(while on tour)
grey,
thank you. for mentioning how some old school legends, pioneers are producing some tracks for new artist and how that old school comes through one way or the other, and seen as a modern way. And the thing is that not everyone recognizes these producers. For example, lewis martinee when he is doing stuff for china doll )dluna. or danny canary doing stuff for india, aurther baker doing stuff for w.i.t...all these new breakfreestyle records and still you dont hear about them or about these producers, cuz alot of people dont know who they are.people dont know the impact they had back then and what they are doing now. it was aloong time ago.
Back then they were on top of things and peopel payed attention. now again they are on top of whats going on and know they are ,as they alighn themselves with a new generation.. but its like now no one wants to look at them. or peeps just dont recognize no more.
they dont recognize the old pioneers, they dont recognize the new pioneers or players. they dont even recoginize anything anymore.
an even if they do, theres no enthusiasm about it.
it is true, Not cuz you cary a new sound means you are hot. i heard alot of nu freestyle break records that suck. i also heard many new old sounding records that are rocking. everyone has their share of duds.
also, in many regions, many already started taking more and more new artist and showing them new sounds and also experimenting in the studio. But one thing that olot of people and companies want to capture is a new generation of singers who are part of the scene, part of whats going on out there right now. not someone who has no clue and has to be tought about undergound club culture in 2003.
it is kinda hard to find that in artist. not only to have talent and a look, but to actually be aware of whats going on in the scenesand have a love for the cultural part of it.
But to show others a new sound, thats up to the djs on the radio and at the clubs. alot of them also build boundaries about what they personaly believe waht is and isnt freestyle and at times may not always be showing ALL the sides to the masses. and later on when a artist croses over to another genre and back, are lost on why such an artist did such a thing and why there is a relationship between two scenes and one sound. But this is totaly another topic, but in the coming months i think it will start hapening.
freejack,
get all 9 memebers to sign it for you.
some of the members havent been seen for years. some have their families and kids and etc and are living a totaly difernet life from back then.some dont even want anything to do with what they did back then. even if i could, i dont.
i have alot of freinds who ask for the same thing. i dont do that for them or for myself. especially if i know that some people get stuff signed by an artist and the sell it on the internet as a collectors.
angie ,one of the members for sequel lives in wpb..yes i got her #,
why would she call you. i mean, cmon.
actually, would you like me to do a story on her (them) and an interview and have all the contact info etc put up so that you and others can talk to her etc.
how do iknow about some things.
JONPITO KNOWS EVERYTHING.
from what you buy, to who you slept with 3 weeks ago.
im exagertaing, but yes, something like that.close enough.
willie valentine:
no one is blaming anyone for the death of Freestyle. no one is blaming anyone for killing anything. the only thing being talked is who is pregressing at this moment. Right now and through the last years it has been miami, orlando, tampa, U.K., california, the south west etc...with a new sound or an old sound turned new again.
Ther is alot in florida besides looks and tans. lots of pioneers that have won multi platinum awards and artist with vocal talent that rose out of miami before you or others even steped up to the mic,opened labels etc.
new york talent comes in many ways and many levels. and yes, everyone sees that new york and many others producers are indeed keeping the freestyle industry alive.
we give you people respect and props on that part. also we see that you all in new york are TRYING. and that means alot.
we all want new york to be what it once was. even if it means a lil tough love from a sister city.
let me be specific...MIAMI.
yeah, its cool what is going on down here and the sounds etc, but once again everything will change again with new trends etc.
We even have a tighter relationship with Europe now then we did with new york back in the day.
But Miami vocalist are some of the best, from Expose, sequel, paris by air, campanyb, nice n wild, tolga, stevie b, trenier, teazIIpleaz, gt, cynthia roundtree, coro (he is originaly from miami), sectret society, olga,rock force,genuin parts,ray guel,will to power, willie waseem, power patrol, wild maries, sasha, sandee, promise circle,erotic exotic, stephanie, and countles others,...who not only had vocal talent, but also jamed with live intruments.
same gose with the previous dacade of disco artist inthe 70s and in the 90s with new freestyle break (triphop) artist and house and trance artist.
TRUE...NOT everyone had talent. and that was true all over...new york, miami, california.....everywhere.
but may i remind.......that for along time around the death of the genre...all eyes were on new york, not miami at that time....alot of new york companies also came down to miami and signed thier artist or their material to companies like hot productions for distribution purposes, who would put out anything, regardless of talent at the time. at times some people would think, just cuz it was on hot, like freestyle of the 80s, that the material from the early 90s was also from miami, it was mostly from the tristate. the rest the freestyle scene and industry at thattime was in the hands of high power records, micmac at its later days,tazmania and the metropilitan monopoly of italo american freestyle labels and artist from the tristate and canada.
Miami was already in the underground rave scene by then. those were not our vocal artist at that time.
the only time miami came back with a huge force again was around 94 and the mid 90s through the underground and rising with a new freestyle sound along the same lines as trance music and cooming out on cutting edge house labels of the moment.
ever since then we are tight with our electro freestyle roots, love and respect the past, but also look to the future.
always looking for new ways and markets to promote freestyle, not only new miami break acts, but ALL freestyle and our freestyle classics.
(at this moment im writing you from Panama rep of panama, who just had the miss universe pageant, and is now in the middle of a new wave of turist hot spoters from all over europe and the us. surfers ravers, modeling etc. 2 days ago i was in costa rica,last years destination. i still have to hit colombia, venesuala, puerto rico and the dominican republic. all this to scan the markets and build bridges to start promoting the freestyle scene again, including some of you new yorkers also.
They love NYASIA over here. They know about and love all the early 80{s electro freestyle classics from john rocca, poul hardcastlle, jellybean, aurther baker...evne the stuff from pet shop boys, depech mode and stuffthat you would hear in freestyle clubs back in the day.
the rave scene here is just like it is in the states, larger love for undergound dance music.
like Europe has a very GLOBAL mentality.
the language everywhere is prodominatly Spanglish.
if things keep developing the way we expected it to.........countries like honduras,costa rica, colombia, venesuala, and the caribean contries will be the new touring circle/ring countries for the next wave of freestyle artist. so it wont only be miami but a whole circle under that. there is so much talent down here, some people already signing to labels like positiva in europe. European companies already scouting and establishing ties here also.
we are doing it to ,but in the name of freestyle.
later will do the same and restructurise the touring ring for europe.
it will take time, but we are at least starting already...in about a year and a halph from now , it will be comon to have freestyle artist from the states tour and throw shows and concert back to back though out europe and the caribean and central and south america.
like a constant circuite. the same way they are doing here with djs, fashion shows etc.....................imagine fever later on throwing a freestyle cruise/concert through the caribean and throwing down shows of freestyle artist at all diferent countries.
or an Artistik records tour etc...whatever).
and it is only going to happen if we all help each other out.
so much is hapening.
in the meantime other things will hapen.....
things that will happen, there will be new beef within new york as pockets of companies and artist will duke it out with each other for turf and positions on who will lead the new generation of new york freestyle and dance artist. (who will outsing other artist at those new york new generation freestyle concerts in july. who will have the bigger event,etc
but down the line, there will be a beef between new york and miami, before the two cities unite again like they did in the 80s.
Miami is prepared for that, and even if new york doesnt throw the first rock, eventually someone from miami will.
new york has a big ego, but miami is a c**t egotistical bitch.
but whatever happens and all that is hapening now...in the long run is all thing that have to happen for the good of the whole freestyle genre and new aliance/community.
For now thats all and peace to all.
JONPITO
in Miami
