The inaugural Twilo mix-CD from Junior Vasquez and a star-studded compilation from Moonshine Music lead the list of new electronic-music records out this week.

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Mixed, a compilation celebrating the influential label's annual fall tour, includes tracks by the Freshmaka, Omar Santana and Micro. The album also boasts two of the label's current singles, Keoki's "Pass It On" and Cirrus' "Ghetto Blaster."

"We have a bunch of great new music we haven't put out yet, so [the CD] came together naturally," Moonshine president Steve Levy said recently.

Carl Cox, John Kelley, AK1200, Dave Aude, Dieselboy and nearly a dozen more Moonshine acts will be featured on a 25-city jaunt, which begins Sept. 28 in San Diego, to support the album.

Vasquez, the legendary house DJ who has hosted the "Juniorverse" party on Saturday nights at the prominent New York club Twilo for the past three years, mixed the double-disc Twilo Volume 1: Junior Vasquez, the first release on Twilo's new label, which is distributed by Virgin Records.

Among the album's hottest cuts are Byron Stingily's "Stick Together" (RealAudio excerpt), Vernessa Mitchell's "Higher" and Dubtribe Sound System's "Equitoreal" (RealAudio excerpt).

Vasquez (born Donald Mattern in 1947) began his career in the early '80s at the Sound Factory, which became Twilo in 1997. He has remixed artists from Madonna to John Mellencamp, and has produced many of his own singles, including "Get Your Hands Off My Man" and "If Madonna Calls."

Coincidentally, Vasquez, along with the Thunderpuss duo, provided the remixes for the title single of dance diva Kristine W.'s sophomore album, Stronger, which also comes out this week. Four years in the making, the record is expected to be one of the biggest fall releases in club music. "Stronger" (RealAudio excerpt) has already topped Billboard's Club Play chart.

A former Miss America contestant, Kristine W. (born Kristine Weitz) launched her singing career in the mid-'90s in Las Vegas. Her debut album, 1996's Land of the Living, was produced by Rollo of Faithless and included the hit singles "One More Try" and "Land of the Living."

New Compilations

The third installment in the mix-CD series inspired by New York's long-running Sunday-afternoon house-music party Body & Soul comes out Tuesday. Mixed by the party's world-renowned DJ trio of Danny Krivit, Francois K. and Joe Claussell, the mix's 12 tracks showcase the positivity and open-mindedness that have made the event a weekly classic.

Among the Body & Soul anthems included are Krivit's collaboration with Romain, "Philly's Groove" (RealAudio excerpt), Iranian-born Swedish techno producer Aril Brikha's 1999 club smash "Groove La Chord" and New York house godfather "Little Louie" Vega's "Elements of Life" (RealAudio excerpt), which features New Jersey vocalist Blaze.

The latest compilation in the well-loved Future Sounds of Jazz series further explores the laid-back groove territory it has come to define. The seventh volume features a new track by London duo The Amalgamation of Soundz, as well as "Root Down" by Peter Kruder (of Kruder & Dorfmeister), which was previously only available as a 12-inch, and recent tracks by Berlin new-dub artist Burnt Friedman and Glasgow, Scotland's Solar House.

Latest Efforts

Igizeh, the latest album from Banco de Gaia (born Toby Marks), is also due this week. The album, his second for Six Degrees Records and sixth overall, blends Indian influences with minimal techno, creating soaring, lush soundscapes.

Banco de Gaia follows up last year's The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia with a somewhat more accessible album, partially due to the presence of Portland, Ore., singer Jennifer Folker, who sings on two tracks, including the first single, "Obsidian" (RealAudio excerpt). The ambient "Gizeh," crafted around field recordings inside Egypt's Great Pyramid at Gizeh, is another highlight.

Also on Tuesday, electronic pop band Hooverphonic will release The Magnificent Tree, their third album. The trio, who have contributed music to such films as "Stealing Beauty" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer," create ethereal pop songs with programmed beats, samples, bass and guitar.

The 11 songs on The Magnificent Tree, range from the sweeping, orchestral "Mad About You" to the edgier "Out of Sight."

This week also sees German digital hardcore producer EC8OR releasing The One and Only High and Low, his fifth album and third on Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings. Born Patric C., EC8OR also has recorded under the aliases Eradicator, Irish Coffee and Test-Tube Boy.

The One and Only High and Low blends elements of techno, speed metal and experimental techno and features such angst-fueled tracks as "Don't Tell Me Shit" (RealAudio excerpt) and "Six Million Ways To Die" (RealAudio excerpt).

(Contributing Editor Will Comerford contributed to this report.)