You are here

DJ Awards 2009: Winners Announced

The annual end of season shindig that is the DJ Awards took place last week and we’re pleased to announce this year’s winners. As usual, there were some well deserved winners, some more obvious victors and then some that no doubt had ever

David Guetta unsurprisingly took Best House and Best Ibiza Night for his FMIF squeezeathon, but is a worthy winner. Sven Vath took Best Techno, despite being the biggest sufferer of 'Terrace syndrome' this year (that rather nice disease of everyone wanting to have it off on the Terrace) and Armin Van Buuren, the other big Terrace syndrome victim – courtesy of Roger Sanchez –, was winner of both Best Trance and International DJ.

As the awards delved into genretastic major massive mash-up potential, Sasha Best Prog and Guy Gerber Best Minimal, reflecting their Thursday night performances at Cream and Be respectively. There were more than a few raised eyebrows when well-established trance DJs Sander Van Doorn and Marco V were winners of Electro House and Tech House respectively. Elsewhere, Joris Voorn, on the back of some scintillating shows at Cocoon and We Love, deservedly won Breakthrough Act and the Cocoon After/Inaugural Cadenza bash at Ushuaia that starred Sven Vath for 12 hours, and Luciano (b2b) for roughly the last 6 hours, won Best Ibiza Set.

The other noteworthy, expected and undisputed, winner for Best Ibiza Track was La Mezcla by Michel Cleis. Here it is just in case you’ve been on sat outside dc10 all summer.

Full list of winners and nominees:

House

LAIDBACK LUKE
ERICK MORILLO
DAVID GUETTA
STEVE ANGELLO
SEBASTIAN INGROSSO
AXWELL
FEDDE LE GRAND
BOB SINCLAR

Techno

RICHIE HAWTIN
PIG & DAN
CARL COX
RICARDO VILLALOBOS
CRISTIAN VARELA
UMEK
SVEN VATH
LUCIANO

Trance

FERRY CORSTEN
PAUL OAKENFOLD
ARMIN VAN BUUREN
TIËSTO
ABOVE & BEYOND
MARKUS SCHULZ
PAUL VAN DYK
ATB

Progressive House

NICK WARREN
SASHA
JOHN DIGWEED
JOHN DAHLBACK
HERNAN CATTANEO
LEE BURRIDGE
DANNY HOWELLS
EDDIE HALLIWELL

Electro House

DEADMAU5
BENNY BENASSI
SANDER VAN DOORN
SEBASTIEN LEGER
ERIC PRYDZ
MARK KNIGHT
JAMES ZABIELA
LAYO AND BUSHWACKA

Tech House

M.A.N.D.Y.
LAURENT GARNIER
FUNKAGENDA
DUBFIRE
STEVE LAWLER
MARCO CAROLA
RADIO SLAVE
MARCO V

Minimal

MICHAEL MAYER
STEVE BUG
MATTHIAS TANZMANN
ADAM BEYER
LOCO DICE
GUY GERBER
MAGDA
ANJA SCHNEIDER

Deep House

VINCENZO
PHONIQUE
MILTON JACKSON
EFDEMIN
BEN WATT
CHARLES WEBSTER
JIMPSTER
DENNIS FERRER

Downtempo & Eclectic

MIXMASTER MORRIS
JOSE PADILLA
NIGHTMARES ON WAX
GILLES PETERSON
JAZZANOVA
THEIVERY CORPORATION
ROB DA BANK
DJ RAVIN

Best Newcomer

ANDERSON NOISE
MINILOGUE
RIKTAM & BANSI
POPOF
GABE
ANDY MOOR
ELLEN ALLIEN
HERVÉ

Breakthrough

JORIS VOORN
MARCEL DETTMANN
VALENTINO KANZYANI
DIXON
JAMIE JONES
MATTHEW DEAR
KASKADE
NICK CURLY

International DJ

ARMIN VAN BUUREN
SANDER KLEINENBERG
SASHA
TIËSTO
DAVID GUETTA
CARL COX
SVEN VATH
ERICK MORILLO

Psytrance

ASTRIX
ACE VENTURA
LIQUID SOUL
GMS
PERFECT STRANGER
INFECTED MUSHROOM
YAHEL
SKAZI

DANCE NATION OF THE YEAR

BOBINA (RUSSIA)

IBIZA REDISENT DJ

THOMAS HEDBERG

MEDIA AWARD

IBIZA VOICE

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SUMMIT

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

BESTIVAL

BEST IBIZA NIGHT

F*** ME I'M FAMOUS

BEST IBIZA SET

SVEN VATH/LUCIANO (B2B) AT USHUAIA

BEST IBIZA TRACK

LA MEZCLA, MICHEL CLEIS

http://djawards.com/

Related content

Select date