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BASS: DJ Qbert voted America’s Best DJ for 2010
Edited Press Release

The votes have all been counted and it's official -- San Francisco Bay Area’s DJ Qbert has been voted America's Best DJ for 2010, DJ Times magazine and Pioneer DJ announced. The talented San Francisco-based jock, who was the runner up in both 2008 and 2009, will be honored October 2 in Las Vegas for the ABDJ Closing Party, which will include a press reception at Ghost Bar in The Palms Hotel & Casino.

"Skratching Lives! What a great opportunity to show that we DJs are musicians. Thank you to everyone at DJ Times, ThudRumble.com and everyone for supporting the skratch art!" said DJ Qbert, reacting to the news that he was voted 2010 champ.

After being presented with his trophy -- a special Gold-Plated Pioneer mixer -- from 2009 America’s Best DJ winner Z-Trip, DJ Qbert will perform at the Rain Nightclub for Paul Oakenfold’s Planet Perfecto party. (Incidentally, Z-Trip maintains his "Z-Trip Revolution" residency at the Rain nightclub in The Palms, where he took over the decks after the passing of DJ AM.)

Running in tandem with the competition, the 20-event America’s Best DJ Summer Tour (presented by Pioneer DJ) kicked off Memorial Day Weekend at Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival and wraps with the closing party at the Palms on October 2. Along the way, America’s Best DJ summer tour stopped at Baltimore’s Starscape Festival, New York’s Black & White Festival, Denver’s Global Dance Festival and Atlantic City’s DJ Expo, among many other events.

2010 AMERICA’S BEST DJ FINAL RESULTS

WINNER -- DJ QBERT

A genuine DJ legend, Qbert is a turntablist who makes other jocks stand back in awe. Hailing from the San Francisco area, QBert gained fame as a competition-winning battle jock and as one-fifth of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz DJ crew. Always the innovator, QBert’s repertoire of scratches and other tricks has won a global following of fans and vinyl-fetish DJs. Check out DJ Qbert's Myspace.

SECOND PLACE -- KASKADE

A DJ whose profile continues to rise, Kaskade (aka Ryan Raddon) has become one of our most in-demand club talents, not to mention one of America's most prolific producers. A creator of six artist albums, including 2010's Dynasty, Kaskade has enjoyed chart success with that CD's eponymous single, plus others like "Move For Me"(with Canada's Deadmau5), "Everything" and "Stars Align." Check out Kaskade's Myspace.

THIRD PLACE -- A-TRAK

By the time he was old enough to vote, A-Trak (aka Alain Macklovitch) had won more international championships than Sugar Ray Robinson. Indeed, between 1997 and 2000, A-Trak took eight different DJ titles, including the 1997 DMC World Championship at the precocious age of 15, making him the organization’s youngest winner. Now a seasoned veteran, the Montreal-born A-Trak went on to become Kanye West’s Tour DJ, launched the ultra hip Fool’s Gold Records and scored big with a number of remixes, most notably with The Yeah Yeah Yeahs,’ "Off With their Heads." Check out A-Trak's Myspace.

How did the other Top 100 DJs fare in this year's ABDJ voting? Get the results here.
 

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