Yoshitoshi Presents Deep Dish

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  • DJ and production team Deep Dish are one of the few survivors of the prog house era that are still going strong and retaining the respect of dance music connoisseurs. I always think of their sets as a relentless train ride through house with some trancey and breaksy stops along the way. The Yoshitoshi label night at the WMC promised an unforgettable twelve-hour journey, not quite the amount of time the Silver Star Amtrak would take to get from their hometown of D.C to Miami (it’s about twenty-four hours – I checked), but surely long enough to make it a worthwhile adventure. Dubfire the conductor replaced the adequate Paolo Mojo, sounded his whistle, and told us to get all aboard. For the length of his solo set he played mostly of heavy tech house, while Sharam’s set was more oriented toward big room electro. Afterward, they teamed up for a more vintage Deep Dish duo set as the Space terrace was opening for the happy few who could make it through the tight security. Very few of the tracks played by either rang any bells with me, except for a single old school track from Oscar G. Deep Dish, both together and separately, are probably the DJ act I’ve seen most during my short and late-blooming clubbing years. However, I’ve never thought that Ali and Sharam’s solo sets were any better than slightly above average. Furthermore, the new stuff played, although interesting, wasn’t really up my alley. Maybe if you like novelty for its own sake, you would have appreciated it more than me. Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve found that only way to get the real Deep Dish experience is to witness their classical house relay sets. That’s when the real groove sinks in, putting you in a state that’ll keep you dancing and make the hours fly by. Unfortunately, just when the magic seemed to be happening, the Space terrace opened and I couldn’t resist going outside to enjoy the sunrise and rub elbows with one of the most glamorous clubbing crowds I’ve seen, all of them raving to the sounds of Nic Fanciulli among others. I danced till I dropped – a great way to see in the day.
RA