The winners in this year’s DJ Mag Best of British awards have been announced. The event took place at London’s The Steel Yard tonight (12th December) and was hosted by Emerald.

In the 18th edition of our annual celebration of UK electronic talent, London’s Joy Orbison picked up the prestigious Best DJ award, with AZYR taking home the title of Breakthrough DJ after a huge year.

Tech-house giant and Solid Grooves co-founder PAWSA took home Best Producer, while rising star Josh Baker won Breakthrough Producer.

In the rap/vocalist categories, Bewdley-born chart topper Becky Hill won Best MC/Vocalist, while Chase & Status collaborator Clementine Douglas took home Breakthrough MC/Vocalist. K-Trap won Best Rap Track for ‘Heaven or Hell’, while Nines scooped Best Rap Album/Mixtape for ‘Quit While You’re Ahead’.

Mala’s legendary dubstep imprint Deep Medi Musik took home the Best Label award, while Make A Dance’s M.A.D RECORDS took home Breakthrough Label after a prolific year.

Elsewhere, there were wins for Ezra Collective in the Best Album category, with their joyous third record ‘Dance, No One’s Watching’, and London’s Shygirl in Best Compilation with her contribution to the ‘fabric presents’ series.

After dominating festival tents, clubs and airwaves all summer long, Joy Orbison’s ‘flight fm’ took home the Best Track award for 2024.

East London’s queer clubbing haven Dalston Superstore, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution award, chosen by DJ Mag’s editorial team to honour the venue’s contribution to the scene. 

In the club and event categories, London’s fabric won Best Club, while the Best Club Event gong went to Eastenderz, and Best Festival to Lincolnshire’s Lost Village.

Judy Griffith, fabric’s longtime Programming Director, took home this year’s Underground Hero award, which recognises the champions of grassroots UK music communities.

The sold-out Best of British awards party returned to The Steel Yard, with sets from Joy Orbison, Shygirl x Angelita: Club Shy, Arthi, Mia Koden and Make A Dance.

You can read interviews with all the winners here, and see the full breakdown of awards below.

Best DJ

DJ Storm
Eliza Rose
Enzo Siragusa
Joy Orbison
Sir Spyro

Breakthrough DJ

Arthi
AZYR
Kitty Amor
Max Dean
[IVY]

Best Producer

Hamdi
Kelly Lee Owens
Or:la
PAWSA
Tim Reaper

Breakthrough Producer

Josh Baker
Mia Koden
Nectax
Nyra
TAAHLIAH

Best MC/Vocalist

Becky Hill
Capo Lee
Manga Saint Hilare
Nemzzz
SGT Pokes

Breakthrough MC/Vocalist

BXKS
Clementine Douglas
namesbliss
Pozer
T.Roadz

Best Label

Deep Medi Musik
Exit Records
Future Retro London
More Time Records
Rekids

Breakthrough Label

Carouse
Clasico Records
Club Romantico
M.A.D RECORDS
re:lax

Best Album

Ezra Collective ‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ [Partisan Records]
Gorgon City ‘Reverie’ [Positiva]
I. JORDAN ‘I AM JORDAN’ [Ninja Tune]
Midland ‘Fragments of Us’ [Graded]
Nia Archives ‘Silence Is Loud’ [HIJINXX / Island Records]

Best Compilation

Shygirl ‘fabric presents Shygirl’ [fabric Records]
V/A ’20 Years Of Phonica’ [Phonica Records]
V/A ‘Club Moss’ [Wisdom Teeth]
V/A ‘Obligated Records: Vol​.​1’ [Obligated Records]
V/A ‘Optimo 25’ [Above Board Projects]

Best Track

Cromby ‘House Flava’ [Big Saldo’s Chunkers]
Joy Orbison ‘flight fm’ [Hinge Finger / XL Recordings]
Oppidan ‘Mr. Sandman’ [Promised Land Recordings]
Shanti Celeste ‘Ice Cream Dream Boy’ [Method 808]
TSHA ‘Girls (feat. Rose Gray)’ [Ninja Tune]

Best Rap Album/Mixtape

Bashy ‘Being Poor is Expensive’ [Bish Bash Bosh Music]
Jawnino ‘40’ [True Panther Records]
Lex Amor ‘Forward Ever’ [Modern Oak]
Meekz ‘TRU’ [Self-released]
Nines ‘Quit While You’re Ahead’ [Zino Records]

Best Rap Track

Chy Cartier ‘BOSSED UP’ [Self-released]
Cristale ‘Antisocial’ [4ZA Music / Black Butter]
K-Trap ‘Heaven or Hell’ [Thousand8 / EGA]
Pa Salieu ‘Belly’ [Warner Music UK]
SL ‘Tracey Beaker’ [Mic Cheque]

Best Club

fabric, London
FOLD, London
FORGE Warehouse, Sheffield
Sub Club, Glasgow
The Love Inn, Bristol

Best Club Event

CYNT Cardiff
Eastenderz
HE.SHE.THEY.
Twitch Belfast
Valve Sound System

Best Festival

Dialled In
Field Maneuvers
GALA
Gottwood
Lost Village

Underground Hero

Recognising the champions of grassroots UK music communities

Aba Shanti-I
Cormac
GIDEÖN
Judy Griffith [fabric]
Roony Keefe [Risky Roadz]

Outstanding Contribution

Dalston Superstore