KDM 7000 MUSIC: NEWS, LINKS, INFO, AND MORE F.Y.E.
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(Opinions, Music News, And More, Taken From Various Blogs I've Posted Throughout The Year)
Remember BACK When I Was Talking About Dance Music Making a Come Back?
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I remember BACK when I first introduced my DMC (Dance Music Comeback) theory to people a little over two years ago , talking about how dance music was going to make a come back, and flash forward to now, listen to what top 40/rhythmic/pop and even urban radio sounds like! (Even listen to how U.K. music, such as 2 Step Garage is evolving!) When I first started speaking on this, I originally said "the beats are speeding up" and this topic covered all areas of faster/uptempo music, such as booty bass, house, freestyle, breaks,..etc. This was back, even before the new Janet Jackson hits, the new Ne-yo, even before Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back"! There's really no need for me to say more - just read on and listen to your local top 40 hit music station and mixshows. You cannot tell me that the following is not happening in the U.S.! (Keep in mind that the following all consists of things I wrote in blogs or public forums in the past. Some of what you read will probably be replies, or responses to what other's may have written back to my statements or geared towards a topic of an online post that I was posting my view in. More will be added as I look for and find where I've posted them.)
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Originally Written, December 2006:
I remember back when I made this prediction; THE BEATS ARE SPEEDING UP! and DANCE MUSIC IS IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING A COME BACK......etc. I came up with this "DMC Theory" (Dance Music Comeback) just about over a year or two ago, and finally made my first comment about it at various sites within a few months after coming up with this theory. Back then, it wasn't anything much.... just a little 1,2 step here, a S.O.S by Rihanna there, and some my humps, but nothing much. I spoke and wrote about it a little, then mentioned that the beats would continue to get faster, more and more people would catch on to this, then made my final statement saying "if this is how things are sounding now, just wait and see what it will be like next year.." (- next year meaning 2007). After that, I shut up and spoke nothing more about it........
NOW IT IS THE END OF THE YEAR!
All I ask is that everyone reading this, take a little time this New Years weekend and listen to the end of the year (music) countdowns on your (top 40/rhythmic/urban) stations, and listen for songs that are up-tempo, that sound as is they are 125 bpm or higher. (If you have a station like 106.9 or something like that, I'm not expecting you to sit there and listen to the top 106 or 107 jams all day long..... but just listen for....maybe 30-40 minutes or so.) Try to remember the amount of fast paced (freestyle/bass/break/house) sounding songs that you heard as you listened. Now think back to last year at this time, and see if you can remember if there were as many fast paced (freestyle/bass/break/house) sounding songs as you heard this year.
You don't even have to go as far as to last year, just go back to Spring 2006, or back to whenever S.O.S. by Rihanna came out. Think about the songs back then. Think about the songs now. You will realize that SOMETHING IS GOING ON, and people DO want to hear faster beats - it's not only becoming, but HAS ALREADY BECOME the norm once again for these faster (freestyle/bass/break/house) sounding beats to be heard on top 40 radio, MTV.....etc!
I knew that there would be an increase to the number of up-tempo dance/bass-like songs that would hit mainstream radio, but I never expected it to reach this magnitude so fast! I actually thought we would be at the point in which we're at now, sometime in the middle of 2007. If this type of music is continued to be produced at this rate, then it must be safe to assume that at the least, booty bass will make a full come back in 2007, and this may possibly lead to breaks and dance/house songs making it to top 40! Just like scientists are predicting global warming, I am predicting radio breaking!
~More breakbeat-like songs in the mainstream~
I think it has gotten to the point where I don't even have to make a list of songs to create an example of what I'm talking about - certain songs automatically come to mind as you read this!
Despite the fact that a lot of the music in the top 40 these days is kind of.........(how can I put this delicately..) - WHACK, it is still exciting to see what is happening, and that this evolution in (top 40/rhythmic/reggae) music is happening now. Logically thinking, people would assume that if music continues to get faster and faster, everything will be Drum & Bass by 2012 - and yes, I did actually have someone say this after I explained my DMC Theory. That thinking may be logical, but....................it is also dumb.
....But that's beside the point.
The point is this; THE DANCE/BREAK BEATS ARE once again, PRETTY MUCH HERE TO STAY, and it will only be a matter of time before Bass compilations and other similar stuff are recreated and replaced back on to store shelves - of course, with the more modernized sounds of todays (and tomorrows) music. You will start (or already have been) hearing up-tempo mixes on your local radio stations during mix shows, with NEW uptempo songs, instead of only hearing fast stuff during the OLDSCHOOL mix or BACK IN THE DAY mixes. Of course, as D.J.'s play these new faster songs, it would be MUCH easier for them to throw in other faster stuff as well (like real dance music) without fear of losing their crowd/listeners. ...........................
I just can't wait to see what it's like at this time next year - booty bass? freestyle? It's HIGHLY possible that at some point, someone will use a fast beat AND decide to throw in an electro sound as well, but make it hot enough to make top 40 radio/club, and this could be an ENTIRE NEW WAVE of that modernized version, of the old school sound that people like Dj Juanito, Glenn Gutierrez, Dj Felony, Cibola, Haus-a-holics..etc used to do. Remember Angelina, M:G, Planet Soul, Lil Suzy, Adriana, Jocelyn Enriquez, Jossette, Lina Santiago......etc. If you listen to "Fergelicious", you will notice that it samples "supersonic" and "give it all you got".... but THAT IS NOT THE AMAZING PART! Listen closer, and you will notice the hint of a light electro sound that goes along with the drum patterns during certain parts of the song, and if someone actually sang through instead of rapping, it could VERY EASILY cross over to freestyle! Notice the new one by Gwen Ste.... I meant Rihanna f/ Sean Paul. Yes it has a hint of reggae, but it also has a very strong touch of bass and freestyle elements to it!
...........................and I remember back when I thought "git up" by Ciara was exciting! I actually remember back when I thought "1,2 step" was such a big thing, but compare those little songs to what's happening now - IT DOESN'T EVEN COMPARE! And you think these songs now are something? WAIT UNTIL NEXT SUMMER.....and I shall stop here and leave it at that.
I don't know what will happen in music, but one thing I can be sure about is SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN!
bass.
bass. breaks.
dance
FREESTYLE.
It's coming............................
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Originally Written, January 2007:
- I Am LOVING what is happening RIGHT NOW!
- I AM LOVING WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
I remember for some time now I've been mentioning my DMC Theory (Dance Music Comeback), the fact that dance music is making a come back....well,
NOW IT'S OFFICIAL!
I absolutely COULD NOT believe what I was hearing on the radio - BRAND NEW HILARY DUFF! Song Title: "WITH LOVE! This is COMPLETELY UNBELIEVABLE! I remember back when I thought "1,2 step" was something to be excited about. I remember back when the faster beats were DYING and BECOMING LESS of a norm on top 40/rhythmic mainstream radio and t.v. stations were TURNING AWAY.........yes, TURNING AWAY from faster music..
NOW LETS RECAP:
It started out BACK when "1,2 step" and "my humps", and "loose control" and "control myself".....etc and stuff similar to that started playing on the radio. I introduced my DMC Theory, making the prediction that dance music was IN THE PROCESS of making a comeback. I stated that all it would take is ONE person to use a faster / dance-like beat, and have that song become successful, and it would only be a matter of time before other people started catching ..ing that style, and as more and more up-tempo songs became popular, it would only cause an increase in the amount of people releasing HITS with FASTER BEATS, encouraging and FORCING people to get used to and accept faster beats........ Shortly after I had a FOLLOW UP REPORT, based on the fact that THIS STARTED HAPPENING. THEN, I make another statement sometime during the middle of 2006, where I said "If this is how things sound now, just wait and see what it will be like next year"
THEN COMES THE END OF THE YEAR.
What do most people do at the end of the year? They reflect, so...
LET'S REFLECT:
"s.o.s." - Rihanna"......"man eater" - Nelly Furtado......."Control Myself" - L.L. Cool J............."ain't no other man" - Christina Aguilera..........."Smack Dat" - Akon........"sexy back" - Justin Timberlake........."promiscuous" - Nelly Furtado.............."git up" AND "so what" - Ciara............"tempurature" - Sean Paul........."fergalicious.. -
AND THAT'S ENOUGH - I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO CONTINUE!
NOW IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR, it is 2007!
Once again, I remember BACK.... I repeat, BACK when "1,2 step" seemed exciting. I remember when I thought "just loose it" by Eminem was something to jump around about. I remember when Pitbull released "hit da floor" and I thought I died and went to Heaven. I was amazed simply at the fact that music had already REACHED and WAS BEGINNING TO PASS the average speed of freestyle. THIS WAS ALL BEFORE S.O.S., GIT UP, FERGALICIOUS......ETC.
We have now reached JANUARY 2007, the VERY BEGINNING, less than 1/12 of the entire year, - LESS than 1/12th, and BAM!
GLAMOROUS - FERGIE / PROMISE (REMIX) - CIARA ... .. .. .... .. .
WITH LOVE - HILARY DUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait - just stop and let it sink in for a little while.....
O.k........ now, only THREE weeks have been completed so far this year. THREE up-tempo songs have been ADDED to, or at least started to play on top 40/rhythmic radio / mixshows.........
if this continues to happen even near the rate at which it is right now, imagine how many up-tempo / dance songs would be released by the end of THIS year. At this rate, think of the odds, the chances... the POSSIBILITIES that exist - The odds of an actual dance song being released this year has DRAMATICALLY INCREASED since this time last year, and when you add in the fact that these faster beats are more break/bass/freestyle sounding, the odds of a FREESTYLE song being released are EVEN HIGHER! So if this is the case, you can assume that at some point someone will eventually think to add in an electro sound with the bass/break beats, because the odds of that happening HAS ALSO INCREASED..... Notice how the artists releasing these songs with faster beats are sounding now - it's more on the FREESTYLE side than the BOOTY BASS side. Actually, this should no longer be classified as a theory, because there is now enough evidence to conclude that at the LEAST, one straight up freestyle song WILL be released AND become a hit before this year ends, and this now has more valid evidence and proof behind it than the whole global warming issue does! (Do the research, and you will find out that global warming is still questionable, meaning that it is a POSSIBILITY that it is happening. The dance music coming back IS happening!)
THIS IS THE EVOLUTION IN MUSIC, NOW.
Bottom line, it's official. Dance music (mainstreamwise) is back, and this is only a BREIF PREVIEW of what's to come. It is NOW THE NORM to hear up-tempo songs MAINSTREAMLY, and this is only the beginning. All those people that think "everything with a fast beat is techno" will shortly begin to assume that they now love techno, and that techno is IN once again. Mixshows on the radio will have a WIDER RANGE in bpm's, where you will hear not only top 40 alternative, pop, r&b, and hip hop, but also BASS, FREESTYLE, AND BREAKS, And you will also notice the faster beats, EVEN ON URBAN/HIP HOP stations! Have you noticed Ciara's new album, "THE EVOLUTION"? Did you notice what she did? Have you heard "Get in, fit in" by Ciara AND listened CLOSELY to what she was talking about? SHE know what's happening...
I didn't even begin to touch on the fact that HILARY DUFF has decided to jump in on the action and use a faster beat, and you should not adjust your computer screen or go to Walgreens and buy a pair of glasses or try to cut and paste and perform spell-check on this because I did say HILARY DUFF! There were no typos. Now it's safe to expect a freestyle hit from anybody.
I don't think there's much more I can say. If a freestyle artist, or at least an artist that produces a freestyle hit is delivered by American Idol, that would just be too much, but that possibility NOW EXISTS.
SUMMER IS COMING....................just imagine how it will sound by SPRING
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Also Written January 2007..
Also, I want to mention the fact that Stevie B. thought of the idea to team up with a POPULAR TOP40/RHYTHMIC artist and RE-DO "spring love", WITHOUT EVEN MODERNIZING MANY ELEMENTS OF THE SONG ITSELF and even recieve radio play! So why aren't others concidering or thinking of this? Oh - and by the way, this issue in itself brings up so many different issues - there are so many ways I could go with this...... but I'm not even going to get too deep into this right now - I'll just add the fact that he teamed up with PITBULL, who not only does extremely well in TOP 40, URBAN, AND RHYTHMIC charts, but also top 40 LATIN, possibly even CARIBBEAN, and OTHER international charts as well. Now, THAT was a VERY, VERY VERY, VERY SMART IDEA to team up with such a person, who's WELL KNOWN in a VARIETY of areas!!!!!! Now, the only thing we need next is for them to produce something BRAND NEW together, become successful, THEN see where that goes! Many (new) unknown artists these days are using popular people to do hooks within their songs to help add acceptance and publicity to what they are doing............
Do you remember back when "oye mi canto" by Nore and Nina Sky first came out? Do you remember how much reggaeton was known and played before this song hit? Do you notice how many people that never knew much or cared much for reggaeton back then, do NOW? Did you notice that things changed DRAMATICALLY after Nore tried something different AND became successful with it?
He opened the doors for many other reggaeton artists mainstreamwise, and I've noticed how ever since this one little song "oye mi canto", abruptly, reggaeton stations started popping up NATIONWIDE, reggaeton radio syndicated programs also started popping up as well, in addition to the fact that even BET and MTV greatly increased their acceptance to reggaeton music and artists, and not to forget, when you listen to back in the day/old school hip hop mixes and programs, no reggaeton is heard in it. Do you think it will be the same for your kids that are just turning 1 or 2 today, when they grow up and listen to their old school/back in the day programs?
I'm just saying that if this has and can happen with reggaeton, then this could also happen again, at anytime with any genre of music, including bass and freestyle. People can predict what may happen, but in reality no one really knows for sure what may happen. It could be that Ciara or Missy decides to create another uptempo song, but this time, include the use of an electro sound with it on her next album, it becomes a hit and bam! everyone thinks it's hot and others begin to copy this style.
I remember how hip hop used to always use these simple, predictable, sway back and fourth beats. Then Timbaland creates that beat that he used for "one in a million" by Aaliyah. Within about six months after this happening, almost EVERY hip hop, r&b, AND pop artists started changing up their beats. Destiny's Child did it. TLC did it, 702 did it as well, even P.Y.T. and Spice Girls tried to use those "futuristic" sounding beats that Timbaland and Missy started using around 1996-1997. I think the official start of this was with Ginuwine's "pony", but the beats didn't really get creative until "one in a million" by Aaliyah hit the airwaves, and I still remember how back in high school, when this happened, almost EVERYBODY in my classes and throughout this Atlanta high school, was shocked about this song. People would line up down the hallways or crowd around desks and take turns trying to do the beat on a wall or desk with their hands while someone rapped, but it took people a good few weeks to imitate this style and get it right........ That was original, until later on others started imitating and changing the beat into their own style, which is when you started hearing "bills bills bills' by Destiny's Child, "silly ho" by T.L.C.,......etc. And this continued for a few years, until somehow that style of using those futuristic sounding beats died and we've went back to those simple, typical hip hop beats once again.
So bottom line, you never know what may happen. These faster beats could open the doors for booty bass and freestyle to pop up once again on U.S. mainstream airwaves, similar to how Sean Paul's "just gimmie da light" opened up the doorways for other reggae artists, such as Kevin Lyttle, Lumi Dee, and others that started popping up on top 40/rhythmic radio AFTER Sean paul'success.... And just like Nore & Nina Sky with the reggaeton situation,
OR:
It may be like the beats Timbaland and Missy used to produce back in the late 90's and early 2000's - it will come, do things for a while, then dissappear..... or maybe I should used the example of Spice Girls.....They were original. Shortly after, all these other 5 people groups pop up. Nsync and Backstreet Boys do best at taking that idea and making it their own style. Then there is Five, Take 5, and all these other 5 people groups that I've forgotten - ONE started it, became succesful, and opened the doors for this style....but it all died after a while...
Then there is outkast, which they have lived up to their name, because neither did they die, or is anyone copying their style.....other than the people associated in their group...
But I prefer to remain optimistic, and believe that what's going on now has very strong possibility of bringing bass and freestyle back to acceptance, even at the SLIGHTEST degree, and even if it only causes ONE new freestyle song to pop up successfully and no more. But as far as I see things, I think Timbaland and Missy's clever idea to come up with those creative beats really did much to bridge a lot of pop and r&b together, because it was when this happened, many pop artists started sounding more r&b with those beats, and more r&b artists started sounding pop as well of course, because if it goes one way, then it must go the other. In addition to this, hip hop artists were also using these beats, and it seems like ever since then, pop r&b and hip hop has taken over the rhythmic/top 40 airwaves so much that the equality of hearing alternative in there as well has diminished. It used to be pretty much variety - maybe a pop song, then an r&b song, then alternative, then dance, then some of that latin pop (like around the time Marc Anthony, Inreque Iglesias, Ricky Martin and other similar artists started popping up...)....alternative again, pop, hip hop, alternative, dance, alternative....and so on. Nowadays, it's more like this: 2 hip hop songs, or 1 r&b then 1 hip hop, then alternative, another r&b, pop, r&b, alternative, r&b, r&b, pop, alternative, hip hop, reggaeton, pop, r&b, alternative..... You'll even notice this on TRL!
For a while, I did believe that Rihanna would start something with her song "s.o.s." but, I was WRONG! The only other thing I heard similar to this was "man eater" by Nelly Furtado and nothing more, so even though I may have strong foundations to place my predictions and theories on, even I can't 100% surely and accurately predict what may or may not or never will happen in music, just like scientists still cannot predict Earthquakes, or always accurately predict Monsoons, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, and other similar events, but they can make predictions, based on observations, patterns, and following the direction in which things seem to be going at the time. I would rather say that Booty Bass and Freestyle was in the process of making a comeback, but this would have discluded other songs using something similar to a house beat, souch as "sos", "man eater", and "sexy back", so to include all, while still using the simplest term possible that EVERYBODY or MOST could understand, I just said "DANCE".
Maybe for some people, these new faster songs of today are not good enough, but as for me, I'm not just into freestyle, my main passion and favorate sound when it comes to music are things that are bass and freestyle, or things that sound SIMILAR to this, so for me, I get excited for this reason, and for those of you that have heard my mixes, you know exactly what i'm talking about. I like that sound. I like the up-tempo melody. Even in dirty south - bounce music, such as "shut up" by trick Daddy, "what's your fantasy" by Ludacris, and "like a pimp" by David banner, or maybe even "my love" by Justin or "la cucaracha" (dj laz remix) by Kumbia Kings, those songs have beats that go HALF THE SPEED of "dance" music, but the tempo arrangement still matches with dance, and the bpm's of that and booty bass, and house and trance and freestyle and 2step garage could all be mixed together, and for some reason, I'm just fascinated with and have a love for that style and sound. I may be loosing or confusing some people at this point, but if you have a song that's HALF the speed of a dance song and you want to find out what up-tempo song would match perfectly, or near perfectly with it, just take the bpm and multiply it by the number 2. I discovered that this works with Dirty South (bounce beats) hip hop, Drum & Bass & hip hop or alternative, pop, light rock, r&b,....etc.
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Recently Written (April 2008) on a U.K. Garage Music Forum:
Well, I noticed that everything with a breakbeat or fast beat died around the same time. Here in the U.S, booty bass, house, and freestyle all died in the early 2000's. Hip hop took over. But now in R&B and Hip Hop, they are starting to use faster beats and crossing over to pop, so it seems like saying "dance music died" is now a thing of the past because it's coming back. They are even allowing real dance music back on 104.7 KissFM here and there's a lot of bass remixes on 101.5 JamZ being played. It's not like the Booty Bass that was big in Miami and Atlanta, but it's now bass hits with a lot of elements from electronica, freestyle, and breakbeats put into these bass remixes of today. It seems lke things are changing, and I notice a lot of changes always have something to do with Missy and Timbaland these days. Missy released "1,2 step" and "lose control", and ever since then, people here have been using faster beats once again now that they see that someone else did it and became successful. Before dance music died, Timbaland and Missy introduced a new sound around 1996-1997, and shortly after everyone was copying that style, even some dance and booty bass artists. I think this is mainly the blame for what happened to booty bass and much dance. People became more interested in these slower beats with an fast, but unique rhythmic pattern, and this was the direction music started heading for a while. Instead of using the fasts beats typically heard in dance music, they just cut the speed in half by rearranging beats to make the new "dirty south" sound, which used a lot of Timbaland's style in the late ninety's, early 2000's. A lot of pop artists started moving towards that new r&b sound, as dance artists started moving towards a pop sound. Then we had Nsync, Backstreet Boys....etc who all combined that pop and r&b style, and hip hop also started using that style as well. Then few years later came the next sound with Usher's "yeah" produced by Lil Jon, which was the new direction dirty south music and music in general was going for a while before Missy and Timbaland changed the whole scene again recently by using faster electronic sounding beats. Now it seems like Timbaland and Missy are interested in electronic beats. If it wasn't for Timbaland and Justin's "sexy back", a lot of these new electronic sounds, such as "gimmie more" by Britney, "the way I are" by Nicole S, "feedback" by Janet Jackson would've never came about when they did.
There are artists like Dizzee Rascal who use the early 2000's "dirty south" style of beats and sound, but also throw in a lot of electronic elements as well that seperate his style and make it unique. Craig David used some of the "dirty south" elements in parts of "fill me in", and I noticed some of it in 2 step as well, with those songs that are half slow, half fast.
Right now (in the U.S.), I have to say that hip hop is in a state of change, and something new is bound to happen in music. We are going in a new direction. New dance stations are beggining to pop up again, and more stations are starting to give attention to house, breaks, and trance once again. I cannot believe the amount of dance music being mixed in mix shows now! Very soon David Guetta will be being played here as a regular song!
So far, we still have no bassline and I'm sure almost nobody would know what it is if I spoke about it, but all it takes is for one person to do so well and cross over to the U.S. charts before it starts picking up. If reggaeton could make it so big all because one famous rapper tried it and became successful, then I'm sure it could happen with bassline here as well. Right now, electro house seems to be the next faze in dance music here, along with pop/r&b dance.
Flo-Rida will probably bring back the booty bass, and Pitbull will keep the latin house going.
As of right now, I think someone could do a 2 Step or Garage record, or even a house record and make it big here in the U.S, but so far it seems that everyone here is still afraid to try it, so we need someone fro outside the U.S. to "break the rules" and change things up here. It happened with reggaeton - half of the music here was spanish for a while when that went big... so I'm sure it could also happen with Garage and 2 step as well.
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Written on a Dj Forum, March 2008:
Anything that resembles booty bass, breakz, freestyle, or even mainstream house today will be called pop because people today do not know what dance music really is anymore. Pro Nails instrumental by itself really isn't pop, but with the rap vocals added in and the way the rapping was done converts the entire production into pop. Most of the r&b and hip hop these days can also very easily fall into the pop category because ever since Timbaland came out with his "futuristic" sounding beats back in the late ninety's and everyone started to copy and imitate, r&b, pop, and hip hop began to really start fusing together. R&B was the first to have that "futuristic" sound, with "one in a million" by Aaliyah, then a few months later when people "figured out" how to create those beats, almost everyone started copying and imitating this new sound, making minor differences and changes to make their own style. T.L.C, 702, and plenty of other artists, including pop artists like Christina Aguilera and others were doing it, even on the second Spice Girls album it was heard. (This is most likely where The Neptunes got many of their new ideas as well.) This just happened to be around the time when Ricky Martin opened the doors for the latin pop craze, (that followed shortly after the Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Five....etc) where you heard Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony...etc - who were also using those beats as well. Because people were more interested in these slower beats (that also created a new sound for dirty south "bounce" music), more people started going this direction, creating beats at a bpm half the speed of dance and booty bass music, and this was when the dance music was at it's very begining stages of dying.... We had Trick Daddy "no na'an", "shut up"..etc. "Big Pimpin" by Jay - Z..."is that your chick" - Memphis Bleek.....all kinds of people using that half dance speed bpm, including Drama, Miracle, and Pastor Troy... Then we had these artists that kept the rhythmic bass sound, while still also using the "new r&b sound" which resulted in songs that were half fast, half slow, such as "give it to you" by Jordan Knight, "don't think I'm not" by Khandi, "I like it" by Sammie, and even "Swing my way" by KP&NV...etc. I guess Inoj also had a couple songs like that too...
Flash forward a few years later:
The futuristic sound manages to last a bit, and even in the U.K. you can see how they loved this sound, when Craig David kind of uses it in "fill me in" while still using a 2step Garage beat. This sound Timbaland and Missy had started even changes the way 2step garage in the U.K. would sound.....
Flash forward again, and notice how dance did die, however these futuristic beats did as well, to make room for a more simplified beats, such as the one heard in "yeah" by Usher, "freek a leek" by Petey Pablo, "goodies" by Ciara...etc which was strange, because you'd wonder why instead of getting more creative,different, and complicated with beats, we'd go back to the easy, more simple beats that are so easy for anyone to make or do. For a while, this was once again the next new sound that people jumped on, that Lil Jon sound, which was where the music once again very slowly started speeding up. It was normally between 100 and 106 bpm. This redefined the sound of "dirty south crunk" music once again. Shortly after (give or take a few years/months) 1,2 STEP HITS....
We see that Missy is ready to change things again.... Then if that wasn't noticeable enough, we hit "LOSE CONTROL". Ironically, Lil Jon continues with his beats, but just speeds it up a little with the "My humps" remix. This is when it was pretty evident that people were going to start and continue to speed up to the point dance music or dance-like hits would return to mainstream radio, and it would no longer just be "Toxic" by Britney being the only fast song (with Collipark remix of Slow jamz by Jamie Foxx...)
One by one - Justin Timberlake f/ Timbaland - "sexy back", Nelly Furtado "man eater" / Christina Aguilera "ain't no other man" / LL Cool J "control myself" / RIHANNA "S.O.S"! / Ciara "GET UP!!" Fergie...Pussycat Dolls.................EVEN HILARY DUFF!!!!! ..etc. The people deciding to use faster, more electronic beats start popping up, changing the norm for the average bpm on mainstream radio, forcing dj's to have to find other stuff at a faster speed to mix, resulting in a bit more old school bass hits (such as Ghosttown Dj's..etc) to be brough back in to mixshows, encouraging dance hits to come back to mainstream radio mixshows.
NOW, It's official. The beats have sped up, dance is just about officially back, (despite the lack of Madonna's last album not getting much play) and an incredible amount of people are using the electronic sounding fast beats!! I guess we could say that Timbaland and Missy changed the sound of music, and just as people were getting used to that style, they came back and changed it up again!
I doubt that if it wasn't for "sexy back", a lot of this stuff like "gimmie more" Britney, "the way I are" Nicole S., "feedback" Janet , "drop" Ying Yang Twins, "go girl" Pitbull....etc. probably would've not popped up at the time they did. If it weren't for "Lose Control", "fergalicious", "get it shawty", "PRO NAILS", "boyfriend girlfriend"...etc probably wouldn't have surfaced now either...and I doubt that if 1,2 step were not successful, they would have never gone as far as "lose control".
Maybe it will never be back to the sound of Real McCoy, La Bouche, Scatman John, No Mercy, Amber, and them, but the new sound of dance may have arrived, more on the breakbeat/freestyle side. Maybe Jocelyn Enriquez, Angelina, Lina Santiago, Lil Suzy, Rockell, Jossette, Planet Soul style of dance and the bay area sound of freestyle may not be what's big today, but just wait until someone decides to throw in an electro sound along with the new uptempo sounding beats of pop and r&b today. It may be the new sound of freestyle dance. We are at the point where ANYTHING COULD EASILY HAPPEN and it will only take one small thing to change the sound of music once again. Rock and Roll had it's big break. Disco had it's big break. Blues Had it's time. The boy band/5 people group pop sound had it's little time. Now HIP HOP is at it's peak. What will be next? These changes might be a clue to what's to come.
WHATEVER IS TO COME WILL INDEED BE INTERESTING.
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I did forget to mention when Pitbull and Nina Sky hit the scene, but..... that's a different story. The Reggaeton craze caused quite a bit of things to change...Notice MTV has more latino catering music shows. Notice the rise of Subelo Reggaeton and Daddy Yankee show... Notice the amount of Reggaeton stations and top 40 spanish stations that popped up as a result........etc. It was neat to see this happened a little after Sean Paul popped in with the dancehall reggae, then Kevin Lyttle, and all of them popped up..
ONE thing can make a BIG difference in music, and you never know when that one thing may pop up and change the sound....
Just 3 or 4 years ago today, "Pro Nails" would have NEVER had a chance if it were created exactly the way it was today. 9 or 10 years ago, it would be a BIG hit in the Booty Bass/Dance and even hip hop music category. Today though, things have changed, so it's pop (But in reality, contains every element that the songs that helped in the creation of hip hop had. It's almost a combination of the late nineties dirty south bounce style, with the screwed up vocals in the chorus, with Planet Rock elements all combined, with a semi-old school style of rapping. A lot of history has been put into that song.) Oh - and it's half fast, half slow too.
Ten years from now, just wait and see what your old school at noon will sound like on your HD RADIO.....well, maybe not always at noon anymore because satellite and internet radio cover too many time zones...but when all the new old school hip hop stations start popping up, featuring the best of the 90's 00's and today, Lite Hip hop (Just like lite rock), oldies hip hop....etc. You will notice some things when you listen back to today.....
Remember BACK When I Was Talking About Dance Music Making a Come Back?
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I remember BACK when I first introduced my DMC (Dance Music Comeback) theory to people a little over two years ago , talking about how dance music was going to make a come back, and flash forward to now, listen to what top 40/rhythmic/pop and even urban radio sounds like! (Even listen to how U.K. music, such as 2 Step Garage is evolving!) When I first started speaking on this, I originally said "the beats are speeding up" and this topic covered all areas of faster/uptempo music, such as booty bass, house, freestyle, breaks,..etc. This was back, even before the new Janet Jackson hits, the new Ne-yo, even before Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back"! There's really no need for me to say more - just read on and listen to your local top 40 hit music station and mixshows. You cannot tell me that the following is not happening in the U.S.! (Keep in mind that the following all consists of things I wrote in blogs or public forums in the past. Some of what you read will probably be replies, or responses to what other's may have written back to my statements or geared towards a topic of an online post that I was posting my view in. More will be added as I look for and find where I've posted them.)
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Originally Written, December 2006:
I remember back when I made this prediction; THE BEATS ARE SPEEDING UP! and DANCE MUSIC IS IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING A COME BACK......etc. I came up with this "DMC Theory" (Dance Music Comeback) just about over a year or two ago, and finally made my first comment about it at various sites within a few months after coming up with this theory. Back then, it wasn't anything much.... just a little 1,2 step here, a S.O.S by Rihanna there, and some my humps, but nothing much. I spoke and wrote about it a little, then mentioned that the beats would continue to get faster, more and more people would catch on to this, then made my final statement saying "if this is how things are sounding now, just wait and see what it will be like next year.." (- next year meaning 2007). After that, I shut up and spoke nothing more about it........
NOW IT IS THE END OF THE YEAR!
All I ask is that everyone reading this, take a little time this New Years weekend and listen to the end of the year (music) countdowns on your (top 40/rhythmic/urban) stations, and listen for songs that are up-tempo, that sound as is they are 125 bpm or higher. (If you have a station like 106.9 or something like that, I'm not expecting you to sit there and listen to the top 106 or 107 jams all day long..... but just listen for....maybe 30-40 minutes or so.) Try to remember the amount of fast paced (freestyle/bass/break/house) sounding songs that you heard as you listened. Now think back to last year at this time, and see if you can remember if there were as many fast paced (freestyle/bass/break/house) sounding songs as you heard this year.
You don't even have to go as far as to last year, just go back to Spring 2006, or back to whenever S.O.S. by Rihanna came out. Think about the songs back then. Think about the songs now. You will realize that SOMETHING IS GOING ON, and people DO want to hear faster beats - it's not only becoming, but HAS ALREADY BECOME the norm once again for these faster (freestyle/bass/break/house) sounding beats to be heard on top 40 radio, MTV.....etc!
I knew that there would be an increase to the number of up-tempo dance/bass-like songs that would hit mainstream radio, but I never expected it to reach this magnitude so fast! I actually thought we would be at the point in which we're at now, sometime in the middle of 2007. If this type of music is continued to be produced at this rate, then it must be safe to assume that at the least, booty bass will make a full come back in 2007, and this may possibly lead to breaks and dance/house songs making it to top 40! Just like scientists are predicting global warming, I am predicting radio breaking!
~More breakbeat-like songs in the mainstream~
I think it has gotten to the point where I don't even have to make a list of songs to create an example of what I'm talking about - certain songs automatically come to mind as you read this!
Despite the fact that a lot of the music in the top 40 these days is kind of.........(how can I put this delicately..) - WHACK, it is still exciting to see what is happening, and that this evolution in (top 40/rhythmic/reggae) music is happening now. Logically thinking, people would assume that if music continues to get faster and faster, everything will be Drum & Bass by 2012 - and yes, I did actually have someone say this after I explained my DMC Theory. That thinking may be logical, but....................it is also dumb.
....But that's beside the point.
The point is this; THE DANCE/BREAK BEATS ARE once again, PRETTY MUCH HERE TO STAY, and it will only be a matter of time before Bass compilations and other similar stuff are recreated and replaced back on to store shelves - of course, with the more modernized sounds of todays (and tomorrows) music. You will start (or already have been) hearing up-tempo mixes on your local radio stations during mix shows, with NEW uptempo songs, instead of only hearing fast stuff during the OLDSCHOOL mix or BACK IN THE DAY mixes. Of course, as D.J.'s play these new faster songs, it would be MUCH easier for them to throw in other faster stuff as well (like real dance music) without fear of losing their crowd/listeners. ...........................
I just can't wait to see what it's like at this time next year - booty bass? freestyle? It's HIGHLY possible that at some point, someone will use a fast beat AND decide to throw in an electro sound as well, but make it hot enough to make top 40 radio/club, and this could be an ENTIRE NEW WAVE of that modernized version, of the old school sound that people like Dj Juanito, Glenn Gutierrez, Dj Felony, Cibola, Haus-a-holics..etc used to do. Remember Angelina, M:G, Planet Soul, Lil Suzy, Adriana, Jocelyn Enriquez, Jossette, Lina Santiago......etc. If you listen to "Fergelicious", you will notice that it samples "supersonic" and "give it all you got".... but THAT IS NOT THE AMAZING PART! Listen closer, and you will notice the hint of a light electro sound that goes along with the drum patterns during certain parts of the song, and if someone actually sang through instead of rapping, it could VERY EASILY cross over to freestyle! Notice the new one by Gwen Ste.... I meant Rihanna f/ Sean Paul. Yes it has a hint of reggae, but it also has a very strong touch of bass and freestyle elements to it!
...........................and I remember back when I thought "git up" by Ciara was exciting! I actually remember back when I thought "1,2 step" was such a big thing, but compare those little songs to what's happening now - IT DOESN'T EVEN COMPARE! And you think these songs now are something? WAIT UNTIL NEXT SUMMER.....and I shall stop here and leave it at that.
I don't know what will happen in music, but one thing I can be sure about is SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN!
bass.
bass. breaks.
dance
FREESTYLE.
It's coming............................
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Originally Written, January 2007:
- I Am LOVING what is happening RIGHT NOW!
- I AM LOVING WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
I remember for some time now I've been mentioning my DMC Theory (Dance Music Comeback), the fact that dance music is making a come back....well,
NOW IT'S OFFICIAL!
I absolutely COULD NOT believe what I was hearing on the radio - BRAND NEW HILARY DUFF! Song Title: "WITH LOVE! This is COMPLETELY UNBELIEVABLE! I remember back when I thought "1,2 step" was something to be excited about. I remember back when the faster beats were DYING and BECOMING LESS of a norm on top 40/rhythmic mainstream radio and t.v. stations were TURNING AWAY.........yes, TURNING AWAY from faster music..
NOW LETS RECAP:
It started out BACK when "1,2 step" and "my humps", and "loose control" and "control myself".....etc and stuff similar to that started playing on the radio. I introduced my DMC Theory, making the prediction that dance music was IN THE PROCESS of making a comeback. I stated that all it would take is ONE person to use a faster / dance-like beat, and have that song become successful, and it would only be a matter of time before other people started catching ..ing that style, and as more and more up-tempo songs became popular, it would only cause an increase in the amount of people releasing HITS with FASTER BEATS, encouraging and FORCING people to get used to and accept faster beats........ Shortly after I had a FOLLOW UP REPORT, based on the fact that THIS STARTED HAPPENING. THEN, I make another statement sometime during the middle of 2006, where I said "If this is how things sound now, just wait and see what it will be like next year"
THEN COMES THE END OF THE YEAR.
What do most people do at the end of the year? They reflect, so...
LET'S REFLECT:
"s.o.s." - Rihanna"......"man eater" - Nelly Furtado......."Control Myself" - L.L. Cool J............."ain't no other man" - Christina Aguilera..........."Smack Dat" - Akon........"sexy back" - Justin Timberlake........."promiscuous" - Nelly Furtado.............."git up" AND "so what" - Ciara............"tempurature" - Sean Paul........."fergalicious.. -
AND THAT'S ENOUGH - I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO CONTINUE!
NOW IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR, it is 2007!
Once again, I remember BACK.... I repeat, BACK when "1,2 step" seemed exciting. I remember when I thought "just loose it" by Eminem was something to jump around about. I remember when Pitbull released "hit da floor" and I thought I died and went to Heaven. I was amazed simply at the fact that music had already REACHED and WAS BEGINNING TO PASS the average speed of freestyle. THIS WAS ALL BEFORE S.O.S., GIT UP, FERGALICIOUS......ETC.
We have now reached JANUARY 2007, the VERY BEGINNING, less than 1/12 of the entire year, - LESS than 1/12th, and BAM!
GLAMOROUS - FERGIE / PROMISE (REMIX) - CIARA ... .. .. .... .. .
WITH LOVE - HILARY DUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait - just stop and let it sink in for a little while.....
O.k........ now, only THREE weeks have been completed so far this year. THREE up-tempo songs have been ADDED to, or at least started to play on top 40/rhythmic radio / mixshows.........
if this continues to happen even near the rate at which it is right now, imagine how many up-tempo / dance songs would be released by the end of THIS year. At this rate, think of the odds, the chances... the POSSIBILITIES that exist - The odds of an actual dance song being released this year has DRAMATICALLY INCREASED since this time last year, and when you add in the fact that these faster beats are more break/bass/freestyle sounding, the odds of a FREESTYLE song being released are EVEN HIGHER! So if this is the case, you can assume that at some point someone will eventually think to add in an electro sound with the bass/break beats, because the odds of that happening HAS ALSO INCREASED..... Notice how the artists releasing these songs with faster beats are sounding now - it's more on the FREESTYLE side than the BOOTY BASS side. Actually, this should no longer be classified as a theory, because there is now enough evidence to conclude that at the LEAST, one straight up freestyle song WILL be released AND become a hit before this year ends, and this now has more valid evidence and proof behind it than the whole global warming issue does! (Do the research, and you will find out that global warming is still questionable, meaning that it is a POSSIBILITY that it is happening. The dance music coming back IS happening!)
THIS IS THE EVOLUTION IN MUSIC, NOW.
Bottom line, it's official. Dance music (mainstreamwise) is back, and this is only a BREIF PREVIEW of what's to come. It is NOW THE NORM to hear up-tempo songs MAINSTREAMLY, and this is only the beginning. All those people that think "everything with a fast beat is techno" will shortly begin to assume that they now love techno, and that techno is IN once again. Mixshows on the radio will have a WIDER RANGE in bpm's, where you will hear not only top 40 alternative, pop, r&b, and hip hop, but also BASS, FREESTYLE, AND BREAKS, And you will also notice the faster beats, EVEN ON URBAN/HIP HOP stations! Have you noticed Ciara's new album, "THE EVOLUTION"? Did you notice what she did? Have you heard "Get in, fit in" by Ciara AND listened CLOSELY to what she was talking about? SHE know what's happening...
I didn't even begin to touch on the fact that HILARY DUFF has decided to jump in on the action and use a faster beat, and you should not adjust your computer screen or go to Walgreens and buy a pair of glasses or try to cut and paste and perform spell-check on this because I did say HILARY DUFF! There were no typos. Now it's safe to expect a freestyle hit from anybody.
I don't think there's much more I can say. If a freestyle artist, or at least an artist that produces a freestyle hit is delivered by American Idol, that would just be too much, but that possibility NOW EXISTS.
SUMMER IS COMING....................just imagine how it will sound by SPRING
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Also Written January 2007..
Also, I want to mention the fact that Stevie B. thought of the idea to team up with a POPULAR TOP40/RHYTHMIC artist and RE-DO "spring love", WITHOUT EVEN MODERNIZING MANY ELEMENTS OF THE SONG ITSELF and even recieve radio play! So why aren't others concidering or thinking of this? Oh - and by the way, this issue in itself brings up so many different issues - there are so many ways I could go with this...... but I'm not even going to get too deep into this right now - I'll just add the fact that he teamed up with PITBULL, who not only does extremely well in TOP 40, URBAN, AND RHYTHMIC charts, but also top 40 LATIN, possibly even CARIBBEAN, and OTHER international charts as well. Now, THAT was a VERY, VERY VERY, VERY SMART IDEA to team up with such a person, who's WELL KNOWN in a VARIETY of areas!!!!!! Now, the only thing we need next is for them to produce something BRAND NEW together, become successful, THEN see where that goes! Many (new) unknown artists these days are using popular people to do hooks within their songs to help add acceptance and publicity to what they are doing............
Do you remember back when "oye mi canto" by Nore and Nina Sky first came out? Do you remember how much reggaeton was known and played before this song hit? Do you notice how many people that never knew much or cared much for reggaeton back then, do NOW? Did you notice that things changed DRAMATICALLY after Nore tried something different AND became successful with it?
He opened the doors for many other reggaeton artists mainstreamwise, and I've noticed how ever since this one little song "oye mi canto", abruptly, reggaeton stations started popping up NATIONWIDE, reggaeton radio syndicated programs also started popping up as well, in addition to the fact that even BET and MTV greatly increased their acceptance to reggaeton music and artists, and not to forget, when you listen to back in the day/old school hip hop mixes and programs, no reggaeton is heard in it. Do you think it will be the same for your kids that are just turning 1 or 2 today, when they grow up and listen to their old school/back in the day programs?
I'm just saying that if this has and can happen with reggaeton, then this could also happen again, at anytime with any genre of music, including bass and freestyle. People can predict what may happen, but in reality no one really knows for sure what may happen. It could be that Ciara or Missy decides to create another uptempo song, but this time, include the use of an electro sound with it on her next album, it becomes a hit and bam! everyone thinks it's hot and others begin to copy this style.
I remember how hip hop used to always use these simple, predictable, sway back and fourth beats. Then Timbaland creates that beat that he used for "one in a million" by Aaliyah. Within about six months after this happening, almost EVERY hip hop, r&b, AND pop artists started changing up their beats. Destiny's Child did it. TLC did it, 702 did it as well, even P.Y.T. and Spice Girls tried to use those "futuristic" sounding beats that Timbaland and Missy started using around 1996-1997. I think the official start of this was with Ginuwine's "pony", but the beats didn't really get creative until "one in a million" by Aaliyah hit the airwaves, and I still remember how back in high school, when this happened, almost EVERYBODY in my classes and throughout this Atlanta high school, was shocked about this song. People would line up down the hallways or crowd around desks and take turns trying to do the beat on a wall or desk with their hands while someone rapped, but it took people a good few weeks to imitate this style and get it right........ That was original, until later on others started imitating and changing the beat into their own style, which is when you started hearing "bills bills bills' by Destiny's Child, "silly ho" by T.L.C.,......etc. And this continued for a few years, until somehow that style of using those futuristic sounding beats died and we've went back to those simple, typical hip hop beats once again.
So bottom line, you never know what may happen. These faster beats could open the doors for booty bass and freestyle to pop up once again on U.S. mainstream airwaves, similar to how Sean Paul's "just gimmie da light" opened up the doorways for other reggae artists, such as Kevin Lyttle, Lumi Dee, and others that started popping up on top 40/rhythmic radio AFTER Sean paul'success.... And just like Nore & Nina Sky with the reggaeton situation,
OR:
It may be like the beats Timbaland and Missy used to produce back in the late 90's and early 2000's - it will come, do things for a while, then dissappear..... or maybe I should used the example of Spice Girls.....They were original. Shortly after, all these other 5 people groups pop up. Nsync and Backstreet Boys do best at taking that idea and making it their own style. Then there is Five, Take 5, and all these other 5 people groups that I've forgotten - ONE started it, became succesful, and opened the doors for this style....but it all died after a while...
Then there is outkast, which they have lived up to their name, because neither did they die, or is anyone copying their style.....other than the people associated in their group...
But I prefer to remain optimistic, and believe that what's going on now has very strong possibility of bringing bass and freestyle back to acceptance, even at the SLIGHTEST degree, and even if it only causes ONE new freestyle song to pop up successfully and no more. But as far as I see things, I think Timbaland and Missy's clever idea to come up with those creative beats really did much to bridge a lot of pop and r&b together, because it was when this happened, many pop artists started sounding more r&b with those beats, and more r&b artists started sounding pop as well of course, because if it goes one way, then it must go the other. In addition to this, hip hop artists were also using these beats, and it seems like ever since then, pop r&b and hip hop has taken over the rhythmic/top 40 airwaves so much that the equality of hearing alternative in there as well has diminished. It used to be pretty much variety - maybe a pop song, then an r&b song, then alternative, then dance, then some of that latin pop (like around the time Marc Anthony, Inreque Iglesias, Ricky Martin and other similar artists started popping up...)....alternative again, pop, hip hop, alternative, dance, alternative....and so on. Nowadays, it's more like this: 2 hip hop songs, or 1 r&b then 1 hip hop, then alternative, another r&b, pop, r&b, alternative, r&b, r&b, pop, alternative, hip hop, reggaeton, pop, r&b, alternative..... You'll even notice this on TRL!
For a while, I did believe that Rihanna would start something with her song "s.o.s." but, I was WRONG! The only other thing I heard similar to this was "man eater" by Nelly Furtado and nothing more, so even though I may have strong foundations to place my predictions and theories on, even I can't 100% surely and accurately predict what may or may not or never will happen in music, just like scientists still cannot predict Earthquakes, or always accurately predict Monsoons, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, and other similar events, but they can make predictions, based on observations, patterns, and following the direction in which things seem to be going at the time. I would rather say that Booty Bass and Freestyle was in the process of making a comeback, but this would have discluded other songs using something similar to a house beat, souch as "sos", "man eater", and "sexy back", so to include all, while still using the simplest term possible that EVERYBODY or MOST could understand, I just said "DANCE".
Maybe for some people, these new faster songs of today are not good enough, but as for me, I'm not just into freestyle, my main passion and favorate sound when it comes to music are things that are bass and freestyle, or things that sound SIMILAR to this, so for me, I get excited for this reason, and for those of you that have heard my mixes, you know exactly what i'm talking about. I like that sound. I like the up-tempo melody. Even in dirty south - bounce music, such as "shut up" by trick Daddy, "what's your fantasy" by Ludacris, and "like a pimp" by David banner, or maybe even "my love" by Justin or "la cucaracha" (dj laz remix) by Kumbia Kings, those songs have beats that go HALF THE SPEED of "dance" music, but the tempo arrangement still matches with dance, and the bpm's of that and booty bass, and house and trance and freestyle and 2step garage could all be mixed together, and for some reason, I'm just fascinated with and have a love for that style and sound. I may be loosing or confusing some people at this point, but if you have a song that's HALF the speed of a dance song and you want to find out what up-tempo song would match perfectly, or near perfectly with it, just take the bpm and multiply it by the number 2. I discovered that this works with Dirty South (bounce beats) hip hop, Drum & Bass & hip hop or alternative, pop, light rock, r&b,....etc.
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Recently Written (April 2008) on a U.K. Garage Music Forum:
Well, I noticed that everything with a breakbeat or fast beat died around the same time. Here in the U.S, booty bass, house, and freestyle all died in the early 2000's. Hip hop took over. But now in R&B and Hip Hop, they are starting to use faster beats and crossing over to pop, so it seems like saying "dance music died" is now a thing of the past because it's coming back. They are even allowing real dance music back on 104.7 KissFM here and there's a lot of bass remixes on 101.5 JamZ being played. It's not like the Booty Bass that was big in Miami and Atlanta, but it's now bass hits with a lot of elements from electronica, freestyle, and breakbeats put into these bass remixes of today. It seems lke things are changing, and I notice a lot of changes always have something to do with Missy and Timbaland these days. Missy released "1,2 step" and "lose control", and ever since then, people here have been using faster beats once again now that they see that someone else did it and became successful. Before dance music died, Timbaland and Missy introduced a new sound around 1996-1997, and shortly after everyone was copying that style, even some dance and booty bass artists. I think this is mainly the blame for what happened to booty bass and much dance. People became more interested in these slower beats with an fast, but unique rhythmic pattern, and this was the direction music started heading for a while. Instead of using the fasts beats typically heard in dance music, they just cut the speed in half by rearranging beats to make the new "dirty south" sound, which used a lot of Timbaland's style in the late ninety's, early 2000's. A lot of pop artists started moving towards that new r&b sound, as dance artists started moving towards a pop sound. Then we had Nsync, Backstreet Boys....etc who all combined that pop and r&b style, and hip hop also started using that style as well. Then few years later came the next sound with Usher's "yeah" produced by Lil Jon, which was the new direction dirty south music and music in general was going for a while before Missy and Timbaland changed the whole scene again recently by using faster electronic sounding beats. Now it seems like Timbaland and Missy are interested in electronic beats. If it wasn't for Timbaland and Justin's "sexy back", a lot of these new electronic sounds, such as "gimmie more" by Britney, "the way I are" by Nicole S, "feedback" by Janet Jackson would've never came about when they did.
There are artists like Dizzee Rascal who use the early 2000's "dirty south" style of beats and sound, but also throw in a lot of electronic elements as well that seperate his style and make it unique. Craig David used some of the "dirty south" elements in parts of "fill me in", and I noticed some of it in 2 step as well, with those songs that are half slow, half fast.
Right now (in the U.S.), I have to say that hip hop is in a state of change, and something new is bound to happen in music. We are going in a new direction. New dance stations are beggining to pop up again, and more stations are starting to give attention to house, breaks, and trance once again. I cannot believe the amount of dance music being mixed in mix shows now! Very soon David Guetta will be being played here as a regular song!
So far, we still have no bassline and I'm sure almost nobody would know what it is if I spoke about it, but all it takes is for one person to do so well and cross over to the U.S. charts before it starts picking up. If reggaeton could make it so big all because one famous rapper tried it and became successful, then I'm sure it could happen with bassline here as well. Right now, electro house seems to be the next faze in dance music here, along with pop/r&b dance.
Flo-Rida will probably bring back the booty bass, and Pitbull will keep the latin house going.
As of right now, I think someone could do a 2 Step or Garage record, or even a house record and make it big here in the U.S, but so far it seems that everyone here is still afraid to try it, so we need someone fro outside the U.S. to "break the rules" and change things up here. It happened with reggaeton - half of the music here was spanish for a while when that went big... so I'm sure it could also happen with Garage and 2 step as well.
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Written on a Dj Forum, March 2008:
Anything that resembles booty bass, breakz, freestyle, or even mainstream house today will be called pop because people today do not know what dance music really is anymore. Pro Nails instrumental by itself really isn't pop, but with the rap vocals added in and the way the rapping was done converts the entire production into pop. Most of the r&b and hip hop these days can also very easily fall into the pop category because ever since Timbaland came out with his "futuristic" sounding beats back in the late ninety's and everyone started to copy and imitate, r&b, pop, and hip hop began to really start fusing together. R&B was the first to have that "futuristic" sound, with "one in a million" by Aaliyah, then a few months later when people "figured out" how to create those beats, almost everyone started copying and imitating this new sound, making minor differences and changes to make their own style. T.L.C, 702, and plenty of other artists, including pop artists like Christina Aguilera and others were doing it, even on the second Spice Girls album it was heard. (This is most likely where The Neptunes got many of their new ideas as well.) This just happened to be around the time when Ricky Martin opened the doors for the latin pop craze, (that followed shortly after the Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Five....etc) where you heard Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony...etc - who were also using those beats as well. Because people were more interested in these slower beats (that also created a new sound for dirty south "bounce" music), more people started going this direction, creating beats at a bpm half the speed of dance and booty bass music, and this was when the dance music was at it's very begining stages of dying.... We had Trick Daddy "no na'an", "shut up"..etc. "Big Pimpin" by Jay - Z..."is that your chick" - Memphis Bleek.....all kinds of people using that half dance speed bpm, including Drama, Miracle, and Pastor Troy... Then we had these artists that kept the rhythmic bass sound, while still also using the "new r&b sound" which resulted in songs that were half fast, half slow, such as "give it to you" by Jordan Knight, "don't think I'm not" by Khandi, "I like it" by Sammie, and even "Swing my way" by KP&NV...etc. I guess Inoj also had a couple songs like that too...
Flash forward a few years later:
The futuristic sound manages to last a bit, and even in the U.K. you can see how they loved this sound, when Craig David kind of uses it in "fill me in" while still using a 2step Garage beat. This sound Timbaland and Missy had started even changes the way 2step garage in the U.K. would sound.....
Flash forward again, and notice how dance did die, however these futuristic beats did as well, to make room for a more simplified beats, such as the one heard in "yeah" by Usher, "freek a leek" by Petey Pablo, "goodies" by Ciara...etc which was strange, because you'd wonder why instead of getting more creative,different, and complicated with beats, we'd go back to the easy, more simple beats that are so easy for anyone to make or do. For a while, this was once again the next new sound that people jumped on, that Lil Jon sound, which was where the music once again very slowly started speeding up. It was normally between 100 and 106 bpm. This redefined the sound of "dirty south crunk" music once again. Shortly after (give or take a few years/months) 1,2 STEP HITS....
We see that Missy is ready to change things again.... Then if that wasn't noticeable enough, we hit "LOSE CONTROL". Ironically, Lil Jon continues with his beats, but just speeds it up a little with the "My humps" remix. This is when it was pretty evident that people were going to start and continue to speed up to the point dance music or dance-like hits would return to mainstream radio, and it would no longer just be "Toxic" by Britney being the only fast song (with Collipark remix of Slow jamz by Jamie Foxx...)
One by one - Justin Timberlake f/ Timbaland - "sexy back", Nelly Furtado "man eater" / Christina Aguilera "ain't no other man" / LL Cool J "control myself" / RIHANNA "S.O.S"! / Ciara "GET UP!!" Fergie...Pussycat Dolls.................EVEN HILARY DUFF!!!!! ..etc. The people deciding to use faster, more electronic beats start popping up, changing the norm for the average bpm on mainstream radio, forcing dj's to have to find other stuff at a faster speed to mix, resulting in a bit more old school bass hits (such as Ghosttown Dj's..etc) to be brough back in to mixshows, encouraging dance hits to come back to mainstream radio mixshows.
NOW, It's official. The beats have sped up, dance is just about officially back, (despite the lack of Madonna's last album not getting much play) and an incredible amount of people are using the electronic sounding fast beats!! I guess we could say that Timbaland and Missy changed the sound of music, and just as people were getting used to that style, they came back and changed it up again!
I doubt that if it wasn't for "sexy back", a lot of this stuff like "gimmie more" Britney, "the way I are" Nicole S., "feedback" Janet , "drop" Ying Yang Twins, "go girl" Pitbull....etc. probably would've not popped up at the time they did. If it weren't for "Lose Control", "fergalicious", "get it shawty", "PRO NAILS", "boyfriend girlfriend"...etc probably wouldn't have surfaced now either...and I doubt that if 1,2 step were not successful, they would have never gone as far as "lose control".
Maybe it will never be back to the sound of Real McCoy, La Bouche, Scatman John, No Mercy, Amber, and them, but the new sound of dance may have arrived, more on the breakbeat/freestyle side. Maybe Jocelyn Enriquez, Angelina, Lina Santiago, Lil Suzy, Rockell, Jossette, Planet Soul style of dance and the bay area sound of freestyle may not be what's big today, but just wait until someone decides to throw in an electro sound along with the new uptempo sounding beats of pop and r&b today. It may be the new sound of freestyle dance. We are at the point where ANYTHING COULD EASILY HAPPEN and it will only take one small thing to change the sound of music once again. Rock and Roll had it's big break. Disco had it's big break. Blues Had it's time. The boy band/5 people group pop sound had it's little time. Now HIP HOP is at it's peak. What will be next? These changes might be a clue to what's to come.
WHATEVER IS TO COME WILL INDEED BE INTERESTING.
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I did forget to mention when Pitbull and Nina Sky hit the scene, but..... that's a different story. The Reggaeton craze caused quite a bit of things to change...Notice MTV has more latino catering music shows. Notice the rise of Subelo Reggaeton and Daddy Yankee show... Notice the amount of Reggaeton stations and top 40 spanish stations that popped up as a result........etc. It was neat to see this happened a little after Sean Paul popped in with the dancehall reggae, then Kevin Lyttle, and all of them popped up..
ONE thing can make a BIG difference in music, and you never know when that one thing may pop up and change the sound....
Just 3 or 4 years ago today, "Pro Nails" would have NEVER had a chance if it were created exactly the way it was today. 9 or 10 years ago, it would be a BIG hit in the Booty Bass/Dance and even hip hop music category. Today though, things have changed, so it's pop (But in reality, contains every element that the songs that helped in the creation of hip hop had. It's almost a combination of the late nineties dirty south bounce style, with the screwed up vocals in the chorus, with Planet Rock elements all combined, with a semi-old school style of rapping. A lot of history has been put into that song.) Oh - and it's half fast, half slow too.
Ten years from now, just wait and see what your old school at noon will sound like on your HD RADIO.....well, maybe not always at noon anymore because satellite and internet radio cover too many time zones...but when all the new old school hip hop stations start popping up, featuring the best of the 90's 00's and today, Lite Hip hop (Just like lite rock), oldies hip hop....etc. You will notice some things when you listen back to today.....
22.07.2008 · 04:43
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22.07.2008 · 04:48
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American Rhythmic/Top 40 and Dance Music Radio
Despite the fact that top 40/rhythmic and urban music are using faster beats these days, I still miss how it sounded 1997-2004. Not only do I miss the Jocelyn Enriquez, Adriana, Angelina, Lina Santiago, Lil Suzy, Jossette, Planet Soul sound, but I also miss the Timbaland and Missy sound from those days as well. I still don't understand how we've advanced backwards from creative and complicated beats in r&b, pop, and hip hop, back to the simple "sway" beats, and I was hoping that "kiss kiss" would at least re-jump start that trend, but no one jumped on it or even tried to imitate it. All the slow tempo songs, with BPM's from 60 - 75 are all slow simple boring beats now, as oppose to what you used to hear with "shut up" by Trick Daddy, "I can't stand the rain" by Missy Elliott, "big pimpin" or "Jigga what" by Jay-Z, "silly ho" by TLC...etc. Those were the days I loved. Music may be faster now, but there is just some things about it that don't compare to the songs that came out 10 years ago, and back then we already had faster stuff along with the "futuristic" sounding timbaland and missy sound everyone jumped on, so that made it even better. I wonder how long it's going to take before someone combines today's new sound of r&b with the old school electronic sound of bay area freestyle? And what exactly is this new sound anyway because it's not booty music or freestyle music.
I wonder if the bay area sound from the late ninety's could ever return? I heard "set u free 2008" yesterday and it just reminded me of how much I loved it and how I felt about that style of music when it was getting attention. Could it be brought back before this dance music comeback phase ends, like people like to tell me will happen soon? I really would like to see where we are in music by 2012 and how it sounds. Back when Total, Missy, and all of them were out, I couldn't imagine that sound becoming old school, and now it is, and I'm just now noticing how it faded away, right back into the simple (boring) beats we've come back to today. If you think Lil Wayne "Lollipop" is hot now, imagine what kind of beat they would've given it 10 years ago! Imagine Usher's "Love in the club" 10 years ago!
I did notice how Lil Jon really simplified things with his very simple beats, and that was the sound that took over for a while, while timbaland and missy were just about to bounce back with a new sound. Everything kind of sounded like "yeah" by Usher or Freek-a-leek by Petey for a while, then it was the whole "snap yo fingaz" and "it's going down" sound, and eventually "cyclone" with Baby Bash. This was around the time the "futuristic sound" died off, but I was too distracted by the electronic elements and music speeding back up that I didn't notice what was happening to the slower r&b and hip hop songs. The last slightness of that sound if I remember correctly popped up in Justin Timberlake's "what goes around comes around" near the end of the song. "My love" didn't even have any futuristic beat arrangements, but it easily could've been done to that song. Even the Neptunes went back to simplicity. Why? Imagine that sound of r&b music from 1997-2005 being used today, along with the talk box and even the combination of faster beats doubletimed. Near the end of "damaged" by Danity Kane and "closer" by Ne-yo, it was slightly done as well. When you really think of it, the beat arrangements we are using today in hip hop, r&b and pop don't really differ from what we hear in old school music, '95 and before. How did we lose that "futuristic sound that all kicked off with Aaliyah's "one in a million"? Who knew from the time "Pony" by Ginuwine was released that this was just a slight preview of what was eventually going to come next? If Aaliyah were still around today, what type of beats would she be singing over now? I could only imagine...
People in the U.K. who love and produced 2 Step also loved and talked much about the U.S. style of r&b, referring back to the days of Timbaland and Missy's older sound, especially in biographies about the history and evolution of 2 Step. That style Missy and Timbaland had going for a while did play a big role in the evolution of U.K. Garage and 2 Step because despite the differences between 2 Step and R&B music, the arrangements of the beats were very similar in how they were done. 702 had a hit called "you don't know" which I never even realized how 2 step it was until I heard it on Subjam 104.7 from London. I guess the beats speeding up these days can contribute to what's helping 2 Step pop back up a bit in the U.K. right now, but I don't think it will ever be the same without that timbaland and missy style r&b influence. I think it's mostly Bassline that's keeping things alive in the 2 Step community in London right now, and the acceptance of faster music once again on the charts helps too, but as far as another hit like "gotta get through this" by Daniel Bedingfield or "fill me in" by Craig David, could it happen again? Could we even get a Bassline hit to be so big that it crosses over itno the U.S. and changes the music sound again? We've got so many artists like Leona Lewis, One Republic, Estelle...etc out there making hits and blowing up in the U.S. Does this mean it's only a matter of time before Bassline pops up and could this be what replaces booty bass? Or could Bassline just be the next phase like Reggaeton was just 3 to 4 years back?
Will the Bay Area style of freestyle ever resurface with today's elements of r&b, electronic and breakbeat music mixed in?
Will dance music just come back and die all over again? ...Is anyone even going to call it dance again... or will everything only be known as r&b, hip hop, alternative, Jazz and Country and rock for now on, with anything else remaining being called pop??
Will a new genre eventually pop up, and are we currently in the makings of something new to come?
I'd really like to see how the evolution of music will sound within the next five years...
Despite the fact that top 40/rhythmic and urban music are using faster beats these days, I still miss how it sounded 1997-2004. Not only do I miss the Jocelyn Enriquez, Adriana, Angelina, Lina Santiago, Lil Suzy, Jossette, Planet Soul sound, but I also miss the Timbaland and Missy sound from those days as well. I still don't understand how we've advanced backwards from creative and complicated beats in r&b, pop, and hip hop, back to the simple "sway" beats, and I was hoping that "kiss kiss" would at least re-jump start that trend, but no one jumped on it or even tried to imitate it. All the slow tempo songs, with BPM's from 60 - 75 are all slow simple boring beats now, as oppose to what you used to hear with "shut up" by Trick Daddy, "I can't stand the rain" by Missy Elliott, "big pimpin" or "Jigga what" by Jay-Z, "silly ho" by TLC...etc. Those were the days I loved. Music may be faster now, but there is just some things about it that don't compare to the songs that came out 10 years ago, and back then we already had faster stuff along with the "futuristic" sounding timbaland and missy sound everyone jumped on, so that made it even better. I wonder how long it's going to take before someone combines today's new sound of r&b with the old school electronic sound of bay area freestyle? And what exactly is this new sound anyway because it's not booty music or freestyle music.
I wonder if the bay area sound from the late ninety's could ever return? I heard "set u free 2008" yesterday and it just reminded me of how much I loved it and how I felt about that style of music when it was getting attention. Could it be brought back before this dance music comeback phase ends, like people like to tell me will happen soon? I really would like to see where we are in music by 2012 and how it sounds. Back when Total, Missy, and all of them were out, I couldn't imagine that sound becoming old school, and now it is, and I'm just now noticing how it faded away, right back into the simple (boring) beats we've come back to today. If you think Lil Wayne "Lollipop" is hot now, imagine what kind of beat they would've given it 10 years ago! Imagine Usher's "Love in the club" 10 years ago!
I did notice how Lil Jon really simplified things with his very simple beats, and that was the sound that took over for a while, while timbaland and missy were just about to bounce back with a new sound. Everything kind of sounded like "yeah" by Usher or Freek-a-leek by Petey for a while, then it was the whole "snap yo fingaz" and "it's going down" sound, and eventually "cyclone" with Baby Bash. This was around the time the "futuristic sound" died off, but I was too distracted by the electronic elements and music speeding back up that I didn't notice what was happening to the slower r&b and hip hop songs. The last slightness of that sound if I remember correctly popped up in Justin Timberlake's "what goes around comes around" near the end of the song. "My love" didn't even have any futuristic beat arrangements, but it easily could've been done to that song. Even the Neptunes went back to simplicity. Why? Imagine that sound of r&b music from 1997-2005 being used today, along with the talk box and even the combination of faster beats doubletimed. Near the end of "damaged" by Danity Kane and "closer" by Ne-yo, it was slightly done as well. When you really think of it, the beat arrangements we are using today in hip hop, r&b and pop don't really differ from what we hear in old school music, '95 and before. How did we lose that "futuristic sound that all kicked off with Aaliyah's "one in a million"? Who knew from the time "Pony" by Ginuwine was released that this was just a slight preview of what was eventually going to come next? If Aaliyah were still around today, what type of beats would she be singing over now? I could only imagine...
People in the U.K. who love and produced 2 Step also loved and talked much about the U.S. style of r&b, referring back to the days of Timbaland and Missy's older sound, especially in biographies about the history and evolution of 2 Step. That style Missy and Timbaland had going for a while did play a big role in the evolution of U.K. Garage and 2 Step because despite the differences between 2 Step and R&B music, the arrangements of the beats were very similar in how they were done. 702 had a hit called "you don't know" which I never even realized how 2 step it was until I heard it on Subjam 104.7 from London. I guess the beats speeding up these days can contribute to what's helping 2 Step pop back up a bit in the U.K. right now, but I don't think it will ever be the same without that timbaland and missy style r&b influence. I think it's mostly Bassline that's keeping things alive in the 2 Step community in London right now, and the acceptance of faster music once again on the charts helps too, but as far as another hit like "gotta get through this" by Daniel Bedingfield or "fill me in" by Craig David, could it happen again? Could we even get a Bassline hit to be so big that it crosses over itno the U.S. and changes the music sound again? We've got so many artists like Leona Lewis, One Republic, Estelle...etc out there making hits and blowing up in the U.S. Does this mean it's only a matter of time before Bassline pops up and could this be what replaces booty bass? Or could Bassline just be the next phase like Reggaeton was just 3 to 4 years back?
Will the Bay Area style of freestyle ever resurface with today's elements of r&b, electronic and breakbeat music mixed in?
Will dance music just come back and die all over again? ...Is anyone even going to call it dance again... or will everything only be known as r&b, hip hop, alternative, Jazz and Country and rock for now on, with anything else remaining being called pop??
Will a new genre eventually pop up, and are we currently in the makings of something new to come?
I'd really like to see how the evolution of music will sound within the next five years...
22.07.2008 · 05:24
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Myspace Url Links 2 Freestyle Artist's & more... (September 2007)
(Some links may no longer be active since I haven't updated this since summer 2007. Mostly freestyle artists, few house and pop artists included and personal favorites such as Kylie Minogue and Amber...etc.)
Inoj- www.myspace.com/inojmusic
KromOzone Project- www.myspace.com/kromozone
Mon A Q- www.myspace.com/monaqmusic
Jennifer Glass- www.myspace.com/jenniferglassmusic
Miles Petty- www.myspace.com/milespetty
KDM7000- www.myspace.com/djkdm
Flipzide Productions- www.myspace.com/flipzideproductions
Serenity- www.myspace.com/serenitytears
Roel- www.myspace.com/roell2377
Rebekka- www.myspace.com/rebekkafreestyle
Giani- www.myspace.com/freestylegiani
Wendy- www.myspace.com/wendyscanlan
Willie Eye 2 Eye- www.myspace.com/innofuzionfreestyle
Maritza- www.myspace.com/maritza44
Angel Moreno- www.myspace.com/angel_moreno
Leo De Leon- www.myspace.com/leodeleon
Joe Zangie- www.myspace.com/joezangie
Thiago Derucio- www.myspace.com/thiagoderucio
Jonelle- www.myspace.com/freestylejonelle
Jessica Marie- www.myspace.com/jessicamarie
George Lamond- www.myspace.com/georgelamond
Phillip Anthony- www.myspace.com/phillipanthony
M:G- www.myspace.com/mg247
EVA aka Evasoul- www.myspace.com/evasoul
Daize- www.myspace.com/daize
Rockell- www.myspace.com/rocmanagementllp
Nu Image- www.myspace.com/nuimageworld
Damian Wild- www.myspace.com/damianwild
Elissa- www.myspace.com/elissamusic
Aby- www.myspace.com/aby1
George Acosta- www.myspace.com/georgeacosta
Vocal Image- www.myspace.com/vocalimage
Amber- www.myspace.com/ambersings
Lovari- www.myspace.com/lovari
Timebomb- www.myspace.com/breakdabeat
Kylie Minogue- www.myspace.com/ultimatekylie
Chris Diaz- www.myspace.com/chrisdiaz
Felix- www.myspace.com/ffelixonmyspace
Jocelyn Enriquez- www.myspace.com/jocelynmusic
Nadia Ali- www.myspace.com/nadiaali
Ashley- www.myspace.com/ladivaborinqua
Stevie B- www.myspace.com/steviebmusic
Caleb B- www.myspace.com/trance4minent
Mari P- www.myspace.com/uniqueelementz
Amber- www.myspace.com/ambersings
Angelino- www.myspace.com/angelinosanantonio05
Cheree- www.myspace.com/chereeh
Artie & Legit- www.myspace.com/artieandlegit
Manny- www.myspace.com/mannystylez
Latin Nation- www.myspace.com/latinnation
Vanessa Valentin- www.myspace.com/vanessavalentin
Denine- www.myspace.com/deninemusic
Latin Rascall- www.myspace.com/latinrascall
Nyasia- www.myspace.com/nyasiamusic
Erotic Exotic- www.myspace.com/eroticexotic
Pure Trend- www.myspace.com/puretrend
Cynthia- www.myspace.com/cynthiafans'
Judy Torres- www.myspace.com/judytorres
Seduction- www.myspace.com/seductiongroup
Chrissy IEECE- www.myspace.com/chrissyieece
Lil' Suzy- www.myspace.com/lilsuzysparadise
Expose- www.myspace.com/0expose0
Nina Martinez- www.myspace.com/ninamartinez
Nick Colon- www.myspace.com/nickcolon1
IIO- www.myspace.com/iio
Pain- www.myspace.com/painmusic
Connie- www.myspace.com/consuelopiriz
Laura- www.myspace.com/lauravescio
Zoe- www.myspace.com/zoefanclub
Brandon- www.myspace.com/brandonsmusicworld
K7 & TKA- www.myspace.com/kayseven
Sonique- www.myspace.com/soniqueuk
Planet Patrol- www.myspace.com/planetpatrol
Onnie- www.myspace.com/onnieschvelez
Egyptian Lover- www.myspace.com/therealegyptianlover
Trinere- www.myspace.com/trinereandfriends
Dannii Minogue- www.myspace.com/danniimusic
DHT- www.myspace.com/dhtfeaturingedmee
TKA- www.myspace.com/tka7
Alisha- www.myspace.com/allnightpassion
Will To Power- www.myspace.com/willtopowermusic
Tony Moran- www.myspace.com/djtonymoran
Debbie Deb- www.myspace.com/debedeb1
Coro- www.myspace.com/freestylecoro
Genuine Parts- www.myspace.com/genuineparts
Korell- www.myspace.com/korell2006
Shana- www.myspace.com/shanapetrone
Linear- www.myspace.com/linearband
Collage- www.myspace.com/freestylecollage
Lissette Melendez- www.myspace.com/lisettemelendez
Joey Kid- www.myspace.com/joeykidjk
Rochell- www.myspace.com/64575361
Tina Arena- www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomtinaarena
Freeze- www.myspace.com/66625650
Troy Guy- www.myspace.com/troyguy29
Angel- www.myspace.com/angeltheoriginalcovergirl
Dino- www.myspace.com/dinoboy06
In Order- www.myspace.com/inorderproductions
Clear Touch- www.myspace.com/cleartouchmusic
Synthia Figueroa- www.myspace.com/synthiafigueroa
Ian Iyce- www.myspace.com/ianiyce
Betty Dee- www.myspace.com/kittylovejoy
Corina- www.myspace.com/corinakattayala
Pure Pleazure- www.myspace.com/purepleazuremusic
Willie Valentin- www.myspace.comwillievalentinfreestyle
Kelly Moneymaker- www.myspace.com/kellymoneymakermusic
Yvette- www.myspace.com/dollyleon
Buffy- www.myspace.com/buffyque
Johnny O- www.myspace.com/freestylejohnnyo
Bernardo- www.myspace.com/bernardospinninghard
Pajama Party- www.myspace.com/pajamapartymusic
kdm 7000 - www.myspace.com/djkdm
kdm 7000 International - www.myspace.com/7000express
(Some links may no longer be active since I haven't updated this since summer 2007. Mostly freestyle artists, few house and pop artists included and personal favorites such as Kylie Minogue and Amber...etc.)
Inoj- www.myspace.com/inojmusic
KromOzone Project- www.myspace.com/kromozone
Mon A Q- www.myspace.com/monaqmusic
Jennifer Glass- www.myspace.com/jenniferglassmusic
Miles Petty- www.myspace.com/milespetty
KDM7000- www.myspace.com/djkdm
Flipzide Productions- www.myspace.com/flipzideproductions
Serenity- www.myspace.com/serenitytears
Roel- www.myspace.com/roell2377
Rebekka- www.myspace.com/rebekkafreestyle
Giani- www.myspace.com/freestylegiani
Wendy- www.myspace.com/wendyscanlan
Willie Eye 2 Eye- www.myspace.com/innofuzionfreestyle
Maritza- www.myspace.com/maritza44
Angel Moreno- www.myspace.com/angel_moreno
Leo De Leon- www.myspace.com/leodeleon
Joe Zangie- www.myspace.com/joezangie
Thiago Derucio- www.myspace.com/thiagoderucio
Jonelle- www.myspace.com/freestylejonelle
Jessica Marie- www.myspace.com/jessicamarie
George Lamond- www.myspace.com/georgelamond
Phillip Anthony- www.myspace.com/phillipanthony
M:G- www.myspace.com/mg247
EVA aka Evasoul- www.myspace.com/evasoul
Daize- www.myspace.com/daize
Rockell- www.myspace.com/rocmanagementllp
Nu Image- www.myspace.com/nuimageworld
Damian Wild- www.myspace.com/damianwild
Elissa- www.myspace.com/elissamusic
Aby- www.myspace.com/aby1
George Acosta- www.myspace.com/georgeacosta
Vocal Image- www.myspace.com/vocalimage
Amber- www.myspace.com/ambersings
Lovari- www.myspace.com/lovari
Timebomb- www.myspace.com/breakdabeat
Kylie Minogue- www.myspace.com/ultimatekylie
Chris Diaz- www.myspace.com/chrisdiaz
Felix- www.myspace.com/ffelixonmyspace
Jocelyn Enriquez- www.myspace.com/jocelynmusic
Nadia Ali- www.myspace.com/nadiaali
Ashley- www.myspace.com/ladivaborinqua
Stevie B- www.myspace.com/steviebmusic
Caleb B- www.myspace.com/trance4minent
Mari P- www.myspace.com/uniqueelementz
Amber- www.myspace.com/ambersings
Angelino- www.myspace.com/angelinosanantonio05
Cheree- www.myspace.com/chereeh
Artie & Legit- www.myspace.com/artieandlegit
Manny- www.myspace.com/mannystylez
Latin Nation- www.myspace.com/latinnation
Vanessa Valentin- www.myspace.com/vanessavalentin
Denine- www.myspace.com/deninemusic
Latin Rascall- www.myspace.com/latinrascall
Nyasia- www.myspace.com/nyasiamusic
Erotic Exotic- www.myspace.com/eroticexotic
Pure Trend- www.myspace.com/puretrend
Cynthia- www.myspace.com/cynthiafans'
Judy Torres- www.myspace.com/judytorres
Seduction- www.myspace.com/seductiongroup
Chrissy IEECE- www.myspace.com/chrissyieece
Lil' Suzy- www.myspace.com/lilsuzysparadise
Expose- www.myspace.com/0expose0
Nina Martinez- www.myspace.com/ninamartinez
Nick Colon- www.myspace.com/nickcolon1
IIO- www.myspace.com/iio
Pain- www.myspace.com/painmusic
Connie- www.myspace.com/consuelopiriz
Laura- www.myspace.com/lauravescio
Zoe- www.myspace.com/zoefanclub
Brandon- www.myspace.com/brandonsmusicworld
K7 & TKA- www.myspace.com/kayseven
Sonique- www.myspace.com/soniqueuk
Planet Patrol- www.myspace.com/planetpatrol
Onnie- www.myspace.com/onnieschvelez
Egyptian Lover- www.myspace.com/therealegyptianlover
Trinere- www.myspace.com/trinereandfriends
Dannii Minogue- www.myspace.com/danniimusic
DHT- www.myspace.com/dhtfeaturingedmee
TKA- www.myspace.com/tka7
Alisha- www.myspace.com/allnightpassion
Will To Power- www.myspace.com/willtopowermusic
Tony Moran- www.myspace.com/djtonymoran
Debbie Deb- www.myspace.com/debedeb1
Coro- www.myspace.com/freestylecoro
Genuine Parts- www.myspace.com/genuineparts
Korell- www.myspace.com/korell2006
Shana- www.myspace.com/shanapetrone
Linear- www.myspace.com/linearband
Collage- www.myspace.com/freestylecollage
Lissette Melendez- www.myspace.com/lisettemelendez
Joey Kid- www.myspace.com/joeykidjk
Rochell- www.myspace.com/64575361
Tina Arena- www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomtinaarena
Freeze- www.myspace.com/66625650
Troy Guy- www.myspace.com/troyguy29
Angel- www.myspace.com/angeltheoriginalcovergirl
Dino- www.myspace.com/dinoboy06
In Order- www.myspace.com/inorderproductions
Clear Touch- www.myspace.com/cleartouchmusic
Synthia Figueroa- www.myspace.com/synthiafigueroa
Ian Iyce- www.myspace.com/ianiyce
Betty Dee- www.myspace.com/kittylovejoy
Corina- www.myspace.com/corinakattayala
Pure Pleazure- www.myspace.com/purepleazuremusic
Willie Valentin- www.myspace.comwillievalentinfreestyle
Kelly Moneymaker- www.myspace.com/kellymoneymakermusic
Yvette- www.myspace.com/dollyleon
Buffy- www.myspace.com/buffyque
Johnny O- www.myspace.com/freestylejohnnyo
Bernardo- www.myspace.com/bernardospinninghard
Pajama Party- www.myspace.com/pajamapartymusic
kdm 7000 - www.myspace.com/djkdm
kdm 7000 International - www.myspace.com/7000express
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