It must surely be one of Dark Energy's top ten proudest moment so far this year to present the first volume of co-founder Shur-i-kan's collection of ultimate b-side nuggets. However rather than trivialise such an important occasion with the normal promotional dross we decided to ask key industry figures what this release meant to them.
"You know the feeling you get in a club when the energy builds and builds and builds then the breakdown comes and the crowd goes wild", raved Stu Maverick, resident at Roxy in Bournemoth, "I try to picture that when playing this record".
We tracked down Milton Jackson, recently awarded Playmate of The Year at his Ibiza villa for his reaction "This is exactly the kind of record you will have in your bag for years but never play out: there's a reason for that."
Dark Energy's distributor made this statement "This is going to be big, we expect to shift literally tens of copies".
"The beauty is that with this release Shur-i-kan has in effect shifted the boundaries, or should I say, changed the paradigm of modern dance music by releasing not one but three tracks of what could have been premium dance floor pressure. The record reminds me of a wounded deer on the roadside - do we drive on leaving it to suffer alone or reverse and bludgeon it to death with a golf club? - either way it will haunt our dreams for years" waxed Tony Humphries in his weekly Daily Mail column.
"I'm so excited", shouted Jimpster during morning exercises on his bouncy castle, "with b-sides this great, just imagine what the a-sides could have been like!"