With a Mark Dynamix and John Course-mixed 2004 Annual, the Ministry of Sound summed up the best tracks of the year with a sneaky selection of the stand-out tunes that you can expect to hear in the coming months, mixed by GT and Poxy Music's Pocket and Ken Cloud.

How did you come to mix the Clubbers Guide?

GT: How did I get the job? I've got a lot of incriminating photos of the staff at Ministry of Sound and said unless you give me one, I'm going to the cops! Michael Jackson is in enough trouble so they really don't need trouble as well.

Pocket: For the past two years, Ken and myself have been doing a fair amount of remix for Ministry. The people at Ministry are people we've known for a couple of years, but our paths have never crossed in a business sense, although we've found ourselves doing a lot of remix work for them. During that time, the relationship was built up a lot and then they had a product that they thought would be suitable for us so then they approached us and we agreed to do it.

How did you select the tracks for your disc?

Pocket: Big compilation CDs like this are a combination of things. We have tracks that are our favourites from our record boxes. Ken is more of a proficient DJ than I am. He's been doing it for 15 years while I've been working on the other side doing prodcution for 15 years. So Ken plays out regularly and has a collection of records and we regularly listen to stuff that's cool and tickles our fancy. Of course, Ministry have a bunch of tracks within their repertoire that they release on compilations. Basically, we have to find the middle ground. We have a whole bunch of tracks that are not very suitable for Ministry and are a bit more left of centre so we have to find a compromise.

GT: I was lucky because I was in London for all of November when we went through the track selection process. I'd be out in a club and I'd go 'What's that tune? Get that one!' Of course, everything got denied and everything else I was asking for was all the bootlegs. But Ministry have a lot of catalogue and they say 'this is what you have to put on the CD and you get to choose three songs.' But I'm lucky because the tracks on my CD are pretty good.

Any particular favourites?

Ken Cloud: The Brooks remix of Serve it up by Clude and Capital A which is like an old school hip house thing and Ewan Pearson's remix of Freek by The Flaws and MC Chickaboo pus Swag which finishes our comp because they're friends of ours.

GT: There's a couple of tracks that I really dig. There's the Kid Kenobi mix of Barcelona by DK and Elsilon featuring Stamin MC which is coming out on BMG in a few months. It's the fucking bomb! There's a new 2003 mix of JD's Plastic Dreams that I was really happy to get on there and Layo & Bushwacka's Let the good times roll, which I didn't think I'd be able to get on there.

How do you compare your disc to the others?

GT: Aw, mate. They're chalk and cheese! We all work in the same building and their studio is four feet from my studio. I'm really big fans of Poxy Music and I play anything they do anyway. I even put their new Ferry Corsten remix on my CD because I got an advance copy of that several months ago. They went 'that's our tune, dude!' but it worked out okay becasue their CD is a little more down tempo and left field. They got to put the really cool shit on their CD like Chicks on Speed which I could never fit on my one even if that's the sort of stuff I listen to, but it's not what I'm known for. I had to put on all the stuff your 16 year old sister waants to dance to!

Ken Cloud: GT's is more of the big club tunes for 2004 and our disc is more about tracks that are going to emerge this year.

Are you going to tour the album?

GT: The tour's going everywhere and it's pretty much the circuit that I usually play so it's going to be fun. The thing I hate about touring by myself is that you have to sit in the hotel for six or seven hours on your own beforehand but with all the guys coming out as well, we can get into all sorts of mischief.

Pocket: We're not doing all the dates as GT. He's doing a whole lot of DJ dates and on a select few Ken and I are accompanying him and playing live and there's a few others where I'm going out along and DJing.

Ken: I'll just be doing the live stuff. I've got a little baby girl so I'm not into flying all over the place at the moment. But I'm really enjoying working on the live stuff. I find it quite motivating.

What else are you working on?

GT: I'm working on an album with a couple of other people in England at the moment and I was over there in November. We did two tunes and I'm going back in April for two months to get most of it done and then we'll shop it. That's not a GT project, it's a whole new thing. I'm basically the third writer on it, and I'm also doing a GT track with Goodwill at the momenet which we'll hopefully finish soon if I can get him out of the pub and into the studio!