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Hey hey!
I bought Ministry Of Sound: The Annual 2002 on Saturday, and I just thought I'd let all you dance lovers out there know how good this is.
I ordered online from HMV (expensive, but very convenient) on Thursday night, and recieved this along with two other totally unrelated parcels (computery bits) on saturday morning. I've never bought a dance CD before, because I've never really been that much into dance music. However, I saw the ad on TV and the music sounded great. So I used the power of the web to find out that it contained some absolutley classic tunes. If you like poppy-dance then this is a CD for you.
The Annual is a 3-CD limited edition boxed set, coming in a trick looking colourful box and with a free mini-Ministry magazine with some great reviews of the year in clubs (not that I'd know if it was true, being sixteen!) and some amusing little sections. I particularly liked the Sunday morning newsagent cartoon. Very clever :).
I, being a logical chap, stuck CD1 in my puter as soon as I opened the parcel, and was very impressed from the moment it started. A nice little thing is its the only CD I own that has successfully got its track titles from the net! Saves me typing them all anyway! The first tune on CD1 is the awesome iio, Rapture. This is one of my faves and something I knew before so I was dancing around my room already! ;)
The well-known tunes continues with Jean Jacques Smoothie, Two People but is soon mixed into a song I hadnt heard before by the fantastic Roger Sanchez and featuring Armand Van Helden, You Can't Change Me. I really liked that too. All three CDs include both well known classics like American Dream, Lovely Day and Do You Really Like It?, as well as some very cool songs I havent heard before, and my new favourite ever tune, the Norman Cook remix of Markus Nikolai, Bushes. Its great :).
All three CDs however, do contain some pap, like So Solid Crew and Genius Cru, but most of the songs are class. That brings me to the mixing, it seems to have been done by different people for each song, sometimes its great, you hardly notice, but sometimes one song just goes quiet and the next comes on. Bizarre.
Anyway, I would seriously recommend this CD to any dance fans. Its great, full of loads of classic tunes and some I didnt know before, but I love know. Buy it. Now. Or else. What are you waiting for?
I bought Ministry Of Sound: The Annual 2002 on Saturday, and I just thought I'd let all you dance lovers out there know how good this is.
I ordered online from HMV (expensive, but very convenient) on Thursday night, and recieved this along with two other totally unrelated parcels (computery bits) on saturday morning. I've never bought a dance CD before, because I've never really been that much into dance music. However, I saw the ad on TV and the music sounded great. So I used the power of the web to find out that it contained some absolutley classic tunes. If you like poppy-dance then this is a CD for you.
The Annual is a 3-CD limited edition boxed set, coming in a trick looking colourful box and with a free mini-Ministry magazine with some great reviews of the year in clubs (not that I'd know if it was true, being sixteen!) and some amusing little sections. I particularly liked the Sunday morning newsagent cartoon. Very clever :).
I, being a logical chap, stuck CD1 in my puter as soon as I opened the parcel, and was very impressed from the moment it started. A nice little thing is its the only CD I own that has successfully got its track titles from the net! Saves me typing them all anyway! The first tune on CD1 is the awesome iio, Rapture. This is one of my faves and something I knew before so I was dancing around my room already! ;)
The well-known tunes continues with Jean Jacques Smoothie, Two People but is soon mixed into a song I hadnt heard before by the fantastic Roger Sanchez and featuring Armand Van Helden, You Can't Change Me. I really liked that too. All three CDs include both well known classics like American Dream, Lovely Day and Do You Really Like It?, as well as some very cool songs I havent heard before, and my new favourite ever tune, the Norman Cook remix of Markus Nikolai, Bushes. Its great :).
All three CDs however, do contain some pap, like So Solid Crew and Genius Cru, but most of the songs are class. That brings me to the mixing, it seems to have been done by different people for each song, sometimes its great, you hardly notice, but sometimes one song just goes quiet and the next comes on. Bizarre.
Anyway, I would seriously recommend this CD to any dance fans. Its great, full of loads of classic tunes and some I didnt know before, but I love know. Buy it. Now. Or else. What are you waiting for?
Yeah, there is some pap on CD2, but there is also a lot of really good stuff that I've never heard before that I really like. I'm just starting to get into dance music and I dont really know a lot as I cant go to clubs or anything. I am lerning fast off my sister though whos well into it. Loads of my CDs are nicked off her :).
If you like that sort of stuff, I REALLY recommend you get a cdouble CD compilation jobby called PURE EUPHORIA.
Dr. Duck wrote:
Realistically, i think i would struggle
> to fill a 2 cd album with dance tracks that i consider to be really
> great
which were released/introduced to the clubs in the last year or so
That is what dr duck wrote, you just read it wrong the first time round ; )
Realistically, i think i would struggle
> to fill a 2 cd album with dance tracks that i consider to be really
> great
which were released/introduced to the clubs in the last year or so
That is what dr duck wrote, you just read it wrong the first time round ; )
Do you not think that basically every dance compilation since the annual 2000 has been at least half filled with lame/popish commercial tracks?
I think that the increased mainstream popularity that spawned from the impressive summer 2000 tunes has lead to too much dodgy stuff being rushed out and too much intrusion of the pop methods of music creation.
Realistically, i think i would struggle to fill a 2 cd album with dance tracks that i consider to be really great.
Unless i had very long remixes : )
I think that the increased mainstream popularity that spawned from the impressive summer 2000 tunes has lead to too much dodgy stuff being rushed out and too much intrusion of the pop methods of music creation.
Realistically, i think i would struggle to fill a 2 cd album with dance tracks that i consider to be really great.
Unless i had very long remixes : )
No my friend, Linkin Park do not rule.
I do :oP
Yeah gaz, I dont think they've noticed, I slipped out in the dead of the night!!
My talents are wasted here, I was quite pleased with that review...
I do :oP
Yeah gaz, I dont think they've noticed, I slipped out in the dead of the night!!
My talents are wasted here, I was quite pleased with that review...
Andi, I think you'll find we all like punk/indie/rock/Radiohead ;-)
Good to see you on Sr though - You have escaped from IRC! Yea, it is good, no?
Good to see you on Sr though - You have escaped from IRC! Yea, it is good, no?
Pfht, fine then you bunch of non-dance lovers you!
*Whooo storms off in a sulk
*Whooo storms off in a sulk
Hey hey!
I bought Ministry Of Sound: The Annual 2002 on Saturday, and I just thought I'd let all you dance lovers out there know how good this is.
I ordered online from HMV (expensive, but very convenient) on Thursday night, and recieved this along with two other totally unrelated parcels (computery bits) on saturday morning. I've never bought a dance CD before, because I've never really been that much into dance music. However, I saw the ad on TV and the music sounded great. So I used the power of the web to find out that it contained some absolutley classic tunes. If you like poppy-dance then this is a CD for you.
The Annual is a 3-CD limited edition boxed set, coming in a trick looking colourful box and with a free mini-Ministry magazine with some great reviews of the year in clubs (not that I'd know if it was true, being sixteen!) and some amusing little sections. I particularly liked the Sunday morning newsagent cartoon. Very clever :).
I, being a logical chap, stuck CD1 in my puter as soon as I opened the parcel, and was very impressed from the moment it started. A nice little thing is its the only CD I own that has successfully got its track titles from the net! Saves me typing them all anyway! The first tune on CD1 is the awesome iio, Rapture. This is one of my faves and something I knew before so I was dancing around my room already! ;)
The well-known tunes continues with Jean Jacques Smoothie, Two People but is soon mixed into a song I hadnt heard before by the fantastic Roger Sanchez and featuring Armand Van Helden, You Can't Change Me. I really liked that too. All three CDs include both well known classics like American Dream, Lovely Day and Do You Really Like It?, as well as some very cool songs I havent heard before, and my new favourite ever tune, the Norman Cook remix of Markus Nikolai, Bushes. Its great :).
All three CDs however, do contain some pap, like So Solid Crew and Genius Cru, but most of the songs are class. That brings me to the mixing, it seems to have been done by different people for each song, sometimes its great, you hardly notice, but sometimes one song just goes quiet and the next comes on. Bizarre.
Anyway, I would seriously recommend this CD to any dance fans. Its great, full of loads of classic tunes and some I didnt know before, but I love know. Buy it. Now. Or else. What are you waiting for?
I bought Ministry Of Sound: The Annual 2002 on Saturday, and I just thought I'd let all you dance lovers out there know how good this is.
I ordered online from HMV (expensive, but very convenient) on Thursday night, and recieved this along with two other totally unrelated parcels (computery bits) on saturday morning. I've never bought a dance CD before, because I've never really been that much into dance music. However, I saw the ad on TV and the music sounded great. So I used the power of the web to find out that it contained some absolutley classic tunes. If you like poppy-dance then this is a CD for you.
The Annual is a 3-CD limited edition boxed set, coming in a trick looking colourful box and with a free mini-Ministry magazine with some great reviews of the year in clubs (not that I'd know if it was true, being sixteen!) and some amusing little sections. I particularly liked the Sunday morning newsagent cartoon. Very clever :).
I, being a logical chap, stuck CD1 in my puter as soon as I opened the parcel, and was very impressed from the moment it started. A nice little thing is its the only CD I own that has successfully got its track titles from the net! Saves me typing them all anyway! The first tune on CD1 is the awesome iio, Rapture. This is one of my faves and something I knew before so I was dancing around my room already! ;)
The well-known tunes continues with Jean Jacques Smoothie, Two People but is soon mixed into a song I hadnt heard before by the fantastic Roger Sanchez and featuring Armand Van Helden, You Can't Change Me. I really liked that too. All three CDs include both well known classics like American Dream, Lovely Day and Do You Really Like It?, as well as some very cool songs I havent heard before, and my new favourite ever tune, the Norman Cook remix of Markus Nikolai, Bushes. Its great :).
All three CDs however, do contain some pap, like So Solid Crew and Genius Cru, but most of the songs are class. That brings me to the mixing, it seems to have been done by different people for each song, sometimes its great, you hardly notice, but sometimes one song just goes quiet and the next comes on. Bizarre.
Anyway, I would seriously recommend this CD to any dance fans. Its great, full of loads of classic tunes and some I didnt know before, but I love know. Buy it. Now. Or else. What are you waiting for?