Smokin Jo

Smokin Jo DJ/ Producer:
Jo began her musical career in 1990 when, noticing a lack of female DJ's on the dance music scene she bought her own set of decks and started mixing herself. After continued practice, and receiving positive feedback from her mix tapes, she embarked on a musical journey that has taken her to the four corners of the globe.
Her cutting edge style and impeccable taste in music has made sure that Jo is always classed amongst the top name DJ's. She is still the only female DJ to have won DJ Magazine's prestigious DJ of the Year award. Smokin Jo's talent behind the decks and fearless risk taking in her mixing has made sure her CV contains most major clubs throughout the world. Womb in Tokyo, Panorama Bar in Berlin, Made/ Warung in Brazil, Cavo Paradiso in Mykonos, Crobar in New York, Space in Ibiza & Miami, Vinyl in New York, Zouk in Singapore, Fabric in London and Cocoon in Frankfurt to name a few. She is one of the residents for We Love Sundays at Space in Ibiza.
Jo has played most styles of music over the years from Soulful Deep House through to Tribal, but it's Deep House, Tech House and Techno that now race through her sets. Her shows never fail to impress, containing new and exciting material at every turn.
Jo's productions are few and far between due to her demanding DJ schedule but Jo is now taking the time out to make her own tracks with releases out on 2000 and One's label Area Remote. Jo has also been in the studio with Nicole Moudaber producing tracks to be released on Yellow Tail. Her older production, State of Mind, was championed on Radio 1 and released on Distrakt Records. Other releases include Yanu, The Psycho Bitch EP and collaboration with Peter Heller, Fishbone Sleepers. Not only is Jo a DJ/Producer but she has also graced many of the fashion worlds top magazines including Elle, Glamour, Esquire, Interview and Cosmopolitan as well as all the music magazines.
She has also been featured in reputable publications such as The Sunday Times, The Telegraph Magazine and The Independent . For the past couple of years Jo was working on various tracks with her production partner Pete Gleadall under the name Transistor spelt TRNSSTR .Viva signed tracks by the pair the first “Sausage Dog” was released in April 08 with remixes by Plasmik and David Squillace. The last release "As You Like It" was supported by Luciano, Anja Schnieder, Deetron and many others .Jo is currently working on a brand new project called The Beep, this is a band who will release tracks and perform live.Jo triggers all the digital elements on laptop effects and also does vocals, her production partner Michael Palmer is a talented musician who plays lead guitar, bass and keyboards, The Beep also includes MIDI who is there drummer, the show is half improvised and half performing there tracks live.
For bookings contact :Simon Patterson simon.p@mainstageartists.com (worldwide) and patci@wildebookings.com (Germany)
Check her site www.smokinjo.com.