{"id":220,"date":"2016-12-09T17:26:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awards.breakbeat.co.uk\/2016\/?p=220"},"modified":"2016-12-09T17:26:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:26:41","slug":"drumbassarena-awards-2016-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awards.breakbeat.co.uk\/2016\/news\/drumbassarena-awards-2016-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Drum&#038;BassArena Awards 2016: The Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r6OiL5Y-dmw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brixton Electric was home to some of the scene\u2019s biggest and most influential individuals on Wednesday as we hosted the eighth annual Drum&amp;BassArena Awards. With the entire venue crammed with music lovers, <strong>Charlie Tee<\/strong> and <strong>Jenna G<\/strong> played host to a packed house.<\/p>\n<p>With two new awards to present, and a few old ones switched out along the way, everything about the night felt refreshed and re-energised as we all united to celebrate the music we love and the talented minds involved in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noisia<\/strong> scored the biggest sweep of the night with three awards for Best Album, Best Producer and Best Video. They were closely followed by double-trophy scoring <strong>DRS<\/strong> who not only picked up gold for Best MC but also had his dulcet deliveries recognised. <strong>Break<\/strong> won the first ever Critic\u2019s Choice award (voted by a panel of 50 music writers and bloggers) and <strong>FABRICLIVE<\/strong> winning Best Club Night resulted in a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 28.1018518519% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BNu5hkoj8tT\/\" target=\"_blank\">Standing ovation for @fabriclondonofficial winning Best Club Night ?? massive congrats to the whole team ? ? #dnb #drumandbass #dnba #dnbarena #awards<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A video posted by Drum&amp;BassArena (@officialdnba) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-12-07T22:32:05+00:00\">Dec 7, 2016 at 2:32pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another huge applause came when the legendary Randall was anointed into the Hall Of Fame, and again when he stepped up to play a seriously mind-blowing influences sets after the trophies were handed out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/breakbeat-awards-2ezlhsfwy1f.stackpathdns.com\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_5005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-221 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/breakbeat-awards-2ezlhsfwy1f.stackpathdns.com\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_5005-700x415.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_5005\" width=\"599\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always though, the real winner was drum &amp; bass\u2026. It\u2019s been an exceptional year for the genre with more new labels entering the fray, established labels consistently delivering outstanding releases and countless future classic albums.<\/p>\n<p>As Jenna G said last night \u2013 2016 has been a vintage for D&amp;B. This is reflected in the size of this year\u2019s event: registered voters were over treble the amount of previous years and came from more countries than ever before, ensuring a wider of proportion of the scene was represented throughout.<\/p>\n<p>A huge thanks to everyone who voted and joined us last night. And a huge congratulations to these guys\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Best Video \u2013 Noisia \u2013 Mantra<\/p>\n<p>Best Vocalist \u2013 DRS<\/p>\n<p>Best Newcomer \u2013 Signal<\/p>\n<p>Best Newcomer Label \u2013 MethLab<\/p>\n<p>Best Club Night \u2013 FABRICLIVE<\/p>\n<p>Best Festival \u2013 Let It Roll<\/p>\n<p>Critics\u2019 Choice \u2013 Break<\/p>\n<p>Best Label \u2013 Hospital Records<\/p>\n<p>Best Remix \u2013 Children of Zeus feat. DRS \u2013 Still Standing (Lenzman Remix)<\/p>\n<p>Best Track \u2013 Mefjus \u2013 Suicide Bassline VIP<\/p>\n<p>Best Album \u2013 Noisia \u2013 Outer Edges<\/p>\n<p>Hall Of Fame \u2013 Randall<\/p>\n<p>Best MC \u2013 DRS<\/p>\n<p>Best Producer \u2013 Noisia<\/p>\n<p>Best DJ \u2013 Andy C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Brixton Electric was home to some of the scene\u2019s biggest and most influential individuals on Wednesday as we hosted the eighth annual Drum&amp;BassArena Awards. 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