Ministry Of Sound The Annual 2004 Games
Half these tracks are on The Annual 2003 (Summer) and for some bizzare reason they decided everyone needs to hear Manilla again, wow that track is terrible. CD3 claims to be anthems from the past 5 years but only seems to concentrate on 2000. Pretty pointless compilation when put up against the previous one. All three CDs seem to be riddled with bizarre tempo (pitch) changes at the most inopportune and sudden places making some of the 'drops' sound weird and painful.CD1 hops between cheesy vocal trance and fairly uninspiring borderline commercial/regular trance.
Quite mishmash, no journey, nothing eyeopening.CD2 There are some pretty good house tracks on here, but they're sandwiched inbetween some pretty terrible, or forgettable filler tracks, most of the good ones already appeared on the previous annual.CD3 as I mentioned earlier seems to pander to all the other thousands of MOS classics albums that were being sold (and are still be sold) at the time, though I suppose the only way they could somehow set this apart from their other releases was to do anthems/classics from 99-2000. As there's barely anything else from what claims to be 'the last 5 years'.
Suffering from the tempo changes and thrown togetherness they did at least try to give it some sort of structure. Could have dropped Spin Spin Sugar from it, terrible remix. I swear they had some sort of database showing how many times a track has been on something then used that to compile it. Just because a track was on so many cds never made it good.
I'm looking right at you old AVH remixes.
Ministry Of Sound The Annual 2004 Gamestop
Released November 2003The Annual series from Ministry of Sound can be relied upon year after year to show other dance compilations exactly how its done and the latest addition to the collection, The Annual 2004, promises to reinforce their position as the authority in dance music. The triple album comprises of 63 tracks and comes in a funky limited edition box set.CD1 features such gems as chart smash 'Satisfaction' by Benny Benassi, 'I Cant Let U Go' by Ian Van Dahl and Angel Citys 'Love Me Right', and CD2 featuring the current massive anthem 'Stand Back' from Linus Loves feat Sam Obernik alongside favourites from the year such as Deepest Blue, Room 5 feat Oliver Cheatham 'Make Luv' and Milk & Sugar 'Let The Sunshine In'In addition, a special bonus CD3 features 21 essential floor-filling Annual Anthems from the last 5 years. This bonus disc provides a retrospective thats guaranteed to bring back some memories with tunes like Basement Jaxxs 'Romeo', Roger Sanchez 'Another Chance' and iiOs 'Rapture'The Annual 2004 is THE definitive dance compilation of the year.http://www.ministryofsound.comhttp://bit.ly/MoStv.