Various Artists Compilations POX

I can't think of any more that aren't so recent as to embarass me in front of all you elders!

Palatine 4cd (factory)
Some of These Were Hooj
the 4th disc of the This Mortal Coil boxset (with the original versions)
Trax Records 20th anniversary 3cd
Casablanca (on elefant)
Dubwise and Otherwise Vol 2 (blood and fire)
children of jah: the Chantells and Friends (blood & fire)
Larry Levan: The Definitive Salsoul Mixes '78-'83
Alvin Lives In Leeds
Warp 10+2 classics

1. Classic Balearic Mastercuts

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000006CM6/qid=1105459930/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-8874390-6738812

1 Cherrystone's Rocks (weird European funky prog)
2 Cherrystone's Hidden Charms (obcure funky garage rock)
3 Dave Grodin's DeepSsoul Treasures Vol 1-4
4 Stand Up And Be Counted Vols 1 & 2
5 Meridian 1970 (Jon Savage's folk-rock comp)
6 All Day Thumbsucker Revisited (Blue Thumb records Best-Of)
7 Below The Radio (Granddaddy mix album)
8 Saint Etienne: The Trip (though it is a bit heavy on the Philly soul stuff)
9 A History Of Memphis Garage And Frat Bands Vols 1 & 2
10 Michigan Brand Nuggets (for giving Bob Seger his due)

1. Phil Spector: Back to Mono
2. Basic Channel: Basic Channel (perhaps this shouldn't count, it is technically V/A, but all tracks were done by the same guys)
2a. Warp Artificial Intelligence vol 2
3. Noise Reduction II (Invisible Records)
4. Tribute to Spacemen 3
5. Clicks and Cuts v.1
6. King Tubby and Friends -- Dub Gone Crazy (Blood and Fire comp)
7. Excursions in Ambience: The Fourth Frontier (Astralwerks)
8. Skampler (1998)
9. Several Bands Galore volume two (sounds of the bands of the mbv mailing list)
10. In a Field of Their Own (Highlights of Glastonbury 1992)

Then again CAI has Looking From A Hilltop megamix and Look Into My Eyes... On another day I would have gone for this instead!

Back To Mono
20 Dynamic Hits / 22 Dynamic Hits Vol.II (K-Tel)
Mutant Disco (ZE)
*insert Trojan comp. here* (to be brutally honest, I like that "Young Gifted And Black" hits comp. the best)
DJ Pogo presents The Breaks (Harmless) + the rest in this series
Super Breaks 1-3 (Ace)
Pop A Paris 1-5 (Universal France)
Saint Etienne - The Trip
2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax pt.2
Michael Mayer - Fabric 13

ditto what MindInRewind said.

It wasn't explicitly stated at the start of the thread, but I was wondering if anyone else felt the same way about the usage of the term.

I don't even have ten good ones I can think of right now.

Flux Trax

i know that will get plenty of argument around here, but imho a good mixset is way more than the sum of its parts (it's not the same as an unmixed collection of the same tracks)

i could do a list of my ten favorite mixsets or unmixed comps, or both. but i chose to just do the unmixed comps

all time (ok 90s) faves, not including mixed comps

Metalheadz Platinum Breakz vol 1
Xen Cuts (Ninja)
Warp 10+1 Remixes
Atlantic Jaxx: A Compilation
Super Discount
Headz (Mo Wax)
Flux Trax
Grooverider presents: The Prototype Years
Muzik presents: R&S - Refresh Your Ears
Suburban Base Classics

What do you mean "cheating"?

In my list I made one unforgiveable mistake ; I left out Alchemist Of Pop - Joe Meek productions. So goodbye Wanna Buy a Bridge.

Platinum Breakz vol. 1 & 3
Vol. 3 came in a cool, circle-shaped metal box, and featured (among others) one of my all-time favourite drum'n'bass tracks, Dillinja's "Warrior Jazz".

Old School Hip Hop
This German two-disc compilation cost 8 euros, it features a whole bunch of old-school classics from "Planet Rock" to "The Message" to "Break Dance - Electric Boogie" to "Boogie Down Bronx" to "I'm Your Pusher" to "King Tim III" to "Go See the Doctor" to...

Trance Europe Express 1-3, Breakbeat Era 1-2, Wasted - The Best of Volume part 1, Sally's Photographic Memory
All these came from the same company, they had lots of classic (and some exclusive) tracks (the vocal remix of Orbital's "Belfast" is pretty fab) and they came with (except for the last one) 100+ page books with interviews of all the featured artist, plus articles, jokes, etc.

Trancemaster 7-9, Trancesylvania 1-3
For nostalgia reasons if nothing else.