I'm in something of a quandary with this album as I'm dying to slate it for its "are you serious, all the same songs again!?" track list but at the same time find myself overwhelmed by the sheer dance value of the collection as a whole.
As a general rule of thumb with all new Ministry releases, you can guarantee the classics will be slammed to death, this time in the format of the instrumentals of one track, conjoined with the vocals of another. Its been successful in another format (MoS: The Mash Up Mix) for a few years now, and this effort largely follows on albeit with different branding.
I can't emphasise enough what the mixing of the Cut Up Boys bring to this album. Yes, you will have heard all the tracks before, and yes there is more than a hint of MoS forcing the tracklist on them, but the superb quality and depth of talent of these two great mixing artists is difficult to ignore. It sort of leaves me wondering if I should hate it for the drudgenous lack of new material, or love it for the inspiring originality of the mixing, and the freshness it brings to these out-dated tracks.
My personal favorites are the mixes of Andy Moor's White Room and Stunt's Raindrops and also Underworld's Cowgirl mashed with Deepest Blue's track of the same name. There are a few weak tracks in there such as Encore Une Fois and Cry For you but apart from that its a decent collection.
3 cd's make it an ever so slightly long-winded affair, but for anyone who loves seriously good mixing, and floorfillers throughout, then its definitely worthy of your attention!