All of Hed Kandi's "Back to Love" CDs are great, but this is the first one to actually give me goosebumps all over. There are just too many blissful tracks on this CD to name. Also, it is simply fabulous that some early trance/progressive tracks have been included on this compilation. LaTour's "Blue" is a fave of mine. To be honest with you, before buying this CD, I only knew this track as "that song from the movie 'Basic Instinct' playing in the background as Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas kissed on the dancefloor." And the hip-hop and r&b selections are top-notch as well. Once again, Hed Kandi takes a little detour and puts in a track by Lyn Collins named "Think (About It)". This baby dates back to 1970 (2 years before I was born)!!! However, it fits perfectly with the track selection on the CD 2 since this song has been sampled and used in so many hiphop tracks for the most of the eighties and early nineties. Great work, Hed Kandi!

As everyone here knows The Ministry of Sound is a huge label/nightclub out of the UK who has helped spread electronic dance music to all four corners of the globe. As a matter of fact, the Ministry "educated" me about house music when I re-discovered it in 1996. Their "DJ Sessions CDs (especially Sessions 1 - 9)" were fabulous and still hold up despite the passage of time. However, MOS is loosing the edge they once had. I guess that's what happens when an organization gets so large. Innovation suffers. MOS produced several CD series that were really excellent but it now seems that all they are interested in is cramming as many recycled, overplayed tracks they can on a double cd so you're stuck with only 2-3 minute snippet of each track. And what's even sadder is their "chill-out" selections. The MOS "Late Night Sessions" were mind-blowing and powerful (all three of them)! Nowadays, they don't even to have a DJ compile the tracks anyone (e.g. Chill-out Sessions Series). It's really sad. Ministry of Sound is no longer on my radar screen anymore. That's probably because everytime I look at a tracklisting of any of their CDs, I can't help but think, "Been, there, done that."