In honour of their 18 and a halfth year of pumping out the choooons Ministry of Sound have decided to release a compilation CD which will feature the best of all previously released compilations. It is entitled, “Ministry of Sound presents: The Best of the Best of“, and will be due out in time for Christmas.
In line with past releases, the CD itself will be mixed and they have commissioned relative unknown, DJ Gurn, to mix it. In an interview with Wunderground, the DJ says the main difficulty has been trawling through the back catalogue trying to find those songs that were so effecting the first time. “I’ve been trying to recreate the conditions of when I first heard these tracks so I’ve been awake for three weeks now in the depths of a ket hole in my South London bedsit seeing which tunes make me gurn the hardest. So far, most of them have.”
“The list of songs I have for the compilation is now longer than a drug taking holiday in Beefa,” he continued. “But the patriarchs of Ministry of Sound, James Palumbo and Lohan Presencer, have given me their blessing to do what I feel is right so it looks like we’re going to have a compilation that will last the guts of a fortnight.”
The recording of the live two-week mix will take place in Ministry of Sound’s venue in London, commencing early Monday morning. Ministry of Sound are said to have doctors, personal trainers, and dealers on call should the crew need any assistance.
Boy George, who mixed the first compilation released by MOS, ‘The Annual,’ has issued words of warning to DJ Gurn saying, “Mixing ‘The Annual‘ nearly killed me. I was in the studio for days on end. Four coke mules died in the making of that album. Lest we forget…”
DJ Gurn has responded by saying that the label have insisted on hiring the most efficient and highly trained coke mules, who are currently undergoing a rigourous training regime, so that this will never occur again. In their official statement issued today, they state that this event is unlike any other compilation of a compilation the world has even seen. “This is an endurance test for DJ Gurn. Nobody has ever mixed live for two weeks. Think of what the scientific and medical community could learn.”
Sales of the CD will fund the continuing missionary work that Ministry of Sound are responsible for in those countries where EDM is largely unavailable.
