~~~~~~~ 1997 AJ Poll ~~~~~~~~
* Best Overall Song
Photek 'Ni Ten Ichi Ryu' (science)
* Best Album
Photek "Modus Operandi" (science)
* Best Artist/Group
Lamb (live)
* Best Vocal Song
Jean-Louis Murat 'Fort Alamo' (East West France/Yellow)
* Best Instrumental Song
Air 'Le Soleil Es Pres De Moi' (Source)
* Best (re)Mix
"transfattyacid" lamb [Kruder & Dorfmeister session mix] (fontana)
honorable mention: DJ Shadow 'Organ Donor (extended overhaul)' (MoWax)
* Best Compilation
SOURCELab 3x/y (new) Blue Break Beats 3 (old)
* Best Label
Ninja Tune (but props to Shadow&Astralwerks/Caroline for them bring us
Americans the good stuff--otherwise)
* Easy Like Sunday Morning Song (mellow or chillin')
Air "Premiers Symptomes" EP (Source)
* Four-on-the-Floor Song (jazzy house or acid jazz set to a house beat)
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Air "Cosmic Bird" (Source)
* Thick Morass of Hazy Chronic Smoke Song (doped out beatz)
Coldcut "Return To Margin" (Ninja Tune)
* 150 BPM and Above (drum 'n' bass)
Squarepusher "Feed Me Wierd Things (rephlex)
* Lotsa Bossa
Amon Tobin 'Chomp Samba' (Ninja Tune)
* Warning: DJs Only
* Light Up (a Phattie) & Listen Up
The only way I could possibly listen to Daft Punk!!!
* Everyone's Gotta Have It
Drew Neuman "Eye Spy" [a.k.a. Aeon Flux] (Tone Casualties)
* Funk It Up
Gene Harris 'Don't Call Me Nigger Whitey' (blue breaks vol. 3/blue note)
* Groove Noir
UFO "3rd Perspective" (Antilles)
* Total Trash
Gus Gus
* Best Magazine
Straight No Chaser (though I'm still looking for a magazine that despises
Daft Punk)
* Best Album Cover
UFO "3rd Perspective" (Antilles), and all the cool Shadow cardboard
contraptions)
* Best Club
Yoshi's, Oakland, CA, USA
* Best DJ
Guy Called Gerald (only one seen live in '97)
* Best Use of Technology
Coldcut CD-ROM
* Best Radio Show
Segues in between NPR "All Things Considered", Mr. Goodwrench "Just
Desserts " 89.7 KFJC, Los Altos, CA, USA
* Best Record Store
The Groovesmith, Palo Alto, CA, USA
* Overrated Project
Daft Punk/Gus Gus/Nuyorican Soul
* Underrated Project
French Hip-Hop
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My extra catagories:
* Best Sample
Coldcut in 'Return to margin' using "Peter and the Wolf" (Ninja Tune)
* Best Collaboration
Roni Size & Bahamidia 'New forms' (Talkin' Lound)
* Best Soundtrack
The Jackel