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I was pulling out the old 12" records the other day and checking out all of the vinyl I collected over the years. I then got to thinking about when my first Freestyle experience happened and a question for all of you.

In the early 80's I was a rocker...long hair, denim jacket with Motley Crue pained on the back...rock pins in the front...rock concert shirts...ugh..it was the 80's. In Junior High School around 1985, a friend of mine began DJing school dances, Sweet 16s, etc. He popped in a tape he made and it was my first Freestyle experience...I immediately dove into it...djing myself a little and totally leaving my rock roots behind.

This first magical tape had a few songs that I still treasure.

My question to you....can you name 5 Freestyle Songs that were on your first mixed freestyle tape (and we all had them) ever? Songs that really got you listening to freestyle and loving it! ONLY 5

My first ever tape included:

"Hungry For Your Love" by Hanson & Davis
"All and All" by Joyce Simms
"Picking Up The Pieces" by Brenda K. Starr
"Exposed To Love" by Expose' (for real, it was on the tape 🙂 )
"Native Love (Step By Step)" by Divine

Ok..your turn...name 5 from your first Freestyle mixed tape ever!!!
 
Well, when I started mixing it was early 1980's, so I was mixing alot of Freestyle, Hi-Nrg & Electro Funk.

My first freestyle records I bought and mixed were:

C- Bank "One More Shot"
Freez (John Rocca) "I.O.U."
Planet Patrol "Play At Your Own Risk"
Shannon "Let The Music Play"
Loleatta Holloway "Crash Goes Love"

Some people may say some of the about are not freestyle. That's fine but I would disagree.

Anyhow, I mixed in Hi-Nrg such as Lime, as well as Electro Funk such as Hashim, Man Parrish & Afrika Bambaataa.
 
Crap! I can't believe you mentioned "Crash Goes Love"!!! I randomly transfer MP3s off my computer to my MP3 player to take with me on my commute everyday. I haven't heard that song in ages and didn't even know I had it but it was on my player today!!! "Crash goes love in the night, in the night..."!!!!
 
My first "freestyle" mix tape:long retired to Maxell heaven in 87 had these 5 classics laced with vicious editz.
Lisa Lisa-Can You Feel the Beat
Tina B-Honey To A Bee
Brenda K Starr-Pickin Up Pieces
Shannon-Give Me Tonight
Alisha-All Night Passion
 
lol....yup, great song! What an incredible voice she has 🙂

In case you didn't know, there was a 92' remix that came out on Warlock Records too. It contains a few different remixes. House, techno, etc... Best of all maybe, it contains an accapella which the original 84' pressing (on Street Wise Records) did not.

Come to mention remixes of the above list I had in my first reply, there was also a remix of I.O.U. that came out in 86' on Criminal Records (the original came out in 82' on Street Wise Records).

Yet another remix is One More Shot. That came out in 97' on Next Plateau Records (same label as the original pressing).

Also, in 1989 there was an import remix of Let The Music Play on ZYX Records (Germany).

Ok, I'll shut up now :heee :nutz
 
i was a little kid like 6,7,8 years old when i first started liking freestyle, i was to young to know it was freestyle, i just thought it was dance love songs..the first freestyle songs i liked were...
Shannon-Give Me Tonight
Shannon-Let The Music Play
Cover Girls-Because of You
Stevie B-Party Your Body
Expose-Point of No Return/Come Go With Me


my first freestyle tape was Laissez Faire's Hands Off
 
Mine were:

Please Don't Go - Nayobe
The Mexican - Jellybean
Match Made Up in Heaven - Jill
Show Me - Cover Girls
One Way Love - TKA
All Night Passion - Alisha
 
For me it wasn't about mix tapes. I started collecting all kinds of music at the age of 7. In 1987, when Freestyle....or back then, the Miami sound took over the airwaves, I became a diehard Freestyle 12" collector. The first Freestyle 12" I bought was Expose's "Come Go with Me", followed by Cyre's "Last Chance", "Show Me" - The Cover Girls, Company B's "Fascinated" and Sweet Sensation's "Hooked On You" and the streak continue......however in this day and age it is hard to find Freestyle 12" records of CD Maxi Singles in any store. When you order it online at times, with shipping and handling, you end up paying more than what it might cost to get a full-length CD by the artist, if one exists.
 
I didn't collect-

but I do remember once when I lived on 182nd in Washington Heights -it was summer, we were hanging out in front of the building and a freind took out his radio and played Information Society"s "Running"

all we did was just hang out side , eat slices of pizza and talk all day........
 
i first heard it in the car when i was about 12, i listened and thought "hmm... sounds interesting".
 
HEY ANTHONY- GREAT CHOICES MAN.. I REMEMBER PLAYING THOSE RECORDS AT THE AGE OF 16, WITH MY BROTHER DJ RAUL (GOTHAM WEST-BROADWAY 96-LATINQUARTERS -JUST TO NAME A FEW..MY BROTHER IS A FREESTYLE PIONEER DJ AND WOULD AGREE THAT YOUR LIST IS BEST...PS THAT REMIX OF A.E.I.O.U- ALSO A COLLABORATION WITH MY BROTHER,ARTHUR BAKER,LATIN RASCALS ETC...CHECK OUT THE ARTICLE ON THE HISTORY OF FRESSTYLE...PPS HEY WE JUST GOT INDUCTED INTO THE DISCO DJ HALL OF FAME...GREAT THREAD FREDDIE SOTO...😉😉
 
I got my first freestyle mix tape from a DJ friend of mine back in the early '90s. The first 5 songs on the tape were...

Johnny O - "Highways of Love"
& More - "You'll Never Find Another Love"
Frances - "Surrender Your Love"
Debbie Deb - "Lookout Weekend"
Cynthia/Johnny O - "Dreamboy/Dreamgirl"
 
clubfossil said:
HEY ANTHONY- GREAT CHOICES MAN.. I REMEMBER PLAYING THOSE RECORDS AT THE AGE OF 16, WITH MY BROTHER DJ RAUL (GOTHAM WEST-BROADWAY 96-LATINQUARTERS -JUST TO NAME A FEW..MY BROTHER IS A FREESTYLE PIONEER DJ AND WOULD AGREE THAT YOUR LIST IS BEST...PS THAT REMIX OF A.E.I.O.U- ALSO A COLLABORATION WITH MY BROTHER,ARTHUR BAKER,LATIN RASCALS ETC...CHECK OUT THE ARTICLE ON THE HISTORY OF FRESSTYLE...PPS HEY WE JUST GOT INDUCTED INTO THE DISCO DJ HALL OF FAME...GREAT THREAD FREDDIE SOTO...😉😉
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That's interesting! So your brother is known as DJ Raul? Did he do some of the remixing on certain tracks or what?
 
Hey guys, I found an old print out of my tape list. I started making (and selling) tapes in '85 just before freestyle hit big. Here's my first 3 mixes... LOL!!!

Mix1

Angel Eyes
Din Daa Daa
Color My Love
Point Of No Return
No Favors
Can U Feel The Beat
Cheap Thrills
Do You Wanna Funk
Shoot Your Shot
Best Part Of Breaking Up
Native Love
All & All

Mix2

Picking Up Pieces
8 Arms To Hold You
Release Yourself
All Night Passion
Dominatrix
Honey To A Bee
Do You Wanna Get Away
Trapped
Loves On Fire
Spank
Remember What You Like
Swept Away

Mix3

Stop Playing On Me
If You Should Ever Be Lonely
Give Me Tonight
Let The Music Play
Remember What You Like
Honey To A Bee
Crash Goes Love
Pop Goes My Love
Call Me Mr Telephone
All Night Passion
Say It Say It

LMAO!!! I think I still have most of my tapes, gotta give a listen!!! I used to sell 'em for $5 each, you'd pick 2 mixes (one for each side!!!) I used to actually make money, this was about 18 years ago!!! LMAO!!!

Sietz
 
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