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ONE late October evening at the night spot Cielo, there was a scene rare for Manhattan dance clubs. As the D.J.'s the Martinez Brothers were nodding their baseball-cap-adorned heads to their energetic house and techno set, their father, Steve Martinez, stood guard beside their booth dressed in a very dadlike argyle sweater. The under-age Bronx-bred siblings -- Christian, 17, and Stevie Jr., 20 -- headline hedonistic superclubs in Europe, but their late-night drinks, under their dad's watch, are Pepsi and orange Gatorade. And by morning Dad will make sure Christian is in class at Monroe-Woodbury High School in Monroe, N.Y., where the family lives. The Martinez Brothers, often referred to as TMB, might not seem like prime candidates to revive New York's homegrown dance-music scene, but they are bridging genres, and generations, with their youthful-yet-knowing D.J. sets, mixing American house music (a soulful electronic successor to disco) with the ultramodern techno preferred by European clubbers. While American audiences for dance music, especially house, steadily age, TMB's sets have inspired a generation raised on hip-hop to move to a different beat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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