The best DJ, club, act and tune of the last 25 years
Mixmag is 25 years old next month. Yes, we can't believe it either. As part of our massive silver anniversary celebrations we're doing a huge online vote to discover the very best DJ, club, tune and act of the last quarter century.
You'll no doubt be keen to have your say so high tail it over to the Mixmag 25 Awards section on the home page and get voting. Then come back here and row about it.
Look out for the special, 25th Birthday Spectacular issue, out April 17, with a cover and free mix CD that's gonna blow your minds!
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Nick DeCosemo
Editor
Mixmag
ok that was hard
that was a really hard decision to make seriously especially cause i havent been are around for even 20 years ha
Hey
Lots of good choices here, I found it practically impossible to choose my favourite tune of all time and since voting have changed my mind at least 8 times!!!
Best DJ : Oakenfold, kicked off the proceedings in The UK and started his dj career the same time I started my clubbing career.
Best Act: I went for Daft Punk it was a close run thing but after their 2 tours of England in 97 and 07 were the best shows I've ever seen live.
Best Club: I guess Ibiza will rule the ratings but I have a soft spot for Turnmills and the gallery.
Best tune: Access by misjah and Tim was so far ahead of it's time I still get away with playing it out to this day.
What I voted
best dj = paul van dyk
best act = prodigy
best club = gatecrasher @ republic
best tune = adagio for strings - tiesto
feel free to rip my choices to pieces! haha
hi
WHAT A SLETION
What I voted
DJ: It has to be Pete Tong! Where would we all be without that bloke!
Act: Orbital. Because they're from Kent like me and remind me of muddy fields.
Club: Liquid Room Tokyo. Because I had the best night of my life there (Jeff Mills 1996).
Tune: K-Klass: Show Me Love. It's on Cream Anthems (David Morales Mix) and it just makes me want to dance my ass off everytime I hear it, even 13 years later! I never get bored of that tune.
Cheers from an older, now sober raver!
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Best Dj- High contrast Best
Best Dj- High contrast
Best Club- Turnmills
Best act-Tiesto, elements of life tour, both at Ibiza and at ally pally
Best tune- Robin S - show me love
Best DJ - Paul
Best DJ - Paul Oakenfold
Best Dance Act - Above and Beyond
Best Club - Home/We love @ Space
Best Tune - Orbital - Belfast
It's hard to pick best ever's.
DJ - Frankie Knuckles has to be a shoot since he invented house music in the first place.
Best dance act - A&B relatively new compared to say the chemical brothers or someone like that
Best club - would've loved to have voted my local clubs lush @ kellys from when i lived in northern ireland and now nation in liverpool but feel one of the big 7 in ibiza will scoop it.
Best tune - too many too mention so plumped for belfast!
my vote
best dj - paul oakenfold
best dance act - the prodigy
best club night - big beat boutique
the first three are very easy for me to answer, while there are 1 or 2 others I could have chosen, the 3 i picked are the ones that give me the best memories and are the ones I have enjoyed more than anyone else in that catergory. The best tune one is hard as there are so many amazing tunes from the last 25 years, all with different reasons and to pick (the best) one is very very hard, i've ended up choosing...
best tune - Underworld - Born Slippy
my vote
dj - craig richards
act - daft punk
night - somewhere
tune - prodigy, smack my bitch up
My vote
A hard decisions to make, however perfectly do-able!
Best DJ- Pre ableton Sasha
Act- Chemical Brothers
Night- dividedbydirt @ the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire [RIP]
Tune- Frankie Knuckles 'Your Love'/ Leftfield 'Song for Life'
Howdi
Howdi dude,
had to reply as i picked Leftfield - Song For Life as well,
extra special song, played live it's one of those spiritual moments :D
byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Iain
My Votes: Best DJ - Judge
My Votes:
Best DJ - Judge Jules
Best Dance Act - The Prodigy
Best Club - Cream @ Nation
Best Tune - Nightwriters-Let The Music Use You
Can't Wait For Results!
Thank you Mixmag for 25 years (I've only been on-board for the last 4)! I wish I could get the results right away! This is nearly an impossible task since there are so many worthy contenders - it boggles the mind! Though when I think of my all time favorite tracks, it puts me in a good mood with a lot of great tunes going through my head! Wouldn't you agree? My votes:
Best DJ: Steve Angello
Best Dance Act: Daft Punk
Best Club: Lush @ Kelly's
Best Tune: David Guetta - A Little More Love (Wally Lopez Mix)
It seems Daft Punk are in it
It seems Daft Punk are in it to win best dance act then!
Daft Punk deserve at least
Daft Punk deserve at least one award there.
Best Dance Act/Dj's in the world in my opinion.
Past 25 years?
That's a large timescale isn't it?
Guess it would have to be people who actually helped change, shape or develop the scene - rather than fucking muppets like Tiesto who just endlessly play a genre that has been around before them and never changes or innovates.
Guys like Kevin Saunderson, Alfredo or Sasha i guess. I agree with acts such as Orbital and Prodigy as they both innovated. Club would have to be Fabric.
Tune is a hard one. Have to come back to that..................
Best in past 25 years...
best dj = Tony Humphries / Jeff Mills / Richie Hawtin / Derrick Carter
best act = Orbital
best club = Sound Factory NYC
best tune = Inner City - Big Fun
Best...
Oi! You can't have four!
decisions decisions
best dj = grooverider
best dance act = basement jaxx
best club = shindig, newcastle
best tune = inner city - big fun
pretty hard to narrow it down, cant wait to see the results could be quite a mixed bag but i think the olden days will be 'forgotten'....spoke like a true old sod!! hahahaha
My Vote
Best Club - Carl Cox Night @ Space
Best Dance Act - The Chemical Brothers
Best DJ - Tiga
Best Tune - Rollin' & Scratchin' - Daft Punk
Gothenburg, Sweden votes
Best Club - Pacha @ Ibiza
Best Dance Act - Basement Jaxx
Best DJ - Daft Punk
Best Tune - Da Funk - Daft Punk
Eddie's Choice
Best Club - Lamerica, Cardiff
Best Dance Act - Daft Punk
Best DJ - Fat Boy Slim
Best Tune - Stardust, Music Sounds Better With You
my opinions
Best dj - Sasha
best club - Feel
best tune - Laurent Garnier - Man With the Red Face (Jan Driver mix)
best act - Hybrid live
Best Dj - Justice Best Act -
Best Dj - Justice
Best Act - The Prodigy
Best tune - The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
Stunty's choice
Best DJ: tough choice, but I went for Danny Tenaglia. (Junior Vasquez/Frankie Knuckles closed second)
Best Club: Sound Factory NYC
Best Act: Massive Attack
Best Tune: Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms (Junior Vasquez Sound Factory Mix)
Still pondering over the
Still pondering over the others, but my vote for best club is hands down The Arches in Glasgow.
More choices
DJ: Jeff Mills for being the most ruthless floor rocker ever!
Act: Orbital for showing a festival of hippies and students what dance music is all about at Glasto 94.
Club: Ageha @ Studio Coast (Just excellent!)
Tune: Age of Love: The Age of Love (Trance year zero)
MY PICKS
BEST DJ: DJ CRAZE (JUNGLIST SET) I LOVE THIS MAN...
BEST CLUB: SPACE,MIAMI... :). !!!!!
BEST ACT: DAFT PUNK THAT WAS INSANE...!!! NO WORDS...
BEST TUNE: DROWNING BY CLEVELAND LOUNGE (AK 1200 MIX).I REMENBER THOSE WHEN WE RUN TO THE FLOOR JUST WHEN IT STARTED,NOW WHEN I LISTEN IT I ALMOST CRY..YEP !!!!!
THE POLL
DJ - CARL COX
(WITHOUT DOUBT THE MOST TALENTED, BEST LIVE AND INTERACTIVE DJ OF ALL TIME, AND HE PLAYS WHAT HE WANTS, NO MEDIA WHORING! PLUS HES BEEN DJING FOREVER, HOW OLD IS HE NOW? I HAVEN'T HEARD OF ANYONE LEAVING A LIVE SET OF HIS AND GOING - 'THAT WAS CRAP'. CAN ANY OTHER DJ BOAST THE SAME?)
ACT - UNDERWORLD
(REZ & BORN SLIPPY LIVE! OH MY WORD!) - daft punk very close behind
CLUB - CREAM
(WHERE IT ALL HAPPENED, OAKENFOLDS COURTYARD ANYONE?!)
TUNE - ENERGY 52 - CAFE DEL MAR
(BY FAR THE BIGGEST PEAK CLUB TUNE OF ALL TIME)
what I voted for
best dj - dont have a fave
best act - The Prodigy
Best club night - Whelans Dublin
best tune - New Order - Blue Monday
My votes
Best DJ = Francois K
Best Club = Hard to say but I'm going with Space Ibiza
Best Act = The Knife
Best Tune = New Order - Blue Monday
My vote
Dj Adam Freeland
Act Daft Punk (It cannot be anyone else, surely!)
Club Cocoon (Go there, do it!)
Tune Justice - Waters of Nazereth
My Vote
DJ Loco Dice
Act Daft Punk
Club Pressure - The Arches
Tune Marc Houle - Borrowed Gear
whoever voted paul van dyk - get a ruddy grip of yourself.
I have changed my mind
25 years is too much so heres mine in decades
80s
club - Hacienda
dj - john peel
act - kraftwerk
Tune - M/A/R/R/S - PUMP UP THE VOLUME
90s
CLUB - CREAM @ NATION (Due to Oakenfolds courtyard)
dj - Carl Cox
act - Underworld
Tune - Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar
2000s
Club - Space Ibiza
Dj - Tom Middleton
act - Daft Punk
Tune - Sasha - X-pander (because its an ep and all the tracks are wicked)
choices
Best DJ - Sasha
Dance Act - Daft Punk
Club Night - Godskitchen @ Air
Tune - Chicane - Saltwater
born in the last 25 years?
the last 25 years..........
DJ; Pete tong - although i dont particually like what he plays now he has done more for dance music in 'the last 25' than anyone else i think.
Dance Act: i would say the prodigy but i think thats highhly debatable topic anyhow.
Club: Studio 54 was the first real superclub i guess, but i never went. Hacienda me thinks.
Tune: new order - blue monday. i have an original copy from 1983, the only thing that really dated it badly i think was the kick drum which they put more 'umph' into later in '87ish, but now with minimal people like kick drums which sound like hampsters farts anyway.
unfortunalty people like Tiesto will win most these awards, not that he's not talented, Musically he is clearly gifted, but what he has done in the last 25 years (10 really) is commercialize trance. which i dont think deserves a 25 year music award. the goog thing for him though is that going commercial you will get more votes as more people know who you are!
eh?
No offence intended mate, but.........
Wasn't Sudio 54 more than 25 years ago? It started in 1977, and finished........? I think it was before 1983 anyway, maybe not, I have been wrong before. The owners were busted in 1979 though and got 3 and a half years, but I am not sure if the club continued? It wasn't a great club, it concerned itself with clothes, cocaine and being seen, the music wasn't the centre of it.
Also -
"unfortunalty people like Tiesto will win most these awards, not that he's not talented, Musically he is clearly gifted."
Eh?
How?
I would say he is the least 'musically' gifted out of all the top djs right now. He is a one trick pony, a master of copying what Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk and a few others did before him, which works well with a large group of people fucked out their heads, but musically? Hardly music for your life.
He is successful, but so was Hitler to a point.
He will probably win or finish highly, which is wrong, but when the majority of voters are 16 - 22, they dont remember 1988 - 2002 as a clubbing experience. It will be the same in five years,
The club should be either hacienda, gatecrasher, renaissance, space, fabric or cream
The dj? Frankie Knuckles, John Peel, Sasha, Carl Cox, or Pete Tong?
The tune - ???????? fuck knows! A top ten is hard enough. You would all have to admit that Energy 52 - Cafe del mar is probably one of the strongest contenders.
The act - the prodigy, daft punk, the chemicals or underworld.
anything other than those is stupid.
The Prodigy deserve to win best act
Best DJ = Andy C
Best Act = The Prodigy
Best Club = Hospitality at Heaven
Best Tune = The Prodigy - No Good (start the dance)
Choosing my best tune was hard cos i wasn't sure about "Underworld - Pearl's girl", "Pendulum - Another Planet" or "The Prodigy - Smack my Bitch up" too.
The Best By Far...
Dj - Mark Farina
Act - Daft Punk
Venue - Vanguard In Hollywood, Ca
Tune - Da Funk- Daft Punk
Im from Orange County, Ca House fanatic....
Mark Farina is by far the best dj, spinning house, acid house, downtempo, underground deep funky chicago house, and of course...mushroom jazz...come on people...
PALMER!
No.1
Best DJ: Armin van Buuren
Best Act: Daft Punk
Best Club: Amnesia
Tune: Zocalo - Armin van Buuren ft. Gabriel & Dresen
Tough Choice But.....
BEST DJ: Sasha
BEST ACT: The Chemical Brothers
BEST CLUB: Cream@Nation
BEST TUNE: Chicane - Offshore
Tough Choice....
Best Dj: Carl Cox
Best Act: The Prodigy
Best Club/Night: Rise n Shine @ Oscars (clacton)
Best Tune: Origin Unknown - Valley of the Shadows
No offence to all the "Tiesto" kids
no offence to all you Tiesto kids.
but he is only as famous as he has purely dj'd into a scene which is mainstream.
he hasn't helped in the rise of dance culture or pioneered a sound or scene.
guys like Laurent Garnier, Dave Clarke, Marshal Jefferson and LTJ Bukem have all been at the forefront of there scene for decades and rightly deserve "Best DJ" awards.
early dance and rave culture was about the music, none of this "Tiesto DJ Stadium Tours", DJ's should be heard and not seen. Not waving there hands in the air at the end of a set getting rounds of applause.
Turn on, Tune in and Rave on!!!
my awards would be -
BEST DJ - Laurent Garnier
BEST ACT - Chemical Brothers/ Underworld
BEST CLUB/NIGHT - Pressure @ The Arches, Glasgow
BEST TUNE - Leftfield - Song of Life
well said mate.
well said mate.
You know hes gonna finish in the top 3 though eh!?
Its all went too fickle, people are easily bought in todays marketeers world. There isn't the togetherness that there was, the hippy in the scene has died.
Bigger means better for many, and money making means you are good.
I love Bukem, Clarke and Garnier (I have seen jefferson live - he was murder) for what they have done, but in my opinion there are only 3 truly outstanding candidates for the dj award-
Pete tong (for his show and boundary breaking)
Carl Cox (have you seen him live!)
Sasha (when the es were good, there was no one better)
I personally would give it to Carl Cox for his international appeal, longevity and live performance.
Any of the 3 would deserve it though.
my vote (i am 22 yr old girly)
Best DJ: Carl Cox !!!
Best act: Simian Mobile Disco
Best club: We Love Sundays at Space (Ibiza)
Best tune: Underworld - Born Slippy (a classic ha!!)
A "Hurtling into middle age" vote.
Best DJ = Joey Negro, for his musical knowledge, depth and diversity he has helped to shaped the UK house scene from its very beginnings twenty years ago and has never jumped on the latest bandwagon.
Best Act = Full intention, Started out doing remixes on the original DMC 12"s along with Sasha etc.., these guys are behind more tunes than you realise and unlike sasha they haven't dissapeared up their own back sides yet. Purposely didn't go for any of the more obvious choices as they have been lauded enough in my opinion.
Best Club night = Out in the Sticks @ The Bluenote in Todmorden.
This night was the only place in the North of England, that played proper US house music week in week out. It was widely regarded as a funky house night by the uninitiated but in reality had much more about it than that, it ran for nine years in the Basement of a greasy spoon cafe in a small town called Todmorden and was nice and dark and sweaty and always stunk of weed, a proper place to get lost in it.
Best Tune = Shalor - I'm in love, nice deep vocal house music, just the way I like it, was a big tune at the Hacienda a couple of years before I started going out, The first time I heard it I thought "this is it"!!.
You may have noticed that I'm getting on a bit so go easy on me kids!!.
That tracks on youtube -
That tracks on youtube - VERY LOVEY DOVEY!
Full intention are a tight production outfit, but live??????????
This was tough!! But i went
This was tough!! But i went with my instinct! For anyone that has experienced Richie Hawtins awesome sets they will surely understand my choice to vote him best DJ. Fabric for me is the ultimate super club that has done so much for dance music since it opened covering all genres from hip hop to electro to dnb to hard techno. More dance acts have gone to international superstardom because of this club than any other. Daft Punk was the easy option for their undenied contribution to dance music past and present. As for my favorite tune... well, "Who's Afraid of Detroit?" Av it!!
Hmm!! Good point
Me thinks I didn't read the rules properly, OK If I have to pick a dance act from the last 25 years who can cut it live (and I like)it would have to be Daft Punk.
P.S I'm an old romantic!! lol.
P.P.S BT Was pretty good live a few years back.