DJ Icon

DJ ICON, also known as Connie Wong, has always found a way to express herself through performance. Born in Kowloon, Hong Kong and moving to the US in her early childhood, she was a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her life until she moved to New York in January of 2001. ICON began her musical journey as a violinist during her childhood. Later, she evolved into a different kind of performer, a contortionist in a local San Francisco circus. After experimenting with these arts, she finally found her niche much later when she discovered electronic music.

ICON entered the SF underground dance culture in 1996 when the Trance scene was first starting to erupt. At the time she was an avid follower of punk rock. Nevertheless, she immediately acquired a love for electronic music and quickly became a prominent member of the "rave" scene first as a supporter, then as a DJ and Promoter. ICON is proud to be one of San Francisco's first female DJ's in to rise in the ranks in the former male dominated scene.

ICON is known for spinning a hybrid of Trance, UK Hard House, and Nu-Skool Breaks. She has a unique style of mixing these genres together to create a slamming high-energy set that will surely get you moving on the dance floor. Gradually, ICON has slowly been making the transition and natural progression from Trance to Breakbeat fusions. Currently she focuses mostly on Nu-Skool and Funky Breaks.

ICON is featured at numerous events all over the United States, Canada, and Europe. She has played with the likes of Commander Tom, Andy Trax, Marco Dux Baby, Baby Doc & S-J, Cores, Bad Boy Bill, Chris Liberator, Meat Beat Manifesto, Terry Mullen, Dave Angel, Angel Alanis, Binary Finary, Tinrib, Keoki, Deepsky, Alexi Delano, Frankie Bones, Adam X, Heather Hart, John Selway, Liquid Todd, Mars, Mystrë and many more.

In 2000, ICON founded her own production company, Mach 5. She started promoting her own events as well as co-producing events with many other production companies.

ICON's first mixed tape, "A Life So Changed", consisting of hard and progressive trance, was released in 1999. Her first mixed CD, "ICONTACT", featuring UK Hard House, Hard and Melodic Trance, was recorded in 2002 and has not yet been released. Her most recent CD project, "The ICONspiracy", will feature her current style of Nu-Skool and Funky Breaks.

In April 2002, ICON was featured in a twelve-part documentary series, "Disc Jockey", on Showtime™ and ShoNext™. The three-minute episode aired for one month and included footage of ICON DJing, an interview, an animated segment, and an original Breaks track by ICON and Justin Johnson (Cable Recordings, Barely Legal) called "Slide".

Now a San Francisco transplant in New York City, ICON teams up with MC Linzee, Siren, Lejla and Winter to form the NYC chapter of the original and infamous all-female DJ Collective, SISTER. She is a resident DJ of the collective as well as an integral aspect of its creation. Following ICON's transition from trance to breaks, ICON also joined forces with Sleeveless, a drum & bass and breaks DJ crew from San Francisco. Sleeveless consists of ICON, Femmes Fatales, DJ Eva, Donna Matrix, Buna, Sinseer, and MC Audio Angel.

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