LATIN FREESTYLE NEW YORK / MIAMI 1983 - 1992

Latin Freestyle was a dizzying, passionate, ultramodern music. It was the aural equivalent of a can of thirst-quenching Quatro or a Spanish Harlem
dance-off, and it became the electronically
constructed bridge between disco and house.
Freestyle grew out of the electro sound of the early
80s, combined clean staccato rhythms with morse
code synth hooks, and topped them off with
emotive, usually female, frequently Latina vocals.
There was plenty more going on besides: protohouse piano lines, Cuban percussion, high emotion and synth hooks to die for.
Put together and annotated by Bob Stanley (who
also compiled the acclaimed