** DANGEROUS HOUSE GROOVES

(SFP)

Not continuously mixed or otherwise programmed to a DJ style, this nine-track compilation merits attention only because it represents the giddy, electronic-funk version of house music indigenous to Miami. The flavor here is a slap-happy drollery supported by the loose swerve of a south-of-the-border beat. In jams like S n S's "Get Up and Go to Work," that beat takes the shape of an awfully funky samba, but more often -- in cute dips like Chicco Secci's "Get Up," Buxxboyzz' "Pump!", and Ambition featuring Chynna's "I Want It" -- the rhythm assumes an ironic, smiling veneer, trashy as all Miami dance music has been since Debbie Deb, Company B, and Newcleus ruled the '80s. Echoes of Junior Vasquez's "Get Your Hands Off My Man" relate Circuit Boy's "Come and Get It (Tina Alan Diva Mix)" to New York's much darker shade of house trash.

-- Michael Freedberg