Life has been quite good for James Nicholas Bethell in the 56 years that he’s been on this mortal realm. The fifth Baron of Bethell – a title which he has purely due to...
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London’s Ministry of Sound take Omar S off their lineup for Saturday’s It’s All Gone South – and a well-placed source confirms it’s all because of what happened last weekend..
Yesterday, Ears To The House took a little time to try and figure out what happened in Detroit between producers Omar S and Supercoolwicked at the Paramita Sound record shop and bar over the...
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Marshall Jefferson mixed Ministry’s The Annual 2023…
When Ministry of Sound first started releasing compilation albums back in 1995, they made sure that each one was mixed by a well-known DJ. Well, when we say that, what we mean is they...
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Gordo FINALLY says sorry for hogging DJ booth – after three whole days…
Last Saturday night, Gordo – who used to play EDM under the name Carnage and now seems to have decided he likes house music instead – was playing at the Ministry of Sound in...
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Ministry stay silent on THAT night – but Waze and Essel get another turn…
Yesterday, Ears To The House published a story about how GORDO – apparently a Guatemalan-American DJ called Diamanté Anthony Blackmon – was playing at Ministry of Sound in London on Saturday night and simply...
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Why didn’t Ministry of Sound stop Gordo hogging the DJ booth?
DJs behaving in an entitled manner is something we constantly hear about here at Ears To The House. It’s often the same names which keep appearing – and some of those names even sometimes...
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DJ Spen wants you to send 15-minute DJ sets of his own tracks!
As Ears To The House was writing about as recently as yesterday, DJs typically used to get noticed back in the day through one of two methods. They would either spend hours and hours...
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Well, this blog’s faith has been well and truly lost! Faithless rinse yet another song from their back catalogue – by giving David Guetta the chance (and money) to remix their 1998 hit “God Is A DJ”…
Let’s talk about Faithless. They created the since massively overplayed “Insomnia” back in 1994. Island Records were originally meant to release it, but they admitted several months after signing the contracts that they had...
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As Simon Dunmore tells us how great his relationship with Ministry of Sound is these days, a reminder things weren’t always so amicable in the early days…
Let me start this post by emphasising I do have a certain amount of respect for Defected boss Simon Dunmore. Yes, I might well have some fun at his expense on this blog, but...
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As Ministry of Sound recover after their 30th birthday party last weekend, a reminder that some things have changed – and probably for the better…
It would be churlish of me not to start this post by acknowledging that the Ministry Of Sound nightclub getting to their 30th birthday is an incredible achievement. For them to survive in London...
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What did they think they were going to, a riot? Unearthed government report from 1998 details amnesty box scheme at Ministry of Sound – and wait until you see what one person left in it!
It’s amazing what you can find on the Internet. I was searching for something related to a different story and I came across an old report from the Police Research Group. It’s part of...
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Did a reported £2million deal with Fischerspooner nearly bring down Ministry of Sound? The story of how the label snatched victory from the jaws of defeat…
Last Thursday, I published an article about CamelPhat’s past life within a record label that Ministry of Sound worked with at a time when the Ministry was desperate to trim costs. Turns out there’s...
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Does the world REALLY need more remixes of “Insomnia”? According to Maceo Plex and Ministry of Sound, it apparently does
Faithless originally made “Insomnia” back in 1994. And according to Sister Bliss, the song was originally signed to Island Records. However, they used a buyback clause in the contract to get it back after...
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Ministry’s got no money? Dunno about that!
They just can’t win, can they? In the eyes of the average Internet critic, everything is always wrong. Even if that means contradicting statements they’ve made previously. I’ve written recently about how the festivals...
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