Featured DJ: ICON
Jungoroad.com

September 28, 2009
by Dale Phurrough

This week is about DJ ICON; one of the leading ladies of breakbeat and a contributor to the culture around this weekend’s San Francisco LovEvolution, an electronic dance music (EDM) parade and festival. She is known in the breakbeat scene for tight sets of big beats and travels the world playing them. Now you can download and listen to her Weapon of Choice Vol. 2 mix here on Jungo Road which includes her soon to be released Welcome to My Dancefloor collaboration with Dustin Hulton featuring Nikki Carabello on illeven eleven recordings.

ICON rose through the ranks of the underground in the ’90s when female DJs and promoters were few. She quickly landed numerous residencies in her hometown of San Francisco and bookings throughout the US and beyond. Now a DJ over a decade, she has held residencies at world famous clubs such as Limelight in New York City as well as San Francisco’s 1015 Folsom, The End-Up and Temple. She has also shared the stage with major EDM players the likes of Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Ladytron, Paul Oakenfold, Adam Freeland, Armand Van Helden, Deekline & Wizard, The Stanton Warriors, The Freestylers, Evil Nine, Elite Force, Uberzone, Bassbin Twins and DJ Icey.

ICON is an deeply participating member of the EDM culture. She is a key member of Sister SF, the influential female DJ collective from San Francisco that creates a thriving DJ community for women in the dance music industry. She established Reverb Records, one of the last vinyl record stores in SF. Radio loves her with residencies and guest spots on programs such as Thump Funk on XM Satellite Radio, Boombox Mix Sessions on Sirius, Solid State on K-ROCK, and iBreaks in the UK. She shares the Editor-In-Chief title of the San Francisco LovEvolution Guide. Finally, she ranked in Shejay’s “Top 100 Female DJs” and was recently voted as one of San Francisco’s top ten DJs in the 2008 Nitevibe "Top 10 DJ Dreamteam" Poll.

You can next catch DJ ICON at least three times over this coming San Fran festival weekend: Friday October 2nd For The Love @ Mission Rock (817 Terry Francois St, San Francisco); Saturday October 3rd SF LovEvolution Parade (San Francisco); Saturday night October 3rd Infuse: Love Evolves @ Mission Rock (817 Terry Francois St, San Francisco). Come back to Jungo Road for more LovEvolution 2009 coverage.