SOMETHING TO GROOVE ON BRAZILIAN GIRLS NOT FOND OF PLANNING, BUT YOU CAN DANCE TO IT.

Byline: Fred Shuster Music Writer

The ``Best Girls From Brazil'' Web site is down, but the Brazilian Girls aren't worried.

The sometimes naughty and always plush-sounding New York quartet named itself for an oft-viewed, generic segment of the Internet's adult entertainment menu. And while one bikini site may be out of business, there are plenty more waiting to confound the unwary music aficionado attempting to Google the swanky dance-pop group -- which was exactly the plan.

The sly innuendo behind the Brazilian Girls' name extends to the music. The group's sophisticated fusion of electronic, dub, pop, punk and dance acts as a sensual backdrop to Italian-born singer Sabina Sciubba's insinuating vocals, delivered in a potpourri of English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.

Doing it their way

``We rely on accidents happening when we get together,'' said Brazilian Girls keyboardist Didi Gutman. ``We always say we want to keep it simple, and then the music gets complicated. We're not conceptual, and nothing is preconceived, but it ends up seeming that way.''

Based in New York, yet composed of four stylish, globe-trotting members (none of whom are Brazilian, naturally, and only one of whom is female), the group is touring behind its second release, ``Talk to La Bomb'' (Verve Forecast), which expands on the quartet's seductive, swaying feel and sense of melody.

``We all listen to jazz and dance music, techno, old-school rhythm and blues, even old rock,'' Gutman said. ``But it's really about the four of us finding a groove.''

For its Halloween night gig at the Wiltern, Gutman and company (Sciubba, bassist Jesse Murphy and drummer Aaron Johnston) plan the sort of bacchanal the Brazilian bikini sites only hint at. But if costumes are scant, the music is guaranteed to be sumptuous.

The New York Times has described the B-Girls' sound as ``catchy, musically ambitious and proudly theatrical ...

irresistible.''

Sonic smorgasbord

On ``Talk to La Bomb,'' which features production help on one track from former Cars leader Ric Ocasek, the group evokes airy chill-out on ``Jique,'' house music on ``Le Territoire,'' and even Miles Davis' landmark ``Bitches Brew'' on the disc's title track.

The B-Girls met in 2003 while jamming together at a New York dance club. The newly formed group then began playing together on a weekly basis, producing the tracks that would eventually form their '05 self-titled debut album, which the Miami Herald called ``the best debut in a decade.''

The Buenos Aires-born Gutman said fate had little to do with it.

``We knew pretty quickly this would work out,'' he said. ``We could see from the dancers at the club that they liked us. It just began to grow. In things like that, I believe you make your own luck.''

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Didi Gutman, left, Aaron Johnston, Jesse Murphy and Sabina Sciubba turn a bevy of musical styles into a melodic, danceable mix as the Brazilian Girls.