2001 - That horrible thing involving those planes and those buildings happens. The first spacecraft lands on an asteroid. Pope John Paul II sends his first awesome email, retires carrier pigeons. Legendary Perth beer swillier, dj and all round party animal, DJ Karnage, passes away. Daft Punk release "Discovery". Freestyle wins the "Hard Dance" award - swears Hard Dance isnt Hardcore, which Hutcho wins, but its now called best Rave and not best hardcore and its not hard dance but its hard style - whatever, its hard, man. Greg Packer continues his reign of dominance in the DnB awards as well as the new Best Producer and best label categorys. Nic Tan wins best newcomer - Nic Tan, where are you? Rhibosome impresses mightily and takes out best live act and Teknoscape shockingly and surprisingly takes out the best website award!
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Best House DJ: Dan Stinton
Dan Stinton takes the best House Dj for the first time since the awards started with 12% of the votes, Dirty Den who followed on 11% of the votes had taken this award in previous years. Chad D followed with 7% of the votes.
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Best Techno DJ: Mrw
Mrw took out best Techno Dj with 38% of the votes, followed by last years winner Dj Puff with 25% and Dj Troy with 13% of the votes.
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Best Trance / Progressive DJ: Adam Kelly
Adam Kelly secured the new Best Trance / Progressive Dj category with 20% of the voters, runners up were Dj Choice with 14% closely followed by Chad D with 12% of the votes.
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Best Hard House / Hard Dance DJ: Freestyle
Freestyle easily won new Best Hard House / Hard Dance Dj category with 41% of the votes, followed by Weavy on 29% and Direct X on 15% of the votes.
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Best Drum 'n' Bass DJ: Greg Packer
Greg Packer won Best Drum 'n' Bass DJ, 4 years in a row. Elhornet received 19% of the votes followed by Frantik with 16% of the votes.
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Best Breaks / 2-Step DJ: Trent C
Trent C won the new Best Breaks / 2-Step DJ category followed by Krank with 12% and Echoic with 10% of the votes.
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Best Rave / Hardcore DJ: Hutcho
The godfather of hardcore Hutcho took out Best Rave / Hardcore DJ, followed by Greg Packer on 12% and Verstyle on 9% of the votes.
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Best New Talent: Nic Tan
This new category had many people voted for but Nic Tan took out Best New Talent with 8% of the votes followed by Heretik with 6% and Concept with 4% of the votes.
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Best MC: Assassin
This was tight, with Assassin winning Best MC with 27% of the votes, followed closely by X-sessiv with 24% and J–Rippa with 16% of the votes.
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Best Live Act: Rhibosome
Rhibosome won the new Best Live Act category with 30% of the votes, followed by Dub Society (17%) and GPS (16%).
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Best Producer: Greg Packer
Greg Packer convincingly won the new Best Producer category with 48% of the votes followed by Statik (26%) and Eupho Spug (4%).
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Best Record Label: Interphaze
Greg Packer’s label, Interphase also took out the Best Record Label with 31% of the votes, with Hard Afro (22%) and Off World (17%) following. Making that 3 awards for Perth’s hardest working man.
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Best Nightclub: The Drum Club
Best Nightclub won by the Drum Club with 34% of the votes, followed by the Globe (21%) which had won the previous 3 years. Geisha came third with 14% of the votes.
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Best Non-Club Venue: The Swan Barracks
This category was close with The Swan Barracks taking it out again this year with 25% of the votes, followed closely behind was Belvior Ampitheatre with 20% and the Old Berlin third with 14% of the votes.
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Best Record Retailer: Central Station
Central Station won Best Record Retailer for the 4th time in a row with 28% of the votes followed by Dada's (19%) the Dj Factory (16%).
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Best Radio Show: Full Frequency
RTR’s Full Frequency easily won Best Radio Show again for the 4th time followed by BPM (19%) and Looney Tunes (8%).
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Best Free Magazine: Hype Magazine
Hype Magazine takes it out for the third time with 48% of the votes, followed by X-Press Magazine on 36% and Zebra Magazine on 16% of the votes. It will be interesting to see how things pan out next year, as X-Press recently bought out Hype and combined it with Zebra.
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Best Dance Music Website: Teknoscape
Teknoscape took this out easily with 61% of the votes followed by IntheMix with 25% and Influences with 3% of the votes. There were another 11 sites the got votes.
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Best All-Ages Rave: Blackout 2
Best All-Ages Rave was won by Blackout 2 which happened at this years best non-club venue (the Swan Barracks) with 22% of the votes followed by Fundamental (15%) and Genesis (13%).
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Best Event: Gatecrasher Festival
The Gatecrashes Summers festival Perth’s biggest event took out the Best Event category, followed by Digital (9%) and Sonik (5%).
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Best Flyer: Science Fiction
Best Flyer was won by Eupho Spugs NYE Science Fiction flyer, followed by After Forever (9%) and Sonik (7%).
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Best International Performance: De La Soul
This category was massive with over 200 Dj's/Artists receiving votes, De La Soul got it this year with their live performance at the Gatecrasher Summer Festival, Ray Keith followed with 4% and Ben Simms with 3% of the votes.
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