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Miguel Mig
COLORFUL YOU
(ASTRALWERKS)

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"Sexy modern soul that grooves with an enticing bump," say the liner notes to Migs’s CD, and so it does. More to the point, Colorful You takes rhythm and soul music back to the days of disco, to that genre’s sparest production style: sweet melody, light beats, and fusion-jazz mood music. Entirely free of the sonic drama, sound effects, turntable flash, and heavy feelings that have come to dominate house music, Migs’s songs caress you, gently, quietly. And if the relaxing yet rapturous guy-and-gal duets remind you of Frankie Knuckles’ work with Adeva, it’s no wonder: Migs, like Knuckles, is a house-music DJ whose work fits the "garage" style, house’s original form.

Back in 1998, when he founded the Blue Six label and began to record, Knuckles-style house music, with its Ashford & Simpson melodies and Chic textures, had given way in the clubs to the histrionics of deep house and the buzz of electronica. Migs’s music risks a similar fate. Those listeners generous enough to grant him his soft-touch due, however, will find, in bumpy grooves like "The Night," "Breakin’ It Down," "Waiting," "Soul Vibe," and "Don’t Let Me Down," with their solo trumpets, silky drumming, and whispery female vocals, an irresistible intimacy untainted by irony. The title of "Introseduction," the Spanish-language song that opens the CD, says it all.

BY MICHAEL FREEDBERG

Issue Date: December 5 - 12, 2002
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