Beatport Recognizes Top Electronic Music Acts At 4th Annual Beatport Music Awards At Miami Music Week

Miami, FL (Top40 Charts/ Beatport) Beatport (https://www.beatport.com), the world's largest music store for DJs, tonight recognized outstanding talent in electronic dance music at its fourth annual Beatport Music Awards (BMAs) at the Gansevoort Miami Beach. Tommy Lee, electro-house DJ and visualist, hosted the live event alongside Beatport CEO Matthew Adell. The 2011 Beatport Music Award winners include:

• Top Track Of The Year "Tarantula" - Pleasurekraft
• Top House Track "We No Speak Americano" - DCUP, Yolanda Be Cool
• Top Techno Track "The Secret" - Joris Voorn
• Top Dubstep Track "Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites" - Skrillex
• Top Progressive House Track "One" - Swedish House Mafia
• Top Electro House Track "Animal Rights" - Deadmau5, Wolfgang Gartner
• Top Tech House Track "Tarantula" - Pleasurekraft
• Top DJ Mix Structures - Mix 2 - John Digweed
• Community Choice Artist Of The Year - Deadmau5
• Community Choice Track Of The Year "One" - Swedish House Mafia
• Lifetime Achievement Award - Carl Craig

The awards ceremony was the grand finale to Beatport's five-day Miami Beach Party, which coincides with Miami Music Week. The party had more than 50 performances from the world's top DJs including Richie Hawtin, Steve Angello, Danny Tenaglia, Skrillex and Pleasurekraft. Special guests Deadmau5 and Afrojack also made an appearance.

"The Beatport Music Awards are our way of saying thank you to the talent behind the biggest electronic dance music tracks of the year. It's because of these folks and many others, that electronic dance music is having its biggest year ever across the globe," said Matthew Adell, CEO of Beatport. "Beatport exists to serve the DJ community, so this week in Miami has certainly been inspiring to our entire team, as it is every year. I also hope that seeing such amazing DJs perform has inspired some fans to try DJing themselves when they get home."

The full list of winners and photos from the Beatport Music Awards and Beatport Beach Party are available at https://beatportal.com. Visit Beatport on Facebook https://facebook.com/beatport and follow @Beatport on Twitter https://twitter.com/beatport.