Stowaway Awards 2017

Finally! We kick Awards Season off in earnest with the Important Announcement of the winners of the 2017 Stowaways.

Best Track

Winner: Jean-Michel Jarre with Pet Shop Boys, for Brick England.

Best Album

These were the nominees:

• The Avalanches – Wildflower
• David Bowie – Blackstar
• Clarke Hartnoll – 2Square
• C Duncan – The Midnight Sun
• I Monster – Bright Sparks
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygène 3
• Pet Shop Boys – Super
• Shit Robot – What Follows
• Yello – Toy

Winner: Jean-Michel Jarre, who had a particularly good year and stood a better chance of winning than most, with Oxygène 3.

Best Reissue / Compilation

The nominees:

• Air – Twentyears
• Cicero – Future Boy
• The Human League – Anthology – A Very British Synthesizer Group
• New Order – Complete Music
• Dusty Springfield – Reputation

Winner: The Human League

Best Artist

Winner: Jean-Michel Jarre

Best Live Act

Winner: Pet Shop Boys

Best Ambient Track

Nominated were:

• Air – Adis Abebah
• Delerium – Ghost Requiem
• Enigma – Sadeness (Part II)
• I Monster – Alan R Pearlman and the ARPiological exploration of the cosmos
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygène (Part 17)

Winner: Delerium, for Ghost Requiem

Best Dance Act / Remixer

Potential winners included:

• The Avalanches
• Clarke Hartnoll
• Stuart Price
• Röyksopp
• Shit Robot

Winner: Shit Robot

Best Newcomer

Winner: C Duncan

Innovation Award

Winner: Jean-Michel Jarre

Outstanding Contribution

Could have been any of the following:

• David Bowie
• Vince Clarke
• Delerium
• Enigma
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Winner: Delerium

That’s an unprecedented four out of ten for Jean-Michel Jarre. All being well, we’ll do the BRIT and Grammy Awards over the next couple of weeks.

Stowaway Awards 2017 – Nominations

Now for the moment that you have, of course, all been waiting for: the announcement of the nominees for the 2017 Stowaway Awards. As always in recent years, there will be exactly ten awards, one of which (Best Track) you know already from the countdown a couple of weeks ago. Here are five more key nominations!

Best Album

• The Avalanches – Wildflower
• David Bowie – Blackstar
• Clarke Hartnoll – 2Square
• C Duncan – The Midnight Sun
• I Monster – Bright Sparks
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygène 3
• Pet Shop Boys – Super
• Shit Robot – What Follows
• Yello – Toy

Best Reissue / Compilation

• Air – Twentyears
• Cicero – Future Boy
• The Human League – Anthology – A Very British Synthesizer Group
• New Order – Complete Music
• Dusty Springfield – Reputation

Best Ambient Track

• Air – Adis Abebah
• Delerium – Ghost Requiem
• Enigma – Sadeness (Part II)
• I Monster – Alan R Pearlman and the ARPiological exploration of the cosmos
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygène (Part 17)

Best Dance Act / Remixer

• The Avalanches
• Clarke Hartnoll
• Stuart Price
• Röyksopp
• Shit Robot

Outstanding Contribution

• David Bowie
• Vince Clarke
• Delerium
• Enigma
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Albums chart of the year 2016

Here are the top albums of last year, for stowaways:

1. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
2. New Order – Music Complete [number 1 in 2015]
3. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 1: The Time Machine [number 6 in 2015]
4. David Bowie – Best Of Bowie
5. Pet Shop Boys – Super
6. David Bowie – Blackstar
7. Conjure One – Holoscenic [released in 2015]
8. Clarke Hartnoll – 2Square
9. David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed [number 25 in 2015]
10. Shit Robot – What Follows
11. Róisín Murphy – Hairless Toys [number 26 in 2015]
12. C Duncan – The Midnight Sun
13. Air – Twentyears
14. I Monster – Bright Sparks
15. Delerium – Mythologie
16. David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
17. Yello – Toy
18. Little Boots – Working Girl [number 4 in 2015]
19. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
20. David Bowie – Hunky Dory

More in a year or so…

Singles chart of the year 2016

Here are the top singles for stowaways in 2016:

1. Pet Shop Boys – The Pop Kids
2. Jean-Michel Jarre & Pet Shop Boys – Brick England
3. Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit EP
4. Pet Shop Boys – Twenty-Something
5. Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør – Never Ever
6. Shit Robot – End of the Trail
7. C Duncan – Wanted to Want It Too
8. Delerium with Phildel – Ritual
9. Pet Shop Boys – Say It to Me
10. New Order feat. Elly Jackson (La Roux) – Tutti Frutti [number 5 in 2015]
11. Clarke Hartnoll – Better Have a Drink to Think
12. Jean-Michel Jarre – Remix EP (II)
13. Pet Shop Boys – Inner Sanctum
14. Goldfrapp – Stranger [number 42 in 2013]
15. Conjure One feat. Hannah Ray – Kill the Fear [released in 2015]
16. I Monster – The Bradley Brothers realise the transmutation of the Chamberlin to the MELLOTRON
17. Róisín Murphy – Exploitation [released in 2015]
18. Massive Attack – The Spoils / Come Near Me
19. Jean-Michel Jarre – The Heart of Noise
20. Clarke Hartnoll – Single Function

We’ll look at the albums next week!

Top tracks of 2016 – Clarke Hartnoll

Of all of Vince Clarke‘s recent electro albums, this year’s 2Square, released with Paul Hartnoll as Clarke Hartnoll, seems to be thought of as the least good. But it still has its moments, including the brilliant single Better Have a Drink to Think.

Chart for stowaways – 29 October 2016

Here are this week’s top ten albums:

1. Delerium – Mythologie
2. C Duncan – The Midnight Sun
3. Air – Twentyears
4. Yello – Toy
5. Cicero – Future Boy
6. Shit Robot – What Follows
7. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
8. Clarke Hartnoll – 2Square
9. I Monster – Bright Sparks
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree

Chart for stowaways – 15 October 2016

These are the week’s top albums:

1. Air – Twentyears
2. Delerium – Mythologie
3. Shit Robot – What Follows
4. Cicero – Future Boy
5. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
6. Clarke Hartnoll – 2Square
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
8. I Monster – Bright Sparks
9. Pet Shop Boys – Super
10. New Order – Music Complete