "My Love Is Alive" and Connie's "Funky Little Beat" be considered freestyle? Or what about Information Society's "Pure Energy"?

These are the freestyle comps I made a few years back.

Volume 1: Early Trax

C-Bank - One More Shot
Freeez - I.O.U.
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Tina B - Honey To A Bee
Jellybean - The Mexican
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force - Can You Feel The Beat
Brenda K. Starr - What You See Is What You Get
Sweet Sensation - Hooked On You
Sa-Fire - Let Me Be The One
The Cover Girls - Because Of You
Lydia 'Lee' Love - Don't Take Your Love
Cyré - Last Chance
Taylor Dane - Prove Your Love

Volume II: The NYC Beat

Nocera - Let's Go (Nocera was from Italy, but the song was huge in NY)
Fascination - Don't You Think It's Time
Judy Torres - Come Into My Arms
Cynthia - Change On Me
India - Dancing On The Fire
Denise Lopez - Sayin' Sorry (Don't Make It Right)
Noel - Like A Child
Corina - Give Me Back My Heart
Raiana Page - Open Up Your Heart
TKA - You Are The One
Pajama Party - Yo No Sé
George Lamond - Bad Of The Heart
Lisette Melendez - Together Forever

Volume III: Miami and other cities

Trinere - How Can We Be Wrong
Nice & Wild - Diamond Girl
Exposé - Come Go With Me
Nu Shooz - Point Of No Return
Nancy Martinez - For Tonight
Company B - Fascinated
Will To Power - Dreamin'
Stevie B - Party Your Body
Sandee - You're The One
Pretty Poison - Catch Me (I'm Falling)
Wild Mary's - No One Knows
First Impression - Forbidden Lover
The Voice In Fashion - Give Me Your Love
Linear - Sending All My Love

sextonseven said:

I always wondered why it was labeled that way considering that Shannon had hits way back in the early 80s with the same sound made by the same producers of a lot of the early 90s hits.

vainandy said:

To me, real freestyle was almost exclusively a Latin thing (hence the original name 'Latin Hip-Hop'). It has it's roots in electro and other artists have made freestyle sounding records like Information Society's "Running" and Dead Or Alive's "Come Home With Me Baby", but the Latin artists really owned the sound.

sextonseven said:

I wish I had that combo that u have

paisleypark4 said:

Yeah, they are all vinyl 12" singles otherwise I'd send it to you.

sextonseven said:

I thought u meant that u made CD mixes of em, that is what I meant, I would love 2 giv u CD-R's or sumthin for em.

What about "Dreamboy/Dreamgirl" by Cynthia nad Johnny O?

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Chico1 said:

OOOhh. Man, This weekend gonna be weka sto heaven

paisleypark4 said:

Nah, they are on old school cassettes--three 90-minute tapes.