Ministry of Sound Blog

With all the hoo-ha surrounding Jay-Z ’s appearance as the headline act at that annual mud-fest we call Glastonbury anybody could be forgiven for thinking it’s not worth turning up.

However, whether Jay-Z gets booed by the traditionally indie-loving crowd is not the concern of dance-heads because the people who lined up the acts for the Dance Village definitely knew what they were doing. (more…)

If people ever needed an excuse to dance then mobile phone company Orange seem to have come up with a pretty good one.

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Opinion can be split in music as to whether the ‘original’ is better than the ‘cover’.

The cover version has the same words and you can hear bits of the original yet for some it just isn’t the same.

Some consider such work to be sacrilege - just ask Rennie Pilgrem. (more…)

 Paul Oakenfold has revealed he is to open up for Madonna at the queen of pop’s upcoming Wembley shindig. (more…)

Black Spade on Ministry of Sound Radio

Hot new US hip-hop sensation Black Spade is joining our very own Ministry of Sound Radio crew this afternoon at 3:30 GMT for a quick chat in the studio. The critically-acclaimed Om Hip-Hop starlet is celebrating the launch of his hot new album ‘To Serve With Love’ by hijacking the last half an hour of Dave Vega’s Afternoon Session in a special trip all the way from St Louis, Missouri!!!

Make sure you tune in here for your chance to get the lowdown on this piece of hip-hop history in the making, as well as have the chance to win copies of the album, courtesy of Om and our boy Dave Vega.

Partygoers in Blackpool are being warned of a new drug which is swamping the club scene in the seaside town.

According to the Blackpool News, Benzylpiperozine or BZP is marketed as a legal high and is said to have the same effect as ecstasy and amphetamines and two people have died from mixing it with the well-known club tablets. (more…)

British hip-hop has seen many ‘Jimmy Jokers’ come and go, with repetitive rhymes about guns, cars they don’t even own and girls they don’t even know not making the grade but through it all Roots Manuva has stayed true. (more…)

To save any aggro concerning the hot potato that is ‘the sounds of the summer’ the good bloggers at Test Industries have kindly broken down what techno-heads should have in their summer CD collection and what tunes DJs should be playing during the UK’s ten minutes of sunshine. (more…)

Drum n bass stalwart Goldie has been in the business long enough to know what’s hot and what’s not. (more…)

As far as names go Sasha is one of the most recognisable in the dance music game. Even those who know nothing about dance music can confess to have heard about him.

A legend in Ibiza generally makes you a legend anywhere else on the planet if house music is your game so as the summer approaches and the masses pack Easyjet flights out to the island to see him work his magic how does he feel things have evolved there? (more…)