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Loleatta Holloway, Queen of the Night (The Right
Stuff):You don't turn to an "Ultimate Club Collection" for
fidelity to history, but to revel in its in dissection, resurrection,
reconstruction and restyling of it, as Michael Paoletta's liner notes
suggest. In the end, this isn't about Loleatta Holloway the artist,
much less the actual person, but rather about the premier disco
diva's disembodied voice and, for the most part, one song — her
1980 "Love Sensation," shards of which have shown up in Marky Mark's
"Good Vibrations," Black Box's "Ride on Time" and Cevin Fisher's
"(You Got Me) Burnin' Up." The latter two appear here, as do two
remixes of the original, which by the end of the disc has undergone
so many permutations it becomes a magic incantation. Intensifying the
alchemy are an arsenal of DJ tricks, particularly the feverishly
repeated guitar figures that close off the disc in Hatiras'
well-named Liquid Adrenaline Mix of "Dreamin'." Ugly, messy,
disturbing, this is dance music's gift to history. And if you just
unclench your body, take a deep breath and give yourself up to the
invasion, it'll sting ya so good. — Kevin John
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