Ministry of Sound Australia

Ministry of Sound Australia Pty Ltd is the Australian subsidiary label of Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd. It is Australia's largest independent Dance label as well as one of Australia's largest independent labels overall. Despite being a wholly owned subsidiary of Ministry of Sound Recordings, it has full independence over its operations in Australia.

Ministry of Sound Australia runs its own sub-labels which have signed a lot of the most popular House producers from Australia and overseas. Ministry of Sound Australia's Albums, particularly The Annual & Clubbers Guide tend to be of far higher quality than its UK counterparts as MoSA give the DJs near to complete control over what tracks are included in their compilations and are subject to very favourable reviews and is one of the main reasons why Ministry of Sound Australia is extremely popular in Australia today. Every MoSA compilation released since the mid 2000s have held No.1 chart positions on the ARIA compilation, club and dance charts and continue to be in the top 10 for weeks and months after their initial release.

From 1999-2007 Ministry of Sound Australia CDs were distributed by EMI Music Group Australia. From 2008 onwards Ministry of Sound Australia is distributed by Universal Music Australia.

Notable DJs who have mixed MoSA albums over the years include Tall Paul, Groove Terminator, Mark Dynamix, Kid Kenobi, John Course, Axwell, Goodwill, Sean Quinn, DJ Brendon, The Aston Shuffle, MYNC, Steve Aoki, Stafford Brothers, Tommy Trash and The Bloody Beetroots.

History

Ministry of Sound UK had been doing tours previous to Ministry of Sound Australia's establishment in late 1999, conducting national tours in 1997 and 1998. Both events had an album released in Australia titled Ministry of Sound: Australian Tour '97 and Ministry of Sound: Australian Tour '98 which collected the best house anthems from 1996 to 1998 and were released by Festival Mushroom Records which is now owned by Warner Chappell Music Australia. The popularity of these tours and the CD's prompted Ministry of Sound UK to establish itself in Australia in 1999 and released its first compilation, Clubber's Guide to... Australia.

Ministry of Sound Australia was founded in 1999 by Sydney DJ Tim McGee and executives from Ministry of Sound UK, while McGee was an employee of Central Station Records. Ministry of Sound Australia was then known as Ministry of Sound (UK) Pty Ltd and ran the basic operations of the Australian subsidiary as well as Tim McGee's Hussle Recordings which he incorporated into Ministry of Sound (UK) at its founding and began a distribution agreement with EMI.

In 2000, Ministry of Sound Australia produced its first compilation Album: Club Nation 2000, which was mixed by Mark Dynamix & Groove Terminator. Clubber's Guide to... Australia and The Summer Annual - Summer 2000 were produced by Ministry UK. In late 2000, Tim McGee left Central Station to head up Ministry of Sound Australia full time.

In 2011, Ministry of Sound Australia celebrated 10 years of The Annual in Australia and released The Annual: 10 Years which was mixed by John Course & Mark Dynamix and continues to chart in the ARIA Compilation charts.

Clothing

Ministry of Sound Australia released its own clothing line which was very successful, however currently there are no plans to continue this in the near future.

Labels

Ministry of Sound Australia own the following labels and also release music as Ministry of Sound Australia.

• Hussle Recordings
• etcetc
• Deluxe
• Hed Kandi Australia
• Downright Music
• Astrx (Formerly Asterix)

External links

Official website