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 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.

Live @ Ministry of Sound dance party [01-04-2002]

Steve Lawler Live @ Ministry of Sound 01-04-2002

Twilo - It`s almost 10 years since I played my last set in the best club in the world. I’ve got so many good memories from that period. I played there every month for four and half years, and anybody who ever went to any one of those Twilo nights will remember it. Every single one was special, memorable. 
It was more intense than crazy, every month just seemed to get better and longer. I think the music that was around at Twilo suited that sound system and era, and now we are in a different era."

 America and clubland lost something very special when Twilo closed.
 Lost but never forgotten 

Here is a recording of one of the last sets there from me enjoy

John



Kiss 100 FM Apr 07 2001 John Digweed Live at Twilo 4 Year Anniversary

John Digweed - Live at Twilo January 2001

Quintessential Prog house DJ Nick Warren recorded LIVE at Sydney's HOME night club -roughly a year after HOME was opened.A killer mix of prog house and trance

Part 1 01. [00:00] Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu (? Mix) 
02. [01:31] Sasha - Xpander 
03. [11:26] Heller & Farley - The Rising Sun (Bedrock Mix) -Fvckn Tune!!!!!!
04. [18:38] Orbital - Nothing Left (Breeder Mix) 
05. [25:07] Velvet Girl - Summertime (Remix) 
06. [31:35] Voyager - Time Travel (Part 2) 
07. [36:25] Mindtrap - Much Better Man 
08. [44:46] Return Of The Native - The After 
09. [52:48] Natious - Amber (Silk Mix) 
10. [58:45] BBE - Seven Days And One Week (? Mix) 
11. [63:39] TR Junior - Rock With Me (Lange Mix) 
12. [70:18] Highland - Forsaken

DJ Nick Warren LIVE @ Home Nightclub ,Sydney 9/10/99 - PART 1

Sander Kleinenberg was one of my fave prog house DJs in the early 2000s
was privileged to see and hear the man at Club Space,Sydney

Sander Kleinenberg LIVE @ Renaissance Everybody ,Club SPACE,Sydney - 22/11/03

sasha - dance department in the mix (538)-cable-01-03-2009

Danny Howells - Live @ Secret Garden (Brooklyn) - 13-08-2016

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nearly 4 hours recorded live at Cosmik in Rotterdam on Oct. 7, 2000
back then always tried to go back and listen to recording after weekend and piece together the track listing while it was fresh and records still in my box.  this was split into 3 discs, each at 80 minutes that i have connected back to back.
Tracklisting
A Guy Called Gerald – Humanity (Ashely Beadle Remix)
Mra – Track A 
Lypid – Sign’s Alive (Three Remix)
John Selway – Seltav
Conspiracy - ? (Rocket Remix)
Sean Cusick – Of Course
Luke Slater – All Exhale (FC Kahuna Remix)
KC Flight – Voices (Fata Morgana Remix)
Blue Peter – Biological Response (Peace Division Remix)
Heller & Farley – Rising Sun (Peace Division Remix)
Sub Culture – Deep Culture Ep
Datar – B (Tarrentella Remix)
Kolo – Time & Space
? – Loafer 
Sentinel – I Am
Dfuse & Joy – She Rides (Joy’s Dub)
DJ Dan – Needle On The Record (Peace Division Remix)
Soul Brother – Beat Of The Drum (Steve Lawler Remix)
Kosheen – Hide You (John Creamer/Stephane K Remix)
Luzon – Bagio Track (Saeed & Palash Remix)
Steve Porter – Innerpulse (Fade Remix)
Tranceiver – Mindscape
Revolt (Bedrock)
Atropin Project – Plusier (Fade Remix)
Nova Project – Go Low (Deep Mix)
Jimmy Van M – Eci-Ps
Unknown
Unknown
Parks & Wilson – My Orbit
Energy Source – Black Jack
Mocean Worker - ? (Joshua Ryan Remix)
Revolt – Dive Into Deep
Unknown
Memnon – Luminous
Dimension – Give Me Something (Breathe Remix)
Bedrock – Voices (Freelance Icebreakers Remix)
THK – France (Cass/Slide Remix)
Hellpass – Avalon
Luzon – Bagio Track (Bedrock Remix)
Luzon – Bagio Track (Bedrock Dub)
Delerium – Silence (Fade Dub)
Delerium – Silence (Fade Sanctuary Vocal)

Chris Fortier @ Cosmik - Rotterdam, The Netherlands (October 7, 2000)

Danny Tenaglia - Athens - Global Underground 010 (CD1)

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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