Mos 2016

Ministry of Sound presents the ultimate collection of sweet, smooth sounds pitched perfectly for listening pleasure! CD1 gets into it with a smothering of legendary tracks from Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye before the satin sounds of Luther Vandross and Barry White. Next, disco classics from Chic, Sister Sledge and Cheryl Lynn will get you to your feet for the juiciest offerings of Evelyn Champagne King, Hall & Oates and Bill Withers. We’re just getting started as CD2 keeps you moving with a drizzle of Lionel Richie, Rufus & Chaka Khan and Kool & The Gang before a pure liquid groove from the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. Finally, CD3 brings back the 90s sounds of Sade, Soul II Soul and Brand New Heavies before the likes of Jocelyn Brown, Shola Ama and Angie Stone will have you swaying to every note. This collection is smoother than silk, Scotch or melted Belgian chocolate … and it’s guaranteed to get you moving but remember, it ain’t Smooth if it ain’t got that Groove!

Remastered in 24 Bit technology and reissued on the Blood Music label, Carbon Based Lifeforms renews the life of this 2003 LP. Carbon Based Lifeforms specializes in a form of electronic ambience, but rather than drifting aimlessly through space, there’s a pulsating rhythm that keeps it firmly grounded on this distant planet. The album is front-loaded with livelier tracks, featuring a heavy focus on percussion and varied melodies to carry momentum. However, as the album progresses, ambience comes to the fore and song structure falls by the wayside. It’s designed for you to become complacent, adjusting to their sonic palette throughout the first half so you don’t notice the world around you becoming more and more foreign by the second. The final tracks are particularly indicative of this progression, featuring no percussion at all and steadily becoming stranger as the album nears the closer.

Robert Glasper is a jazz pianist with a knack for mellow, harmonically complex compositions that also reveal a subtle hip-hop influence. Since debuting as a leader during the mid-2000s, the Houston native has been crucial to the enduring relevance of Blue Note Records, blurring genre distinctions and regularly topping Billboard's Jazz Albums chart with highly collaborative recordings such as the Grammy-winning Black Radio (2011) and Black Radio 2 (2013), as well as ArtScience (2016), all credited to the Robert Glasper Experiment. In addition to guiding projects such as the soundtrack for Miles Ahead (another Grammy winner) and R+R=Now's Collagically Speaking, Glasper has contributed to dozens of other albums, most notably Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly. The mixtape Fuck Yo Feelings (2019) best exemplifies Glasper's obstinate resistance to expectations and devotion to spontaneous interplay.

The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, which previously hosted the competition in 2005, as well as the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2009 and 2013. The right to host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest came after Jamala won the 2016 edition in Stockholm with her song 1944.