Although most electronic music fans in China do not have the habit of reading traditional paper music magazines, almost all electronic music fans know a brand called "DJ Magazine", that is, "DJ Mag" , but we sometimes overlook that is a traditional British media and magazine brand that was born more than 30 years ago.
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. Because when electronic music fans hear "DJ Mag", the first common reaction is the ranking list "DJ Mag Top 100 DJs" rather than the magazine itself. Later, as its "moisture" increased year by year, and when people began to despise the list, DJ Mag launched a "no water" list DJ Mag Alternative Top 100 DJs. It seems that is the mainstream in the field of electronic music. The judging system is about to be monopolized by DJ Mag.
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But DJ Mag’s ambitions go far beyond that. With its own brand’s status in the hearts of electronic music fans, As early as 2017, DJ Mag also imitated Grammy Awards and American Awards , expanded a business project that awards awards to artists-DJ Mag Best of North America (the same applies to its other awards such as "Best Of British").
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. This year’s DJ Mag Best Of North America has been updated to sixteen categories of awards covering North America. includes but is not limited to Best DJ, Breakthrough DJ, and Best Producer. , Breakthrough Producer, Best Label, Breakthrough Label, and Best Track, Best Album, Best Compilation, Best Remix/Edit awards under the category of works, etc.
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. Among them, the winners of Best DJ and Breakthrough DJ awards are Chicago DJ/producer Green Velvet and Tech House "New Youth" John Summit; and those who won the Best Producer and Breakthrough DJ awards were respectively The artists of the Producer Award are Anjunadeep's "tired" House Music veteran Lane 8 and Nikki Nair from Atlanta.
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From this, we can roughly guess the focus and characteristics of the "Best" and "Breakthrough" category awards. The former tends to have rich qualifications and outstanding achievements, and is accordingly relatively more competitive. famous; the latter is the opposite - relatively "young" or unknown "niche" artists. This can also be seen in the famous Nervous Records, which won the "Best Label", and Kindergarten Records, the "Breakthrough Label" award-winning label from New York.
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. Not only that, DJ Mag Best Of North America also provides "Best Large Club (Best Large Nightclub)" and "Best Small Club (Best Small Nightclub)" for nightclubs of different sizes in North America. "A competitive track for two awards.
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. The winner of the "Best Large Club" is Avant Gardner The Brooklyn Mirage, an open-air nightclub in Brooklyn, New York. It is also one of the biggest topic protagonists in the North American nightclub field recently, because The nightclub two months ago The renovation and facilities have been greatly upgraded, and a 200-foot-wide screen wall has been provided for Ravers, allowing people to watch the "opening" performances of top artists such as Kaskade, Marshmello, and Alesso in the "siheyuan-style" nightclub.
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. While announcing the list of various awards for 2022, on June 16 this year, DJ Mag Best Of North America also held the first awards ceremony party, and the venue was also at Avant Gardner The Kings Hall, a hall in Brooklyn Mirage; the performer is still a lineup with "Best Live Act (Best Live Act)" winner ZHU as the headline artist.
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. It is worth mentioning that although the name is "DJ Mag Best Of North America", not all artists, venues, and works of Guo Jia in North America... Qualified for all the above awards, excluding Mexico, because the latter falls under the jurisdiction of the independent company brand (more technically: DJ Mag regional agent) DJ Mag México.
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. In addition, a new award "Underground Hero" was added this year to honor the leader of the grassroots music community-Detroit female artist Lauren Flax (space is limited, winners of other awards" Those who nominated "those" will not talk about it anymore)...
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. As you can see, from 2017 we first reported the new awards/lists of DJ Mag, and By 2022, DJ Mag has further improved the award process of DJ Mag Best Of North America, and has once again consolidated its "Guan of Review" status in North America through means other than the "World's Top 100" list.
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