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.

Masters At Work Live @ Ministry of Sound 01-01-2016

Little Routine #260
JR From Dallas | GMR / LRS
Lille, France 

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JR From Dallas | Little Routine #260(2021)

Big Pack presents Grooves Radioshow
Episode 183

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Tracklist:
01 Teddy Esposito - It's Just Your Love (Made In NY Mix) [Deeper Shades Recordings]
02 Homero Espinosa - Step Into a Groove (Fizzikx Deep Jazz Dub) 
03 Nick Holder - Missing You (Main mix)
04 Mark Grant - Spirit of the Black Ghost (Blacker Mix) [Soulstar Records]
05 Scott Diaz - Mistreated
06 Mr.Jools - Back 4 More  
07 SanXero, Katarina G - Walk By Me (Scott Diaz Grand Plans Dub) [Reel People Music]
08 DuBeats - That Was The Key
09 Prunk - Through The Walls (JT Donaldson Remix) [PIV]
10 Cris Herrera, Miguel Rios - Changing Times (DuBeats Remix)
11 Reelsoul - Found A Way 
12 Mark Farina, Homero Espinosa - Good Vibrations (Main Mix) [Moulton Music]
13 Loleatta Holloway - Can't Let You Go (Louie Vega & Josh Milan Truth Dub 1) [Vega Records]
14 JT Donaldson - Sphere
15 Demarkus Lewis - It Never Gets Old (Homero Espinosa Remix) [Guesthouse]
16 Joss Moog - Blooming
17 Shazz - El Camino (DJ Spen Mix)

Grooves Radioshow 183

Big Pack presents Grooves Radioshow 183

House Saladcast 922 | Southbound Sounds
Deeper Groove / Nordic Trax
Cork, Ireland

Cork-based Irish duo Southbound Sounds, whose deep house and techno sounds have been picked up by the likes of Fish Go Deep, Chez Damier, Norm Talley, Delano Smith, Stuart Patterson, Mark Farina and many others, deliver here an EP dedicated to Detroit legend, Mike Huckaby.

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House Saladcast 922 

House Saladcast 922 | Southbound Sounds

S - Pazz @ Djoon 05 07 2024

Inductive Sound-Clontrix [Dark Nature Concept]

Applaundub-Memory [Another Concept]

Inductive Sound-Cortexa [Dark Nature Concept]

Dipue

We simply cherish the grade-A djs and producers The Patchouli Brothers, and their contribution to the Caffeine Supreme series. 
These Canadians first got their beats wet, throwing down parties in an Albanian dive bar in Toronto. They have since flavored a spectrum of the city's establishments, played parties from California to Amsterdam, often alongside their peers Horse Meat Disco, joey Negro, John Morales and Psychemagik to name a few. Not bad Canada!

Dig into a sparkling mix of raw and eclectic disco, jazz, soul, gospel & house. Wow, they actually got it all - dancable too!!

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The Patchouli Brothers

Vol. 34 - The Patchouli Brothers

For us it's the least Christmas feeling Christmas this year, we are banned from either heading to Australia or Germany, there is no tree, no Christmas shopping, no snow. Its far from bad. We are healthy and happy. Tomorrow we'll have friends over and stay in and enjoy what we have. 
However I felt this urge to last minute put together my favourite gospel cuts to listen to over the holidays. The common dominator being it's Gospel and it's dope. I've mainly stayed away from trying to mix any of these as I didnt wanna mess up and othwerwise would have needed much more time to prepare to find the perfect spots etc.
Yesterday when I was putting this together I had some chin dropping moments of beauty and I hope some of you will appreaciate this music as much as I do myself. 

Happy and healthy holidays from

Theo, Kim and Marcel

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