..from that, I also love "(You Are My) All and All" by Joyce Sims. And Erotic Exotic, I'd almost forgotten about them. They were a Miami group I saw live back in the day.
― Josefa, Friday, 4 August 2023 18:27 (nine months ago) link
Thanks, Josefa!!
― J. Sam, Friday, 4 August 2023 20:50 (nine months ago) link
I followed the genre closely through its entire lifespan, mostly by listening to WPOW Power 96 out of Miami.
love this
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 August 2023 21:01 (nine months ago) link
Yes to Nocera, Joyce Sims and many more here.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 17:07 (nine months ago) link
Not really sure what Two of Hearts is doing on a freestyle compilation but still it's a great track listing.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 20:10 (nine months ago) link
There simply aren’t many freestyle acts who weren’t from either New York or Miami, and the ones that weren’t were only tangentially freestyle-related such as Stacey Q (LA), Information Society (Minneapolis), or Nu Shooz (Portland)
― Josefa, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 20:46 (nine months ago) link
The one “dud” act at the Freestyle Festival I attended a few weeks back was (unfortunately) from here in L.A. – but he’s not really a freestyle artist anyway: Egyptian Lover.
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 20:58 (nine months ago) link
(he suuuuucked)
Egyptian Lover was clearly electro but I think he did have a big influence on freestyle too. After all, freestyle was spawned from electro. Countless freestyle records utilize the Kraftwerk “Numbers” beat in the same way Afrika Bambaataa used it in “Planet Rock”
― Josefa, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 21:28 (nine months ago) link
I'm not a stickler for genre. "Two of Hearts" belongs on a freestyle comp. Heard it blast for months in summer and fall '86 on WPOW 96.5 Miami around the harder freestyle stuff.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 21:50 (nine months ago) link