Yoshiesque

by

Deep Dish

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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.

Look, this is really very classy progressive, upbeat, house, and they boys do it wonderfully. On the whole they manage to keep the mix fresh and lively, break it down, use vocals judiciously, and build it up and generally keep it interesting, compared to most house mixes. Deep Dish have a habit of emphasizing something completley hookey in the mix and pulling you in, rather than trying to keep it all there. In parts they get trancy on you too, particularly the last five tracks of CD 2, the parts I personally find most satisfying.

Disc one is actually quite soul musicish and vocal, even chill-outy in parts, CD 2 is the house and trance thump and thus quite different in feel.

Its all done expertly well, but vaguely unsatisfying, like going to a restaurant with a great reputation when the cook has an off night; or worse, ill Part of the problem is that the Dish can't help veering off into cluby cheesiness, nay, even disco stylings, as in track 1, CDI--right off the bat. It may sell well, but it prevents this CD rising to something more.

Another problem is the evennness of tempo, something that can plague house--in the interest of smooth beat transitons, the mix gets stuck in the same tempo, track after track. See, for example, tracks 2 through 6 on disc two, at low volume they merge together. Still when they do it well, they do it well, tracks 6-8 of CD-2 are classic mixes.

Still, the boys manage to freshen the tempo better than most, albetit not surpass the problem. Perhaps the Dish are trying to cover too many bases, and please too many people: some trance, some house, some techno pop, a little trash glam and even gay disco thrown in. The shifts in style can be annoying, deep and dark one minute, glam house the next.

But it still gets 3.5 for the sheer style in which they attempt it. A tip: this might work as background music for your party, as its suitably upbeat and varied. Sadly, Deep Dish Moscow went further into "Club Fromage" albeit on a beautifylly displayed cheese plate, is it were. The best to date remains Yoshiesque 2, go buy that first. ...