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Adrenalin, poured over ice

Jason Green | London, United Kingdom | 01/20/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I go for music that makes you feel like you're about to win a race, underground club tracks that make you burst with energy. The thing with Deep Dish's track selection and re-mixing is that it is so painfully cool. When you listen to this you just know they are in absolute control of what they are doing. The bass and rhythm is so very, very deep that you just want more, and it just keeps coming. Deep Dish take deep house, fast trance, cool techno and hard ambient and pour it into a nuclear device. The tracks are varied, aggressive, uplifting, broody, confident, hysterical, but through it all is that bass: it just keeps coming at you. At any point there could be detonation, but then you remember who is in the control room: Deep Dish know when to lower the the uranium rods and when to raise them.In Yoshiesque, Deep Dish deliver bursts of race adrenalin over and over again, yet the beat keeps you going and you never get tired. You could sprint a marathon and barely feel out of breath, the rhythm is that deep. This also means something else: that this is a brilliant underground floor compilation, but you don't have to dance to it. At 4 a.m. this is the Duracell battery you can use to add another two hours to your afterparty.This album is perennial. It will be recognised as the best of its kind for a long time to come. Buy it."

House Music from the Nation's Capital? Who Knew?

The Groove | Boston, MA | 07/29/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Washington, D.C. For some, it's known as the nation's capital. Others bill it as "Chocolate City." It's also the home of the DJ team of Dubfire and Sharam, two Iranians who are also among the most sought-after remixers around the world. Following their dynamite DJ mix set "Penetrate Deeper," (which, sadly is now out of print), Deep Dish unleashes the double disc "Yoshiesque." The best way to describe their DJ-ing style is hard-hitting house with a slightly Euro/trance edge, and they give you a combined 156 minutes of solid grooves that entice the listner from the word "go." Disc One warms things up for the first four cuts, but things don't really start to bang until we're treated to Brother Brown's "Under the Water." Disc Two is also impressive, as it blends slammin' house, soulful vocals, and dance cuts with some trance flava. The disc kicks into high gear with "Fly Away" from Mysterious People, an infectious remix of Billie Ray Martin's "Honey" (by Deep Dish themselves) and a most interesting dub remix of, I kid you not, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" by Culture Club. The remix of the Culture Club song is definitely housed up and erases any trace of the reggae flavor of the original version. Deep Dish has gained a reputation as one of the top global DJs around; one listen of this CD, and you'll see why. In my school of music, "Yoshiesque" gets a B+."

Actual thought went into this one

white | denver | 09/28/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Hello. Hope things are well. I listen to a host of dj mixed and electronic cds on a daily basis. Anything from Digweed to Roni Size to Portishead (yes, Portishead) to classic Nails and most things in between. Now I have Deep Dish Yoshiesque and my music collection is that much more complete. My bestest bestest friend in the world (for security purposes we'll call her Chanda who is Pisces) downloaded this and put it on cds for me. I won't, can't give you some tacky track-by-track "analysis" because the whole thing is excellent. This is more jazzy and funky than I expected. It's a welcome departure from the generic trance music which we all know and love (?). Groovy horns and pianos are strewn about with utmost skill. When listening to this, I felt as though Deep Dish had examined my brain and this was their result; an attempt to musically please me. I felt like they actually care about the quality of their product and hence, you, the listener and judge and jury, who will likely pay (ha!) around 18 bones US for it.Blah, blah, blah. Yoshiesque is sublime."