What is "Latin Freestyle" again?

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What other genre(s) is it closest too? Hip hop? House?

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

hip-house. hi-nrg.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

What's hip-house and hi-nrg? I think I get it though sort of, after doing a google group search which is what I should have done. I don't recognize the names of performers or songs, for the most part.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Freestyle (as its called in the NY tri-state area - though I doubt Connecticut ever had much of a taste for it) is more like "Nuyorican Electro Love Songs" or "Endless Romantic Young New York Latino Variations On Arthur Baker-Style Electro".

Yeah. That's it.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://music.hyperreal.org/library/history_of_freestyle.html

― Etienne (Etienne), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Anything related to Lisa Lisa is alright with me.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

It's all starting to make sense now. I remember dancing to some of this stuff at college dances back in the 80's. "Little" Louie Vega is married to India.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

some of this stuff

More like one song, actually. But have heard a couple others.

Eddie Palmieri helped India pull off a nice salsa album (though it could probably be condensed to EP length), but I haven't heard much else by her that I like. The song "Sola" had some sentimental/nostalgic associations for me, but not enough to make me hang on to the whole CD (or to even want to play the song). She's got a new one, but I haven't heard anything from it yet, which shows how little I have been going out dancing lately. :(

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Louie Vega is Hector Lavoe's nephew! Small world. Here's something new by him, though the "review" isn't too positive.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anybody up in this bitch like FREESTYLE?
Latin Freestyle: S&D

Frank Kogan is all over freestyle, like white on rice.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Start with some Debbie Deb, move onto Jenny Burton and round it off with Cover Girls. God I love this stuff.

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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