Remix.

Depending on your musical upbringing, that term can elicit varied reactions.

To the pop radio devotees, it means the same song in double time over thumping bass. To techno fans, it means your favorite sugary shot dropped in a glass of Red Bull or crowned with whipped cream.

And to Sarah MacLachlan fans, it now means a sick, sexy rework of her best-loved tracks.

MacLachlan’s “Remixed” album, new on Arista in the United States but out for two years on Nettwerk in the world outside, drops the Candian songstress’s sultriest sounds in the honey pot and pulls them out sweet and dripping. Time to shake your ass, Lilith Fair style.

In the Hybrid remix of “Fear,” the song that haunted you on 1994’s “Fumbling Toward Ecstasy” now takes a draws the longing out across trance beats.

The always-masterful BT bounces “I Love You” into a virtual club-banger. OK, a gay disco-banger. He notches another success with his update of “Hold On.”

Rabbit in the Moon crafts another thriller with a “Possession” remix, and William Orbit’s version of “Black” will leave you scared of the dark.

Fade drizzles McLachlan’s Canadian-flavored moan over deep trance grooves, for a mix that is at once simple and stunning.

A few sonic missteps mar this otherwise-slick CD. DJ Tiesto stumbles through “Sweet Surrender,” which is one of those precious few songs perhaps not meant for dancehall energy. The Rollo remix of “Angel” (which I’ve seen as the Dusted remix on other compilations) also falters for likely the same reason. I love dance music more than most, but these ballads are not fodder for cage-grinding club hits.

Or maybe BT should take a shot at it. He doesn’t force the issue of dancability on a song whose beauty lies in its quiet grace the way DJ Tiesto and others do here.

Still, the successful remix of “Silence,” here credited to Michael Woods, bears remarkable resemblence to DJ Tiesto’s own remix, which appears on his “Summerbreeze” CD.

Ah, techno.

While MacLachlan’s compiling such treasures as this for her beat-addicted followers, a disc comprised of “Silence” mixes would be a nice addition. The Paul Oakenfold mix, the DJ Tiesto mix and the gold-standard Delerium version need to share a common space.