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From: atomly <atomly@atomly.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:21:21 -0500
quoted 3 lines [cutups <cutup@andythepooh.com>]>[cutups <cutup@andythepooh.com>]
>> It was a popular term for the electro/dance/pop thing in the 80s.
>> Some people never stopped using it, a few people started
using it in a
quoted 3 lines retro-revivial kind of way it seems.>> retro-revivial kind of way it seems.
>
>Early freestyle (the urban hispanic breaksy electro-pop) was
pretty rad.
quoted 1 line It went to some very terrible places after that, though.>It went to some very terrible places after that, though.
as i understand it, it was only referring to latin-made stuff coming
out of places like miami, which may actually have been decent.
then producers from everywhere started putting a fast electro-beat
(basically a rehash of "planet rock") to really bad synth music and
poorly-sung, over-chorused latin vocalists, the likes of "take me in
your arms". and then it blew up for about 10 minutes and we got
the cover girls. yeesh.
i still like the new order songs that were influenced by that stuff,
because here are these englishmen deadpanning sounds and
words they heard at new york city underground dance clubs.
"confusion" and "shellshock" were hilarious but brilliant, because
they distilled every clich? from that subgenre. if i had a nickel for
every record that said "ask me no questions, i'll tell you no
lies"...ha!
d.
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