from the 12” single, Cutting Records, 1986A synthesis of electro beats, Miami-bass, and sugary-sweet pop melodies, “freestyle” was a genre of dance music which lasted only a short time in the mid – late ‘80s, but if you happened to lived in NYC or where I grew up in southern Florida, it was the hottest shit pumping out of the radio back then (r.i.p. Lazer 93.5)! In fact, to this day, I am totally convinced the reason why Florida rave kids were always so obsessed with big phatty breaks more than any other genre of beats was due to us all being fully saturated with this stuff. I have to admit, some of the studio effects haven’t aged terribly well, but that Miami-bass still puts the thump in your trunk, both literally and figuratively; listening to this now, I can almost taste the saltwater in the air at the beach…
