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The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 currently broadcast between 0:00 - 2:00 AM UK time on Saturday morning. Originally broadcast on 30 October 1993, the Essential Mix features contemporary DJs and music producers of electronic dance music. The show has been presented since its inception by Pete Tong and features an uninterrupted two-hour mix from a different artist each week, overlaid with occasional continuity announcements delivered by Tong. With a broadcast run in excess of 25 years, the Essential Mix is one of the longest-running programmes in the current BBC Radio 1 schedule, and is one of very few Radio 1 shows which is not broadcast live.

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Essential Mix 2010-12-04 - Sander Kleinenberg

Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, shared workspace and private members club, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio.

James Palumbo is the co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of the Group. He handed over the day-to-day running of the business to Lohan Presencer in 2008. In 2018, Presencer became chairman.
Ministry of Sound began as the idea of Justin Berkmann. Inspired by New York’s Paradise Garage - which he described as "an amazing club. It had lights, darkness, music, quiet – everything you wanted" - Berkmann set out to create London's first club devoted to the American house music scenes of 1980s New York City, Newark (which centred around Club Zanzibar), Chicago and Detroit. As opposed to striking a balance between the typical hallmarks of a live music venue, Ministry of Sound was conceived as an arena purely dedicated to sound. Berkmann stated: "My concept for Ministry was purely this: 100% sound system first, lights second, design third (in that order); the reverse of everyone else’s idea." According to him, they spent £500,000 on the club's sound system, and the same amount again on soundproofing the club using magnesite: they wanted to be able to turn the sound system up as loud as possible without disturbing the neighbours, and tested it to a volume of 156 decibels without the sound leaking outside. In addition to drawing inspiration from the Paradise Garage, the club borrowed the idea of using changing set designs from another New York City club, Area, with the first being based around Blade Runner, Berkmann's favourite film.

Berkmann was introduced to James Palumbo, who was working in property finance at the time, by Humphrey Waterhouse to realise the concept. The site, a disused bus garage, is located in Elephant & Castle in Southwark, London. The club opened on 21 September 1991 and has remained in this location since. Having considered "a load of daft names" for the club, including Get Off My Foot and The Ghost and Mrs Chicken, Berkmann came up with Ministry of Sound after walking past the Ministry of Defence Main Building.

With opening sets from American house and garage DJ's Larry Levan, David Morales, Roger Sanchez and Tony Humphries, as well as Paul Oakenfold, Ministry of Sound grew as a clubbing venue. According to Berkmann, it managed to empty rival nightclub Tramp for its first six months by drawing its celebrity clientele, before "they stopped coming and it was more about the dance music community". It now attracts around 300,000 clubbers per year[1] and has hosted sets from popular DJ's including: Adam Beyer, DJ Harvey, Dixon, Marshmello, Jozeff and Pete Tong. It has won the IDMA ‘World’s Best Sound System’ award four years in a row - every year they ran the category.

The capacity of The Box (the main room) is 600 people, and there are other smaller rooms within the club. There are three weekly club nights: Fridays feature Lock n Load brand The Gallery which are primarily trance music, whilst Saturdays host a number of club nights which are primarily house music. In 2016, these included Defected, Glitterbox, Rinse FM, Hospitality and Together. On Tuesday the club hosts a student session called Milkshake, established in 2002.

MOS Ibiza Sessions 2002

Felix Da Housecat Live @ Ministry of Sound, Pacha, Ibiza Spain 16-08-2002

Nic Fanciulli & James Zabiela - Essential Mix (08.12.2007)

Tracklist:
 1. Sunshine – Dying Sun Intro (Sunshine Samples) (Fox)
 2. Stryke – Agape (Plastic City)
 3. Incidental Space Music From 2001: A Space Odyssey (Warner Brothers)
 4. Tom York – Eraser (Xxchange Mix) (CDR)
 5. Unknown – Unknown (CDR)
 6. Unknown – Down Seq (White Label)
 7. Hardfloor – Da Rival (Brique Rouge)
 8. Annie – Always Too Late (Joakim Mix) (White)
 9. James Zabiela – No Other Way But Down (Renaissance)
10. Radioslave – Bell Clap Dance (Sebo K Mix) (Rekids)
11. Jeron Verheij – Chica Go (Rejected Remix) (Rejected)
12. Future Sound Of London – Pulse State (Jumpin & Pumpin)
13. Milton Jackson – Cylces / Interlude With Hal 9000 (Samples)
14. Stryke – Spiral (Plastic City)
15. Skylark + Mark Fanciulli – Blocked In (Album Version)â€˜ (Saved)
16. Spencer Parker – You Got To (White Label)
17. Stockholm Syndrome – DJ’s Take Control (White Label)
18. Samuel L Session – Smokestack (White Label)
19. Leftfield – Song For Life (Tim Davison Edit) (White Label)
20. Kos – It’s Not The End (Famila)
21. Sharam Jey – Message To Love (Alex Metric﻿ Remix)
22. Unknown – Unknown (CDR)
23. Underworld – To Heal (Underworldlive.Com)
24. Sunshine Film Sample – Back In 2 Years (Fox)
25. Funk Da Void – Diabla (Zabiela Ambient Edit)
26. Addicted To Performing Outro
27. James Zabiela – Perseverance (Beatless Reprise) (Renaissance)


Nic Fanciulli & James Zabiela - Essential Mix (08.12.07)

2002

Essential Mix 2002-12-29 - Sasha And John Digweed

Essential Mix 2002-12-22 - Carl Cox

Live @ Shindig in Newcastle, UK

Essential Mix 2002-09-29 - Eric Morillo Live @ Shindig, Newcastle

Essential Mix 2002-08-25 - Underworld, Hernan Cattaneo, Paul Oakenfold - Live from Creamfields

Essential Mix 2002-08-04 - Sasha @ Privilege Manumission

Essential Mix 2002-07-28 - Danny Howells

Essential Mix 2002-06-30 - Layo & Bushwacka @ Glastonbury

Essential Mix 2002-06-02 - Pete Tong & Laurent Garnier

Essential Mix 2002-05-05 - BT & Pete Tong

Essential Mix 2002-04-28 - Roger Sanchez

Essential Mix 2002-04-07 - Sasha & John Digweed

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Essential Mix 2002-03-17 - James Zabiela

Tom Middleton & Andrew Weatherall  - Essential Mix [03-10-2002]

Essential Mix 2002-03-10 - Tom Middleton & Andrew Weatherall, Live @ Cargo

Essential Mix 01.05.2002

Essential Mix 2002-01-06 - Unkle Sounds

Live At Privilege Manumission

Essential Mix 2003-04-08 - Sasha - Live @ Privilege Manumission Ibiza Special

Essential Mix 03-30-2003

Essential Mix 2003-03-30 - DJ Shadow

2004

Essential Mix 2004-05-09 - Sasha & John Digweed

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