Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Wanted dead or alive (album version) - Voices Of East Harlem
2. Let's have some fun (12" version) - Bar-Kays
3. Spread love (12" version) - Hudson, Al
4. Hot shot (12" version) - Young, Karen
5. Last dance (12" extended version) - Summer, Donna (1)
6. Spacer (12" mix) - Sheila B. Devotion
7. Get it up for love (12" version) - Vega, Tata
8. Behind the grooves (12" version) - Marie, Teena
9. Let's get serious (album version) - Jackson, Jermaine
10. Burn rubber ( why you wanna hurt me) (original 12" version) - Gap Band

Disc 2:

1. Hip hop be bop (don't stop) (album version) - Man Parrish
2. Walking on sunshine (12" version) - Rockers Revenge & Donnie Calvin
3. Juicy fruit (12" mix) - Mtume
4. You can't hide your love (Larry Levan mix) - Joseph, David
5. Love town (12" version) - Newberry, Booker III
6. IOU (12" version) - Freeez
7. I'll be around (12" version) - Wells, Terri
8. Trapped (12" vocal) - Colonel Abrams
9. Magic touch (12" original mix) - Loose Ends (1)
10. Seventh Heaven (Larry Levan mix) - Guthrie, Gwen

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #121059 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-06
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .26 pounds
• Running time: 129 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
For those interested in dance music's fuller picture, returning to the source is always a safe and pleasant bet. For Magnum Opus 2 those nice folks at Universal have trawled the company's extensive vaults and re-emerged with a trip down memory lane that will please both sample-hungry anoraks and those too young to know that hip-hop didn't start with Eminem. Mirror-ball classics such as Karen Young's "Hot Shot" continue to sound as vibrant as any of today's loop-heavy pretenders, while Sheila B Devotion's "Spacer" is as esoteric and magical now as it's ever been. You want quality? Look no further than selections from Jermaine Jackson, Teena Marie or David Joseph's "You Can't Hide Your Love" (here in a rare remix from the late, great Larry Levan)--there's not a filler in sight. Over on CD 2, proto hip-hop and electro is represented by the day-glow brilliance of Man Parrish and the Arthur Baker-produced "IOU" from Freeez, plus it's hard to ignore such influential cuts as Gwen Guthrie's "Seventh Heaven" or the Gap Band's throttle-heavy "Burn Rubber on Me". It's timeless stuff . --Paul Tierney

Customer Reviews

Disco 12" collectors essential 2
The full on 12" vesions of "Hot shot" "Walking on Sunshine" "Juicy Fruit" and "You Can't Hide Your Love From Me" are the four main resons for buying this second helping of disco classics, if you want to update to CD from your collectable Vinyl. If you're into the early 80's immergent pumping synth sound, then maybe "Love Town" and "Seventh Heaven" are the bonus tracks on this album. But are six semi interesting tracks enough to secure a purchase? Only your record collection will dictate!
I was dissapointed by this second helping, which is at best second rate compared with the Excellent Magnum Opus 1. The first Opus delivered what record collectors want...the wall to wall 12" mixes of the well aired classics , that you always heard in clubs but could never get your mits on. Magnum Opus 1 restored tracks like "I feel love" and "Now that We've found love" from their irritating, and over familisr shortened 7" versions so over used on second rate disco compilations, to their full beautiful 12" glory. When you play these tracks the inovation of "I feel love" atounds you and you can just soak up the influences that shaped all our modern dance tracks ten times over. Unfortunately Magnum Opus 2 does not deleiver the same excitement for record collectors. you will be dissapointed all over again with "IOU" if you're a "Southern Freeze" funk fan! Colonel Abrahams was always more mainstream than cutting edge wasn't he? Finally Shela B Devotion? Come on! No inovation or influences with these tracks, just pop 12". But if you just want to add the long versions of some 12" golden oldies to your CD collection and are still in love with some of these tracks this is the CD for you! Happy collecting!