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The 2003 HarderFaster Awards
Reported by HarderFaster
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Submitted 03-01-04 18:30
The results for 2003 are in !!! In double quick time this year due to a healthy aversion to leaving the house thanks to New Year's excesses, we bring you the results of our Annual Readers Poll. Now in it's second year, we created the Annual Poll because there was no other poll that truly represented and recognised London's and now the UK's best Hard Dance DJs, clubs, tunes and venues. Ok, enough with the chat... on with the results 
HarderFaster Afterparty of the Year 2003
Winner: Twist
What distinguishes a truly great afterparty from merely a good one is when clubbers are prepared to get up at 5am on a Sunday morning to attend having not even been out the night before - behaviour seen at great afterparties from Provocation to Trade and now at Twist. With a strong community of friends attending week in week out providing a great vibe inside the club alongside the transformation of The Viaduct into one of London's best new clubs, Fire and a strong set of residents (especially for an afterparty) completing the picture. Excellent.
2nd Place: Milk
3rd Place: Rush
HarderFaster Album of the Year 2003
Winner: Vicious - Mixed by Andy Farley & Paul Glazby
Vicious Circle come up with the goods again as they win first place in our poll for the second year running. Andy Farley and Paul Glazby lay down a firing mix each of the very hardest stuff in this typically totally uncompromising release from the Vicious Circle crew. Not for the faint hearted.
2nd Place: BK - Klub Kollaborations
3rd Place: Sundissential 3 - Mixed by Nick Rafferty & Ilogik
HarderFaster Club Night of the Year 2003
Winner: Frantic
A great year for the Frantic crew as they repeat last year's success in our Annual Poll with another first place in our Poll this year. Highlights of the year were of course their spectacular Hardhouse Academy events at Brixton Academy and the huge success of the multi-room, multi-promotion event Chemistry at Canvas. New venues, new promoter tie-ups, new lineups, Frantic in 2004 will be something special to look forward to.
2nd Place: Heat
3rd Place: Logic
HarderFaster Day Club of the Year 2003
Winner: Tilt
A brand new category this year and fittingly a brand new club wins it... Tilt has made huge waves this year in clubland as partying in the afternoon goes from strength to strength. Located at sparkling new venue Studio 33, crucially for a day club set up to allow bar room socialising nestled alongside dance floor madness, combined with a great looking crowd with no attitude in sight and an excellent trance based music policy - excellent stuff.
2nd Place: Riot
3rd Place: becomeone
HarderFaster DJ of the Year 2003
Winner: Andy Farley
What can we say about Andy Farley that hasn't been said already? Playing week in week out the length and breadth of the country, he's one of the busiest hard dance DJs in the world and yet consistently pushes the boundaries with his tune selection and set programming. Allied with his technical skills which are second to none and you have unquestionably the King of Hard Dance.
2nd Place: Ian Betts
3rd Place: Paul Glazby
HarderFaster Festival of the Year 2003
Winner: Godskitchen Global Gathering
Despite the informal tag 'Godskitchen Global Mudwrestling' due to the deluge falling on this year's festival, the Global Gathering in 2003 was a huge success with our readership with a mixture of big name trance DJs alongside the Sundissential tent's harder offerings doing the business.
2nd Place: Creamfields
3rd Place: Glastonbury
HarderFaster International DJ of the Year 2003
Winner: Tiesto
No surprises here as the DJ Magazine #1 DJ in the world walks it in this year's Poll. This, in the same year as he played solo for 8 (not 9) hours for 'Tiesto in Concert' in Arnheim, selling out the event a month in advance, something that no other DJ has come close to doing. Unquestionably the world's biggest DJ.
2nd Place: Paul van Dyk
3rd Place: Yoji Biomehanika
HarderFaster Label of the Year 2003
Winner: Vicious
The UK's premier underground hard dance label comes of age in 2003, winning the hearts and minds of a new generation of DJs after the hardest of hard tracks to pound the dancefloor. With seminal hard house monsters like Paul Glazby's hoover driven monster 'Fucking Hostile', a rare release from Ian M. with 'Crazy Pills' and the excellent Defective Audio 'Floorburn' out this year, it seemed everything they released turned to gold. Nice work.
2nd Place: Nukleuz
3rd Place: Tidy
HarderFaster Member of the Year 2003
Winner: Joe Black
Not content with winning 'Message Board Hero' in the inaugurable Hard Dance Awards, the man you love to hate takes first place in our Member of the Year category. Just how do you manage to rack up nearly 11,000 posts in just over a year, Joe? Either a very understanding boss, girlfriend or both, obviously 
2nd Place: Latex Zebra
3rd Place: Shaun Rowland
HarderFaster New Club of the Year 2003
Winner: Tilt
The Tilt crew win their second award of the year as best new club in 2003 and it's as richly deserved as the first. Saturday afternoons have never seemed brighter.
2nd Place: Twist
3rd Place: No Limits
HarderFaster New Producer of the Year 2003
Winner: Ali Wilson
Although Ali's been producing for a few year's now, it was in 2003 that he really began to shine. With tracks out on key labels Vicious Circle, Arktik, Honeypot, Freezing Point and Nukleuz, it's been a busy 12 months for him. Rated by Mixmag as one of their 'Future Heroes', Ali's DJ sets have also shone with orginality, drive and enthusiasm this year as his production talents shine through on the dancefloor.
2nd Place: Alex Calver
3rd Place: Dave Lochrie
HarderFaster New Venue of the Year 2003
Winner: Egg
Egg deservedly takes the top spot with it's absolutely stunning interior design - from the moment you walk into this club you know you are somewhere special. Two almost equally sized rooms with plenty of internal features, bar areas and state of the art sound and lighting systems. Also worth a mention is The Loft at the top of the venue which is in our opinion quite simply the nicest club space in London, ideally suited to fat funky house choons. We look forward to spending more time there in 2004.
2nd Place: Studio 33
3rd Place: Fire
HarderFaster Photographer of the Year 2003
Winner: Amy & Anders
Amy and Anders scoop the second of our internal awards as joint photographers of the year. They seemed to be everywhere in 2003, in fact looking back over our photo archives they uploaded an amazing 61 photosets since February of 2003. Great photo quality, lots of shots of all the people you wanted photos of looking nicely mashed, it was all there. Thanks to them both and all our photographers for all their hard work for HarderFaster.
2nd Place: Pink Kitty
3rd Place: Joeyxx
HarderFaster Producer of the Year 2003
Winner: BK
Last year's winner is again this year's poll topper as the mighty BK scoops it once again. This was the year he released his debut solo album, 'Klub Kollaborations', which more than anything else underlined his total preeminence in the scene today. 'Accelerate' with Andy Farley was an absolute dancefloor destroying monster, 'Zulu Nation' and 'Tiptronic' were huge and 'Final Chapter' showed that he could mix it on the hard trance tip as well. Unreal.
2nd Place: Paul Glazby
3rd Place: James Lawson
HarderFaster Remix of the Year 2003
Winner: Ben Johnson 'Come 1' - Nick Sentience Remix
This was the tune that smashed every dancefloor out there with the biggest hands in the air build-up out of a breakdown of 2003. If you didn't dance to this when it came on the sound system you were either deaf, dead or a DJ. Fantastic stuff from Nick Sentience.
2nd Place: Paul Glazby 'Hostile' - Nick Sentience Remix
3rd Place: Binary Finary '1998' - K2 Finary Remix
HarderFaster Remixer of the Year 2003
Winner: Paul Glazby
Some huge remixes this year from Mr Glazby including the excellent remake of Defective Audio's 'Floorburn', his ear-bursting version of the EnergyUK DJs track 'The Beast', Tony de Vit's seminal 'Breathless' and of course '9mm is a Classic'. Great work from the 'Dark Destroyer' of hard dance.
2nd Place: Nick Sentience
3rd Place: James Lawson
HarderFaster Resident DJ of the Year 2003
Winner: Danny Gilligan (Riot)
A huge year for Danny Gilligan as resident at Sunday afternoon superclub Riot. A first vinyl release with Todd Tobias, 'Blow my Mind' on Peroxide, three new collaborations with Ali Wilson and Ingo on CDR receiving serious airtime on the nation's dancefloors and a sparkling new residency at Sunday afterparty Twist. Riot has also gone from strength to strength this year, including being voted number 1 club in the country by Mixmag. GTFRI indeed.
2nd Place: Phil Reynolds (Frantic)
3rd Place: Ian Betts (Knowwhere)
HarderFaster Set of the Year 2003
Winner: Daegal Brain @ Space, Ibiza
For many who attended the Heat trip to the opening parties in Ibiza earlier this year the experience went down as one of the best of their lifetime, for Kiwi DJ Daegal Brain it will definitely remain that way. Rocking the main room at one of the best clubs in the world such that everyone who came back from the trip mentioned it as a highlight - nice!
HarderFaster Tune of the Year 2003
Winner: Paul Glazby - Fucking Hostile
2003 was truly the year of the return of the hoover as Paul Glazby creates the tune that redefined for those who'd forgotten what hard really meant. Searing.
2nd Place: Dahlback & Krome - Murder was the Bass
3rd Place: Ian M. - Crazy Pills
HarderFaster Up and Coming DJ of the Year 2003
Winner: Tin Tin
As head of the Dirty DJs collective, it's been an extremely busy year for DJ and producer Tin Tin. Playing a variety of styles including hard trance, hard house, trance and freeform he's played main and back room gigs for everyone from Frantic to Logic in 2003 and 2004 should be an even bigger year for him and the Dirty Djs crew.
2nd= Place: Gorfy and Simon Rutherford
HarderFaster Venue of the Year 2003
Winner: The Fridge
The Fridge wins it two years on the run - awesome sound and lighting and a vibe when it goes off that is hard to beat. Still the home of hard dance in London and with the forthcoming demise of runner up the Camden Palace it will presumably remain so next year...
2nd Place: Camden Palace
3rd Place: Turnmills
HarderFaster Writer of the Year 2003
Winner: Sharon B
With the kind of detailed and insightful questions that Jeremy Paxman would kill for, Sharon has set the standard for great reading interviews on HarderFaster and she's even started writing event reviews as well. Huge thanks of course are due to anyone who's written for us over the past year - without you the Features section of HF wouldn't exist.
2nd Place: bunny
3rd Place: Tom Allen
OK, that's all for this year. Nothing to see here, just move along. Thank you for reading and to those who voted and of course our congratulations once again to those who won or were placed in our poll. See you next year 
HF 
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From: Shaun on 5th Jan 2004 14:02.56
Nice work Daegal, Sharon, Ollie and Ian Betts!
From: Shaun on 5th Jan 2004 14:03.17
oh and Tiesto
From: Newzkitten on 5th Jan 2004 14:07.36
Well Done Daegel! One of the best sets I've ever heard in my life! x
From: Latex_Zebra on 5th Jan 2004 14:08.43
Blimey I got a mention. *Faints* Thanks for all the votes everyone.
From: doctor popper on 5th Jan 2004 14:10.51
that all sounds about right to me. except i'm a bit surprised the fridge won best venue, it doesn't seem to have been kicking off in there this year much.
From: Camden Nurse on 5th Jan 2004 14:30.00
Excellent! Sums up 2003, well done to all!
From: gravitational pull on 5th Jan 2004 14:31.24
fridge as the best venue? 
From: Frantic Dickon on 5th Jan 2004 14:32.23
Deepest thanks to everyone that voted us Club Night of the Year and Congrats to all the other winners - well deserved! 2003 was wicked but we have some staggering plans for 2004. Hope to see you all on the Dance Floor soon!
From: VOID on 5th Jan 2004 14:40.43
crazy pills, hostile murder was the bass..  OMG!!!! maybe a different order but couldnt have put it better myself!!
From: Miles Gorfy on 5th Jan 2004 14:41.45
Many thanks to everyone who voted and congratulations one and all.
From: Richard Launch on 5th Jan 2004 14:45.21
Well done to all the winners. Bring on 2004.
From: Darz on 5th Jan 2004 14:46.50
Congratualtions to all winners!!
From: Bagel on 5th Jan 2004 14:50.03
Well done everyone, and very very big thank you to everyone who was at Space in June!!
From: spacekitty on 5th Jan 2004 14:51.09
good to see tin tin get a award, he rocked every time ive seen him, bring on the acid techno
good to see ye olde faithful the fridge staying in top spot too home from home heh
From: Anastasia_k on 5th Jan 2004 14:51.10
Well done Steve!!!!! Im chuffed Its taken alot of hard work from all the Twist crew..... And i dont know about you but im so glad its reached the stage its at now onwards and upwards!
From: Dom on 5th Jan 2004 14:52.36
Well done Bettsy, Daegal and Oli - Fantastic!  Hostile as tune of the year - WTF is going on Also well done Sharon for the writing accolade
Oh well - I guess this is a hard dance website after all 
From: Joe Black on 5th Jan 2004 14:53.59
I love you all. Everybody that voted for me gets a free drink.
(not from me, though)
From: Tin Tin on 5th Jan 2004 14:54.27
OMG!   thanks to all who voted for me! i'm speechless, honoured and extremely chuffed! Can't wait to get back out there and rock ya steady for 2004! Well done to all the other winners and to the runners up, all well deserved!
From: fire club on 5th Jan 2004 15:05.04
hurray at last we win an award, <wink> and one that really matters so a BIG BIG thankyou to all who voted for us in all the catagories. Wishing you all a fantastic 2004.
From: Ali Wilson on 5th Jan 2004 15:43.50
Thanx alot! Well done to all the other winners too! Bring on 2004!
From: Stevi D on 5th Jan 2004 16:17.46
Brilliant end off to 2003 i might add, some fantastic results, let this year be our year, ..........watch this space!!"
From: chrishawkes on 5th Jan 2004 16:35.03
well done everyone!! 2004 is looking good already!
From: DJ El_Greko on 5th Jan 2004 16:50.21
Well done to all. Many a deserved winner. Nice one
From: shazzabazza on 5th Jan 2004 17:41.11
 thank you guys and well done everyone!
From: Amy_Anders on 5th Jan 2004 19:22.56
Thank you to all the the people who voted for us, and congratulations to all winners. Year 2003 has been an amazing year for us. It was our intoduction to the London clubbing scene and the occasion to meet many wonderful people!  !
From: bequa on 5th Jan 2004 19:49.58
WELL DONE OLI! PROUD OF YA!
From: pink kitty on 5th Jan 2004 20:02.10
Wow, cheers for the mention, and HUGE congratulations to everyone, some well deserved recognition of Sharon B, Oli, Amy & Anders and others who don't always get remembered straight away. Well done to Tom, too, always a hero 
From: Maria on 5th Jan 2004 22:23.01
Congratulations to all! Keep it harder&faster!
From: Ped on 6th Jan 2004 00:28.39
Oli!! Put a huge smile on my face to see that
From: Red5 on 6th Jan 2004 06:20.31
Extremely happy to see so many familiar names up there, Danny G, Oli, Daegal...the list goes on.
Watch out 2004 
From: Danny Gilligan on 6th Jan 2004 07:37.03
wow! just sitting in a internet shop in South Africa and seen this, I am over the moon! thanks so much for this, it means a great deal to me! *well chuffed* ;o)
Congrats to all of the other winners here and all those that were mentioned, here is to 2004! its going top be a huge year!
From: Lizzie Curious on 6th Jan 2004 10:48.37
congrats to all - and a hearty pat on the back!
From: BottleofWater on 6th Jan 2004 11:51.20
Well done all for a rocking 2003. Roll on 2004!!
From: Dave_Logic on 6th Jan 2004 12:56.32
Many many thanks to everyone for voting us in the top 3 this year. Best wishes for 2004
From: Matt Church on 7th Jan 2004 04:08.21
Well done to all, what a year it's been!!!
From: LOZ on 7th Jan 2004 11:49.32
Well Done 2 those who won & those who were mentioned
so keep it comin HARDER, FASTER N DIRTIER in 2004
From: Knuckleheadz on 7th Jan 2004 15:16.44
Thanks for your support on K2 - Binary Finary everybody.... :0)
Congratulations to everyone who was mentioned in their categories....
From: DJChewy on 7th Jan 2004 21:13.54
Well done & congrats 2 all da winners in da house May 2004 be even better, bigger & banging 
From: Nikki S on 7th Jan 2004 21:20.15
Congrats everybody! What wicked results. We are so lucky having so many talented pes in the clubscene that rock our socks off every weekend . . . BK, Sentience, Ali Wilson, Danny Fanny, Mr. Reynolds, Mr Lawson, Tin Tin, Mr Glazby . . . you've all flicked my switch this past year. Nice one!!
xo
From: djviticus on 8th Jan 2004 05:34.31
yayayay good job all danny congrats you deserve it .. nick you know how i feel about we come one.. oli wicked job. and to all the winners big thumbs up to all from all of us california side of things
From: Luli on 8th Jan 2004 09:52.47
Top bananna. Well done folks, great to see some many familiar names and faces doing so well. May 2004 be even better.
From: sexyminx on 8th Jan 2004 11:03.23
congrats to everyone - everyone including winners deserve a mention - happy new year!
From: Elliott on 8th Jan 2004 18:32.33
Well done to all that won and all that were entered, shows we care. Just a shame that it won't be happening at Camden Paly any more.
From: Markus_Wilson on 9th Jan 2004 05:35.54
Well done ali you have had a wicked year, keep it up! Your brother Markus
From: Steve Prince on 9th Jan 2004 12:46.46
wicked year guys and hope it gose aswell this year
From: Flip on 9th Jan 2004 13:51.48
wicked!!!
Oli, nice one geezer, well deserved 
From: WEBBO on 9th Jan 2004 21:53.47
good to see fridge winning best venue , come1 winning best
remix , ali wilson winning best new producer and tin tin as
best up n coming dj congrats to all winners tho
heres to a great 2004
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