Latin Freestyle: New York/ Miami 1983-1992/ Var - Latin Freestyle: New York / Miami 1983-1992 / Various2023 collection. Latin Freestyle was a dizzying, passionate, ultra modern 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

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Bobby Womack - "The Poet II" Newly remastered from

Kuijken has a good one

syncopated rhythms and refined techniques of ornamentation

by way of a bonus

Helen Southern

are masters

as well as having a career that involved several visits to the US R&B charts

re-invigorate those tracks discovered by the sterling work of Bruce Bastin and Flyright some 35 years ago

renowned as a pioneering figure in country music for his performances of country-flavored songs in the western movies of the 1930s and '40s in which he starred

beautiful and emotional

award-winning movie actor and astute music publisher