New York, NY – The Club World Awards, the U.S.’s definitive nightlife awards program, is proud to announce its 2008 nominees, and details of this year’s event.

The invitation-only Club World Awards ceremony is set for Wednesday, March 26, at Set in South Beach, Miami. The show will once again celebrate excellence in North American nightlife, with the club and dance music industries’ brightest stars. Plus, it has a few new tricks up its sleeve.

To expand the breadth of the program, six new categories were added: Best Renovation for revived venues, Best One-Off for spectacular one-time club events, Best Bottle Service for the swank set, and three new People’s Choice categories which allow the public to reward excellence in club music.

Clubbers will again be invited to vote for their favorite local venue in the Nightstalker Award category – a staple of the CWA program since its inception – as well as in music categories Club Banger Of The Year (for instrumentals), Club Anthem Of The Year (for vocals), and Best DJ Set. Online dance music portal Beatport.com will host a Club World Awards page (beatportal.com/clubworldawards) with players, so voters can listen to all the nominated music, including a top 10 of tracks played by the DJs during their nominated sets (provided by them). The inaugural Best DJ Set nominees are BT, Justice, DJ Micro, Roger Sanchez, and Danny Tenaglia. Voting will be hosted on Partystrands.com, and will be live from February 18 through March 3.

Across the rest of the program, this year’s nominees reflect the gold standard of clubbing in key metropolitan cities, along with the usual surprises. Smart Bar Chicago will defend its Best Club title against newcomer BoMA (in the unlikely locale of Columbus, Ohio), two-time winner Cielo, splashy Jet, and celeb haunt Marquee. Last year’s CWA darling Pacha New York – which walked away with three disco globes – is nominated in seven categories, and will defend its Best Superclub title against heavyweight opponents: Avalon, Mansion, Pure and Peter Gatien’s Circa. The return of clubland’s most notorious operator garnered four nominations. Opium Group snagged eight, with five going to CWA host venue Set. Vegas-based Pure Management Group (PMG) grabbed eight nods, including three for Paradise Island hotspot Aura. In the Best New category, PMG is going up against itself, with noms for both Aura and Vegas mega-club LAX.

The Club World Awards ceremony always draws bold-face names from the nightlife-loving community including Danny Tenaglia, Tila Tequila, Deep Dish, Kelly Osbourne, Ferry Corsten, and James Zabiela; and coverage in Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, Time Out New York, Boston Herald, Las Vegas Weekly, Miami New Times and Forbes.com.

For the first time in CWA history, potential nominees were invited to submit entries online and final nominees were selected from that pool, rather than directly by the editors of sponsoring magazine Club World. Winners in non-People’s Choice categories are determined by a panel of 12 industry-veteran, expert judges.

The Club World Awards is presented by Club Word, the only magazine devoted to the look, sound and feel of nightclubs. Launched in July 2000, the monthly publication covers the world’s best venues from technical, business and aesthetic perspectives. It was renamed from Club Systems International in February 2008.

www.clubworldawards.com

Club World Awards Nominees 2008

Field 1 – Venues

Best Superclub

Avalon, Hollywood

Circa, Toronto

Mansion, Miami

Pacha, New York

Pure, Las Vegas



Best Club

BoMA, Columbus, Ohio

Cielo, New York

Jet, Las Vegas

Marquee, New York

Smart Bar, Chicago



Best Lounge

Blush, Las Vegas

Goldbar, New York

Set, Miami

Tabú, Las Vegas

Vessel, San Francisco



Best New Venue

Aura, Bahamas

BoMA, Columbus, Ohio

Circa, Toronto

LAX, Las Vegas

Set, Miami

Tao Beach, Las Vegas



Field 2 – Design

Best Sound System

Advanced Audio Technology for Bliss, Clifton, N.J.

Infinite Audio for Tottem Nightclub at Karu-Y, Miami

JK Sound for 1015 Circe Lounge, San Francisco

Sound Investments for Set, Miami

Systems By Shorty for Lotus Soundbar, Hawaii

Whump Sound/Core Audio for Play @ Hom, Charlotte N.C.



Best Lighting System

iDesign for Sullivan Room, New York

JK Sound for 1015 Circe Lounge, San Francisco

Lighting Methods for Cameo, Miami

Neu Visions Design & Focus Lighting for Aura, Bahamas

Ohm Productions for Lotus Lounge, Washington D.C.

SJ Lighting for The Dome, Princess Cruise Line



Best Video System

John Lyons Systems for Jet, Las Vegas

klip//collective for Circa, Toronto

Realisations.net for Eyecandy Sound Lounge & Bar, Las Vegas

Francois Frossard Design for Set, Miami

Sound Ideas for BoMA, Columbus, Ohio

United Vision for Pacha, New York



Best Interior Design

Bigtime Design Studios for Cameo, Miami

Francois Frossard Design for Set, Miami

Jeffrey Beers International for Aura, Bahamas

Kenny Baird for Circa, Toronto

Mister Important for Motif, San Jose

Robert McKinley Creative for Goldbar, New York



Best Renovation

1015, San Francisco

Cameo, Miami

Opera, Atlanta

Razzles, Daytona, Florida

Sullivan Room, New York



Field 3 – Promotion

Best Party

A/V at Jet, Las Vegas

Banana Split Sundaes at LAX,

Hollywood

Dance.Here.Now. at Cielo, New York

Mixed Elements at Ruby Skye, San

Francisco



Best One-Off

Body & Soul, Pacha New York

Made Event, Sunday School for Degenerates, Pawn Shop Miami

F*ck Me I'm Famous, Cameo Miami

Juicy Beach, Nikki Beach Miami

Timbaland + DJ AM, Pure Las Vegas



Field 4 – Technicians

Best Resident DJ

Boris, Pacha, New York

DJ Vice, LAX, Las Vegas

Kaskade, Smart Bar, Chicago

Louie Vega, Cielo, New York

Richie Santana, Deko Lounge, Sayreville, N.J.



Best Resident LJ

Eric Moyano, Bliss, Clifton, N.J.

Matthew Beecher, mur.mur, Atlantic City

Richard Worboys, Avalon, Hollywood

Timmy Lights, Pacha, New York



Best Resident VJ

Cagan Yuksel & Chris Biggins, Pacha, New York

ChristianJude "Eyeball" Zacharka, Mixx, Atlantic City

Marc McCall, Avaland @ Avalon, Los Angeles

Ray Rhodes, TigerHeat, Los Angeles

Roonie G., Jet, Las Vegas

VJ Psyberpixie, Set, Miami



Field 5 – Products

Best DJ Product

Allen & Heath Xone:S2

Denon DN-HD2500

Numark TTXUSB

Ortofon Arkiv

Vestax VCI-100



Best Sound Product

JBL Venue Performance Series

Martin Audio The Engineer

Turbosound TA-500

QSC WideLine-8 line array



Best Lighting Product

Chauvet COLORado 3

Coemar Infinity Wash XL

High End Systems Road Hog console

Grace Lites G-Lites 250S

Robe ClubSpot 500 CT



Best Video Product

Livid Instruments Cell

Mega-Lite Enigma Matrix ProPanel

Pioneer SVM-1000

Sanyo XL50

Stewart Filmscreen Starglas



Best EffectsProduct

Chauvet Elan

CITC Starhazer III

Lasernet DJ Scan Series

Martin Professional Magnum 1800

Omnisistem Twister DMX



Best LED Product

Chauvet MiN Spot

Coemar Cyclite LED

Martin Professional LC

Omnisistem Merlin CW Pro

Traxon Module 16 SMD RGB



Field 6 – People’s Choice

NightStalker Award

Deko Lounge, Sayreville, N.J.

Empire Ballroom, Las Vegas

Foundation, Minneapolis

Spybar, Chicago

Sullivan Room, New York



Best DJ Set

BT, Flawless Sound at Sullivan Room, New York

Danny Tenaglia, Vinyl Reunion at Pacha, New York

DJ Micro, Red at Arena, Los Angeles

Justice, Smart Bar, Chicago

Roger Sanchez, Space, Miami

Bob Sinclar, LAX, Las Vegas



Club Banger Of The Year

Deadmau5, "Not Exactly" (mau5trap)

Dubfire, "Roadkill" (Toolroom U.K.)

Mark Knight & D Ramirez, "Colombian Soul" (Toolroom Trax U.K.)

Fedde Le Grand, "Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" (Ultra)

Samim, "Heater" (Get Physical Germany)

Sander Van Doorn, "The Riff" (Ultra)



Club Anthem Of The Year

Axwell feat. Charles Salter, "I Found U" (Remode mix) (Axtone/Vendetta/Ultra)

David Guetta feat. Chris Willis, "Love Is Gone" (Perfecto/Ultra)

Enur feat. Natasja, "Calabria 2007" (Ultra)

Justice, "D.A.N.C.E." (MSTRKRFT mix) (Ed Banger/Because/Downtown/Vice)

Ralph Falcon feat. Victoria Wilson James, "I Need Someone" (Nervous)

Samantha James, "Rise" (Eric Kupper mix) (OM)



Field 7 – Service

Best Bottle Service

Jet, Las Vegas

mur.mur, Atlantic City

Prive, Miami

Pure, Las Vegas

Tao, Las Vegas