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.

@ Ministry Of Sound 19-04-2008

Derrick May Live @ Ministry of Sound 19-04-2008

Lakej - A Clean Slate
Paleman - What I Thought I Knew
XDB - Descap
Norman Nodge - Nn 8.0
Distale - These Days
Alex Bau - Funktion
XDB - Ganivon (Answer Code Request Remix)
Stephen Disario - Under The Rug
Norman Nodge - Kernel
Duncan Macdonald - 55,9685 (Developer Remix 1)
XDB - Tonik
Deas - Perspective
Second Skin - Bare Hands
Teacoma - On Island (Lauri H Remix)
Ray Kajioka - Ten Ten
Mattias Fridell & Consoless - Haptic 1 (Ground Loop Remix)
Jonas Kopp - Nibirus
Florian Meindl - Mental Atmosphere
Uncertain - Snitch
13130 Space Project - Olbers
Aldo Gargiulo - Echoes (Diego Barrera Remix)
D-Leria - Berimbau de Boca
Florian Meindl - Metaphysics
Markus Suckut - 8
Obscure Live - Day Of Sacrifice
Pfirter - Arcon
Roel Salemink - Konzept Phase
Benjamin Damage - 010x (Truncate Remix)
DKult - Dorian
Distale - TXL
Radioslave - F__K Em
...and many more...

Arne Goettsch @ E3 Labelnight Pt.01 [E-Keller 30.04.23]

Arne Goettsch @ E3 Labelnight Pt.02 [E-Keller 30.04.23]

Tracklist:
Xhin - Elliptic
TPMP - Interline C
Allan Nonamaka - Harlequin
Lucy - Eon
Rene Wise - Don't Care
Sev Dah - Inat Kuca
Norman Nodge - Gathering
Alexander Johansson & Mattias Fridell - Herman
Positive Merge - The Costumer (Rraph Remix)
Markus Suckut - Stranger
Mike Dehnert - Trible City
Cleric - Unwritten Future
Riemann  - Riemann LIVE 06
Marul - Shadows
Alex Bau - Dystopia 909 (Original Mix)
DJ Emerson - Manuka (Xhei Remix)
Phil Kieran - Bend i bend it my dear
Mays & Eigenes Rezept - Pena (Original Mix)
Thope - Mistake Original Mix
Markus Suckut - Rigid
Kevin Gorman - Cast (Jonas Kopp High Octane Mix)
Distale - Dhord
Amorphic - A62 [I]
Antony Doria - Controlled
Markus Suckut - Ninth Movement (Original Mix)
Vinicius Honorio - Locust (Original Mix)
Lidvall - Wrong Direction
Jens Mueller - Cuba
Marcal - Moravecs Paradox
Lidvall - Silent Mode
Toru Ikemoto - Don't Play 141
Marcel Dettmann - Home
Robert S (PT) & Hans Bouffmyhre - External Reflections (Original Mix)
Daniel Blotox, Marco Ginelli & George Makrakis - Mechanic
Dj-Westbeat - The Rule
Shifted - Colour of the Fall
Robert Hoff - Microbiotic #3
Cleric - Sangha
Norman Nodge - Adaption
Shlømo - Styx
Yanee - Geiser (Original Mix)
Seph Ducerey Ada Nexino - Pollenshed Seph Remix
Luca Agnelli - Voltumna (Truncate Remix)
Samuel L Session & Van Czar - Omnipresence (Original Mix)
Klangtronik & T.A13 - Transposed (Joy Fagnani Remix)
Dani Hernandez & Giorgio Di Verbero - Vortex (Mark Grandel & Peter Mayzer Remix)
Electrorites - The Head Crusher
DJ Dextro - Out of Service
Ribé - Ad infinitum
Mike Dehnert - Kobur

...and a lot more...

Arne Goettsch @ E3 Labelnight [E-Keller 27.05.23]

Berlin Tresor - Globus  (Tresor Closing Party 2005)

Magda live@ baracca 2008

1995-03-29 Berlin Kiss-FM DJ Tanith Studio-Live-Set

Richie Hawtin at Masonic - 09.04.2005

Original Release - Oct 03, 2011
Podcast URL: http://www.clubberia.com/music/podcasts/102-CB-102-Mike-Dehnert/

Mike Dehnert (Fachwerk / Delsin)

ドイツの名門クラブTresorのレジデントも務めるなどベルリンのアンダーグラウンド･シーンで大活躍するMike Dehnert。2007年には純粋に自らのリリースを目的としたレーベル"Fachwerk"を立ち上げ、アーティストや関係者、世界中のコアなユーザーから注目を浴びることとなる。Len FakiやBen KlockによるBerghainの過去のミックスCDにも楽曲が収録されており、2011年にはResident Advisorの"Label of The Month"に選ばれるなどワールドワイドなブレイクが確実視されている。
BerghainやTresorなどの第一線で活動していることから、硬派な冷たいテクノを押し進めつつも、立体感を生み出すダビーな音響、廃墟のようなインダストリアル臭、徹底したミニマルグルーヴ、芯の太い強靭なサウンド、そのどっしりとした音の厚みでじわじわとハメるドープ・インダストリアル・ミニマル・ダブ・テクノ。良質レーベル"Clone Basement Series"、"Echochord Colour"、"Deeply Rooted House"からも多数リリース。そして、集大成として、ベストともいえるファーストアルバム「Framework」(2011年2月発売)を老舗レーベル"Delsin"からリリース。早くもその楽曲がLawrenceのミックスCDに使用されるなど注目を浴びている。
彼のストイックなまでの音楽性からもわかるように、有名になることよりも自らのスタイルを貫きとおしており、個人としてのDJやライブセット、"Fachwerk"レーベル創設者の仲間であるRoman Lindau、Sascha Rydellらとも活動を行っている。今後はアルバムリリースツアーも予定。進化する新時代のミニマルテクノシーンを牽引するアーティストである。

http://www.myspace.com/mikedehnert

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ートラックリストを教えていただけますか？

このミックスには未発表の僕や僕の友人のアーティストの楽曲がたくさん入っているんだ。だから今現在はトラックリストはないよ。

ーミックスに使用している機材を教えて下さい。

僕と友人たちからの、バイナルのダブプレートと未発表作品のCDをプレイしたよ。機材はSL-1200とパイオニアCDJ-900、ミキサーはXone-464を用いたよ。

ーこのミックスはどこでで録音したものですか？

ベルリンの僕のスタジオだよ。

ーもしご自身のトラックをプレイしていたら、それについて教えて下さい。
ミックスではいつも自分の曲をかけるよ。リリースされたものも、まだリリースされていないものもね。

ーミックスのコンセプトを教えて下さい。
最初はリスニング専用のミックスを作ろうと考えていたんだけど、いつもクラブでかけるようなセットに落ち着いたよ。

―最近はどんな活動をしていますか？

たくさんの新譜がもうすぐ出るよ。

・Clone Basement Series EP http://clone.nl/item20201.html
・Echocord Color (with Roman Lindau remix), http://clone.nl/item18749.html
・Fachwerk
・MD2

今後のギグの予定を教えてください。
たくさんのギグが予定されているよ。

・Oct 7 Geneva, Swiss
・Oct 8 About Blank, Berlin,  Germany 
・Oct 14 Klang Club Arezzo, Italy
・Oct 20 Amsterdam Dance Event, Fachwerk showcase, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
・Oct 21　Only 300 Milan, IT 
・Oct 22 Tresor Berlin Germany
・Oct 28 Griboedov ST.Petersburg, Russia
・Oct 29 Arma17, Moscow, Russia 
・Nov 4 Unit Tokyo, JAPAN 
・Nov 12 1500m2, Warschau, POLAND 
・Nov 19 Liquid Club Malta, MT 
・Nov 25 Perron, Rotterdam, Netherlands
・Dec 2 Waagenbau Hamburg, DE 
・Dec 3 ONE Belfast, IRELAND 
・Jan 20 Culture Box Copenhagen (DK), DK 

―来日の予定はありますか？
うん、11月4日に東京のUNIT「L'epilogue」でプレイするよ。とても楽しみだよ。

clubberia podcast

CB 102 - Mike Dehnert

Live Set performed @ Hessischer Rundfunk in 2001. H3 Clubnight!

Live Set@ HR3-Clubnight 28/04/2001

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See you next Saturday x

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