With the celebrations reaching a spectacular high, at the new home this year, of Heart Ibiza, a venue that fuses art, music and gastronomy, the 21st edition of DJ Awards, just revealed their winners of one of world’s biggest celebration of the electronic music industry.
The awards celebrate and honour DJ music category awards that were voted for by the music fans, plus the special industry award, chosen by a panel of music professionals and the program was hosted by Graham Sahara and Katie Hayley Knight.
This year 4 of the popular music categories were split into Artist and Master categories allowing a new layer of talent to be included within the awards. Carl Cox won one of the most popular nternational DJ award amongst the voters.
Amongst the Master winners, Jamie Jones took home the ‘Tech House Master’ award, ‘Trance Master’ went to Paul van Dyk, who began his residency at the newly launched party Shine.
Newcomer to the awards, DJ Joseph Capriati was presented with the ‘Techno Master’ award while ‘House Master’ award went to the S-Man himself Roger Sanchez, the don of the 4 decks.
Grammy nominated Camelphat took ‘Artists awards’ for House Artist while Patrick Topping picked up his third DJ Award for ‘Tech House Artist’. Chart topping Ben Nicky took home ‘Trance Artist’ whilst ‘Progressive House’ went to Hernan Cattaneo.
‘Melodic House &Techno’went to Solomun and Black Coffee won the ‘Deep House’ award for the second year running. Track of the Season “Your Mind”was picked up by Adam Beyer and Bart Skils. Deeperfect the underground Italian techno label won ‘Record Label of the Year’.
‘Ibiza Night’ went to Resistance while ‘Electronic Live Performer’ went to Stephan Bodzin, and ‘International Music Festival in collaboration with Faze Magazine’ was picked up by Caprices Festival and ‘Producer powered by Focal’ went to London based DJ producer Archie Hamilton.
‘Masters At Work’ went to Electronic Music Pioneer who are fusing everything from house, hip hop, funk, disco, latin, African, jazz and minial into a universal groove. One of the most popular Industry awards Ibiza DJ, went toClara Da Costa, who at 17 became the first female to hold a residency in Ibiza.
All the DJ winners received a pair of Focal Listen Professional Headphones, an essential work tool for music production by the Brand of Acoustics Experts Focal and the night ends with winners photo, and a gorgeous after party.
> Shatabdi Sarker Poushi
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