It’s time!

After weeks of voting and two whole days of counting and double checking, we can finally announce the nominees for this year’s Drum&BassArena Awards 2012!

As we said right at the start of the voting process, it’s been an unarguably fruitful year for drum & bass… Just one look at the Best Tune nominees will tell you as much: from Marka to Oblique, the range of styles, sounds and flavours has never been so consistently varied and exciting.

Most importantly though, we’d like to thank all YOU who voted! Awards aren’t about backslapping or unnecessary big ups, they’re about giving dedicated fans a voice and letting you tell us who’s genuinely smashed it.

We’ll be honouring our nominees and celebrating the winners on December 5 at our prestigious yellow carpet event at Brixton Electric, London. If you voted you’re able to apply for free tickets… Just check your inboxes. For those who didn’t vote, or live too far away, don’t panic: we’ll be streaming the entire event live and direct on D&BTV!

But before we don our party swag, let’s big up all nominees in every category…. See you on December 5!

Best DJ

Andy C
Camo & Krooked
Friction
Hazard 
Netsky 

Best Producer  

Calyx & Teebee
Enei
Netsky
Noisia
S.P.Y

Best MC              

DRS
Dynamite MC
GQ
Skibadee
SP:MC

Best Newcomer DJ         

Emperor
Enei
Fred V & Grafix
Mefjus
The Prototypes

Best Newcomer Producer           

Dimension
Emperor
Mefjus
Rene LaVice
The Prototypes

Best Newcomer MC      

Carasel
Codebreaker
Linguistics
Strategy
Youthstar

Best Label          

Critical Music
Hospital Records
Playaz
Ram Records
Shogun Audio

Best Album       

Netsky – 2
Calyx & Teebee – All Or Nothing
Spectrasoul – Delay No More
Black Sun Empire – From The Shadows
S.P.Y – What The Future Holds

Best Track          

Noisia & The Upbeats – Dustup
Calyx & Teebee – Elevate This Sound
Dub Phizix & Skeptical feat. Strategy – Marka
Sabre & Stray & Halogenix feat. Frank Carter III – Oblique
Culture Shock –  Troglodyte

Best Video         

Calyx & TeeBee – Elevate This Sound
Fracture – Get Busy (feat. Dawn Day Night)
Delta Heavy – Get By
Dub Phizix & Skeptical feat. Strategy – Marka
Calyx & Teebee – Pure Gold (feat. Kemo)

Best D&BTV Live Show 

#173 Original Sin
#177 Fred V & Grafix
#177 S.P.Y b2b Nu:Tone
#200 Alix Perez b2b Icicle
#200 Kasra & Foreign Concept

Best Club Night               

Fabric Live
Hospitality
Ram Records
Shogun Audio
Warning

Best Festival     

Global Gathering
Innovation In The Sun
Outlook
Sun And Bass
WestFest