“The Beatport Music Awards aims to recognize electronic music talent. With nominees based solely on 2008 unit sales from Beatport.com, the awards are broken down by music genre.

There are 35 categories altogether: Best Artists (separated into 17 genres), Best Track (17 genres, with both originals and remixes), and a final open question asking the public to name the ‘most influential, relevant and forward-thinking person in electronic music in 2008’.”

I made a list of some of the winners of this years music awards to give you a sample of their tunes

Best Breaks Artist
Stanton Warriors
1st Place

Plump DJs
2nd Place

Krafty Kuts
3rd Place

Best Chill Out Artist

Jazzanova
1st Place

Thievery Corporation
2nd Place

Nightmares On Wax
3rd Place

Best Drum & Bass Artist
Noisia
1st Place

Chase & Status
2nd Place

Logistics
3rd Place

Best Dubstep Artist
Benga
1st Place

Burial
2nd Place

Nero (UK)
3rd Place

Best Electro House Artist
Deadmau5
1st Place

Pryda
2nd Place

Sebastien Leger
3rd Place

Best Electronica Artist
Underworld
1st Place

Modeselektor
2nd Place

Ellen Allien
3rd Place



Best Indie Dance / Nu Disco Artist
Boys Noize
1st Place

Justice
2nd Place

Mr. Oizo
3rd Place


Best Progressive House Artist
Deadmau5
(he already got a video so instead ill give you one for prydz instead… i dont think you will be dissapointed)
1st Place

Eric Prydz
2nd Place

EDX
3rd Place


Best Trance Artist
Armin Van Buuren
1st Place

DJ Tiësto
2nd Place

Above & Beyond
3rd Place

Biiiiig news for all you dubstep fans out there. Two of the founders of the genre are coming to Toronto this weekend!

14-JUN-09 SKREAM + BENGA @ WRONGBAR 19+ $18.50

Skream was one of dubsteps first and most prominent producers. He began producing music at the age of 15 (using fruity loops) and claims to have roughly 1400 songs in varying stages of development!

Benga is a dubstep producer from Croydon, South London, and is part of the Tempa and Big Apple Records label. He has been described as an important name in the development of the dubstep style for his fusion of the already existing South London dubstep sound with the newer East London born grime sound, and was also one of the first dubstep producers when the style was emerging in the early 2000s (thanks wiki)

get your tickets here

Lots of great shows coming to the GTA over the next couple of months. First one that you should check out is Benga.

18-SEP-09 BENGA @ MOD CLUB 19+ $15.00

Check the myspace hurrr
See here for more info on benga
tickets available @ rotate this

Wow 100… who’d of thunk it? remember that time… nope neither do i – more tunes instead!

woooooah its a double (rusko) rainbow oh my god all the way!

the following track is mad hype, check the self titled album by Netsky asap boh!

a teaser from teh new skream album due out late august. (If you are in toronto then go check him out with Benaga and Diplo this friday for the TIME festival)

Magnetic man – dubstep supah group (tbd) skream, benga and artwork… big things to come?

After much searching I finally found a version of this video that can be watched outside of the UK. enjoy

Benga – Smack Your Bitch Up by iambenga

Updated Nov 10, 2011: The new video by Skream has finally made its North American debut, attached above is the new video instead of the BBC audio rip from ‘In New DJ’s We Trust’ that was there before.