MIAMI RADIO.
In all reality...we dont need miami radio to keep freestyle alive. i mean the true "latin hiphop/freestyle" soul is already in the blood otthe miami population. like salsa is to cubans and puerto ricans.
the djs in parties and clubs all still have their old vinyle and will spin it at house parties, clubs etc.
It is a blow.... that mega 103.5 went off the air...i feel it for gino, miriam, tony banks and everyone else.
i hate to sound like a bitch, but the station kinda brought it on to itself.
i mean you kept hearing the same 16 disco and freestyle songs people will get tired of it and stop listening.thats what happened. and in the world of disco and freestyle there were soooooooooo many more records that could of goten play.
party 93.1 started playing some freestyle to take away some listenership...but like alot of people, they only played the pop freestyle of 1990 and after...not really Miami freestyle.if they did play any old school, it would be the most pop.
the tired pop sh*t that everyone is sick of hearing.
Mega 103 started doing good when they started playing alot of the 90s records and mixing in with the new records coming out now and with the classics. but that only went so far, before going to their normal ways.
freestyle in miami is strong and growing in a new generation.
its underground and the breaks generation will definetley keep it alive...ill tell you why in i sec...
but as far as freestyle on radio..:
salsa 98.3....not only plays classic freestyle and disco mixes during the week and at night, but also play a record here and there through out the day.
they are also the station that has roots to tha actual movement through The chief raymnod hernandez and now felix sama.
but you will hear the good stuff onthis station.stuff mega didnt even play at times.
another station that started playing freestyle and electro funk intheir lunch mixes is 99jamz.
they had lisa lisa, sweet senstation, shanon etc along with electro funk and the rap and R&B of that time as well.
IT WAS AWSOME>>CUZ THEY PLAYED ALL STREET MUSIC. they way we used to hear it.
you have to look around.
the other day on 92.3 they were playing cover girls and pretty poison.
on 97.3 they were playing dance and freestyle on the weekends.
and like i mentioned, party 93 also playes the ocasional freestyle record.
imean, its not like mega or the 98.3 lunch mix..but you have to look around.
before long..we know that if this keeps up, there will be pirate radio stations..one way or the other.
thats what happened in our miami history.
many years ago...ther was no freestyleonthe air. freestyle is a part of our culture..so when the rave and breaks movmnet came to its peak in miami by the early to mid 90's..pirate radio stations started playing old school freestyle and rave music (trance/breaks)......the pressure was so so high.... they were played together becouse TRUE schoolers knew that it (freestyle) died, but resurected withing the techno and rave scene. we were all ravers then........to many of us was no big surprise and understood why afrika bambatta himself was doing tecnho records.....now he too is releasing break records again with progressive house.
We know why. it has been happening for a while now. this is freestyle 2003. nothing new to us.
back around that time
power 96 (who stoped playing freestyle for a while and had no clue of trance music) called the fcc and rated on everyone......
as soon as the fcc cracked down on everyone...power 96 once again started playing sh*t loads of freestyle records and instroduced trance to tha masses on comercial radio in miami.
but if it wasnt for the underground..nothing would of happend.
so im sure that would happen again.
MIAMI UNDERGROUND TODAY:
You hear freestyle records from time to time on the college stations, U.m, fiu...it lives within the breaks mixes, underground mixes.
they play it,cuz they know its the root music. electrofunk and freestyle. they mix it with todays comercial and underground breaks records. they will play jenny burton and all that..but you gat know where to go to listen to it.
ther are new generatuion of circles inmiami and we have kept it secret.
its a new generation thing.
all "trance djs" george alvarado, acosta, you name it...they are all freestyle inthe blood. they grew up with it. and like many who claim to be something...they do have those influences and time to time those freestyle and breaks records do come out in their mixes and they open doors for other new freestyle and break records or give re-birth to some of our classics..
dj concept, heard on party 93 was one of the bigest promoters of freestyle throwing concerts in hieleah back in the day...he brought people like tony moran etc down to do house parties etc back in the day. he is only one example of many people.latin hiphopers.still around.
theer is alot of people in the spot light in maimi now..you call them trance or whatever...but deep in their heart they are freestyle and when the time comes..they will open the doors in the industry and clubs and radio for us, when we are set here and joined by the rest of the freestyle world though out the nation and the world. they know the miami underground is thriving and we have something coming reeal soon.
it benifits all of them, cuz without us...their past achievments willnot be recognized. thier contributions to our scene and the world of dance music WILL BE OVERLOOKED WITH OUT US.
RECKLESSSMAYHEM.....
arial works for george alvarado in music world and is a very good freind of mine. we had china doll(d'luna) already go to the fiu station) after talks with ariel..he started playing old school records and break records on his show. despite that his show mostly catered to house.progressive house.
he knows like all of us that house is getting retro and alining ityself with breaks like it once did with trance. but its a large 80's influence.
THE 80's REVIVAL IS EVERTYWHERE. PROGRESSIVE HOUSE, BREAK/FREESTYLE, EVEN IN THE ROCK SCENE. have you seen mtv...looks all punk rock fromthe 70's and early 80's..cuz they found their roots, just like freestyle and breaks is finding thiers.
on one of ariels last shows i remeber him playing.."baby come back to me" by madiline red and "They say its gona rain" by hazel dean.
this was fiu..88.1
also on many dance floors..you hear the records coming back...
butthe truth is that it can only do so much in that scene. house will always do something so that another genre wont take over.
the freestyle scene we had established in miami already was strong..cuz the old generation still had a hold of it.
im talking about that old world of jammin johny caride,mega and all them. BUT< they all catered to OLD SCHOOL. they always caterde to a 30 something crowd and not really to the younger crowds. they always had shows with the same 5 freestyle artist.
people got tired of that.
everyone found the new sound in the underground.
in time it willrise again, but you will see particiaption with the new people, new promoters and you will see how the old school miami people start lining up with us.
i just had a pioneer give me all his contacts..he wants me to continue what im doing..cuz he knows im younger and know whats good to keep this alive. i was honored.!!!!!!
im the only one in miami thatis part of this new click of industry and promoters etc..who is in the underground scene of new skool hearthrob promoters,djs,artist etc, in miami and still takes time to reach people outside our world.
i try to share the ideas with other promoters outside of miami and other artist...but they dont want to change their ways....they continue throwing concerts with strictly old school acts and wonder why they dont atract new generations.
im tired of doing so and feel like i have to go back to my underground roots and keep my ideas etc to myself.
only share info and thoughts with those within the walls of our realm here in miami.
freestyle in miami will continue to be strong.
in the underground..it has always been.
in the undergound..our history and sound will still thrive,evolve and rise again.
in a way...mega 103.5 is sad to see it go off the air......but in a way im kinda glad....
im kinda glad cuz now its a slap in the face to many people, to wake up.
people act when they know they will lose it all. and thats whats happening. so im glad cuz now i know that people will wake up to freestyle more. they act when they feel threatened.
if worse comes to worse..we will have pirate radio rise out of the underground......and we will see other scenes, college stations, other comercial radio stations try to fill in that gap. they will compete againts each other and just make it better.
people need to wake up.
we are strong through the underground. the old freestyle world will have no controllof things to come.
a new generation will rise.
in the freestyle world..there willbe many loses,but many gains.
we restructure ourselves in the underground..yet..we (the whole dance community ARE UNDER ATTACK.
THEY WANT US OUT.
THE CORPORATIONS want us out. THEY PULL THE PLUG FROM OUR LABELS (see strictly, amd others)(the real truth), they pull the plug from our stations..(see, mega, energy in chicago..etc)
pass laws and close our clubs.add red tape for new generations of promoters, rais licence fees.
they have the media (tv,radio, mags etc) on their payroll (underthe table. they pay to gettheir artist on the air and pay to get others off (blackball). its all legal and no one talks about it.
so much.
yet, our sound grows strong and evolves.
AMERCIAN underground dance world is in a lil war of its own. it will evolve into a rebelion through new youth. a new youth rediscovering the past.and have a new voice of their own.
freestyle willonce again rise through this also.
scary isnt it???
all i have to say is educate yourselves and join the industry.
many of you outthere..have the knowledge. have what we need...you need to jointhe industry. join the freestyle industry!!
look to miami:: you will see more freestyle figure present soon out of south florida. some with break material others with more progressive house.
we will crusade to new york and key cities in dance world. with many faces.
you will dicover the large Brazilian population of miami, through a new wave of latin and brazilian /miamian artist to rise out of south floridas underground freestyle/trance/progressive house /break scene. (we now share the city with a large brazialin population, like new york latinos share new york with italian americans).
its miamis new face.
so its a whole new generation of people (second generation brazilians, also latins) that will embrace freestyle as theirs as we latinos once did, italian, greeks, and filipino youth from san fransico have in the past. all of us, down the line are all latin...and we will see those influences in the music,fashion and times to come.
I SAID TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!
but keep requesting freestyle on party 93.1, 99 jamz, 98.3 and try agian to power 96.
as far as freestyle on colege station..request to the dj "CLASSIC 80's BREAK or BREAK DANCING records". if you use the word freestyle at first...they willthink johnny o and coro and dismis you.
no, they wont play johnny o and coro....butthey will play "one more shot", "rememnevbr what you like", "Pop goese my Love" and many other FREESTYLE records way before johnny o or coro.
JONPITO
