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Freestyle music is a form of hip hop and electro which developed in the early 1980s.People like Afrika Bambaataa, producers John Robie and Arthur Baker started to mix rap with funky yet electronical sounds. Before that, hip hop was basically rather traditional musically, based on funk and disco tracks like Good Times by Chic. It was only the power of the rapping, like all African American music of West African descent, that made most rap tracks different from their disco forebears.
The music of early rap records was performed live in the studio and then mixed with the rapping, whereas live hip hop was two turntables and a microphone with DJs such as Kool DJ Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash. Herc was a Jamaican, and in the beginning he brought the Jamaican tradition of dee jaying (toasting) and mixing to the Bronx, NY. In the end, Jamaican and African American traditions merged into the new music called hip hop.
1 "Planet Rock"
Herc first tried to make people listen to the reggaeReggae is an African Caribbean style of music developed on the island of Jamaica and is closely linked to the religion Rastafarianism, though not universally popular among its members. The origins of reggae can be found in traditional African Caribbean mu tracks from Jamaica but it didn't work. Then he started using funk and soulSoul music is fundamentally rhythm and blues, which grew out of the African-American gospel and blues traditions during the late 1950s and early 1960s in the United States. Over time, much of the broad range of R&B extensions in African-American popular m records, focussing on the instrumental breaks. The Ultimate Breaks and Beats series includes tracks from "Mary Mary" to "Apache" which have been sampled many times and are still used today by hip hop DJs. Of course, this music was organic rather than electronic. But hip hop DJs discovered weird sounds from Europe such as KraftwerkKraftwerk ( German for "power plant") is a German avant-garde electro-pop group from Dusseldorf who largely contributed to much of the subsequent uptake of, and interest in, electronic music. The techniques that they introduced and the equipment that they's Numbers and Trans Europe Express . Back then, this music was called technoTechno is a form of electronic music that emerged in the mid- 1980s and primarily refers to a particular style developed in and around Detroit and subsequently adopted by European producers. History Techno was primarily developed in basement studios by "T.
With Baker and Robie, Afrika Bambaataa mixed Kraftwerk with funkier sounds inspired by Captain Sky 's Super Sperm and taking melodic elements from a rock version of Ennio Morricone's The Mexican. The result: Planet Rock (1982) by Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force , a track that changed hip hop music.
2 Electro Funk
This new style of hip hop came to be called Electro Funk . A group of young singers named Planet Patrol recorded a sung version of Planet Rock, Play at your own risk, also produced by Baker and Robie. Electro Funk ruled hip hop for the next few years, both in NY and LA ( Egyptian Lover, Wreckin Cru ), and in Miami, a new kind of hip hop called Miami Bass emerged. House music was also heavily influenced by Electro Funk. John Robie and Baker realized what new potentials were inherent to the new genre and went on mixing the sound wth R&B Vocals: I.O.U. by Freeze was an instant underground club hit.
