So it was the Plump DJs who dominated at last night's Breakspoll, the annual awards event for the breaks community. They won Best Compilation for 'Saturday Night Lotion' and Best Club Event for their Eargasm bash as well as the prestigious Best Producers award. So well done them.
Fingerlickin won Best Label in the public voted awards, while Mr Meat Katie took the Outstanding Contribution To Breakbeat Award and Krafty Kuts won the Best DJ gong. 50,000 votes from all over the world were counted this year, proving once again the growing popularity of the breaks scene.
The full list of winners runs thus:
Best Album: Atomic Hooligan - You Are Here
Best Compilation: Plump DJs : Saturday Night Lotion
Best Label: Fingerlickin'
Breakthrough Label: Broke
Best Club / Event: Eargasm
Best Radio Show: Annie Nightingale (Radio 1)
Best Radio Station: Breaks FM
Best Magazine: MOFO
Best Breaks Retailer: Know How Records
Best Breaks Website: Nuskoolbreaks.co.uk
Best Single: Dopamine - Hold You
Best Remix: Drummatic Twins - Feelin Kinda Strange (Bass Kleph & Nick Thayer Remix)
Best DJ: Krafty Kuts
Breakthrough DJ: Napt
Best Producer: Plump DJs
Breakthrough Producer: Rogue Element
Outstanding Contribution To Breakbeat: Mark Pember (Meat Katie)
The Breakspoll shenanigans now continue into the small hours of tomorrow morning. Firstly there's the Breakspoll five-a-side football tournament at the Finsbury Park leisure centre this afternoon, and then there's the Breaking Ground after show party taking place tonight at the seOne club under London Bridge, where you will find a truly storming breaks line up featuring Freq Nasty, Rennie Pilgrem with MC Chickaboo, JDS, Will Saul, Precision Cuts, The Teamplayers featuring Aquasky, UK Apache, Spyda, The Ragga Twins & Ban Jyang, Spiltloop, Pendulum (breaks set), Breakfastaz, Deekline & Wizard with MC Ivory and Deep Impact with Screwface. It all takes place from 10pm to 6am - tickets are £10 in advance from http://www.ticketweb.co.uk or £12 on the door.