Ministry of Sound Blog

With Ibiza well and truly up and running for the summer, the faces synonymous with rocking the island’s big clubs return after winter’s spent spinning elsewhere. Jonathan Ulysses has been a familiar sight and sound behind the decks at Space for a decade now, and plans to celebrate this milestone all summer long. We caught up with him to discuss the island, its politics and what he gets up to when not performing at world class clubbing marathons down Playa d’En Bossa way… (more…)

Scheming youngsters trying to blag their way into Creamfields this year are in for a rude awakening when they get there.

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A three-day musical bonanza is set to hit the city that never sleeps from September 12th to the 14th.
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The long arm of the law has dealt a crushing blow to this summer’s Ibiza party scene by closing one of the island’s most popular clubs.

DC10 Circoloco has been shut down by the Spanish government on the grounds that it only served three days of a 60-day closure last year and must serve the next 57 days of the sentence to make up for it.

The question is why the authorities waited until the summer to slap the ban on the club considering it was open throughout the winter including New Years Eve.

Andrea Pelino, from Circoloco, told Ibiza-Voice he was gutted by the news and seems to think plod is hell-bent on causing maximum aggro and distress.

“I feel like DC10 is the monster of the island, like they hate us. I don’t understand why this always happens … you have to ask why they chose to shut us now,” he said.

Check out the full story on our dedicated Ibiza site now

With the world and his mother likely to descend on Barcelona this weekend for the Sonar festival, a three-day humdinger of electronic music, one of the organisers of the event, Georgia Taglietti, somehow found time to answer a question which should require several hours’ thought and contemplation. (more…)

One of the original superstar DJs, Paul Oakenfold has travelled the length and breadth of the globe delivering musical delights to one and all.

Well now Mr Oakenfold has decided to rewind and come again by signing up to become an ambassador for Kiss radio, the station that put him on the road to dance music infamy many moons ago. (more…)

With a line-up to make most festival organisers cry into their beer, the brains behind the EXIT festival have just added another two heavyweights by the names of The Streets and Afrika Bambaata to effectively ensure their gig will walk away with the festival crown this summer. (more…)

Barcelona is gearing up for an invasion of dance music fans as its Sonar festival returns for another year, bringing a plethora of different genres to the table from dubstep to dirty house. (more…)

This summer dance fans will surely be walking in a Pete Tong wonderland with the release of the veteran’s debut disc from his new project, jam packed with essential summer grooves. (more…)

A new TV series entitled Wasted, which exposes the levels of drug-abuse in the UK, is to be aired on Current TV from next week.

Determined to show what is going on in our world, the TV channel continues its drive to put on what we consider to be relevant to our lives with this expose of all things drugs. (more…)