Solid Corporation is proud to present to you the first of their many headliners for Fusion Dreams,
Legendary and "King of the Funky Breaks"
DJ ICEY
(Zone Records, Florida)
Born and raised in Florida, DJ Icey has been mesmerized by electronic music ever since hearing the synthesizer breakdown on The Edgar Winter Group’s "Frankenstein". "My mom had that album and I would play that middle part over and over wondering how they made that sound,” Icey recounts. “I was little and thought it was so cool".
Rising to worldwide prominence out of the fertile Orlando electronic music scene which has spawned the likes of Kimball Collins, Jimmy Van M, Chris Fortier, and Baby Anne, Icey cut his teeth at the legendary EDGE nightclub in the mid-90s, and even persuaded The Chemical Brothers to play their first show Stateside there. When The Edge closed in 1996, DJ Icey hit the road… and has stayed on it since.
Discovered by BBC Radio 1 DJ and longtime A&R kingpin Pete Tong, Icey became the first American producer to sign to his ffrr label in 1997 as an artist, and then the first American DJ to be selected to record a prestigious "Essential Mix". With over 200 12” singles under his production belt, the “King of Breaks” has SoundScanned over 300,000 units in North America alone. Playing 125+ gigs per year, Icey is a touring maniac. But that doesn’t keep him out of the studio during the week working on new tracks, constantly trying to push the envelope to make his fans sweat on the dancefloor. The new material is then cut on dub plates and tested out on weekend gigs: “There is nothing better than finishing a tune and seeing the reaction from a crowded dancefloor right after finishing it," he beams.
2003 sees DJ Icey releasing Different Day, a new album of all original material. Different Day, Icey’s second full-length artist album to date, embraces futuristic breakbeat interwoven with house sensibilities, while keeping the energy level peaking throughout. From the haunting mid-tempo title track to the funky sounds of “A Little Louder,” the aggressive “Freaks in the House,” and the beautiful vocal tracks “Searching” and “Dreams,” Icey continues to reinvent the very sound that he helped bring to the masses back in 1994. Having remixed the likes of Deelite, Groove Armada, Faith No More, and Paul Van Dyk, Icey still prefers to have friends “who can sing their asses off” do his vocal tracks, rather than famous vocalists.
Says Icey, “I wanted to make a record that would bump in the clubs, but still be vibey for listening to at home or in the car.”
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