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Yoshiesque

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If you've never heard anything by Deep Dish before you really must buy this. If you have you've probably already got it.

It's sheer quality all the way through, deep driving basslines, thumping beats but never getting too hard and always keeping a continous groove throughout. This is how house music is meant to sound, tough but funky and it's what Deep Dish do best.

The mixing is faultless, the tunes are all classy but what really makes it a winner is the way Deep Dish structure it. It really is a "set" rather than a selection of tracks chucked together like some mix compilations and the more you listen to it the more it grows on you. To really appreciate it you have to listen to each CD in its entirity.

I've had this since last summer when I bought it in Ibiza after seing Deep Dish play at Pacha, and I can honestly say it's the best CD I own. Everyone I've played it to has gone out and bought it and I've yet to find someone who's heard it and hasn't thought it's amazing.

If you like quality house music this really is as good as it gets.

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.

OK you're reading this so you're a fan of dance music. If you have any experience of DJ mixed compilation CDs, then you've probably picked up a duff title or two in your time.

Not so with Dubfire and Sharam's latest offering. These guys are held in high esteem in the UK and Ireland for their ability to fill dancefloors while sticking to their own instantly recognisable brand of down and dirty house. When you hear tracks as diverse as Brother Brown's 'Under the Water' and Basco's Music With a Feel', you'll understand why.

Both CD's are exceptionally well mixed and build from a nice slow tempo to the sort of tunes you'd like to be dancing to at home after a long night sweating it out on the dancefloor of your favourite house club.

If this mix doesn't end up on best of '99 lists wherever it's heard, then I'll eat my keyboard. Deep by name, deep by nature. Don't think, just buy.

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+.

this is one of the best house mix cds ever. The genre is mostly deep house with a little bit of trance. The mixing is flawless and the tracks are great. sharam and dubfire do not disapoint.

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.

Anyone who slates Yoshiesque 1 is obviously insane and writing from within the confines of a sanitorium. A state run facility that will obviously give net access to anyone. At least the doctors are administering good house to the patients. Yoshiesque brings tears to my eyes it's so good. Yes, superbly mixed and programmed; any number of mix CDs out there can boast this. But Yoshiesque is sublime. The tracks are stacked in such a way that they truly tell a story, especially on disc one. Disc two is pure emotion. I would nearly swear the mix between Tomiie's "Darkness," Chiapet and the haunting Quivver mix of Culture Club was done on three decks - but it wasn't (amazing). This is an all-time classic. I've never written a review for Amazon before, but if I can help educate anyone who doesn't own this funky soundtrack from heaven, then God help me here it is!

This is one of my favourite cds ever. Deep Dish keep things reasonably smooth, but varied and interesting at the same time. There are some trancey flavours on here, but a deeper progressive feel is dominant. This will appeal to just about anyone who likes dance music. Every single track fits in with the whole vibe, but my favourite has to be Chiapets "Westworld", a simple idea.. but one that works well, especially on a bassy sound system. Buy this!

Gosh, where to begin...the track selection and mixing is above reproach. It is all interesting and varied and never less than groovin'. The house, trance and funk influences are all readily apparent and I might add garage too as it has that homegrown quality to it. Someone commented to me once that funky stuff should never sound too perfect (a la Brand New Heavies). It should be slightly flawed to make it sound organic and fun. This is all of that and more. I keep rediscovering sections of this CD set. A group of 2 or 3 songs that I get into for a couple days and then move on to another section. It is a CD of the highest quality. It will grow on you and insinuate itself into your daily routine. Great for long drives, and I don't mean golf. Can't wait to catch these guys in Milwaukee on the 12th of May.

For the money you can't beat this nice, two, thick cd combo from Deep Dish. Both of these cd's are over 78 minutes each so you get a lot of music. Trust me, it's good music too. The sound of this double cd set is very euro, in fact if I weren't looking at the label right now, I'd swear this was a "Plastic City" cd. Both sets are very nice house mixes with a touch of trance. The house here is very synthetic and spacey sounding a lot like a cross between The Timewriter and BT. This isn't my first choice in house style but it makes for a very unique house sound that rocks pretty much from the beginning of cd 1 to the end of cd 2. The mixing and music selection is good, ranging from deep house to disco to trance, all the while maintaining a smooth house tempo. Cuts of choice are "Dep Lounge 2", "Here I Am", "Listen", and "Tall Stories" from CD1. "The N.Y. Experience", "Slid", and "Slippin' Into Darkness", rounds out CD2. Wanna rock to some psychedelic house beats for over two hours? Take these two cds and call me in the morning.