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Riding on the coat tails of Disco and early hip hop, the Miami music and club scene exploded when Freestyle music landed on the streets and radio stations in Miami.
Fresh off of Disco a Euro/Disco and still in the break dance era a new influence began to capture a cult like following for music that made you dance as opposed to the giant of Rock and Pop music which was being played everywhere during the early 80's in Miami.
New Wave music can be attributed to helping give birth to early Freestyle music being released, with it's eclectic and synthesized sound New Wave gave the foundation needed to create a new alternative sound for those who were not fond of New Wave music.
Fresh off the sound of such acts like Africa Bambaataa who's electro hip hop style combined with powerful vocals also helped pave the way for Freestyle's birth.
Connie,one of the pioneers of freestyle brought us "Funky little beat" where in it's production one can hear the influence of New Wave and electro grooves that later grew into the Freestyle movement.
Nayobe's "Please Don't Go" brought us closer to our Latin roots with it's bi-lingual lyrics and raw thumping Latino street sounds.
Debbie Deb with "Look out weekend" & "When I hear music" jams with their electro influence paved way as an early Freestyle music statement.
Even Miami's controversial Bass/Hip Hop group 2 Live Crew with their first release of "Revelations" was inspired by the electro sounds of Africa Bambaataa, Mantronix, Egyptian Lover.
The electro sound movement definitely has a place in Freestyle history along with New Wave and High Energy/Dance music of the time.
Producer Bobby O who's hits include "She has a way" combined electro and drum sounds that brought us heart pounding raw sounds mixed with powerful lyrics and vocals.
The group Lime with it's high energy raspy vocals in "Angel Eyes" brought forth an essence of romantic lyrics that later on can be reflected in the lyrics of Freestyle singers.
During the early stages of Freestyle in Miami, Freestyle music did not receive it's full recognition until later years as Euro dance, Pop and early hip hop were the standard for radio stations and clubs
Groups like Alphaville brought us "Big In Japan", Dan Harrow with "Future Brain", Vicious Pink with "Cant you see" and countless other New Wave/Dance groups were still towering over Freestyle at the time in the dance clubs.
It wasn't until Shannon with "Let the music play" did we begin to hear more of Freestyle's rhythmic style and sound with a much rawer party style to it's production.
Expose was able to generate a large interest from radio stations with their smash nation wide hit of "Point Of No Return" causing a chain reaction of groups and producers to pop up on the scene.
While local radio stations at the time like I-95 (was also 96 X) (now Power 96) only played chart busting music, it was actually Y-100 who was helping the Freestyle movement begin as they would present us with Live beach parties on a constant basis, Shannon was always booked for their shows and sometimes Lime as well as Planet Patrol.
Fresh off of Disco a Euro/Disco and still in the break dance era a new influence began to capture a cult like following for music that made you dance as opposed to the giant of Rock and Pop music which was being played everywhere during the early 80's in Miami.
New Wave music can be attributed to helping give birth to early Freestyle music being released, with it's eclectic and synthesized sound New Wave gave the foundation needed to create a new alternative sound for those who were not fond of New Wave music.
Fresh off the sound of such acts like Africa Bambaataa who's electro hip hop style combined with powerful vocals also helped pave the way for Freestyle's birth.
Connie,one of the pioneers of freestyle brought us "Funky little beat" where in it's production one can hear the influence of New Wave and electro grooves that later grew into the Freestyle movement.
Nayobe's "Please Don't Go" brought us closer to our Latin roots with it's bi-lingual lyrics and raw thumping Latino street sounds.
Debbie Deb with "Look out weekend" & "When I hear music" jams with their electro influence paved way as an early Freestyle music statement.
Even Miami's controversial Bass/Hip Hop group 2 Live Crew with their first release of "Revelations" was inspired by the electro sounds of Africa Bambaataa, Mantronix, Egyptian Lover.
The electro sound movement definitely has a place in Freestyle history along with New Wave and High Energy/Dance music of the time.
Producer Bobby O who's hits include "She has a way" combined electro and drum sounds that brought us heart pounding raw sounds mixed with powerful lyrics and vocals.
The group Lime with it's high energy raspy vocals in "Angel Eyes" brought forth an essence of romantic lyrics that later on can be reflected in the lyrics of Freestyle singers.
During the early stages of Freestyle in Miami, Freestyle music did not receive it's full recognition until later years as Euro dance, Pop and early hip hop were the standard for radio stations and clubs
Groups like Alphaville brought us "Big In Japan", Dan Harrow with "Future Brain", Vicious Pink with "Cant you see" and countless other New Wave/Dance groups were still towering over Freestyle at the time in the dance clubs.
It wasn't until Shannon with "Let the music play" did we begin to hear more of Freestyle's rhythmic style and sound with a much rawer party style to it's production.
Expose was able to generate a large interest from radio stations with their smash nation wide hit of "Point Of No Return" causing a chain reaction of groups and producers to pop up on the scene.
While local radio stations at the time like I-95 (was also 96 X) (now Power 96) only played chart busting music, it was actually Y-100 who was helping the Freestyle movement begin as they would present us with Live beach parties on a constant basis, Shannon was always booked for their shows and sometimes Lime as well as Planet Patrol.
