Dance music MP3 superstore Beatport have just announced their very own awards show. "So what" says you, and maybe you are right but it will be an interesting slant on the traditional dance music awards show.

This will obviously be an all encompassing affair. Beatport is recognized globally as one of the best and most respected MP3 stores around. It covers all genres give or take, from the dirtiest dubstep to the glossiest funky house so all musical styles shall be well represented and the nominees are about as democratically elected as can be. The nominees will be based soley on unit sales per genre, meaning the best sellers will be put forward automatically for final voting. The nominees have been settled upon leaving no chance for sales fiddling by DJ's with big mailing lists. This means you wont be seeing an unfair DJ Mag Top 100 style list with obscure Dutch Trance DJs sitting proudly at the top of the pile.

Given Beatport's near ubiquity when it comes to dance music sales online, they have the clout to make this awards show a regular and well respected fixture on the dance music calender.

Heres the final nominees for your perusal:

Best Breakbeat Artist
30Hz
Agent K
DJ Icey
Far Too Loud
Freestylers
General MIDI
Plump DJs
Soul Of Man
The Funk Lab
The Rogue Element

Best Chillout Artist
Bitter:Sweet
Burial
Chymera
Eelke Kleijn
Kevin Yost
Living Room
Pako & Frederik
Spooky
The Last Atlant
Trentemoller

Best Deep House Artist
Akabu
Anil Chawla
Dale Anderson
Francois Dubois
Jay Shepheard
Joeski
Miguel Migs
Nikola Gala
Phonique
The Timewriter

Best Drum & Bass Artist
Calyx
Commix
Futurebound
High Contrast
Lomax
Matrix
Mindscape
Noisia
TC
TeeBee

Best Dubstep & Grime Artist
Alert
Bassnectar
Boxcutter
Burial
Deadbeat
DJ Pinch
Ed Solo & Skool of Thought
Modeselektor
Shackleton
Vibesquad

Best Electro House Artist
Chris Lake
Dave Spoon
Deadmau5
Dirty South
Klaas
Olivier Giacomotto
Pryda
Robbie Rivera
Sebastien Leger
Vandalism

Best Electronica Artist
Apparat
Boys Noize
Chromeo
Gui Boratto
Hot Chip
Matthew Dear
Modeselektor
Nathan Fake
Robyn
Trentemoller

Best Hard Dance Artist
BK
Dark By Design
DJ Trajic
DJ Zany
Donkey Rollers
Lisa Lashes
Nick Sentience
Technikal
The Red Hed
Vinylgroover

Best Hardcore Artist
Art Of Fighters
Brennan Heart
DJ Isaac
DJ Zany
Gammer
Robert Natus
Sy
The Beholder
Tommyknocker
Unknown

Best House Artist
Axwell
Chris Montana
Dennis Ferrer
Dirty South
DJ Disciple
Ian Oliver
Jerry Ropero
Jesse Garcia
Robbie Rivera
Thomas Gold

Best Minimal Artist
Ambivalent
Barem
Dubfire
Gaiser
Luca Bacchetti
Minilogue
Pan-Pot
Shlomi Aber
Shonky
Trentemoller

Best Progressive House Artist
Adam K
Austin Leeds
Beckers
Deadmau5
Dousk
Glenn Morrison
Jerome Isma-Ae
Soha
Thomas Gold
Yvan & Dan Daniel

Best Psy Trance Artist
Ace Ventura
Antix
Atmos
Behind Blue Eyes
Freq
Gaudium
Perfect Stranger
Planet B.E.N.
Shadow FX
Tristan

Best Tech House Artist
Audiofly X
Booka Shade
Claude VonStroke
D.Ramirez
James Talk
Mark Knight
Martin Buttrich
Samim
The Timewriter
Trentemoller

Best Techno Artist
Butch
Dubfire
Dusty Kid
Gregor Tresher
Gui Boratto
Guy Gerber
Len Faki
Oxia
Pig & Dan
Stephan Bodzin

Best Trance Artist
Above & Beyond
Armin Van Buuren
Cosmic Gate
DJ Tiësto
John O’Callaghan
Markus Schulz
Rank 1
Sean Tyas
Stoneface & Terminal
Super8

Davey_B @ 6 Mar 2008 15:11

Hmmm, dunno if I like the idea of it just being based on winners in certain genres- a lot of artists say Deadmau5 have a bit of crossover, would be better if they incorporated other awards such as Best Compliation, album etc...