DJ Mag announces line-up for Best of North America 2022 awards party

The line-up for DJ Mag’s first-ever Best of North America awards show is here.

Following the announcement of 2022’s nominees last week, DJ Mag will be heading to New York on 16th June to present the Best of North America awards show at Kings Hall (Avant Gardner) in Brooklyn. The awards show will be hosted by the DJ, producer, radio host and journalist, Vivian Host, aka Star Eyes. 

Taking place from 7PM until 2AM, the winners will be announced at the event, with sets on the night coming from nominees ZHU, Layla Benitez, AceMoMA, Lauren Flax and Tim Sweeney.

There will also be a very special guest performance from the winner of this year’s editorially chosen Outstanding Contribution award. Previous winners have included the likes of Richie Hawtin and Kerri Chandler.

Tickets for the event are free but are limited in numbers. Sign up to the pre-sale link for tickets here, which will be available from Thursday 2nd June at 12pm ET. 

Voting is open now until 1st June 2022. You can check out the nominees and full list of categories below, and vote at vote.djmag.com.

DJ Mag’s Best of North America awards cover the territory in which the DJ Mag North America print edition is distributed, which is USA & Canada. DJ Mag Mexico is a licence of DJ Mag owned by a separate publisher, and thus owns the rights to any localised awards.

Best DJ

• Eris Drew
• Green Velvet
• Jayda G
• RL Grime
• RP Boo

Breakthrough DJ

• Ariel Zetina
• John Summit
• Kush Jones
• Layla Benitez
• UNIIQU3

Best Live Act

• E-Dancer
• Jessy Lanza 
• Minimal Violence
• Porter Robinson
• ZHU

Best Producer

• Avalon Emerson
• DJ SWISHA
• Flying Lotus 
• Lane 8
• WondaGurl

Breakthrough Producer

• Bored Lord
• LP Giobbi 
• Moore Kismet 
• Nikki Nair
• TYGAPAW

Best Label

• Backwoodz Studioz
• Brainfeeder
• Incienso
• Monstercat Silk
• Nervous Records

Breakthrough Label

• EAT DIS
• Kindergarten Records
• Odyzey Music
• Rules Don’t Apply 
• Worst Behavior Recs

Best Album

• AceMoMA ‘A Future’ [HAUS of ALTR]
• DJ Manny ‘Signals In My Head’ [Planet Mu]
• Eris Drew ‘Quivering In Time’ [T4T LUV NRG]
• Moor Mother ‘Black Encyclopedia of the Air’ [ANTI-]
• Vindata ‘With Opened Eyes’ [Monstercat]

Best Compilation

• Defected presents ‘House Masters: Todd Edwards’ [Defected]
• DJ Holographic ‘Detroit Love Vol. 5’ [Planet E Communications]
• V/A ‘CRITICAL MASS VOL. 1’ [Space Yacht]
• V/A ‘Deep Cutz’ [Dirtybird]
• V/A ‘Juke Bounce Werk presents: JBDUBZ vol. 9’ [Juke Bounce Werk]

Best Track

• Louie Vega ‘All My Love feat. Robyn’ [Nervous Records]
• LSDXOXO ‘Sick Bitch’ [XL]
• ODESZA ‘The Last Goodbye feat. Bettye LaVette’ [Foreign Family Collective]
• REZZ & Deathpact ‘Chemical Bond’ [Rezz Music, Inc.]
• UNIIQU3 ‘Microdosing’ [Local Action]

Best Remix/Edit

• Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs ‘Heartbreak (Kerri Chandler Remix)’ [OUTLIER]
• Kavinsky (feat. Cautious Clay) ‘Renegade (Oliver Remix)’ [Record Makers]
• Midnight Magic ‘Beam Me Up (Each Other Remix)’ [Razor-N-Tape]
• Ouri ‘High & Choking (Jacques Greene Remix)’ [Born Twice / Lighter Than Air]
• ZHU & partywithray ‘Zhudio54 (J. Worra Remix)’ [Astralwerks]

Best Large Club 

• Avant Gardner & The Brooklyn Mirage, Brooklyn
• Club Space, Miami
• Echostage, Washington DC
• Exchange LA, Los Angeles
• The Concourse Project, Austin

Best Small Club

• CODA, Toronto
• Good Room, Brooklyn
• Kremwerk, Seattle
• Spot Lite, Detroit
• Stereo, Montreal

Best Club Event / Event Series

• A Club Called Rhonda
• Interdimensional Transmissions 
• Mister Sunday 
• RE/FORM 
• STEAM 

Underground Hero 
Recognising the champions of grassroots music communities

• DJ Bone
• DJ Deeon
• DJ Minx
• Lauren Flax 
• Tim Sweeney