Ministry of sound presents Chilled, a serene selection of beautiful music guaranteed to soothe the soul. 3 mixes including both current hits and enduring classics. Lay back, sink into your sofa and wrap yourself up in this tranquil compilation.

The continual rise of dance music also means that this year, DJs are filling more headline festival slots than ever before, festivals such as Global Gathering, Creamfields and Eastern Electrics are now overtaking the likes of Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds and Bestival as the place to be seen this summer.

Chilled House Session 3 brings you a cool, slick collection of chilled club anthems and remixes. CD1 features a more main room sound and some near euphoric moments, with big tracks and remixes coming from the likes of Nadia Ali – "Rapture" (Avicii Remix), Jamie Jones’ huge remix of club smash Azari & III – "Hungry For The Power", big for 2012 producer, Maya Jane Coles, underground anthem Intruder – "Amame", and loads more from Laidback Luke vs Example, Deadmaus, and Kaskade. CD2 hits a slightly more laidback feel with tracks and remixes coming from Dusky, Cassius, Hercules & Love Affair, Benoit & Sergio, Yasmin, Lovebirds and Maceo Plex.

Bringing you The Weekender, three mixes designed to take you from that first drink on Friday night all the way through to the sofa on Sunday. This is the soundtrack to your weekend. Mix 1 kicks off the album with a selection of tracks to help you get that Friday feeling. Artists such as Gorgon City, Shift K3y, Duke Dumont and Disclosure are all at hand to get you in the mood for dancing. Mix 2 takes you straight to Saturday and is packed out with some of the biggest club hits and dancefloor favourites, including tracks from DJ Fresh, Calvin Harris, Oliver Heldens and David Guetta. Mix 3 is here for the Sunday wind down. Put your feet up and reflect on an amazing weekend with music from Mr Probz, Wretch 32, Lily Wood & Robin Shultz and Parra for Cuva. Sundays have never been so sweet.

Spanning genres and crossing territories, The Morning After The Night Before delivers 40 smooth, tranquil grooves, perfect for weekend recuperating and evening lounging. Featuring upfront originals and remixes from internationally respected artists and producers. Split into 2 sublime mixes, with mix 1 firmly rooted in electronica and mix 2 flowing through truly chilled and laidback house, The Morning After The Night Before provides the perfect balance for deep, easy, inspirational listening.

Last Night A DJ Saved My Life is an epic collection that takes you from the late 70s disco era all the way through to the modern day house resurgence. We have handpicked 60 soul and dance groves that have shaped dancefloors for over forty years.

The weather is getting cooler, and the best way to warm up is to hit the pavement with Ministry of Sound's Running Trax Winter 2015. Get motivated, get up and get moving this winter with Running Trax Winter 2015 from Ministry of Sound – no excuses!

I discovered Keiko Matsui by accident while surfing for other music. I listened to a few tunes and was immediately hooked. One by one I listened to her snips of music and had to have the album. Then I moved on to another album from Keiko. Then another, then another. She will be with me for my future roads trips and Friday night dinner parties. Trust me, she'll relax you and make you feel like the evening is meant for two.

If there's such a thing as poetic music, Matsui continues her discovery of it on this effort. For all its beauty ad more aggressive touches, this collection doesn't quite measure up to her previous collection No Borders, but there are moments of fusion in her work here which cook like never before, thanks to Eric Marienthal, Gerald Albright and guitarist Ron Komie. While husband/producer Kazu Matsui adds his mysterious shakuhachi wind to "Grey Cliffs," Matsui spends her time creating soundscapes which range from mainly acoustic to punchy electric pieces like "Hope." Clay Jenkins' flugelhorn is a plus. The two vocals here don't give Greg Walker enough excitement to play with; instead they seem too ambitious. Don't let the flowers on the cover fool you because this disc is anything but fluffy and pastoral in nature.

Taking a stroll through Keiko Matsui's musical hypnotherapy session Dream Walk is like entering a funhouse where all previous definitions of contemporary jazz are strikingly distorted, and invention walks on the wild side of East meets West. Crisp melodies have always been at the heart of the keyboardist's best work, only here they come at you as part of the mood, rather than the central theme. Only a handful of the keyboardist's tunes follow conventional linear melodic patterns throughout, and even these are so beautifully enhanced by sweeping orchestral and percussive invention that atmosphere and throbbing, raw twists ultimately win out over predictability. Equal credit for the newly aggressive approach goes to husband/producer Kazu Matsui, whose sonic wizardry surrounds Keiko's silky jazz and new age passageways with curious echoing flavors, enticing soundscapes where almost anything goes, and loose-fitting urban cool. Other out-there touches include Molly Pasutti's sweeping wordless vocals, bass samples by Marcus Miller and John Patitucci chosen over live bass, and Kazu's own shakuhachi. More typical excitement is provided by Paul Taylor's always warm soprano and alto musings.

If we're talking Keiko Matsui, we can expect another impressionistic album cover which belies the often explosive music on the disc. Matsui draws a little more from her heritage this time but textures it with soulful excursions ("Walking on the Bridge"). She once again gives radio a seductive earful while continuing her heightened exploration into more challenging orchestral sounds and several impressive, wildly percussive Latin journeys (e.g. "Sail South"). Making perfect use of Lenny Castro's spicy percussion and Clay Jenkins' punchy trumpet flavors, Matsui lets loose. The gospel vocal by Arnold McCuller is a strong one. Other newcomers to the fold are guitarist Jorge Strunz, Jon Clark (recorder) and Sam Riney on sax.