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

DJ Mag's Best of North America awards show will take place at Kings Hall (Avant Gardner) next month

DJ Mag

Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 17:30

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