Next Generation DJ Winner Announced

news | Jan 27th, 2011 | View Comments

Next Generation DJ, the global DJ talent search, has announced its first-place winner: the sister duo Maya Vanya.

The Croatian-born, New Zealand-based pair beat out over 3500 competitors for the top slot in the contest, an initiative by Pioneer DJ, Beatport and DJ Mag, and hosted on the music and social networking platform Letsmix.com.

With more than 350,000 votes cast by over 190,000 people, the NGDJ jury—Deadmau5 manager Dean Wilson, Ultra Records’ David Waxman, Sebastian Ingrosso, Beatport founder Jonas Tempel, DJ Mag editor in chief Ben Murphy, and Pioneer DJ’s Mark Grotefeld—had their work cut out for them when it came to whittling down the finalists. But the sister act handily rose to the forefront thanks to a mixture of sultry Caribbean rhythms, punchy 4/4 grooves, and the DJs’ own exclusive edits.