Easily as impressive a DJ team as they are at production and remixing,
Deep Dish trips through futurist house and R&B with the double-disc mix collection
Yoshiesque. From the interstellar ambience of the set opener "Dancing in Outer Space" by
Atmosfear (remixed by
Masters at Work), the deep-groove techno on
Ian Pooley's mix of
Chaser's "Tall Stories," and the smashing hi-NRG house of their own "Mohammad Is Jesus" to the dizzying trance of
S.O.L.'s "Quantensprung" into
Underworld's "Jumbo,"
Deep Dish presents so many attractive angles on electronic dance that boredom -- always relevant when listening to a two-and-a-half-hour mix album on headphones or in the car -- becomes practically a dead issue. The duo balances faceless house producers with more rock-friendly groups like
Fluke and
Lo-Fidelity Allstars, and they even throw in a couple of oldies hits (a
Quivver remix of
Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" and the
Armand Van Helden remix of
War's "Slippin' into Darkness"). Even while
Deep Dish's own production album,
Junk Science, occasionally failed to deliver on the promise of perhaps the best track-by-track producers in house music,
Yoshiesque proves they may be the best mixers as well.
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John Bush, Rovi