Some of the top gongs at the 2024 DJ Awards went to Fisher, Black Coffee, Armin Van Buuren, Sam Divine and Róisín Murphy. After a four year hiatus, the DJ Awards returned to Ibiza. The “Oscars of dance music” took place at Club Chinois, a first for the awards after spending the last two decades at Pacha.
Fisher, Camelphat, Chase & Status took home genre awards, while local legends like Luciano won from a selection of new industry awards. Hosted by presenters Katie Knight and Jaguar, it was a glitzy show that used Chinois’ impressive audio-visual space to bring the awards back in style. Winning in the DJ Awards’ top category, Best International DJ was Fisher.
The Australian DJ rose to mainstream prominence with his Grammy Award-winning single ‘Losing It’ in 2018 and this was his first DJ Awards win. Bounding up to the stage in his typical exuberant style, Fisher’s acceptance speech brought together two other winners of the night as he recalled being inspired to start DJing while watching Luciano at a Sven Väth night in Amnesia. “I remember watching Luciano and I went ‘that guy is controlling this crowd like no other and I want to do that,” Fisher said.
It was the final award of a night where Luciano took home the Ibiza Icon award, announced last month as one of seven industry awards, recognising the Chilean-Swiss DJ’s “profound impact on the scene in Ibiza”. Sven Väth took home his fourth DJ Awards win in the Techno category. The techno stalwa.
