Waterworld by MIREILLE SILCOTT In the toon-towny hardcore days, rave promoters were prone to using images like Tide detergent or Carefree gum logos on flyers as decoration. Ha, ha, how the underground still must laugh at the flippant commercial visuals those silly rave kids used. So corporate, and... Excuse me while I take a swig from this Swirl 4 party/Tommy Jeans promotional bottled water. ...Ah! Refreshing! Anyway, as I was saying, self-proclaimed citizens of El Undergroundo would never support those kinds of connections, no matter how superficially placed. Which means that for credibility's sake, oh shame, they must stop going to all of the following: Club Unity (sponsored by Molson Dry), Pop (Mix 96), the DMC DJ Championships (Technics, Vestax), a BBCM event (Black Label, Naya, Air Canada), Groove Society (Molson Dry), a Ninja Tune Mtl party (MusiquePlus), Sona (don't ask), a Shock event (Fogel Sabourin), or most big live things (major labels, eh?). Which leaves... well, they can stay home and obsolesce. Or knit. Maybe write poetry, always a fine hobby. The rest of us can stock our pantries with free bottled water and do some of this great stuff in the next coupla weeks: Danny Tenaglia is at Anthem Republica at Juice this Monday. He spins from 10-4. Info: 844-3125, $28 adv. Don't miss! * Victor Calderone, the latest paint-by-numbers NYC house superstar is at Sona's monthly gay event, BangCok, May 28 (info 282-1000) * The BBCM's AIDS fundraising Wild & Wet, featuring Ten City boy Byron Stingily (!), falls on the same night as 514's Hilfigerama Swirl 4, featuring Junior Vasquez, DJ Icey, Joey Beltram and many others (May 17). BBCM have requested that 514 donate $5000 to the AIDS cause due to the overlap. No word yet on whether a contribution will be made. News you need! Mark Anthony has been booked to play at NYC's prestigious Twilo club on a monthly basis. He starts May 30 * Double "A" & Twist's "Pentagon City" has been reissued on Thrive Records, and is charted on the Hype charts of this month's DJ magazine * Former X-Cité guy Stéphane Chetrit has just married a teenage model and is living the bucolic life in Scotland. Should make for interesting babies * Alain Vinet, Mark Anthony and Chris P.'s track "Latin Soul," recorded under the alias Turnstyle Orchestra, has been signed to Chicago's revered Guidance Records * Nav & Patrick Dream are starting up a label, with a record by Miguel Graca as first release * Certain Sona regulars are threatening to open their own club this summer * Montrealer DJ Bettina's London imprint, People, has been voted among the "most promising upcoming U.K. labels" by acid jazz originator Gilles Peterson. Bettina's first record, "Bougie Soliterre," is out soon * Rumours about DNA and In Beat merging are running rampant * The Magnetic Blue comp is out on Interchill Records, featuring the Kaleidoscope and Dave Kristian * Unreleased tracks by most the above-mentioned Mtl producers can be heard on a new Web site set up by ex-promoter Sean Hurlbert at www.sugarrush.com >>> Copyright Liberation Front: Highly illegal mixed tape of the week! DJ DaSilva I'm Your DJ Dark post-Tenaglia tracks from an upcoming local house name. Would go down well at the hardest of 5 a.m.s. Verging on the soul-less, this one's best listened to with a bump ready and your shirt off. Pumped gaycore anthemic stuff. 7/10 Available at In Beat.