THANKS TO ARTHUR BAKER FOR MUCH OF THIS INFO:)
his favorite track is "dirty talk" by Klein and mbo

Arthur baker basicaly invented "freestyle music" or "latin hip hop" which exists to this day, mostly among latin people. one ground breaking track baker made was called "I. O. U." by Freez. it had alot of sampling of vocals, played on what sounds like an emu emulator keyboard sampler. this was known as the vocal sample solo where the producer plays samples of voice notes and does a keyboard solo using voice samples. it became popular in freestyle music. one thing I LOVE about freestyle music is the sped up vocals. to get the singer to hit higher notes, the tape machine would slow down, and they would perform the vocal. next they would play the tape machine at normal speed, and bingo, the voice is much higher. not like a chipmunk, but somewhere in between. this is what JELLY BEAN benitez did to produce early madonna. a GREAT freestyle track is "honey to a bee" by Tina B. this track has the vocals REALLY high. a popular club to hear freestyle in the 1980's was the Funhouse. also, there were some tape "edit" genius's called the LATIN RASCALS. they worked on all of the hottest music, and would cut tape in order to make the jagged stutters in 80's music. I think there was a freestyle track I like by heaven 17 or something. some other artists I like are trinere, debbie deb, cover girls in 1989. and I also love "silent morning" by Noel.

that's all for now folks!

best,

-r KG!