Elektro Awards

Featuring five west-coast approved picks from the Summer 2015 season.

The winner of the "Nightclub of the Year" honor from our first annual #elektroAwards was Las Vegas' captivating LIGHT Nightclub. Now, the new Cirque du Soleil-powered club is doing a victory lap, throwing their "Nightclub of the Year Party...

Written by Colleen Laughlin     It’s nearing 1 a.m. at the annual Halloween Pier of Fear event at Pier 94 in New York, and British producer/DJ Michael Woods is reaching the climax of his progressive-house journey. The elektro team ...

The winner of Artist of the Year for the first-ever elektro Awards is certainly the obvious choice; Calvin Harris. From becoming one of the biggest producers in both electronic dance music, as well as pop music, along with being one of the most sought after live acts in the industry, Calvin Harris has defined the term "superstar...

Dillon Francis became the first moombahton artist to reach No. 1 on Beatport, with his 2012 single “Masta Blasta.” Since then, Francis has become one of the most recognizable faces in dance music—hundreds of Francis’ fans attend his shows waving larger-than-life posters of his face over their heads...

On September 13th, 2013, two-time Grammy-nominated producer Avicii released his debut studio album, True, under the newly founded PRMD Records. Rather than replicating tracks from his earlier mainstream success, Avicii decided that True would be more experimental and synthetic than his earlier work...

When the boys of Disclosure made their debut a little over a year ago, it became apparent that we had something much more impressive on our hands than your typical DJ duo. Crafting a unique sound in their home of Surrey, England, brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence seamlessly combined deep house music with U...

As one of the freshest collaborations electronic music has seen in recent history, Grizmatik, the collaboration of DJ/producers Griz and Gramatik, made a lot of noise when they joined forces on the release of their first single, “Digital Freedom Is Mad Liberation,” in November 2012...

When an anonymous teaser of the track “Animals” was released back in May, there was much speculation over who was responsible for the production. At one point, it was even assumed to be a Hardwell and GTA collaboration. Unbeknownst to the EDM world, however, the mastermind behind “Animals” was actually 17-year-old Dutch DJ and producer Martin Garrix...

Dutch duo Willem van Hanegem and Wardt van der Harst, better known as W&W, are no strangers to making music that thrusts their crowds into a frenzy, but everyone was pleasantly surprised by the track they released in April. Their remix of Armin van Buuren’s moving anthem “This Is What It Feels Like” was one of the most sought-after tunes of the year, and it created an indescribable, exhilarat