Earlier this week the annual DJ Awards were held in Ibiza. In its 16th year the awards consisted of 9 category based awards, and 11 special awards. The winners were announced Thursday, including Armin van Buuren taking home Top Trance DJ as well as Top International DJ, and Hardwell taking home Top Electro House DJ. Take a look below and see the full list of who took home the famed Krptonite!
ELECTRO –HARDWELL
TRANCE –ARMIN VAN BUUREN
TECHNO –CRISTIAN VARELA
NEWCOMER –UNER
DUBSTEP/DRUM&BASS –KNIFE PARTY
ELECTRONIC LIVE- HOT NATURED
DEEP HOUSE –SOLOMUN
TECH HOUSE –LUCIANO
INTERNATIONAL DJ –ARMIN VAN BUUREN
MEDIA –BOILER ROOM TV
IBIZA DJ –WILLIE GRAFF
IBIZA NIGHT –ENTER
CUTTING EDGE –PIONEER CDJ2000nexus
DANCE NATION -MEXICO – HECTOR
RECORD LABEL –CROSSTOWN REBELS
PRODUCER –MACEO PLEX
TRACK OF THE SEASON –PAPER AEROPLANE – FRANCESCO ROSSI
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST- tINI
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL- BPM FESTIVAL
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION –KATHY SLEDGE
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT –JERRY L. GREENBERG
TRANCE –ARMIN VAN BUUREN
TECHNO –CRISTIAN VARELA
NEWCOMER –UNER
DUBSTEP/DRUM&BASS –KNIFE PARTY
ELECTRONIC LIVE- HOT NATURED
DEEP HOUSE –SOLOMUN
TECH HOUSE –LUCIANO
INTERNATIONAL DJ –ARMIN VAN BUUREN
MEDIA –BOILER ROOM TV
IBIZA DJ –WILLIE GRAFF
IBIZA NIGHT –ENTER
CUTTING EDGE –PIONEER CDJ2000nexus
DANCE NATION -MEXICO – HECTOR
RECORD LABEL –CROSSTOWN REBELS
PRODUCER –MACEO PLEX
TRACK OF THE SEASON –PAPER AEROPLANE – FRANCESCO ROSSI
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST- tINI
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL- BPM FESTIVAL
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION –KATHY SLEDGE
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT –JERRY L. GREENBERG
Knife Party? Dubstep? Where’s the razor blade?
WTF?!?!?! How did Knife Party win dubstep/dnb? They haven’t made anything but house for a while now, their most recent ep was all beatport top ten electro garbage. Who the hell oversees these awards?
NO SKRILLEX????!!!!! HOLY MUDA—–
DUBSTEP-KNIFE PARTY: A little part of me died
Lovin Maceo Plex award…
Knife Party? Wot. They suck at mixing and haven’t made DnB or Dubstep for more than a year. ShockOne must be pretty gimped having released a sick album full of the stuff whilst also mixing with quad decks…as would SkisM and Andy C to be honest.
How could they possibly put Drum & Bass in the same category as Dubstep? YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW ANGRY I AM. These types of awards are stupid anyway. Its Just a popularity contest. Also, knife party? Really?
All I can say is I don’t know/ listen to any of these guys except Knife Party. I do like seeing at least them in the winners. Otherwise, I feel like this is a joke.
Disclosure should win Deep House!
What is Richie Hawtin doing on the group photo when he’s not even on the list?
ummmm and wheres deadmau5,s award fuck tards…
Big up for choosing tINI as breakthrough artist, well deserved.
AU5 should have won best Dubstep…just my opinion though
i hardly write negative comments about articles, but this “DJ awards” is shit. i just saw Knife Party in DC and it was hardly dubstep, hardly dnb, & almost complete electro house. And as others have mentioned, they don’t belong in the same category.
Feed me for Electro Trance should always be infected mushroom…dNb and dubstep are completely different…wtf…but for dubstep Destroid Dnb should be netsky
Hahah they truly don’t have a clue what dnb is about hahaha first putting down DnB/Dubstep together then letting knife party win and as the cherry on the cake… In the bass link you can click on the DnB and then i see artists like : Downlink/Datsik haha only above&beyond are DnB artists the rest is all Dubstep…..
Dubstep would needs its own subcatagory aswell, could we see excision and phaeleh winning the same award for best dubstep? -__- chillstep, modestep, all kinds of branch offs!