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Condition: New Sealed
Following the history lesson of volume 1, The Perfect Beats, Volume 2 reaches a little wider in its selection of electro-boogie, hip-hop, and freestyle oldies. This seems to be the set's unofficial "happy" disc--some of the fastest cuts are on this volume, as well as the lightest and most playful. (Even the monochromatic series package design adds to the effect--this volume's a sunny orange.) "Let the Music Play" by Shannon (one of the highest-charting records in the collection) appears in a livelier-than-life remix, and just try to resist the bubbly synth-vibraphone on Dominatrix's "The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight." Lots of these cuts will be familiar as the source of samples that fueled bigger hits, especially Liquid Liquid's "Cavern," which formed the basis for Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel's huge rap record "White Lines."
TRACK LISTINGS
1. Let the Music Play - Shannon
2. I.O.U. - The Freeze, The Freeze
3. Dancing on the Fire - Jellybean
4. Crash Goes Love - Loleatta Holloway
5. My Love Is Alive - Chaka Khan
6. Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight - Dominatrix
7. For the Same Man - B Beat Girls
8. Infatuation - Upfront
9. Hip Hop Bee Bop (Don't Stop) - Man Parrish
10. Set It Off - Strafe
11. Moody - ESG
12. Cavern - Liquid Liquid
13. Together Forever - Exodus, Exodus
14. Confusion - New Order
15. Slack
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