Electro raged this year. Just ask Ed Banger label head Pedro Winter.

Best Artist
Boys Noize. We play probably 15 of his tracks every night. That German guy could have been an Ed Banger artist. Respect!

Best Album
Midnight Juggernauts’ Dystopia. Those Australians killed it with the perfect synth-rock album. Imagine Alan Braxe and David Bowie smoking crack in Paris. I could have said, Klaxons, White Stripes, Clipse, Shy Child, and of course, Kanye West. Everybody keeps saying the music business is dead. I don’t think so. 2007 was a great year [for] all styles.

Best Single/12″
White Stripes’ “Icky Thump.” Allo, Jack White? Can we do stuff together?

Best Record Label
Modular. First they brought us Wolfmother and The Presets. Now they give us Bumblebeez and the Bang Gang DJs.

Best Live Event/Festival
Coachella 2007. I keep telling everybody no one can beat this Goldenvoice production. The venue in the desert is incredible, the line-up is the freakiest on earth.

Best City and/or Scene
Los Angeles.

Best DJ
Ajax. Another Australian in my top [picks] of the year. He is an amazing DJ (this is for the geeks who still care about mixing skills), but most important, he is a party monster. He brings fun back [to] the booth.

Best Music Trend
Maximal. Read below.

Worst Music Trend
Minimal. Read above.

What will be big in 2008?
James Pants and Sebastien Tellier, Pharrell and Prince all covered with white chocolate.

Best Music Hardware
Pioneer CDJ1000. Pioneer managed to manufacture the immortal CD player.

Best Music Software
AKAI MPC2000. I reply like an old school motherfucker, ’cause I don’t use any new software.

Electronic Gadget You Can’t Live Without
Blackberry.

Best Visual Artist
Neck Face or Will Sweeney. Those two guys haunted my eyes!

Best Shoe
Nike Air Force One. Classic!

Best Clothing Label
Supreme.

Best Style Trend
Nu Rave.

Worst style trend
Nu Rave.

Best media item
MySpace again. I can’t get rid of MySpace. Virb, Facebook, and all those shits can’t fuck with Tom and his 200,000,000 friends!

Best videogame
Blackberry is the only portable game player I use.

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Switch: Artist of the Year
Sage Francis’ Top Five Albums of 2007
Best Artists of 2007
Best of 2007 by Cameron Bird
Best Albums of 2007
Best Singles of 2007
Best Live Events of 2007
Best of 2007 by Dust La Rock
Best Visual Artists of 2007
Best of 2007 by Dirt Crew
Best Music Trends of 2007
Best Style of 2007
Best of 2007 by Mochipet
Best of 2007 by DJ Ulysses
Best Music Technology of 2007