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Freestyle group names

If this is what you mean... Baby & Keyes, C Bank, Hanson & Davis, Company B, Freeze, Expose, Information Society, Amaretto, Trilogy, Clear Touch, Nasty Boys, TKA, Loose Touch, Latin Rascals, Cover girls, Rios Sisters, Body & Style Is that what you mean?😀
 
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djsun1ny said:
If this is what you mean... Baby & Keyes, C Bank, Hanson & Davis, Company B, Freeze, Expose, Information Society, Amaretto, Trilogy, Clear Touch, Nasty Boys, TKA, Loose Touch, Latin Rascals, Cover girls, Rios Sisters, Body & Style
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hmmmm...out of the top of my head...i can pretty much remember at least one song from all of them.....information society is awesome!!!...hehe...and was jj fad really a freestyle group...i remember them doin some rap---i might have the wrong group tho
 
INFORMATION SOCIETY-SYNTH-POP!! NOT FREESTYLE!!

OK, THERE IS A STATION ON LONG ISLAND THAT PLAYS ALL 80'S MUSIC. NO FREESTYLE WHATSOVER. BUT THEY PLAY SYNTH POP AND NEW WAVE. INFORMATION SOCIETY IS ON OF THE GROUPS THEY PLAY.
 
Kenny...I know Information Society is more synth-pop but then why is it that their songs are included on freestyle compilations and "Running" and "What's On Your Mind" are played on Judy's show? Im just curious 🙂


Randi (FreestyleGal)
 
I consider Information Society what I call "alternative freestyle"...they remind me of Merci Mercy, Londan Exchange, etc...those groups are kind of freestyle..in an alternative sort of way lol
 
freestygal, i know. i didnt want to start trouble but everyone knows how i stand with this group. i throw them in with new order, depeche mode, and the pet shop boys. like johnny b said, those songs were "crossovers" which can be safe to say that they experimented with the sound and had great success.
 
I just didnt like them because, in my mind, they did represent freestyle well. when yuor in high school, what you wear is important. what your favorite singers/groups wore were essential too because many fans liked dressing the look that was in for their groups. they wore stuff that you just related with surfers and fans of "happy mondays" and "dead milkmen".
 
SYNTH POP Vs. FREESTYLE. One BIIIIG Question....

WHAT DOES IT MATTER? Why is it that most freestyle "fanatics" have this pathological need to label or classify songs? InfoSo songs were slammin no matter WHAT they were called. I think we are the ONLY people (people on the board) that still use and are caught up in this "FREESTYLE" hype.

Whatever you choose to label the song, it is still the same song.
 
I know this seems childish that we always catagorize songs "freestyle" or what not, but you have to remember: there are also other types of music in which die hard fans do the same (disco, synth-pop, ska, new wave, rap, etc, etc, etc)
 
Besides...

What would it take for Information Society to be considered freestyle?

Would they need to have a Puerto Rican singer who dressed in more "urban" gear? Is that what it would take for them to be considered freestyle instead of "alternative freestyle"?

The reason why I hate the WORD freestyle (not the music it describes)
is because there is no clear cut definition of what it describes.
 
OMG....
I still have Bardeux's albums! lol.
( I thought no one on CF knew who they were!)

& OF COURSE I have all of Sequal & Company-B's stuff...lol
 
My take on Information Society is, well I actually agree with Kenny on some aspects of his argument. I myself always considered them to be an '80's New Wave group just like Depeche Mode, New Order, et al.

What set Information Society apart from the other NEw Wave groups of their time was, well they were American. As a result they were influenced by the popular sounds of American dance music at the time and one of those sounds was Freestyle...

One of Inforamtion Society's members, Paul Robb had gone on to produce Freestyle songs for some very popular Freestyle artists of their time such as Noel and TKA (just name a few)...

Secret Society always seemed to be a group that more or less tried to be like Information Society. In the process they developed their own sound (which was later copied by London Exchange)...Secret Society's Frank Lords went on to produce and/or work on some of the biggest Freestyle songs to ever come out of the Miami Florida Freestyle scene...

Too bad Freestyle doesn't have this sort of influence any longer...
 
Get the new issue of Groove Magazine for a very interesting interview with Information Society and their take on the whole freestyle subject!

Randi (FreestyleGal)
 
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