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That's plausible.The question is who named it freestyle. I believe it was a marketing decision because I heard Tony Moran in an interview from 88 or 89 mentioned that they prefer to call the music Freestyle instead of Latin Hip Hop. That way artists like Taylor Dayne could fall under the new term. She had some big freestyle hits at the time with 'tell it to my heart" and "prove your love".
 
This discussion is very interesting.

While at a night club in Miami many years ago I was chatting with the bartender; he was originally from NYC (can't recall which borough). A freestyle cut was playing and the topic of discussion switched to the music. He told me where he was from they called it Love Dance.
 
QUESTION IS:

What will today's rhythmic dance hits (with break style beats, or combination of bass & house patterns throughout the same song) be called down the road? Not everything fits into the "pop/r&b/hip hop" category, or can be called pop forever. However, a lot of this new material that doesn't really fit in with those basic terms does sound alike enough to be able to be classified under one genre name..

What will this stuff be called?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvRvUIL0F1U

or

http://soundcloud.com/djkdm01
 
JayR said:
This discussion is very interesting.

While at a night club in Miami many years ago I was chatting with the bartender; he was originally from NYC (can't recall which borough). A freestyle cut was playing and the topic of discussion switched to the music. He told me where he was from they called it Love Dance.
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Are you sure the guy was from NYC? No one here that I know ever called it that. In 86 it was freestyle and some did refer to it as Hearthrob because of the club and the music it played. Very few called it latin hip hop. Not sure where the term came from but there are still people around that could spread some light on it like Little Louie Vega, Sal from Fever and Mickey Garcia.

Taylor Dayne was not considered freestyle at the time.

jp
 
That's interesting that it was called freestyle back in 86 because the first time any mix on vynil was called freestyle was in 88 or around there. I was 11 in 1986 so I got my music from radio and they did not label the music back then when they played anything that would be consider freestyle today.


Spin Magazine once did a cover with Safire on the front and they called it Latin Hip Hop. The cover was from 1988.Check it out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B002C051GY/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
 
KDM 7000 said:
QUESTION IS:

What will today's rhythmic dance hits (with break style beats, or combination of bass & house patterns throughout the same song) be called down the road? Not everything fits into the "pop/r&b/hip hop" category, or can be called pop forever. However, a lot of this new material that doesn't really fit in with those basic terms does sound alike enough to be able to be classified under one genre name..

What will this stuff be called?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvRvUIL0F1U

or

http://soundcloud.com/djkdm01

Good stuff as always KDM. You should produce some tunes if you haven't already.
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One more thing,The way we are clueless right now about how to call these emeging electro dance sounds is probably the way people were clueless back in the 80's about the new music back then and one day it just became "freestyle". I think the Tommy Boy compilation "Freestyle's Greatest Beats" help cement the tern forever in our minds. Joey Gardner did a lot of great things for this genre. Now,he has moved on to CNN.
 
As I said there were lots of different names people used but in the cities where it originated from (NY and Miami) it was Freestyle. National press makes up their own terms so they can claim they invented it. I can show you plenty of proof that it was called Freestyle before 88 including mixtapes from the time. ;)

jp

PS - Joey is a great source of info as well but even from his extensive liner notes on the Tommy Boy collection he left out the fact that my station, and others, were breaking the music before Hot 103. Hot 103 just had a great reach in the Tri-State area. We only hit parts of 3 boroughs. Kind of like the Pulse/Party of our day. Oh yeah and I can prove that as well.
 
Mixtapes labeled freestyle before 1988 will definitely be a rarerity and a collector's item depending on who was on the 1's and 2's. Most of the mixes on vynil were labeled "club mix" "radio mix" "hearthrob" even "hot" or "power" for Hot 103/97 and Power 96. Some of the early performers like Marc Anthony and India have a tendency to still call it Latin Hip Hop. I suppose we will never truly know who coined the term freestyle. It will remain a mystery like what really is in that hangar at area 51. ;D
 
Gee, wonder how much I can get for my Frankie Bones and Lenny Dee Freestyle Mixtapes.

jp
 
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