Dance
United States
DJ Icey
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About DJ Icey
Hometown
Orlando, FL, United States
Genre
Dance
DJ Icey is a pioneering figure of the Florida breaks scene, and an unwavering champion of breakbeat music in general. Starting in the early '90s, he formed Zone Records and released dozens of records which blended elements of '80s electro, Miami bass, U.K. breakbeat hardcore, and house. After helping to establish the stateside breaks scene, which shared musical common ground with the big beat movement, Icey's work caught the attention of British tastemakers like Pete Tong, who signed the producer to FFRR and released the mix CD The Funky Breaks (1997) and full-length Generate (1998). Other mixes such as a 2000 volume of the Essential Mix series appeared, and the refined studio full-length Different Day was issued in 2003. Remaining prolific, Icey revisited career highlights on 2020's Catalysts of the Catalog and has continued evoking old-school electro-breaks on singles like 2025's "In the Dark" and "Work to the Beat."
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