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The whole point of rave is that the music never stops, so it makes sense that the soundtrack to "Groove," a movie set in the Bay Area rave scene, is the first soundtrack that's a continuous DJ mix. (The DJ in question is Wish FM, a.k.a. Wade Hampton, who sneaks in one of his own tracks, "Dukes Up," a little saxophone-and-house-bass confection released under his alter ego W.) The only track here likely to be familiar to listeners not already down with the scene is Orbital's early-'90s hands-in-the-air standard "Halcyon + On + On," but it's the key to Wish FM's aesthetic here: The airy chime of its strings drifts across tracks by Bedrock and Symbiosis, and its softened, spacey take on house is a starting point for forays into acid and recollections of disco. And the album's climax, Alter Ring's stunning nine-minute "Infinitely Gentle Blows," borrows the idea of fragrant fragments of someone's voice from Orbital, and piles them onto a billowing track like flakes of coconut on an Ecstasy-spiked cupcake. Douglas Wolk, Barnes & Noble