Posts Tagged as ‘Freestyle’

February 20, 2008

LETTING THE MUSIC PLAY: THE BEST OF FREESTYLE #2

Expose want you to run away with them, presumably to the land of assembly-line Latin dance-pop, where candy-coloured 808s frolic ‘tween the bubblegum blue bushes that proffer forth their bitter-yet-sweet berries of melodramat…oh, never mind.

Expose – Come Go With Me (1986)
BUY

January 30, 2008

LETTING THE MUSIC PLAY: THE BEST OF FREESTYLE #1

Unlike Italo or early House, also firmly in the Kraftwerk/Moroder continuum, Freestyle was a self-consciously “teenage” expression. Schoolyard gossip, hot boys with Camaros, “no…you hang up” phonecalls, pro nails and wet-look perms, homework and Hot 103, Slater from Saved By The Bell, Saturdays at the mall…all that. If it’s OK to like Italo and Hi-NRG now, then [...]