Top 100 DJ Nominees Announced – The Vote Is On
Vote For Your Favorite DJ Online
Once again, it’s on. The voting for America’s Best DJ began Memorial Day Weekend. The three-month-long promotion run by DJ Times magazine asks the eternal question: “Who’s America’s Best DJ?” So at 5:30 PM on Friday, May 28, fans started giving their answers—by casting their votes for their favorite DJ at www.americasbestdj.net. Voting also gives fans the chance to win awesome prizes. The voting will be supported by a Summer Tour that’s presented by Pioneer DJ and DJ Times. Sponsors for the tour include Novation, Beatport, The Palms Las Vegas Hotel & Casino and N9NE Group.
Running in tandem with the competition, the 20-event America’s Best DJ Summer Tour was all set to kick off May 29-31 at Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival. The Memorial Day weekend event at Hart Plaza, which drew over 95,000 fans, offered a massive platform for the launch of the 5th annual tour.
At all tour events—like Baltimore’s Starscape Festival on June 5—DJ Times will maintain a dedicated exhibit booth and take paper-ballot votes from fans supporting their favorite U.S.-based DJs. Voting fans will earn the opportunity to win gear from Pioneer DJ and Novation, plus free music downloads from Beatport. One lucky voter plus a guest will win a grand prize trip for two to Las Vegas that includes roundtrip airfare, accommodations at The Palms, and VIP treatment at the America’s Best DJ closing party in Rain Nighclub.
Both the online vote and tour will run from Memorial Day to Labor Day (Sept. 6), and the America’s Best DJ award show/closing party will take place on October 2 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. (Incidentally, Z-Trip—the 2009 America’s Best DJ winner—maintains his “Z-Trip Revolution” residency at the Rain nightclub in The Palms, where he took over the decks after the passing of DJ AM.)
Out of the 100 U.S.-based jocks nominated for the America’s Best DJ title, seven performed at Movement. They include A-Trak (see video at bottom of post), Claude VonStroke (see video at bottom of post), Derrick Carter, Josh Wink, and The Martinez Bros.—plus current Detroit-area DJs Stacey Pullen and Theo Parrish. Also, seven nominees will perform at Starscape. They include Wolfgang Gartner, DJ Craze, Dieselboy, DJ Dan, Reid Speed, Charles Feelgood and The Trouble & Bass Crew. At the 2009 Movement festival, eventual winner Z-Trip rocked the Motown crowd to the point that existing supporters and many new converts came streaming over to the DJ Times booth to cast their paper ballots for him. That week’s voting bump (in-person and online) vaulted Z-Trip into the ABDJ lead. Three months later, he was at Ghost Bar at The Palms in Vegas being presented with a gold-plated Pioneer DJM-800 by Paul Oakenfold and Pioneer staff.
Who will it be this year?
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2010 AMERICA’S BEST DJ NOMINEES*
www.americasbestdj.net/bestdj/top100.htm
Andy Caldwell – Los Angeles
Annalyze – Chicago via Rochester, NY
Armand Van Helden – NYC via Boston
A-Trak – NYC via Montreal
Baby Anne - Orlando, Fla.
Bad Boy Bill - Chicago
Bassnectar - Berkeley, Cal
Behrouz - San Francisco/Miami
BT – Los Angeles via DC area
Carl Craig - Detroit
Cedric Gervais - Miami
Charles Feelgood - DC/Baltimore
Claude Von Stroke - San Francisco via Detroit
Colette - Chicago
Crystal Method – Los Angles via Las Vegas
Cut Chemist – Los Angeles
Danny Tenaglia - NYC
Dave Dresden – Los Angeles via Connecticut
Dave Pezzner - Seattle
David Morales - NYC
Dennis Ferrer - New Jersey
Derrick Carter - Chicago
D:Fuse – Los Angeles via Austin, Texas
Dieselboy – NYC via Philly & Pittsburgh
Diplo - Philadelphia
DJ Boris - NYC
DJ Craze - Miami
DJ Crème - NY/NJ via Connecticut
DJ Dan – SoCal via San Francisco
DJ Enferno - DC-area
DJ Icey – Orlando, FL
DJ Irene – Los Angeles
DJ Pauly D - Rhode Island
DJ QBert - SF Bay area
DJ Sep - San Francisco
DJ Shadow - Davis, Calif.
DJ Shiftee - NYC
DJ Skribble - NYC
DJ Theo - Commack, LI
DJ Vice – Los Angeles/Las Vegas
Doc Martin – Los Angeles/San Francisco
Donald Glaude - San Diego
Dubfire - DC
Dustin Zahn - Minneapolis
Erick Morillo - NY/NJ
Faust & Shortee – Los Angeles via Atlanta
Felix Da Housecat – Atlanta via Chicago
Filo & Peri - NYC
François K - NYC
Frankie Knuckles – Chicago via NYC
George Acosta - Miami
Girl Talk - Pittsburgh
Grandmaster Flash - Long Island/NYC
Green Velvet - Chicago
Jazzy Jeff – Delaware via Philadelphia
Jeff Mills - Detroit
Joe Bermudez – Boston via Maine
Jonathan Peters - NYC
Josh Gabriel – Los Angeles
Josh Wink - Philadelphia
Junior Vasquez – NYC via Lancaster, PA
Kaskade - San Francisco via Utah & Chicago
Keith MacKenzie - Chicago
King Britt - Philadelphia
Louie Vega - NYC
Mark Farina - San Francisco via Chicago
Markus Schulz – Miami via Phoenix
Martinez Bros - upstate New York
Miguel Migs – San Francisco
Mixmaster Mike – San Francisco
Moby – NYC via Connecticut
Monk – Tampa, FL
Morgan Page – Los Angeles via New Hampshire
Nickodemus - NYC
Oscar G - Miami
Peanut Butter Wolf – Los Angeles
Prok & Fitch – Los Angeles
Quentin Harris - NY/NJ
?uestlove - Philadelphia/NYC
Reid Speed - Los Angeles via Port Washington, LI
Richard Vission - Los Angeles
Rob Swift - NYC
Robbie Rivera – Miami via Puerto Rico
Roger Sanchez - NYC/NJ
Roonie G - Columbus, GA
Saeed Younan - DC
Seth Troxler - Detroit
Scotty Boy - Las Vegas via Orange County, CA
Sharam - DC
Stacey Pullen - Detroit
Steve Aoki – Los Angeles
Steve Porter - Massachusetts
Sticky Boots - South Bend, IN
The Rub - NYC
Theo Parrish - Detroit
Tommie Sunshine – NYC via Chicago/Atlanta
Tommy Lee & DJ Aero – Los Angeles
Trouble & Bass Crew - NYC
Victor Calderone - NYC
Wolfgang Gartner - Austin, Texas
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2010 AMERICA’S BEST DJ TOUR DATES
May 29-31 – Detroit - Movement Festival, Hart Plaza
June 5 - Baltimore - Starscape Festival, Fort Armistead Park
June 10 – NYC - Trouble & Bass Crew @ Santos Party House
June 18 – San Francisco - DJ Icey @ Ruby Skye
July 3 – Washington, DC - Saeed Younan @ Lima Lounge
+ Many more dates to be announced soon
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ABDJ 2010 SPONSORS
www.pioneerdj.com
www.djtimes.com
www.novationmusic.com
www.beatport.com
www.palms.com
www.n9negroup.com
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Source: Justin Kleinfeld, rephlektor inkorporated
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