The Ministry Of Sound now have been putting out a lot of chillout material since around 1999, and to be honest with you, it's all been rather mediocre, the usual suspects, like Groove Armada, Jakatta (which has been used on nearly every documentary since 2005!) and Kinobe - who are no synonymous with the genre, it would take a bulldozer to separate them, so it's not surprising that this stuff is on here, but to be honest with you again, there's some really unexpected cuts on here, I really didn't expect the MOS to use the rather dreamy World Party track with Is It Too Late?; and Sébastien Tellier's Kilometer.
I have noticed a lot of people complaining about the ads not having the same sort of music which they portray, yes, that is true, but this CD is actually better than I expected, and some great music can be found here. Although it's minimalistic in some ways, it's really there for you to chill out, and getting rid of all that excitement which might be preventing you from sleeping, or just to take the anger out of you from a busy day, and I have to agree that this compilation is just the ticket. I would suggest getting this if you don't have any other MOS releases, otherwise you're just going to duplicate a lot of tracks from other albums and it feels a bit of a rip off.
There are some nice surprises on here, and it's a good mix (well only CD3 is "mixed") that will help you relax. Really fed up of hearing Jakatta's American Dream though, it's become too popular and annoying at the same time.
If I were you I would look at the
MP3 version as you get the full tracks, and then just set your MP3 player or software to crossfade, it's the same thing as the MOS but you get the full mix, which sometimes is more relaxing.