Label: Ministry Of Sound - ANNCD98
Series: The Annual Series (Ministry Of Sound UK)
Format: 2 × CD, Mixed, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 1998
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Trance



TRACKLiST:

CD1:

01. Needin' You (original Mistake) - Morales, David & Face
02. Found A Cure (mood 2 swing original mix) - Ultra Nate
03. Danicn' With You (full intention vocal dub) - Bini & Martini
04. Can't Get High Without You (philly world mix) - Joey Negro & Taka Boom
05. In My Life (jose's vocal mix) - Nunez, Jose & Octahvia
06. Horn Song (the don's original mix) - Don
07. You Should Be... (blockster's 12" mix) - Blockster
08. Take Control (m&s epic klub mix) - State Of Mind
09. House Music (full intention remix) - Amador, Eddie
10. Layla (tumpin' mix) - Audio Technica
11. Feel It (sharp master blaster remix) - Tamperer & Maya
12. Kinetic (slacker's psychokinetic mix) - Golden Girls
13. My Time (victor calderone mix) - Souvlaki
14. Fine Night (untidy dub) - Dusk Till Dawn
15. Dreaming (percussion mix) - Arrola
16. I Put A Spell On You (full vocal serious mix) - Sonique
17. El Nino (matt darey mix) - Agnelli & Nelson
18. Cafe Del Mar '98 (original three n' one mix) - Energy 52
19. For An Angel '98 (pvd e-werk club mix) - Van Dyk, Paul
20. Ayla (original dj taucher mix) - Ayla
21. Discocop (climax edit) - Blue Adonis

CD2:

01. Rockafeller Skank (original mix) - Fatboy Slim
02. It's Like That (original mix) - Run DMC & Jason Nevins
03. Be Yourself Be Free (brazilia mix) - Sao Paulo
04. Burnin' (blockster's 12" mix) - Baby Bumps
05. I Like (What You Do For Me) (power 2 move remix) - Roberts, Juliet
06. Thinkin' About Me (f**ked up disco mix) - MPC's
07. Horny (horny '98 extended mix) - Mousse T & Hot 'n' Juicy
08. Kickin' Hard (rollercoaster's pumped up mix) - Klubbheads
09. Freaks Come Out (2000 freaks mix) - Fisher, Cevin Big Freak
10. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (quivver mix) - Culture Club
11. Shame (matt darey mix) - Ruff Driverz
12. Strong In Love (disco citizens mix) - Chicane & Mason
13. Independence (the stadium mix) - Jonesey
14. Soothe (16b remix) - Furry Phreaks & Terra Deva
15. Teardrops (flava mix) - Lovestation
16. Rock Da House Live (original mix) - Skeewiff
17. Brimful Of Asha (norman cook remix) - Cornershop
18. B-Boy Stance (freestylers revenge mix) - Freestylers
19. Gangster Trippin' (original mix) - Fatboy Slim
20. Beat Goes On (original mix) - All Seeing I
21. Jungle Brother (urban takeover mix) - Jungle Brothers


iNFO:

The Annual is a series of compilation albums currently published annually by London-based electronic dance music brand Ministry of Sound. Described as Ministry of Sound's "flagship" series, the popular albums feature house, big beat and trance tracks popular in nightclubs, especially those in the United Kingdom.

From 1995-1999, the individual releases of The Annual were denoted by Roman numerals, from The Annual to The Annual IV. In 1999, the series' titling was reorganized and all following albums were named by year, beginning with The Annual 1999 - Millennium Edition. Starting in 2001, the album was named for the year following the Autumn release date instead of the year of release, thus there is no album assigned to 2001 (aside from the Spring 2001 Annual). After the Clubbers Guide To .... 2001 (Mixed By Tall Paul) Ministry of Sound decided not to use big name DJs but to use lesser-known DJs that mix digitally, and not credit who the mixer is on the front cover. This has since been denied once, where CJ Mackintosh, Jazzy M and Marc Hughes mixed Fifteen Years in 2006, and several times since then such as on Live & Remastered (though the mixes on this box set were mixed in the 1990s). The Sessions series still continues to be mixed by a DJ.

As the series became more popular in the early 2000s, similar (though not identical) albums of the same name were licensed to Ultra Records in the United States, Ministry of Sound subsidiary labels in Australia and Germany, and Universal Music in many countries worldwide, including Italy, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal and the Philippines. These albums share many tracks with the (original) UK releases, though they are mixed in a different order and replace some songs with more local songs in the track listing.

The Australian Annuals in particular are held in much higher regard than the UK Annuals, as much more local and underground tracks are used and are always mixed by well-known and underground DJ's. Every Annual since the The 2002 Annual have been chart toppers and go either Gold or Platinum and stay on the ARIA Compilation charts and Australian iTunes charts for months on end.

The Annual II remains one of the biggest selling compilation albums of all time in the UK, including quite possibly the biggest selling DJ mix album in the UK. It is listed in the Guinness World Records 2001 as the "Best Selling Club Dance Compilation", with 610,000 copies sold by the publication of that book in 2000.

Source: en.wikipedia.org