The 56th annual Grammy awards just came to a close a few hours back and once again electronic dance music inched closer to the spotlight. For the past two years now, as dance music has crossed over from underground to mainstream, the Grammy nominations and awards related to dance music have garnered greater importance & notoriety than ever. Consistently progressing towards the forefront of the current music scenario across the world, dance music luminaries have not only released record breaking tracks and albums of late, but have also given landmark performances at a variety of venues and festivals of repute worldwide.

Establishing that fact even further, this time around the iconic duo, Daft Punk were one of the few artist who won big, taking home a total of 5 awards. The legends even performed live for the first time since the release of their album, Random Access Memories and the second time on television in the group’s entire history at the Grammy awards. Donning all-white versions of their helmets the duo accompanied by Niles Rodgers, Pharrell and Stevie Wonder on stage, performed “Get Lucky”, classic Chic and Wonder tracks, and a handful of Daft Punk samples and in the process swept even the audience present away, bringing a few like Jay-Z and Beyonce to their feet.

All in all, it was overwhelming to witness dance music talents get their due for all the hard-work put in by them. Without further adieu, here are all the winners in the dance music category:

Best Remixed Recording (Non-Classical): Lana Del Ray – Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Remix)

The first winner in the dance music category was, Cedric Gervais who won the Grammy for the Best Remixed Recording for his remix of “Summertime Sadness”, by Lana Del Ray. This remix was constantly heard around the world at festivals and concerts and definitely was a well deserved winner. We would like to extend a  massive congratulations to Cedric on his remarkable accomplishment!

Best Dance Recording: Zedd featuring Foxes – Clarity

Well it has certainly been no secret that “Clarity” was one of the biggest hits of 2013, and now it is now official, Zedd‘s track featuring vocals by Foxes, “Clarity” won the Grammy for Best Dance Recording. Zedd accepted the award along with Foxes on stage at the Grammys and even thanked his close friend Skrillex. Here’s extending a huge congratulations on such a massive achievement!

Check out Zedd’s winning speech below.

Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical): Daft Punk – Random Access Memories [Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta & Daniel Lerner, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer]

This year Daft Punk was nominated for numerous nominations and the first one that came up, they well, WON. The French duo took home the Grammy for Best Engineered Album (Non Classical) with their album Random Access Memories. What followed was the duo sweeping 4 more awards as the event progressed!

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:

Adding to the aforementioned, along came another award for the French duo, this time accepting the award with Pharrell & Nile Rodgers for their mega-hit ‘Get Lucky‘. They beat out tough competition from superstars such as Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake, Rihanna and Mikky Ekko, Pink and Nate Ruess, and Robin Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell.

Record Of The Year: Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers – Get Lucky

Daft Punk with Pharrell & Nile Rodgers

Well then, it is official people, “Get Lucky” is the top song of 2013. Daft Punk walked away with the Grammy for Record Of The Year. This win surely must have made the night for the duo, and marked an even bigger night for dance music on its own. However, the bots weren’t done winning just yet.

Interestingly, this was the first time in history where electronic music took a Grammy for Record Of The Year. Congratulations to Daft Punk on this huge milestone!

Best Dance/Electronica Album: Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

Arguably one of the biggest albums of the decade, Random Access Memories made news headlines before it was even made. This was due to the incredible talents of the French duo. The hype was built up to such a degree that many were doubtful if they could actually pull it off. As fate had it, they did, and also took home the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronica Album.

Album Of The Year: Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

Daft Punk & their collaborators on stage to receive the Grammy

By now we guess you’ve understood how Daft Punk pretty much took over the Grammy’s this year. Winning every category they were nominated for including, the Grammy for Album of The Year with Random Access Memories. For true dance music lovers, this marks a huge milestone for electronic music. All we would say for now is that everyone remotely into music should look out for electronic music to absolutely take over this year even more so.

Congratulations to Daft Punk and thank you for giving dance music a historic year at the Grammy’s!

So that rounds up the list of winners, we would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Daft Punk on mammoth win at this years Grammy’s. Truly, a grandiose affair, in case you missed the live telecast, make sure you catch the repeat at 9 PM IST on VH1!

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