Learning How to Party From the Party Masters

The Jersey Shore, Greasy Hair, Sunburned Skin, Bad Blonde Dye Jobs, Over-priced Over-crowded Clubs, and a whole lotta Stoli Raz, can only mean one thing:

PARTY!

And if we're talking Party, we gotta talk about the one genre of music that is dedicated solely to slamming yet trancey beats that force you to grind up on the nearest stranger and make-out with them in a MTV Spring Break induced haze. Yes, this is the embodiment of FREESTYLE MUSIC.

Freestyle is on its way back, and you betta reckagnize. DJs like Mark E. Moon and Musk's Area D have been trumping the scene with their freestyle throwbacks for years now, and now I've jumped on board the bandwagon as well. Although I bobbed and weaved to Snap back in junior high, I had no idea what to call that style of music, until last spring, when on a BigDigit/Plunge road trip back to Boston we were passing thru southern connecticut wherein Jef (er, mark e. moon, i mean) knew just what radio station to switch it to. You know when you go to bed, and it's pouring outside, and you fall asleep and then you wake up in the morning and it's like the craziest sunniest best day ever? Well, that hour or so listening to that station was kind of like that for me.

One of the more modern divas in the Freestyle game is Rockell (yes, even she has a myspace page!), who blew up on the scene in 1996 with her hit single "Fell in Love". I recently stumbled upon a digital a cappella of this track and so i tried it out over some more, um, modern beats.

Check it:

Rockell - "Fell in Love" (no.1's freeggaetonstyle mix)

and while you're at it, DL the newest Rockell track "Love" and give this freestyle sister her props!


-no.1

[no.1@bigdigits.com]