Global Underground

Ministry of Sound, best known for its nightclub business, live events & music label, has changed its name to MSHK Group.

According to the company, “Ministry of Sound is renaming itself MSHK Group to reflect its many brands and its proven diversified business model.”

I don’t know about this switch: “Ministry of Sound” sounds awesomely cool. MSHK Group sounds sort of like an accounting firm, doesn’t it?

Ministry of Sound is known for HedKandi, Ministry of Sound, Global Underground and Euphoria music brands.

The company’s expanded into so many brands, though, that it’s becoming less about electronic and dance music and more about marketing. They’ve got a successful line of branded camping gear, of all things.

“Being the world leaders in dance music has established a great platform for us, but given changing times we have needed to grow our business into complimentary areas,” says Lohan Presencer, CEO. “I have always wanted to make a reality of the much talked about 360_ model, rather than the usual rhetoric based on unworkable and expensive deals, and at MSHK we are in the unique position of having achieved this. We have a whole raft of developing ideas, including launches of our new range of Hedkandi haircare products and fragrances, which will be coming to fruition over the next year, and it is a tremendously exciting time to be taking control of the group.”

Here’s something for Sasha fans/trance fans: Sasha’s announced a new CD, Invol2ver, that promises to take a visit to the same territory he explored on the Involver CD.

The CD features twelve heavily worked-over tracks, including tunes from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, synth pop stars Ladytron, indie troubadour Ray La Montagne and Telefon Tel Aviv. Limited edition copies will include a second CD of Sasha remix exclusives.

Tracks:

01. Intro – Sasha
02. Telefon Tel Aviv – You Are the Worst Thing in the World
03. Rone – Flesh
04. Sasha – Untitled (with Ray LaMontagne vocal sample)
05. Sasha – Lowlife (with Adam Parker Vocal sample)
06. Sasha – Midnight (with Adam Parker vocal sample)
07. Apparat – Arcadia
08. Home Video – That You Might
09. Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
10. M83 – Couleurs
11. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
12. Sasha – 3 Little Pigs
13. Engineers – Sometime I Realise

Sasha releases Involver2 on Global Underground on September 8th 2008.