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REMIXOLOGY
(Ultra)
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Here’s an absolute must-have for dance-music goddesses. The diva-vocal emphasis of house-music DJ Hex Hector’s work will remind veteran discophiles of the songstress stylings of DJ David Morales; Hector’s mixes, however, press harder than Morales’s, and louder. He fills the interludes between vocal passages with deep, pumping sound effects, and he moves from the softness of garage style to hard electronica with greater abandon than does Morales. The intensity of his mixes recalls the work of Little Louie Vega, but Hector’s music feels plush and dreamy where Vega’s plays it rough and tangible. On his first CD session — a single CD rather than a two-disc set, unfortunately — Hector makes the rhythm coast smoothly and the vocals soar, seemingly in tandem, easy and ecstatic at the same time, an ease made all the more beautiful because his song choices cling to the soulful and Afro-Brazilian disco roots of house. Imagine, if you can, in the chilly, scratchy age of trance, a set that includes Joi Cardwell’s "Soul To Bare," No Smoke’s deeply tribal 1988 hit "Koro Koro," Ekova’s samba-beat "Starlight," songs by Deborah Cox and Angie Stone, MAW (Masters at Work — one of whom is Little Louie Vega) Featuring Wummi’s "Ekabo," a Timo Maas/EBTG "Temperamental," HQ2 Presents Kim Sozzi’s "We Get Together," and KMC’s "I Feel So Fine," these last two sounding sweet and strong, mesmerizing, invitingly female. Hector sprays on just enough rhythmic perfume — sonic echo, instrumental feedback, quiet low beats, spacy hums — to flower the music and purple it up.
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