Electronic Music Awards - April 23rd on Fox!

[Verisimilitude]

Co-founded by Paul Oakenfold, the first-ever ceremony celebrating electronic music will air on April 23.

Electronic music is going primetime.

The first-ever Electronic Music Awards & Foundation show will air this spring on Fox, producers announced Thursday. Los Angeles-based production company TV4 Entertainment and electronic music luminary Paul Oakenfold are behind the new genre-specific awards show, which will air as an hour-long special on April 23 at 8 p.m. on Fox.

Filming on April 14 at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles, the inaugural ceremony promises to spotlight the biggest artists and executives in electronic music and also raise money and awareness for various causes. The show will feature red carpet coverage, awards presentations, interviews and live performances.

"I’m thrilled to be a part of an awards show that finally both recognizes and celebrates, on a primetime platform, one of the biggest music genres in the world today," said executive producer Oakenfold.

The Electronic Music Awards & Foundation show is executive-produced by Paul Duddridge (former U.K. comedy agent/producer and now Head of Entertainment Productions at TV4), TV4 Entertainment CEO Jon Cody and Oakenfold. The show will be directed by Russell Thomas (MTV EMA Awards (2011-15), Katy Perry: Part of Me).

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/electronic-music-awards-show-debut-860059?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

Finally an award show celebrating Electronic Music that will air on a big platform.

[Au$tin]

This should be interesting!

[Disco🌶️📖]

I feel like this is going to be a big mess if and when it happens.

[Juan Carlos]

The nominations came out today and you could see them below.

Single of the Year

• Calvin Harris & Disciples - "How Deep is Your Love"
• The Chainsmokers featuring ROZES - "Roses"
• Galantis - "Runaway (U & I)"
• Kygo featuring Parson James - "Stole the Show"
• Major Lazer & DJ Snake featuring MØ - "Lean On"

Album of the Year

• Alina Baraz & Galimatias - Urban Flora
• Calvin Harris - Motion
• Disclosure - Caracal
• Galantis - Pharmacy
• Jamie xx - In Colour

Radio Show of the Year

• BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
• BPM with Geronimo - Sirius XM
• Danny Howard - BBC Radio 1's Dance Anthems
• Diplo and Friends - BBC Radio 1Xtra
• Jason Bentley - Morning Becomes Eclectic - KCRW

Festival of the Year

• Creamfields - Daresbury, England
• Electric Daisy Carnival - Las Vegas, USA
• Sonar - Barcelona, Spain
• The BPM Festival - Playa del Carmen, Mexico
• Ultra Music Festival - Miami, USA

DJ of the Year

• Carl Cox
• Diplo
• Dixon
• DJ Harvey
• Skrillex

Best New Artist

• Bob Moses
• DJ Snake
• Jauz
• KSHMR
• Kygo

Best Club of the Year

• Amnesia
• Fabric
• Omnia
• Sound LA
• Zouk

[Verisimilitude]

Cool Nominations for the most part. I'm surprised DJ Snake is still considered "new" though.

[Disco🌶️📖]

Feb 4, 2016 5:20:51 GMT -5 Disco🌶️📖 said:

I feel like this is going to be a big mess if and when it happens.

Fox postpones first ever EDM award show
BY MORGAN LEE, APR 12 2016EDM

Remember when we told you EDM was dead?

Today, US television network Fox has announced that the inaugural edition of their EDM award show – the Electronic Music Awards – is to be postponed.

The ceremony was due to take place this month, but a representative informed Billboard that this is no longer the case: “As this is the first year of the awards, we have the luxury of flexibility, which we are taking advantage of to decide the optimal timetable to present the awards. With this opportunity, we felt that it would better to represent the electronic music calendar in the fall rather than the spring.”

The festival had already announced the nominations – which included nods for famous EDM folks Jamie xx, Major Lazer and Skrillex (don’t worry, Prurient, there’s always next year) – and was co-founded by international man of trance Paul Oakenfold, so how could it possibly fail?

With Avicii quitting, Las Vegas declaring it’s all over and SFX going the way of the dodo, you have to wonder whether Fox simply saw the writing on the wall, and “in the fall” actually means “we’ve canned it, and are looking into an awards show celebrating vaporwave”. It could happen, folks.

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