DJ Icey, is a DJ and electronic music

Electronic music

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 producer, credited by Allmusic as having helped to "jump-start the increasingly fertile dance scene in and around Orlando

Orlando, Florida

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, FL, during the '90s". E, the Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy credits him as "the prime founder of the Funky Breaks and the Florida Breaks

Florida breaks

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. 1999's Rave America indicates that "the preoccupation with backbeat

Beat (music)

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s" characteristic of the Orlando sound was developed by DJ Icey. Rolling Stone

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writes that DJ Icey was "one of the original Florida DJs responsible for kick-starting the American progressive house and trance

Trance music

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 scene".

Biography

Originally named DJ Icee, he had to change his name because a local Orlando ice cream manufacturing company by the same name threatened to sue him. was born in Florida. Known for marrying the diverse strands of Chicago

Chicago

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 Hip house

Hip house

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 and English break-beat house, he rose to prominence DJing for the now defunct Orlando

Orlando, Florida

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 club The Edge, a position he held from 1991 to 1996. In 1993, he created his own label, Zone, named in honor of the UK labels O-Zone and D-Zone. In 2000, CMJ New Music Monthly

College Music Journal

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described him as "an expert in funky, sped-up hip-hop", and by 2001, Billboard

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 was listing him along with Crystal Method, DJ Micro

DJ Micro

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 and Überzone

Uberzone

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 as "perennial figure[s] in the burgeoning funky breaks underground scene."

DJ Icey released his own music under his name and City Wide Allstars, and also remix

Remix

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ed music for Groove Armada

Groove Armada

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, Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold

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 and Kosheen

Kosheen

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.

Billboard charts

DJ Icey has had several albums chart for Billboard, with six charting singles. The Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales charts have included "City of Groove" (1998, #44), "Not a Test" (1998, #43), and "Dreams" (2003, #16). "This Is How My Drummer Drums" charted on the Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart (1998, #32), while the Hot Dance Singles Sales chart has included "A Little Louder" (2003, #16) and "And Go!" (2004, #16).

Select discography

• The Funky Breaks (1997)
• Generate (1998)
• Continuous Play (1999)
• Essential Mix (2000)
• Mixed (2001)
• Essential Elements-Dj Icey The Breaks Element (2001)
• Different Day (2003) (#8 on the Top Electronic Albums chart, #41 Top Independent Albums)
• For the Love of the Beat (2004) (#15 Top Electronic Albums chart)
• Y4K (2006)
• Disco Rodeo (2007)
• Offshore Jedi (2008)
• Amplified (2009)
• What You Feel (2010)
• Flash The Message (2011)

External links

• Official Website
• http://thedjlist.com/djs/ICEY/
• [ DJ Icey] at Allmusic
• DJ Icey at Yahoo!
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