Where disco was lush and romantic, Chicago-based house was the dark, stripped-down sound of late-'80s survivalists grappling with AIDS and trickle-down economics. The compilation Trax Classics Presents Rewind chronicles the genre's salad days of bluntly affecting, bass-heavy anthems like Jamie Principle's ''Cold World,'' Adonis' nihilistic ''No Way Back,'' and ''You Used to Hold Me,'' on which singer Xaviera Gold seems to revel in lost love. Hard-edged music from tough-luck times. B
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