Fast becoming the dance music poll to watch, in recent years it has seemed like readers of Groove have become one step ahead of the game, making the rest of us feel like we're playing catch up. For instance, in the 2004 Awards more than twelve months ago Dominik Eulberg and Mathew Johnson took out Best Newcomer and Best Producer respectively.

However onto the results for 2005 and as expected the winners were very much geared towards the minimal house, techno and electro camps with plenty of German artists filling out many of the positions in each category.

Predictably, Cologne beast Kompakt took out Best National Label with Richie Hawtin's m_nus taking the Best International Label ahead of James Holden's Border Community.

Dominik Eulberg, who last year was voted Best Newcomer, stepped up to take Best Producer from runner-up Trentemoeller, who in turn picked up Best Newcomer ahead of Oliver Koletzki and young guns Alex Under, John Dahlback and Alex Smoke.

Oliver Koletzki walked away (perhaps surprisingly) with Best Track for 'Der Muckenschwarm' in front of more likely contenders Ame's 'Rej' and Mathew Johnson's 'Marionette' while Luciano's remix of Argy's 'Love Dose' was voted Best Remix.

Richie Hawtin's DE9:Transitions was awarded Best Compilation in a vote which saw three of the Top 5 compilations coming from Sven Vath's Cocoon Recordings while Isolee's 'We Are Monster' pipped Depeche Mode's 'Playing The Angel' to take Best Album.

Unlike many UK and US polls, four of the Top 20 places in the Best International DJ vote went to females in Magda, Miss Kittin, Jennifer Cardini and Chloe. Ada came No.4 in the Best Live Act category which was won by Alter Ego with Anthony Rother as runner-up.

Groove Magazine Reader's Poll 2005

Best Track

01. Oliver Koletzki - Der Muckenschwarm
02. Ame - Rej
03. Mathew Johnson - Marionette
04. Gabriel Ananda - 1hre personliche Glucksmelodie
05. Booka Shade - Manderine EP
06. Hugg & Pepp - Snabeln
07. Tomas Andersson - Washing Up
08. Mathew Johnson - Return Of The Zombie Bikers
09. Lindstrom - I Feel Space
10. Trentemoeller - Polar Shift
11. Carl Craig - Darkness
12. Egoexpress - Knartz IV
13. Vath vs Rother - Komm
14. Coburn - We Interrupt This Program; Taksi - Regenschauer
15. Audio Werner - Zwitshak Drive; Motor- Sweatbox; M.A.N.D.Y. - Body Language
16. The Timewriter - Room Of A Million Rainbows; T.Raumschmiere - Sick
Like Me; Argy - Love Dose; Sleeparchive - Research EP: WIghnomy Bros -
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17. Serafin - Starship Discotheque
18. Dinky - Acid In My Fridge
19. Dominik Eulberg - Potzblitz & Donnerwetter; LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
20. Digitalism - Zdarlight

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Best Album

01. Isolee - We Are Monster
02. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
03. Dapayk & Padberg - Close Up
04. Alex Under - Dispositivos De Mi Granja
05. DJ Koze - Kosi Comes Around
06. DJ T. - Boogie Playground
07. Metope - Kobol
08. Marc Houle - Run Stop Restore
09. Ellen Allien - Thrills; Alex Smoke - Incommunicado
10. Misc. - Like Morning Eyes
11. Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
12. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
13. Tiefschwarz - Eat Books
14. Modeselektor - Hello Mom
15. Audion - Suckfish
16. Egoexpress - Hot Wire My Heart
17. The Chemical Brothers - Push The Button
18. Moonbotica - Moonbotica; Lawrence - The Night Will Last Forever
19. Hell - Grobenwahn 1992-2005
20. Royksopp - The Understanding

Best Remix

01. Argy - Love Dose (Luciano Remix)
02. Oliver Koletzki - Der Muckenschwarm (Dominik Eulberg Remix)
03. Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
04. Slam - This World (Robag Wruhme Remix)
05. Andre Kraml - Safari (James Holden Remix)
06. Egoexpress - Knartz IV (Abe Duque Remix)
07. Robag Wruhme - Wortkabular (Tobi Neumann Remix)
08. Sasse - Soulsounds (Dirt Crew Remix); Turner - When Will He Leave (Robert Hood Remix); Dub Kult - On And On (Guido Schneider Remix)
09. Yoshimoto - Do What U Do (Trentemoeller Remix)
10. Vath vs Rother - Komm (Gregor Tresher Remix)
11. Nathan Fake - Dinamo (Dominik Eulberg Remix)
12. Taksi - Regenschauer (Guido Schneider Remix)
13. M83 - Teen Angst (Luciano Remix)
14. Tocotronic - Pure Vernunft... (Superpitcher/Wassermann Remix)
15. Lindstrom - I Feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix)
16. LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations (Tiga Remix)
17. Ada - Eve (DJ Koze Remix); Einmusik - Jittery Heritage (Dominik Eulberg Remix); Moby - Raining Again (Steve Angello Remix)
18. Dirt Crew - Largo (Dominik Eulberg Remix); Robag Wruhme - Wortkabular (Luciano Remix)
19. Rocco Branco - Kapital (Einmusik Remix)
20. Lawrence - Swap (Serafin Remix)

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Best DJ National

01. Sven Vath
02. Ricardo Villalobos
03. Dominik Eulberg
04. DJ Koze
05. Hell
06. Andre Galluzzi: Wighnomy Bros
07. Michael Mayer
08. Steve Bug
09. Karotte
10. Ellen Allien
11. Marc Mirroir
12. Tobi Neumann
13. Chris Liebing
14. Ata
15. Mathias Kaden; Tiefschwarz
16. DJ T.
17. Pascal F.E.O.S
18. Dixon
19. Pierre
20. M.A.N.D.Y.

Best Club

01. Cocoon Club, Frankfurt
02. Berghain/Panorama Bar, Berlin
03. Robert Johnson, Offenbach
04. U 60311, Frankfurt
05. Click, Hamburg; Water-Gate, Berlin; Muna, Bad Klosterlausnitz
06. Harry Klein, Munchen; Ebene 3, Wetzlar
07. 603 qm, Darmstadt
08. Distiller, Leipzig
09. Harpune, Dusseldorf
10. Maria am Ufer, Berlin

Best DJ International

01. Richie Hawtin
02. Laurent Garnier
03. Magda
04. James Holden
05. Luciano
06. Tiga
07. Carl Cox
08. Carl Craig
09. Miss Kittin
10. Jeff Mills
11. Adam Beyer
12. Jennifer Cardini
13. Chloe
14. Ivan Smagghe
15. John Tejada
16. Troy Pierce
17. John Dahlback; Dave Clarke
18. Serafin
19. Rush
20. Alex Smoke

Best Label International

01. m_nus
02. Border Community
03. Warp
04. Mute/Novamute
05. Cadenza
06. Wagon Repair
07. Ghostly International/Spectral Sound
08. Soma
09. Kitsune
10. DFA; Planet E
11. PIAS
12. Crosstown Rebels; Palette
13. Plus 8
14. Dahlback Records
15. F-Com
16. Itiswhatitis
17. Eskimo
18. Intec
19. Output
20. Defected

Best Compilation

01. Richie Hawtin - DE9: Transitions
02. Cocoon Compilation E
03. Sven Vath - The Sound Of The Sixth Season
04. Green & Blue
05. Five Years Of Moon Harbour
06. Total 6
07. Dominik Eulberg - Kreucht & Fleucht
08. Minimize To Maximize
09. Andre Galluzzi - Berghain 01
10. Superpitcher - Today
11. Poker Flat Volume 4; M.A.N.D.Y. - Body Language
12. SonneMondSterne Compilation 05
13. Famous When Dead IV
14. Annie - DJ Kicks
15. Hell - Acid Rocks
16. Carl Craig - Fabric 25
17. Ivan Smagghe - Fabric 23
18. BPitch Control presents Camping; Kitsune Maison
19. Flokati House - Mixes by Karotte & Matthias Tanzmann; Freude Am Tanzen 1
20. The Glimmers - DJ Kicks; U60311 - Techno Division Vol.5

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Best Producer

01. Dominik Eulberg
02. Trentemoeller
03. Robag Wruhme
04. Mathew Jonson
05. Ricardo Villalobos
06. Richie Hawtin
07. John Dahlback
08. Luciano
09. DJ Koze
10. Isolee; James Holden
11. John Tejada
12. Guido Schneider
13, Anthony Rother
14. Gabriel Ananda
15. Ame
16. Carl Craig
17. Ellen Allien
18. Lindstrom
19. Alex Smoke
20. Jesper Dahlback; Tiefschwarz

Best Newcomer

01. Trentemoeller
02. Oliver Koletzki
03. Alex Under
04. John Dahlback
05. Alex Smoke
06. Lindstrom
07. Onur Ozer
08. Patrick Chardonnet
09. Troy Pierce
10. Sleeparchive
11. Magda
12. Dapayk & Padberg
13. Guido Schneider
14. Argy
15. Matt John; Annie
16. Tomas Andersson
17. Audio Werner; Jackson And His Computer Band
18. Nathan Fake; Annie

Best Label National

01. Kompakt
02. Traum/Trapez/My Best Friend
03. Poker Flat
04. Cocoon
05. Klang/Playhouse
06. Gigolo
07. Musik Krause/Freude Am Tanzen
08. Get Physical
09. Perlon
10. Areal
11. Sender
12. Sonar Kollektiv/Innervisions
13. Great Stuff
14. Taksi; Platzhirsch
15. BPitch Control
16. Moon Harbour
17. Vakant
18. Gomma
19. Kanzleramt
20. Shitkapult

Best Live Act

01. Alter Ego
02. Anthony Rother
03. Der Dritte Raum; Mathew Johnson
04. Ada:Egoexpress
05. Gabriel Ananda
06. Alexander Kowalski; Toni Rohr
07. Dapayk & Padberg
08. Northern Lite
09. Paul Kalkbrenner
10. Jamie Lidell
11. Richard Bartz
12. Trentemoeller
13. Sleeparchive
14. The Prodigy
15. Modeselektor; T.Raumschmiere
16. Misc.;Isolee
17. Nathan Fake
18. Chemical Brothers; Luciano
19. Remute
20. Paul Brtschtsch

Special thanks to Heiko Hoffman at Groove Magazine.