CD1
01. Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives
02. Robin S - Show Me Love
03. Loveland - Let The Music (Lift You Up) (Full On Extended Vocal Mix)
04. True Faith Feat. Bridgett Grace with Final Cut - Take Me Away
05. My Friend Sam Feat. Violla Wills - It’s My Pleasure
06. Bassheads - Is There Anybody Out There?
07. Chrissy Ward - Right & Exact (StoneBridge Club Mix)
08. Inner City - Pennies From Heaven (Kevin’s Tunnel Mix)
09. Congress - 40 Miles (Dub Version)
10. N-Joi - Anthem
11. Gat Décor - Passion (Naked Mix)
12. FPI Project - Everybody (All Over The World)
13. Shades Of Rhythm - Sound Of Eden
14. Last Rhythm - Last Rhythm
15. Leftfield - Not Forgotten (Hard Hands Mix)
16. Degrees Of Motion Feat. Biti - Shine On (The Radient Mix)
CD2
01. Moby - Go
02. De'Lacy - Hideaway (Deep Dish Mix)
03. Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall (Original Netherlands Mix)
04. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
05. Direkt - Two Fat Guitars
06. Jaydee - Plastic Dreams
07. Sono - Keep Control (Hydrogen Rockers Vocal Mix)
08. Laguna - Spiller From Rio
09. Funkatarium - Jump
10. CJ Bolland - Sugar Is Sweeter (Armand’s Drum & Bass Mix)
11. Duke - So In Love With You
12. Ken Doh - Nakasaki (I Need A Lover Tonight)
13. Chicane - Offshore
14. Partison - No Me Gustah
15. Three Drives - Greece 2000
16. Paul van Dyk - For An Angel (PvD E-werk Club Mix)
CD3
01. David Morales With Lea Lorién - How Would U Feel
02. BootyLuv - Boogie 2Nite (Acappella)
03. M-Gee Feat. Mica Paris - Bodyswerve (Grant Nelson Mix)
04. Coloursound - Fly With Me
05. Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You
06. Space Cowboy - Crazy Talk (Pique & Nique’s “You Will Miss Me” Mix)
07. Junior Jack - Stupidisco
08. Mylo - Drop The Pressure
09. Chab Feat. JD Davis - Closer To Me
10. Studio B - I See Girls (Crazy) (Tom Neville Mix)
11. Carl Kennedy & Johnny Gleeson Present Southside Hustlers - Right Before My Eyes (Hoxton Whores Mix)
12. Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
13. Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Mylo Remix)
14. Deux - Sun Rising Up
15. Till West & DJ Delicious - Same Man
16. Mason - Exceeder
Biography:
The Ministry of Sound issued just one 1966 single while they were active. But they recorded several albums` worth of material within the space of about a couple of years, eventually bringing them to the notice of those who collect the small British school of `60s sunshine pop. Too, their history was quite complicated considering their small discography, as they were a studio outfit whose personnel included noted songwriter John Carter, although Carter was not the dominant member.
The core of the Ministry of Sound was the duo of singer/songwriters Robin Shaw and Micky Keen, who had first performed together back in the late `50s in Mick Everly & the Prophets. By the mid-`60s they were part of the house band of Southern Music Studios, and signed to Carter`s publishing company as songwriters. They also recorded often at Southern Music Studios as Ministry of Sound, with Carter pitching in with songwriting, guitar, and some lead vocals. Songwriter Russ Alquist also sang lead on some tracks, as well as making some contributions as a writer, with Robin Shaw handling some of the lead vocal duties as well. Top British session drummer Clem Cattini and keyboardist Barry Kingston also recorded with them.
At least several dozen songs were recorded by the aggregation between 1966 and 1968, but the only two that found release were issued on the 1966 Decca single "White Collar Worker"/"Back Seat Driver." In common with much of the material with which the prolific John Carter was associated in the mid- to late `60s (with groups such as the Flower Pot Men and the Ivy League), it gave a British spin to the harmony sunshine pop of groups like the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Association, and the Tokens, perhaps with a bit of the Four Seasons and Motown thrown in. Some of it also drew from psychedelia in the sophisticated production, use of then-advanced instrumentation such as the Mellotron, songs that explored British characters and situations, and lightly trippy lyrics. It wasn`t as good as their most obvious influences, but it was very smoothly recorded and sung, with pleasant if not indelible tunesmithery.
Although some of the songs they recorded were covered by British pop group Amen Corner and Australian singer Normie Rowe, the Ministry of Sound didn`t get the chance to release any more records while they were active. They came to an end when Robin Shaw joined the touring version of the Flower Pot Men, with Keen, Carter, and Cattini continuing to focus on studio work. In 2005, 35 of the tracks they recorded between 1966 and 1968 were issued on the two-CD set Midsummer Nights Dreaming/Men from the Ministry, most of them previously unreleased, though it did include both sides of their 1966 single.
