Twilo was our second home. Every single weekend until they closed. Unless you lived that, you could not imagine the sound system or their lights. Twenty years later and still unmatched.

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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.

Sasha & Digweed & Satoshi Tomiie Live @ Ministry of Sound 17-05-2002

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About the cd:
For this episode we showcase Global Undergound arising from the underground into the huge success that it was moving into it's teens. For their 14th release we are taken on a progressive tour of Hong Kong with John Digweed, an awesome CD which was much loved by man. Massive shout out to James Wilson of Newcastle for sorting this, and also out to Michael McDonough from Sunderland for his efforts too. Of whom Digweed was a massive inspiration for and are both still to this day, huge fans.

I'm sure they aren't the only ones. So as always, turn it up... and enjoy the mix.

Buy on Discogs

710 - John Digweed Global Underground 014 - Hong Kong - Disc 1 (1999)

John Digweed - Live at Twilo January 2001

2002.10.06 - Essential Mix - John Digweed (Bedrock's 4th birthday)

Live & Shugborough Hall!

Dousk - Pa-Dida (Bedrock)
Virtualmismo - Mismoplastico (PRG/Progressive Motion) w/ VFR - Tranceillusion (PRG/Progressive Motion)
Mirabeau - Don't Stop, Go (CDR)
Angel Moraes - Heaven Knows - Deep Deep Down [Galvatron Dub] (FFRR)
Stereogen - Hi-Q (Formaldehyd)
Victor Calderone - Resonate [DJ Vibe Mix] (Statrax)
Bart Van Wissen - One Reason (Lowriders)
Pig & Dan - Much Better (Sadie)
D Troy - Sixteen U [Antoine 909 Mix] (Weaked)
X-Press 2 - Strobelight Silhouette (Skint)
Unknown - Unknown
Way Out West - Apollo (Distinctive Breaks)
Uberzone & Rennie Pilgrem - Cous Cous [Royale Mix] (TCR)
Freeland, Wink & Middleton - Rise Above (Marine Parade)
Electric Tease - Tear It Up (Richard K Mix)
Spektrum - Kinda New [Tiefschwarz Dub] (Playhouse)
Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso - Yo Yo Kids (Refune)
Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning [Luke Fair's Dub Edit] (White Label)
Chris & Kai vs. Levin - Gone To Heaven (Alternative Route)

Sasha & John Digweed - 2004 Essential Mix

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A powerful techno journey driven by deep basslines and hypnotic rhythms, infused with Eastern-inspired chants performed in a soulful African vocal style. The blend of primal energy and futuristic sound design creates a magnetic atmosphere — both mystical and electrifying.

I see the light

Paul Oakenfold, CREAM Grand Finale Pt 1, Nation 17-10-2015

Guy Ornadel - Cream (Finale) Courtyard - Nation - Liverpool - 17-10-15

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Tracklist:

01. James Holden - Solstice
02. New Order - Someone Like You (James Holden Mix)
03. Bosporus - Kinda Scary
04. X-Trax - Plan 94 (The Voyage) (Northface Mix)
05. The Ambush vs Phools Inc. - Asymmetric (Phools Inc. Mix V.2)
06. Rui Da Silva Pres. Four Elements - Fire
07. Delta Lady - Anything You Want (The Delta Belter Vocal Symphony)
08. Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
09. Bedrock - Heaven Scent (POB Seismix)
10. Age Of Love - Age Of Love (Jam & Spoon Watch Out For Stella Mix)

Sasha & John Digweed - Live @ The Congress Theatre, Chicago 19.11.2001

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The date may be 21.05.1999.

Tracklist:

01. [000] Underworld - Jumbo (Rob Rives & Francois K Main Dish) 
02. [009] Medway - R.A.F. 
03. [017] L.S.G. - The Fugitive (100 Mix) 
04. [023] Celeda - Be Yourself (And No One Else) (Parts 1 & 2) 
05. [030] Phaser - Driven (Mix One) 
06. [038] Marc Et Claude - La (Van Bellen Remix) 
07. [046] Medway - The Baseline Track (GU013 Version)
08. [053] L.S.G. - Shecan (Jamie Anderson Remix) 
09. [057] Tilt - Children (Breeder's Baroque Dub) 
10. [063] Katcha - Touched By God (Peace Division Remix) 
11. [071] Brother Brown Featuring Frank'ee - Under The Water (Breeder Dub) 
12. [080] Voyager - Time Travel (Two) 
13. [086] Photonic - Obscure (Jay Welsh Remix) 
14. [091] Heller & Farley - The Rising Sun (Bedrock Remix) 
15. [099] Gypsy - I Trance You (Pappa & Gilbey Mix) 
16. [107] Way Out West - Sharkhunt  (Early Version)
17. [116] Rush - Regret (Ocean Wave Remix) 
18. [122] Dos Deviants - 3Waves 
19. [128] Planisphere - Deep Blue Dream 
20. [135] Karen Ramirez - Lies (Tilt's Trinity Mix) 
21. [143] Arksun - Astrodancer 
22. [150] [O] - [O] 
23. [155] Force Mass Motion - Lost (In Time) 
24. [162] Z2 - I Want You (Deep And Throbbing Mix) 
25. [170] Way Out West - Spike 
26. [177] Sander Kleinenberg - Sacred (Dub) 
27. [182] Space Manoeuvres - Stage One (Tilt's Apollo 11 Mix)
28. [190] Antic - Pulse 
29. [194] Andy Ling - Fixation (Main Mix)
30. [202] Nüw Idol - Tears 
31. [208] Natious - Amber (Silk Mix)
32. [215] Sasha - Xpander 
33. [225] Chicane Feat. Maire Brennan - Saltwater
34. [233] JX - Close To Your Heart (The Immortals Remix)

Sasha - Live @ Babylon, Greensboro, USA 26.05.1999

take your mind back to july 2001; dark tribal prog rules britain's superclubs & britain's sound rules the world. berlin is not yet officially cool, cigarettes are smoked on dancefloors, dance music slower than 125 bpm is punishable by death & deadmau5 has not yet been born; it is a time of great joy.

the scene is a room full of samplers, synthesizers & class c narcotics - it is chong's palace studio (mark II), lair of king unique & sweating over a remix are two young men called matthew.

ring ring!... ring ring!...ring r-

KU: "hello?"

BBC: "hello it's the bbc here, can i speak to someone from king unique please"

KU: "oh, right - um hello"

BBC: "right - you know how we asked if you'd do a king unique essential mix in the autumn for us?"

KU: "err, yes"

BBC: "well, would you like to do it a bit sooner than we discussed? quite a lot sooner in fact?"

KU: "um... maybe?"

BBC: "great! the thing is (NAME REMOVED AT BBC LAWYER'S INSISTENCE) promised us a mix months ago & they've just told us it won't be ready after all. so you'd be doing us a huge favour if you stepped in"

KU: "right. just out of interest did ali & sharam say why they couldn't do it?"

BBC: "i couldn't possibly comment"

KU: "i see. well, we are insanely busy but we'd obviously like to help.... how soon were you thinking? this month or next?"

BBC: "oh definitely this month. in fact, um, more like, you know, er, this week actually"

KU: "this week!!!!????"

BBC: "...................... yes. by friday night in fact."

KU: "& you're aware that today is wednesday????!!"

BBC: "............................................ yes."

KU: "!"

so there you have it, the behind the scenes story of how we came to turn round our first essential mix in under 72 hours from a standing start, armed only with a mountain of vinyl, several samplers & a huge computer struggling to run 4 channels of pro-tools with less than half the power of a current iphone. this is King Unique Broadcast 0 if you like, the first time we hit the airwaves & not a bad way to start :)

to add to the nostalgia i've included the handy cassette case with tracklisting that Mixmag used to print each month for all the home-tapers out there - if you'd told us about Soundcloud back then we'd have burnt you as a witch.

enjoy the flashback ;)

Essential Mix 15/07/2001 - King Unique

Global Underground 009 San Fran - Sasha pt. 1

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About the CD:
This out of all my mix CD's will likely bring back the most clubbing memories for the majority of my friends. It's hands down one of the greatest mix CD's of all time, a double pack of Sasha at his absolute peak, he was untouchable, worshipped like no other and unrivalled around the 1996-2000 era in the majority of opinions.  It defined a period of clubbing that had 50 Sunderland dance heads on a bus filling up half of the main room at Sasha's, Craig Richard's and Lee Burridge's 'Tyrant' night, at the Bomb in Nottingham. Which still holds strong as the best clubbing experience for most of us. It was legendary times, and this is a legendary mix CD. 

John Digweed - Live at Twilo January 2001

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