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**1/2 Johnny Vicious & Tall Paul

CLUB NATION AMERICA

(Ultra Records)

If Eurodisco is your flight of choice, the front side of this two-CD set, mixed by Johnny Vicious, has your name on it. High and melodious girls’ voices, angelic boys’ choirs, fast-tempo’d and cute electronics, everything dreamy and bright and rhythmic from top to toe. It’s all there, ringed with quite a few of Euroland’s giddiest hits: Sureal’s “You Take My Breath Away,” Delerium’s “Silence” (with Sarah McLachlan singing), Nicole Henry’s “No Greater Love,” Svenson & Gielen’s instructive “Beauty of Silence,” and, sublimest and fastest-tempo’d of all, Johnny Vicious & Nina Maitri’s own “Here with Me,” a Euro tour de force.

The B-side, mixed by Tall Paul, is mainstream trance, dry and cool. It starts with Pete Heller’s deep-house remix of Moby’s “Southside” and adheres to that song’s two-layer groove right through shaky jams by Fatboy Slim, Blaze, Darren Christian, and — deepest and darkest of all — Chocolate Puma’s “I Wanna Be You,” a rhythm statement in which two lines of hard groove ap up against and mirror each other.

— Michael Freedberg