MOS - Live & Remastered

Various Artists – Live & Remastered: 20th Anniversary Box Set – (Ministry Of Sound)

MOS - Live & Remastered

To celebrate two decades of the Ministry of Sound, this excellent box set – packaged as a small record bag – offers no less than five mixes from house music royalty. The promo version focuses in on two of these, so Larry Levan and David Morales step up to deliver some truly wonderful classic house moments. Levan delights in the use of uplifting vocals and the piano, best experienced in Soft House Company’s ‘What You Need’ and ‘A Little Piano’, though we should not overlook Robert Owens’ timeless ‘I’ll Be Your Friend’ and Sounds of Blackness ‘The Pressure’. You get the picture. Morales, meanwhile, opts for a deeper slant that takes in Inner City’s ‘Pennies From Heaven’, Lil Louis’ ‘Club Lonely’ and Shafty’s ‘Deep Inside Of You’ – hitting a peak with his final Degrees of Motion-Chez Damier-Mission Control trio. You only need to look at the tracklistings for the other three mixes from Todd Terry, Kenny Carpenter and Justin Berkmann to know this is a set that house heads cannot afford to miss out on. Especially as it’s only 20 quid!

5 out of 5

Reviewed By Ben Hogwood