Various Artists
The Perfect Beats, Vol. 2
Label:  Tommy Boy 
Date:  10/6/1998
Length:  0:00
Format:  3LP
Genre:  Hip-Hop; New Wave
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Shannon - Let The Music Play    
      2.  
      		 Freeze - I.O.U.    
      3.  
      		 Jellybean - Dancing On The Fire    
      4.  
      		 Loleatta Hollaway - Crash Goes Love    
      5.  
      		 Chaka Khan - My Love Is Alive    
      6.  
      		 Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight    
      7.  
      		 B Beat Girls - For The Same Man    
      8.  
      		 Upfront - Infatuation    
      9.  
      		 Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be-bop    
      10.  
      		 Strafe - Set It Off    
      11.  
      		 ESG - Moody    
      12.  
      		 Liquid Liquid - Cavern    
      13.  
      		 Exodus (NY) - Together Forever    
      14.  
      		 New Order - Confusion    
      15.  
      		 Slack - Slack    
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      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." --John Sanchez