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i am a fool, but i once cut freestyle out of my life. back in 1992 when the techno rave scene just started to blow up i was so addicted to it. i went from gino boy to raver goof!

(techno messes with your brain!)

i was going through an identity crisis at that time and unfortunately, which i kill myself for doing so today, i got rid of tons of my freestyle vinyl from after 1988 (couldnt touch the classics) to the early 90s stuff. i am kicking myself right now as i hate that i did that.

im sure im the only one who will admit to abandoning freestyle, but maybe are there any others who may have ditched it even for a bit at some point...

maybe i can feel better about it 🙁
 
While I never abandoned Freestyle, I too got a bit caught up with the sounds of Techno/Rave music of the early 1990's.

However, I can sympathize with your pain. I lost a nice Freestyle collection in 1991 due to hard times (I was what 15?) and I was forced to leave it all behind. I have since built a much bigger and better collection!
 
BFTP,

I'm sure some of us here at one point or another has strayed to other genres, I know I did too. so don't feel bad,lucky for you these days it's easy to get most of those songs on the internet. But it's not a bad thing, your entilted to listen to other music if that's what moves you.. I know freestyle isn't the only thing I listen to.
 
i left freestyle after 92 and became a huge part of the rave scene for 5 years!! i traveled the world with rave dj keoki and went to some of the hottest raves in across the globe.after burning all my brain cells in the rave scene i went back to my roots. i also lost a lot of my vinyl along the way but like rhoq i now have a bigger and better collection
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M A R L O N
 
For the last four years I got caught up with the Latin/Trance/Techno scenes and put Freestyle to the backburner.I've been listening to freestyle since '86 and have seen it goe through all the phases.BuT I really got frustrated with the weak stuff that was coming out in the mid to late 90's.I like my beats raw and freestyle wasn't doing it for me.Worse yet,I couldn't throw a freestyle song in a mix cause it would clear my dance floor.It was suicide.The funny thing is that I got back into freestyle by introducing it to someone else.I would put on a trance song and they rather hear freestyle.I was like whoa..you really like this stuff.So I have new passion for an old love again (freestyle).I see that there are some postive things happening,not too much but just enough to keep this style going..I can't emphasize this enough but freestyle needs to incorporate under club sounds to make it what it was:club music that made you wanna dance..when i talk to other dj's who now only play euro and house,they usually say that freestyle didn't change..it stills sounds the same...
 
I strayed from freestyle during 92.....but my ex sis in law put me on to How I Love Him by Cynthia/K7 and I came back around....
 
hey, i abondened freestyle too, but not for a long time. there was no freestyle to be heard and my ears yurned for more sound so i too went with techno and hip-hop. all along my new friends still teased me of my freestyle past. i knew i couldnt escape my history so i found myself back into freestyle!
 
If you grew up listening to FREESTYLE or worked with FREESTYLE MUSIC, It's very hard to stay away from that music when it was such a major part of your heart and soul.

When I left MicMac back in 1997, I started 21st. Century Records, Inc. A DANCE MUSIC LABEL (Trance, House, Tracks etc.) and released several full CD’s along with many 12" records but noticed that my heart was still in love with the music that really made me. I didn’t want to put out any FREESTYLE on that label because I wanted to feel out other music in other areas but I was out there at Club Exit and other FREESTYLE events whenever I felt I should have been there. But I tell you, It’s like real love with a person. There’s an old saying…. If you love someone, You let it go, If it comes back to you, It was always yours FOREVER.

So now don’t blink to fast… Keep posted to>>> http://www.clubfreestyle.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21682

Thank you for reading,

Mickey Garcia :spin
 
thanks guys for making me feel better. i thought i was the only one. for me i guess, i just loved how different the rave scene was and at the same time tired of all the bullshizer that went along with freestyle.

when your a young dj trying to get connections for gigs, you want to show that your down with the current newest sounds and freestyle was a highly ridiculed form of music.

here in downtown toronto at the dj record shops you were made to feel like a loser and made fun of by all these think-they're-bigshot-assh@les when you brought up a freestyle record to the dj booth to listen to before buying it. these goofs would have a commentary for everything causing a scene and embarass you so you wouldnt want to bring any fs records up anymore. or you'd have to go along with it and pretend how much it sucks, but secretly loving it inside, and put it back and leave it behind or pick it up and pay for it while no one was looking.

it was absolutly terrible. then the freestyle section just kept getting smaller and smaller.

my professional dj career was short lived, due to my own mistakes, but if i had known that that would have been the outcome then i would never had abandoned freestyle, kept my roots and most importantly never have gotten rid of any of my records.

i stopped djing in 96 and around 98 i couldnt even stand house, techno or any club music at all anymore. i guess thats when i went back to all the classics of the good ol' sounds of the 80s like freestyle, electrofunk, and hip hop (when it was good IMO).

thanks again guys!

just a little note below.
the song that did me in to techno was...
im bigger and bolder and rougher and tougher in otherwords sucker there is no other im the one and only dominator wanna kiss myself!!!
maybe that record was evil???
 
I never abondoned freestyle, BUT in 93' I saw it fall (in the commercial sense) and figured it was dead (still do IMO). What I didn't do was go out of my way to find out if stuff was being produced. At the time, you figured if there wasn't any new freestyle on the radio, there was no new freestyle! A good friend of mine, Franco from Canada, proved that to be very wrong. I bought Groove Magazine thru the net quite a few years ago. Franco's name was in there and it was stated that he had a freestyle magazine (for promotional purposes only). I contacted him and the rest was history.

Anyway, in 93' I began listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc lol...Sure, I was still playing my records, but I did sway over to other music too. Anyway, now I listen to freestyle all the time and that's that. :heee
 
I strayed away from freestyle for a few months, not gettin rid of my collection but just bak 2 listenin 2 my rap. i am now bak onto freestyle bigtime keepin an open mind and enjoyin all kinds of music but none more enjoyable than hearin a lil suzy song blast thru the speakers!
 
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