The Australian branch of Ministry of Sound are having a thundering year, delivering releases that cover nearly every different corner of local dance culture, and they’ll be taking this one step further with their planned The Underground 2009 compilation. It’s a three-disc release due to hit the shelves in mid July that explores the different flavours of underground house and techno holding sway in the clubs, and again they’ve recruited a slew of credible names to handle mixing duties. Justin Martin, Style of Eye and Klaus Hill no less!

It’s an impressive crew of DJ/producers indeed. Dirty Bird leader Justin Martin is coming right off the back of a smashing Australian tour over the June Long Weekend, Sweden’s Style of Eye have just completed an Essential Mix for BBC1 and have been making massive waves over the past 12 months, while Klaus Hill is musically as eclectic as ever and will be taking the release on the road for a national tour.

Ministry of Sound haven’t been short of releases with mass appeal this year like Sessions 6 and Clubbers Guide to 2009, but the new Underground 2009 mix CD sees them sees them complete their hat-trick of ‘edgier’ mix CDs; slotting in neatly alongside Progression 2 and the upcoming Trance Nation (read about it here).

Ministry of Sound’s The Underground 2009 hits the stores on July 17th, and you can catch Klaus Hill touring in support of its release:

Fri 24th July – Grand Hotel, Wollongong
Sat 25th July – Gilligans, Cairns
Fri 7th Aug – Duke Hotel, Wagga
Sat 8th Aug – Gemini Hotel, Griffith
Sat 15th Aug – Studio 146, Albany
Fri 28th Aug – Platinum, Gold Coast