***1/2 Club 69

STYLE

(Twisted)

There's enough top-heavy diva attitude in this, the second Club 69 release from Austrian disco auteur Peter Rauhofer, to give any wig a good hair day. Standard stuff it is, but with Miss Thang monologues like "Style," "I Look Good," and "My Orchard" puckering all over the place with charm and egotism, who's complaining? "Twisted," "Much Better," and "Muscles" reach, smartly, back to that lascivious ferocity that spawned the diva experience in the first place. As for divas today, the flash and boom of "Drama" and "Alright" goes for the big kiss on leap-of-faith hard-house breaks.

-- Michael Freedberg