fourfour: Freestyle, at last

Freeyourself

In an attempt to flood the Internet with the most crappity crap that ever crapped, here's some freestyle (and a twist of bass) for yo ass:

Free Your Booty (And Your Ass Will Follow)

Tina B - Honey to a Bee (Dub Version)
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Can You Feel the Beat (Slick Mix)
Freeez - I.O.U.
C-Bank - One More Shot
Sa-fire - Boy, I've Been Told (Rascal Dub)
Voyce - Within My Heart (Club Mix)
Jaya - If You Leave Me Now (Radio Mix)
Stevie B - In My Eyes (Radio Mix)
Chip E. - If You Only Knew (If You Dance Mix)
Lisette Melendez - Together Forever (New School Freestyle)
TKA - Maria (12" Vocal)
Cynthia & Johnny O - Dreamboy/Dreamgirl (Club Mix)
Lil Suzy - Take Me In Your Arms (Club Version)
Corina - Summertime Summertime (DJ Edit)
Ghost Town DJ's - My Boo
Destiny's Child - Say My Name (Daddy D Remix with Rap)
K.P. & Envyi - Swing My Way (Radio Version)
Luke - I Wanna Rock (Doo Doo Brown Version)
24-K - Don't Go There (Fredwreck's Extended Club Mix)
Miss Kittin featuring LA Williams - Requiem for a Hit (Requiem for a Buzz)

This mix is sorta the more trollish cousin of yesterday's Italo cheese-fest and the little brother of my 90's radio house mix from August. It isn't meant to be a comprehensive history of the genre (as though one disc could hold that much big hair, anyway). That said, there are plenty of classics, both old school (tracks 1-4 -- the direct electro off-shoots the barely initiated, cough Diplo, are referring to when they say "freestyle") and new (tracks 5-13 -- the maligned stuff that no one on Bedford will ever confuse for cool). It doesn't get much more essential than Stevie B. It doesn't get much more dramatic than Cynthia and Johnny O. It doesn't get much more tone deaf than Lil Suzy. Ah, freestyle. I love it like an ugly friend.

Instead of rounding out the disc with some new new school stuff (freestyle, lemme tell ya, ain't what it used to be), I closed out the mix with some Miami bass and Miami bass-inspired stuff, mostly of the lady bass variety. I think this whole thing is best appreciated in white capri pants and black slide sandals.

As usual, this was all mixed by hand from vinyl.

Notable tracks: Chip E's "If You Only Knew," in which one person, one time, wondered what freestyle made in Chicago would sound like (the answer: house!); Ghost Town DJ's "My Boo," which I want to be my gay wedding song; 24-K "Don't Go There," which seems to have been specifically and precisely tailored to my taste (a bunch of sassy little black girls screaming playground rhymes over stadium-sized beats? Yeah, that's me); and Stevie B's "In My Eyes" for its gorgeous lyrics. I seriously almost called this shit "Kiss Me In My Eyes" because of this track.

Oh, by the way -- you wish you were this hot:

Stevieb

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