The annual DJ Awards are back for 2013, set to take place on Wednesday 25th of September at Pacha, Ibiza. Now in its 16th year, the awards are one of the biggest events in the Ibizan clubbing calendar, recognising DJs in nine categories ranging from music genres through to Best Newcomer and Best Electronic Live Performance.
With genre classifications becoming more and more blurred, the DJ Awards categories can often be a little perplexing. For instance, last year Maceo Plex took out the Deep House award while Tiesto was honoured the Best Electro House jock (granted he's not exactly trance these days, but electro house?). Still, it's all just a bit of fun...right?
The nominees and categories for this year have been announced which you can check out in full below following a video of the highlights from 2012. Voting has now opened here and will close at the end of August.
DJ AWARDS 2013 NOMINEES:
ELECTRO HOUSE
AFROJACK
AVICII
AXWELL
CALVIN HARRIS
CHUCKIE
DAVID GUETTA
HARDWELL
SEBASTIAN INGROSSO
STEVE ANGELLO
STEVE AOKI
TECHNO
BEN KLOCK
CARL COX
CARL CRAIG
JOSEPH CAPRIATI
MARCEL DETTMANN
NICOLE MOUDABER
PACO OSUNA
RICHIE HAWTIN
SVEN VATH
UMEK
TRANCE
ABOVE & BEYOND
ALY & FILA
ARMIN VAN BUUREN
DASH BERLIN
FERRY CORSTEN
MARKUS SCHULZ
PAUL OAKENFOLD
PAUL VAN DYK
TECH HOUSE
CASSY
DUBFIRE
JOHN DIGWEED
JORIS VOORN
LOCO DICE
LUCIANO
MACEO PLEX
PETE TONG
SASHA
SETH TROXLER
DEEP HOUSE
ART DEPARTMENT
DAMIAN LAZARUS
DIXON
JAMIE JONES
KERRI CHANDLER
MATTHIAS TANZMANN
MAYA JANE COLES
SOLOMUN
TALE OF US
DUBSTEP/DRUM & BASS
CHASE & STATUS
KNIFE PARTY
NERO
PENDULUM
SKREAM
SKRILLEX
SUB FOCUS
NEWCOMER
ANDREA OLIVA
DANNIC
FRANCESCA LOMBARDO
HECTOR
HOT SINCE 82
MANO LE TOUGH
OMNIA
UNER
INTERNATIONAL DJ
AFROJACK
ARMIN VAN BUUREN
AVICII
CARL COX
DAVID GUETTA
LUCIANO
RICHIE HAWTIN
STEVE AOKI
SVEN VATH
TIESTO
ELECTRONIC LIVE PERFORMANCE
A GUY CALLED GERALD
AME
GAISER
GUTI
GUY GERBER
HOT NATURED
MARTIN BUTTRICH
PAUL KALKBRENNER
TENSNAKE
SPECIAL AWARDS
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
CUTTING EDGE
DANCE NATION
IBIZA DJ
IBIZA NIGHT
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
MEDIA
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
PRODUCER
RECORD LABEL
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