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Working on that new sound now. But you have to remember it has to stay somewhere close to what freestyle has always been.
 
Willie Valentin said:
Working on that new sound now. But you have to remember it has to stay somewhere close to what freestyle has always been.
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AS LONG AS YOU DON'T USE PLANET ROCK I'M SURE IT WILL BE A NICE TRACK...
KEEP IN MIND, ALL WE NEED IS ONE TRACK TO BRING FREESTYLE BACK AND THEN WE CAN ONLY HOPE THAT THE OTHERS WILL PRODUCE QUALITY TRACKS....SO MAKE IT A GOOD ONE BECAUSE I'M WORKING ON MINE 😀
 
Willie, I said it before and I'll say it again: "Your work has always been great and your songs contain that unique sound that others cant touch."

But if we want radio to play our stuff, find a new sound.

Imagine being a disco artist and handing a station a new disco song? They would throw the artist out on their ass!

DISCO would not stand a chance outside the 70's!

That's the way I feel that the stations look at our favorite artists when they release a new freestyle song.

Remember, radio stations consider us "OLD".
 
Ok when I head to KTU with my New Dance track I wont mention anything else. They wont hear the word freestyle from me. But I know it is.. LOL
 
as far as planet rock goes. Well I think I have used it once as a drum track for freeze memories. I used it under drum sounds on about 3 tracks but thats it. I hate it when a producer makes his own beats and people say its planet rock. We dont all use it now. lol
 
I love the FREESTYLE name,but it's strange that alot of people dont even know what it is and when they hear it,many people like it.Maybe we should fool them and call it pop music,and maybe some of our artists would get some radio play and a mtv video.I remember I used to work at TOWER RECORDS and WHEN working I would play at least two OR sometimes three FREESTYLE albums and I had alot of customers ask who that was.I played CYNTHIA-""THINKING ABOUT YOU"fullllength,LIL'SUZY-REMIXES,DMA:FREESTYLE comps,ETC..and people baught their cd's.I remember the CYNTHIA cd I had people ask,WHO's CYNTHIA?and I say a popular FREESTYLE artist,than they ask whats FREESTYLE?and is the whole album like this,and I say "YES',than they end up buying the cd.And the people who work there say that hardly ever happens,when they play cd's like pop/rock/rap etc..The dance beat seems to draw them in,also the easy to sing along lyrics.I was told that the music is very catchy,and it is in a good way.LOL,willie for keeing freestyle alive!
 
I don't post here often b/c i get caught up in threads like this and I become very stubborn lol but i have to throw my $.02 into this.

It saddens me to say this but I truly don't think that "Freestyle" will ever be as it was in 1988. Yes, I wish it was a lie--but let's face it-times have changed, and it took me a long time to realize this. Just like the rest of you, I've been and still am a die hard freestyle fan, and would love nothing more than having freestyle be the way it was--but there are lots of problems in the way

In the 80s radio was the way it should be--not a monopoly.
1987 we had 3 "Top 40" stations all battling each other
Hot 97
Z100
Power 95

They were all owned by seperate corporations, and all were in competition. Hot103/97 came out and was playing the "Extended" versions of what you heard in the clubs...the other 2 didnt want to lose their audience to hot, so they played the dance/freestyle as well, and the rest is history. Freestyle was everywhere.

Let's look at New York a few years later--
Hot97
KTU
Z100

In 1996 Evergreen (now Clearchannel) saw a gap in our market (dance), so they filled it, and KTU was born. During this same time, Z100 became quite dancey, with the hopes of stealing ktu's listeners. Later on, z100 and ktu were on the same company roster--squash that competition!! Who knows? maybe we would have had 2 full time dance stations? Maybe that would have led one of them to play MORE freestyle than the other, which maybe would cause a whole national turnaround, and freestyle would be back where it was!! Who knows??

Dance music (at least in the US) is a suffering genre, and Freestyle unfortunately is at the bottom of that list.

This leads me to ask these questions--

Are we still a dance genre?
Are we a part of hip hop?
Is it possible for a genre of music to return from a "hiatus" and be bigger than before?
Is releasing compilations healthy for the genre?

I've been wondering this for a while, and after reading Willie's posts too--is the Freestyle "Name" tarnished? Let's see--Freestyle's last "peak" was around 92 or 93--so its been about 10 or 11 years...picture then let's say 1991, giorgio moroder releasing a disco compilation with all new "disco" songs. Who would buy it? You ever see the Brady Bunch Movie? Where 35 years later Mike Brady is trying to sell house designs using the same design as his house, but for a health club, burger joint, and doctors office LOL It's kinda the same thing here. It's time for something new, but keeping the old love-

Kenny, I have to say you're wrong about donna summer--really, anything she's released long after her disco days has been pretty big
1999- I will go with you
2000- love is the healer
2003- you're so beautiful (Remixed by Freestyle's own tony moran)
i may have forgot one

she's not singing disco--and shes doing pretty well- Love is the healer didnt really get radio play but was HUGE in the clubs!! Maybe that's where we need to start? If we are a dance genre--give your listeners something to dance to. Where's that kick that freestyle had??

Willie--I'm no producer--but my advice to you is to make the music you love (Whatever genre it turns out to be) and don't be scared of what comes out-dont feel obligated to anything or anyone. We all know that the first few freestyle songs to come out werent planned to be freestyle. It wasnt planned to start a whole "movement". People produced songs they thought sounded hott--and that's what it's all about. Maybe you could start a whole new genre :band 🙂

With this..I'm out--if i offended anyone, it was not intentionally. I leave you with these lyrics..

I was the one left here to believe
that youd actually come back for me
but you just left my heart to bleed
and after all was set and done,
so hard to believe i'd find someone
that fills my heart soul and mind in one

that is new vocal house music!!(tamara wallace- believe) take some old hip hop beats, speed them up a little bit, throw in some latin bassline, a few strings and a catchy synth/riff and bang its freestyle ( i can still get my fill)
 
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