The House Of House Presents Smokin Jo & Jon Carter

Smokin Jo has been DJ’ing since 1990 and is still the only female DJ to have ever won DJ magazines coveted DJ Of The Year Award.

Jo is one of the most talented DJ’s to emerge from the British dance music scene, her undeniably cutting edge sound has carved her a niche in clubland. Jo has had a truly successful career and over her 29 years behind the decks she has played in pretty much every corner of the globe and in every major nightclub you could care to mention: Space (Ibiza and Miami),Fabric (London) Womb and Aghea (Tokyo), Panorama Bar (Berlin), Warung (Brazil), Cavo Paradiso (Mykonos), Pacha, Crobar and Vinyl (New York), Zouk (Singapore), and Cocoon (Frankfurt,) are just some of the venues she has played in recent years.

Most recently Jo has played for Glitterbox at Hi Ibiza, two epic gigs at Glastonbury for Block9 and Greenpeace, Shindig Festival, Defected Festival in Croatia and UK, Clockwork Orange in UK and Amnesia in Ibiza, Morning Gloryville and appeared in a documentary for Ministry of Sound The Annual Classic Tour as well as hosting and playing on one of their live tour dates before the orchestra hit the stage. Summer 2016 Jo was headlining the Ibiza Space opening party and playing at the Final ever closing party where she was resident for 10 years .

Jo was resident DJ for 3 years at the uber cool Sexy Fish in Mayfair playing to the likes of Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford and the Beckham’s and is now playing regular monthly gigs at The Ned, White City House, plus London’s coolest East End venues. At London Fashion week for the past four years Jo has produced the music and played live at Julien Macdonald’s stunning shows. 

Alongside Norman Cook, the Chemical Brothers and Andy Weatherall, Jon was one of the original residents at the then mind-blowing and now legendary Heavenly Social.

The breakthrough came in 1994 with a dub coloured 4/4 track 'The Dollar', Jon's first disc outing on the then still embryonic Wall Of Sound label. A subsequent move to Heavenly was marked by the release of 'Blow The Whole Joint Up' under the name Monkey Mafia, one of the defining tunes of the era and still a club favourite five years later. 

His work behind the decks was opened up to wider scrutiny with the release of two outstanding mix CDs: 'Live at the Social Vol. 2' and an essential mix together with Paul Oakenfold and Pete Tong. All this whist his own studio product, Monkey Mafia, was honing itself with firstly 'Work Mi Body' (with reggae star Patra on vocals) and then the acclaimed '15 Steps EP'.

Remix wise, Jon has worked with some of music's biggest names, from right across the musical spectrum; U2, Manic Street Preachers and the Prodigy (with whom Jon toured as a DJ). But it's probably his remixing of lesser known artists that has yielded the most satisfying results- Selectah's 'Wede Man', 'Cubik' by 808 State and last year's treatment of the Sugar Hill classic Breakdance Boogie by West St Mob. Most recently it's been tracks by the likes of Luke Slater and Felix Da Housecatt getting the Carter touch whilst his remix of a new Mekon/ Roxanne Shante tune is due out later in the year. The latter three have been linked by a fierce uptempo drive but at the other end of the scale Jon has also excelled- and nowhere more so than his delicate reworking of the Beach Boys genius 'God Only Knows' which crept out almost unnoticed as a DJ promo and has been in demand ever since.

In February 2024 Jon is releasing a brand new album.