Freestyle

One of my favorite things about New York City is that it was one of the homes for Freestyle music and Freestyle is still loved amongst those who loved it most back in the day. What is Freestyle? It's a latin based electronic dance music--loads of hooks, chord changes and electronic effects. Some of it sounds very dated, but it's great, addictive dance/pop music. It never became as popular as hip hop and pretty much died out in the early 90's. But in NYC at least, you can still hear Freestyle on a couple of radio stations and one station, KTU, at least the last I heard, would play blocs of Freestyle on weekends. Here's my favorite freestyle song: Silent Mourning by Noel--love the footage of him dancing on the roof--I really miss seeing those water tanks on NYC rooftops.