Hey everyone, I thought it fitting to end the year with an awards ceremony consisting of both positive and dubious honours! Thank you for all the great responses to my previous post, I hope you enjoy this one too! So, without further ado, let’s get stuck in with the awards!

***Disclaimer: music is subjective, these are just my opinions. When looking at who I’ve given the awards to, please remember that success in the music industry is hard to define as it comes in lots of different shapes and sizes e.g. going from unknown to 20,000 fans, or going from 20,000 fans to being a regular on UKF or going from a regular on UKF to getting a top 10 chart hit etc.***

Let’s kick things off with the more serious awards:

Best Producer: Koven (Honourable mention: Kove- I’m honestly not just saying that for the sake of it- both of them have released some HUGE tracks this year).

Best Track: Koven- More Than You (although there are lots of other strong contenders as 2013 has been an amazing year for music).

Best Album: Should probably be the Sanctuary EP by KOAN Sound and that other guy, but fuck you, I’m going with Camo & Krooked’s Zeitgeist.

Best Breakthrough: Keeno (Honourable mention to Archie Cane)

Most Underrated Track: Aeph- Black Hoax Ft. Maksim (Honourable mention to Joe Ford & Asa- Real Talk).

Most Likely To Have A Huge Year In 2014: Pegboard Nerds (so many people I’d like to put forward for this, but I have a feeling the Nerds in particular will take it to the next level in 2014. Honourable mention to Astronaut and Frequency as some might argue Pegboard Nerds are already too big for this award).

Most Impressive/ Innovative Producer: Au5/Savant tied.

Best Vocalist: Sam Smith

Best Record Label: Inspected

Best Promo Channel: UKF Music

And now I think it’s time to award some more dubious honours…

Sexiest Male: Direct

Sexiest Female: Laura Brehm

Most Viral Disappointing Pizza Experience: Sadhu

Most Likely To Still Get ID’d When They Are 30: Sam Dub Kelly

Most Vengeance Samples Used: Zomboy/Tisoki tied

Cutest Couple: Muzzy + Buddygirrl

Best Troll: Whoever pretended to leak Daft Punk’s new album but actually uploaded an album consisting entirely of Avicii- Levels

Person I Would Least Like To Bump Into In A Dark Alley: Seamless

Best Hair: Boyinaband (Honourable mention to Sadhu and his mini-afro)

Most Ridiculously Named Subgenre: Vaporwave (Honourable mention to Psibient and Night Bus)

Best Spammer: Redst3r

Most Cringeworthy Facebook Statuses: Ryan Biankowski & Jacob Wolf tied

Most Likely To Give Birth In 2014: Melissa Pixel

Most League of Legends Played: Fox Stevenson & Feint tied

Best Bromance: NEMZ + Himself

Most Photoshopped: Elliot Berger

Most Weed Smoked: Simba

Most Likely To End Up In Prison: Johnathan LFOMG Rivers (for crimes against EDM and comedy via EDM:Fact)

Most Tolerant Of Everyone Trying To Get With His Fiancée: None Like Joshua

Best Facebook Statuses: Coyote Kisses

Most Abuse Of A ‘Jump’ Sample: Ray Volpe

Most Likely To Still Be A Virgin Next Year: Borgore

The ‘Kill Paris DJ Courage Award‘ for DJs who refuse to bend to club management and stay true to music they want to play: SirensCeol

And finally, the highly coveted ‘Culture Code Consistency Award‘ which is given each year to a producer who has gone to great lengths to ensure all their songs sound incredibly similar….

*drumroll*

SKRUX.

Congratulations to everyone who won an award, although some of you should be prouder than others! As always, feel free to share this around- it’s greatly appreciated! I hope you all get completely shitfaced tonight and finish 2013 in style. See you in 2014!

The Phantom