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VA - The Perfect Beats Vol.1- 4 (1998)
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Genre: Freestyle, Electro, Hip Hop, Breaks, Funk | RAR 5% Rec. | Label: Timber!

VA - The Perfect Beats Vol. 1 (1998)

Part 1 of Tommy Boy's comprehensive compilation of early electro, hip-hop, and freestyle hits concentrates on the fundamentals. The collection begins as it must, with Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force's epochal "Planet Rock," a sort of Rosetta stone for producers in the decade that followed and beyond. Loved (and sampled) to this very day, "Planet Rock" cleared the way for all the tracks that follow it here (arranged chronologically), including "Walking on Sunshine" by Rocker's Revenge and Jellybean's timbale-mad upgrade of Babe Ruth's "The Mexican." But despite the limitations implied in the compilation's subtitle, "New York Electro Hip-Hop + Underground Dance Classics, 1980-1985," the set reaches back to earlier sources, inevitably including Kraftwerk's bleats, blips, and beats. --John Sanchez

01. Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock [00:05:26]
02. Planet Patrol - Play at Your Own Risk [00:07:32]
03. Rocker’s Revenge - Walking on Sunshine [00:04:50]
04. Yazoo - Don't Go [00:02:47]
05. Jellybean - The Mexican [00:05:14]
06. Yello - Bostich [00:04:33]
07. Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express [00:05:56]
08. Kraftwerk - Numbers / Computer World [00:06:01]
09. Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait [00:04:11]
10. Imagination - Just an Illusion [00:05:53]
11. Level 42 - Starchild [00:04:27]
12. Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit of Jazz [00:05:20]
13. Klein & M.B.O. - Dirty Talk [00:03:46]
14. T.W. Funkmasters - Love Money [00:03:05]

VA - The Perfect Beats Vol. 2 (1998)

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

01. Shannon - Let the Music Play [00:05:57]
02. Freeez - I.O.U. [00:06:16]
03. Jellybean - Dancing on the Fire [00:05:54]
04. Loleatta Holloway - Crash Goes Love [00:06:02]
05. Chaka Khan - My Love Is Alive [00:04:40]
06. Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight [00:03:31]
07. B Beat Girls - For The Same Man [00:02:37]
08. Upfront - Infatuation [00:06:17]
09. Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be-Bop [00:03:51]
10. Strafe - Set It Off [00:06:20]
11. ESG - Moody [00:02:30]
12. Liquid Liquid - Cavern [00:03:52]
13. Exodus - Together Forever [00:05:31]
14. New Order - Confusion [00:05:24]
15. Slack - Slack [00:04:26]

VA - The Perfect Beats Vol. 3 (1998)

More ass-shaking artifacts from the early-'80s dawn of electro, hip-hop, and freestyle. This might be the least distinct disc in the set, but in such great company, that's hardly a put-down. Of all the volumes, number 3 hews closest to the strictures of the compilation's subtitle, "New York Electro Hip-Hop + Underground Dance Classics, 1980-1985," though Heaven 17's "Let Me Go" came out of England and was in no sense underground. The excellent liner notes by Brian Chin don't mention it, but this also seems to be the diva disc of the bunch, with high-volume output from Shannon, Tina B, Carol Lynn Townes, Alisha, Seidah Garrett, and Xena (no, not that one!). --John Sanchez

01. Shannon - Give Me Tonight [00:06:06]
02. Jay Novell - If This Ain't Love [00:03:59]
03. Xena - On the Upside [00:05:50]
04. Carol Lynn Townes - 99 1/2 [00:05:00]
05. The Aleems - Release Yourself [00:04:32]
06. George Kranz - Din Daa Daa [00:04:59]
07. Peter Godwin - Emotional Disguise [00:04:13]
08. Heaven 17 - Let Me Go [00:06:05]
09. Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force - Renegades of Funk [00:06:07]
10. Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) [00:03:53]
11. Jenny Burton - Remember What You Like [00:05:18]
12. Tina B. - Honey to a Bee [00:04:39]
13. Alisha - All Night Passion [00:05:34]
14. Siedah Garrett - Do You Want It Right Now [00:05:38]

VA - The Perfect Beats Vol. 4 (1998)

On the fourth and final installment of the Perfect Beats series, there are plenty of meat-and-potatoes electro hits (like C-Bank's "One More Shot" and Afrika Bambaataa's "Looking for the Perfect Beat"), but there are also lots of oddities to add flavor. Leading the weirdo pack is the harmonica-happy "Stone Fox Chase" by Area Code 615, which inexplicably mutated its way out of Nashville in the early '70s. Also deviating from the program: the raucous and rockish "Woman" by Barrabas and the mellow, flute-accented "Rock Creek Park" by Blackbyrds. --John Sanchez

01. C Bank - One More Shot [00:05:58]
02. Quadrant Six - Body Mechanic [00:05:31]
03. The Jonzun Crew - Pack Jam [00:04:29]
04. Cybotron - Clear [00:04:53]
05. Newcleus - Automan [00:04:00]
06. Area Code 615 - Stone Fox Chase [00:03:12]
07. The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It’s Just Begun [00:03:35]
08. James Brown - Give It Up Turn It Loose [00:06:08]
09. The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park [00:04:33]
10. Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions [00:06:03]
11. Candido - Jingo [00:06:31]
12. Barrabás - Woman [00:04:41]
13. Eddie Kendricks - Date With the Rain [00:02:39]
14. Herman Kelly & Life - Dance to the Drummer’s Beat [00:04:13]
15. Afrika Bambaataa - Looking for the Perfect Beat [00:06:51]

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