"TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES" for 2002!

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JONPITO

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MIAMI,nuff said!
Still, while the florida breaks scene continues to spread, the electro funk and freestyle sound continues to evolve and survive in the deepest depths of the underground...far away from the community that still scratches their head and wonders what should should be done to make a genre survive. Should they speed up or slow down beats? should they continue with the same sound?

while the so called "legends" turn to other music forms to further their careers (and pay some bills) and promoters and radio stations stop or delay freestyle shows. While new york underground thrives in the sounds of deep progresive house.

While a new batch of florida freestyle artist, now dubed progresive, sign to labels like jellybean, robbins ent., and groovalicious......pushing the new sound of freestyle (freestyle breaks) at the same time that European labels invade the U.S. (the true birth place of all hiphop and disco forms and all that evolved out of it) with modern freestyle/break remixes of trance records that break in the underground and still get on the radio,

many in the freestyle world look away.

regardless, its not freestyle to them.and what happens on the outside has nothing to do or have an effect on the "freestyle" community. and still they ask, what can they do to make the community survive.

with house remixes from information society, shanon, or even lissete melendez, hitting not only radio but one of the core center heart of the house music scene - the gay circuite.
tuning everyone in the outside back to freestyle....even considering playing or singing to freestyle lyrics...

still, nobody sees the impact.
people still want to stick with what they have been sticking with for the past decade and refuse to change production, cuz of the fear of what the FANS might say.


yet, a pocket of us still evolved with the sound...and through out the years the sound has taken us to another world and back... now we are uniting and claiming back slowly the electrofunk and freestyle beats the break scene has taken from us and starting to take back the hormonies that European trance has borowed from us.

but despite this, to the world of dance music, freestyle was a fad...and not to be taken seriously.
now with an 80's revival, everyone is soon to release electrofunk and freestyle driven records, without even recognizing its TRUE roots or where it all came from.

but no, it does not matter what i say, cuz nomatter what i say..nothing will change...they will still keep claiming and claiming and forgetting and changing untill there is nothing left. and on top of it, with whats going on in the world, nobody is going to stand up for it. people will still segregate themselves from the dance community in order to "keep it real" with freestyle. why change? why open up and know what is going on in other parts of the dance world?


anyway... I wana introduce to you guys the latest trance record.
Im sure its all 100% European inovation, since they are always so inovative with all their music forms (or more INTELEGENT, as they say). Im sure it might become a huge hit and the trance movment will be even more loved.(even if this record came from within our borders).
(more djs will get more gigs and less artist will get to perform REAL vocal style shows).

some of you may already know that this record is out there, but some of you might not...

the new trance inovation is

FLIP & FILL FEAT: KELLY LLORENA "TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES".

its something brand new (just like all the breaks and trance beats and hormonies) that im sure the new generation of club heads will prais and demand more from the gods of the European continent or those here who boast and glorify Europe. (at least they will see it that way).

im sure that a whole new generation would never hear the story or recognize the name Donna williams. or know that a freestyle,now salsa singer had anything to do with the background vocals (along side his cousin).

Personally, i do love the record. I love the original also. always will love the original. im happy about the record, cuz some freestyle would be re-discoverd and exposed and draw more atention to this scene... but sad, cuz the scene still does not have it sh*t together and stronger in numbers..and the facts of the past will be overlooked. also, that there is no BREAK/freestyle version.


but like i always say.......despite what happens within the freestyle community.no matter how many concerts you throw, how many websites exist, how many people start critizising others who want change....
with or with out the freestyle community........ freestyle music in the essence of experimenting with beats,breaks and present day technology......, the sound is very much alive and now will rise out of the underground (like it has been), unfortunatley..not out the freestyle community of labels and producers or whats left of them.

if you dont change, the world will change and move on without you. it already has begun.

anyway,

No one said anything about turning your back on the oldschool or old ways of doing things....

this might be a slap in the face to many or maybe how i said somethings. but those who truly know me..know i dont hold back.
(even if you see me as bias for my work on other websites from my past.some things needed to be said at that time.i never had the chance to state the other side).
i dont mean to dis anyone, but this is a wakeup call, especailly to new york. cuz miami needs you now. miami needs new york and the tristate to join us now. Vocal freestyle artist and labels who suport them, need to merge with the prodominant non vocalized scene of breaks. Breaks needs to battle with house musics stronghold of new york's undergound. Those filtered Disco samples will be replaced with filtered freestyle classics. it has already started.

If i didnt care, i wouldnt spend my time typing on this site.or at least try to reach one person. one person makes a diference.

true heads know what im talking about... those true heads who also go to underground clubs:


"YOU FEEL IT! YOU LIKE IT! YOU FEEL IT! YOU LIKE IT! YOU FEEEL IT! YOU LIKE IT!

CUNTY! CUNTY! CUNTY! CUNTY!

DINDADA DINDADA DINDADA DINDA DADADADADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDA!

mad love to all.


JONPITO

(and they still love me!)
 
jonpito I certainly am hearing what you are saying 🙂 breaks started happening down here a number of years ago, vocal trance making its move too.

i have been hearing drum n'bass is supposed to finally break out too but I am not feeling that yet LOL. The U.S. used to be the innovators but more and more things are coming from Europe 🙁

And you are right....all these DJs and not the artists...????
 
The ressurgeance of freestyle with breakbeat, electro and 2 step is already complete and defined as the "new sound" of freestyle in Canada, Germany and Brazil amongst other countries. Those are major label, branded artists with strong radio and retail exposure. This has helped further grow the sound and the new freestyle audience that are in their teens right now. One example of this is the upcoming freestyle compilation "Freestyle Heaven vol.4" from SPG Music Canada.

Vocal Trance artists "Orion Too" and "Lasgo" are featured in the breakbeat genre along with brazilian mega star "Double You"; side by side with Germany's Freestyle Project, Ceres, Sweet TB,Anthony Norris, MC G Gabriel; Canada's Elissa, Marylin Dia and 2Am America's Rockell and Adam Marano amongst many others.


The previous edition of Freestyle Heaven (vol.3) had featured freestyle remixes of Vocal Trance artists Rank 1 "True Love never dies", Astroline "Close My Eyes" and Qu-zar "Hypnotize"; which in the US would never be considered as freestyle. For an audio sample of the radio promo click on:

http://www.spgmusic.com/cds/freestyle/sound/spg1016.ram


Freestyle may still be underground; but it has the same level of exposure on retail and radio as eurodance and vocal trance in many markets in the US where it is limited to clubs and fans. Luckily, Canada, Germany and Brazil amongst others are ahead of the game to keep the vibe alive and convert new audiences to the sound.
 
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True..canada,germany and other markets here and ther are kiking and are aware and ecept the new freestyle sound,unlike other areas.they have for sometime.

In florida, there is no question. we are from miami and that is the cutting edge, and in tampa, wher we ,china dolls, do many shows.

we had people like fiori, dj encore, feat angelina and so many others open up for us (this saturday we have robyn fox opening up for d'luna the china doll in tampa saturday the 29 in club twilight.).

we are retailing and selling out of copies at fye and virgin mega store...at times making dificult for some to find our record.

and it retailing well in many markets... however,

mostly, cuz alot of people dont want to call it for what it is "freestyle". but things are slowly changing.people are more aware that those are freestyle remixes or remixes that will do well in the freestyle market.

in florida trance and breaks go side by side. and heard in the same scene. just like in the mid 80's hinrg and records pouring in from europe walked side by side with freestyle records pouring out of miami...unlike new york...held a sound that geared more towards hi energy,salsa mixed with electrofunk. well, that style hit larger in the clubs and was the miami club sound (there was also the miami street sound,but that something another topic:Big bass and loud horns).

In many markets, especially those break markets, people are aware of what is what...but when those records cross over to the mainstream (in amreica) people just tend to be ..i cant find the word.
but it fustrates me.


but yeah, man, records like Astroline "close my eyes' and others are the bomb.
and any record that sings over heavy bass, just like the old school miami bass driven freestyle records. in florida are considered freestlyel.

if it walks like a duck and quaks like a duck and looks like a duck....its a duck, no matter how you decide to cook it.

also, even dark trance and dark breaks are being heard in the underground goth scenes as well.
the funny thing is that we went to a goth night last night and they were playing all this dark trance and dark breaks...telemundo was there doing a story on goth nights. d'luna the china doll jumped in front of the camera and got interviewd. she describes herself as a full blown present day freestyle artist. al,perez from erotic exotic was with us, and he started talking about how his band,back in the day also crossed over to other scenes and how they used to hang in the same places as people like merylin manson in the early miami days. and these are freestyle people.

anyway..i lost myself, so i gata go.

i want that cd comp anyway!
 
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