**1/2 Size Queen

PIMPS, PUMPS, AND PUSHERS

(Twisted/MCA)

Despite the blaxploitation-movie title, this CD's provenance is strictly deep house, hard-driving bottom riffs syncopated in a salsa rhythm -- the harsh-excitement style associated with Junior Vasquez, clubland's pre-eminent DJ. Unhappily for lovers of rhythmic ingenuity, Peter Rauhofer, the Vienna auteur of Size Queen, usually works within Vasquez's existing parameters. Of the CDs' 10 wanna-be raunchy tracks, the one innovation is "The Trick," wherein Rauhofer's keyboard program restates Kraftwerk's "Numbers" in house-music octaves and butters them with a Europop voiceover. The song also flaunts the drowsy, lead-role monologue of Alex Lauterstein, who accents a drollness uncannily like that of fellow Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then there's "Dance," a melodic send-up of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. These two songs serve up an amusing rococo dance-floor mummery, sardonic as the real Junior Vasquez never sounds. There's also "Walk for Me" and "Paul's Groove," vogueing songs for those who like to wear pumpy shoes or watch 'em go by.

-- Michael Freedberg