Deep Dish
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| Deep Dish | |
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 Deep Dish in Miami, Florida in 2005
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Washington, D.C., USA |
| Genre(s) | Electronica Progressive house House |
| Years active | 1992 – Present |
| Website | http://www.deepdish.com |
| Members | |
| Ali Dubfire Shirazinia Sharam Tayebi |
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Deep Dish is a duo of DJ and house music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, DC Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle, and for their live DJing sets. They often collaborate with DC artist Richard Morel and produced a dance hit with his song "True (The Faggot Is You)". Their remixing abilities first came to attention with their seminal mix of De'Lacy "Hideaway", a club classic in 1995. Other collaborations include "The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)" with British group Everything But the Girl, which appeared on Deep Dish's artist album, Junk Science, which was released in 1998.
The duo first met in DC around 1991 when they were accidentally double-booked at a club. Soon after, they formed Deep Dish Records and their work captured the attention of Danny Tenaglia and Tribal America Records, which put out the duo's first progressive-house compilation, Penetrate Deeper, in 1995. Over the years they have released a number of genre-defining mixed CDs. However, what catapulted Deep Dish to prominence was the release of their debut album, Junk Science, released on the now defunct UK label DeConstruction and a dismal state side release through Arista Records.
Deep Dish have remixed tracks by artists such as Dido ("Thank You" and "Stoned") and the collaboration between Timo Maas and Kelis ("Help Me"). The duo won a Grammy Award for their "Thank You" remix. Deep Dish have also collaborated with Danny Howells to remix the Eminem track "Without Me" (as a bootleg). In July 2005, their second artist album, George Is On, was released. It featured their Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart hit "Flashdance" (which features Anousheh Khalili) (also their biggest UK hit, peaking at number 3), as well as a remake of the classic Fleetwood Mac song "Dreams", for which Stevie Nicks provided new vocals. "Say Hello", the second single released from the album, hit number one on the dance chart in September 2005, becoming their second dance chart-topper (their first being the collaboration with Everything But the Girl in 1998).
In 2005 the film It's All Gone Pete Tong included Raul Rincon's remix of "Flashdance". Deep Dish has appeared as the featured artist on the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix on several occasions. Their most recent appearances took place in 2008, on the 28th of March, when their set from the Winter Music Conference was broadcast live on the show. Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia was featured on the Essential Mix in September of 2007. The duo's May 2005 Essential Mix at Maida Vale was voted the best 2005 Essential Mix of the Year. Deep Dish is also well-known for their progressive house compilation albums in the famed Global Underground series. The latest Global Underground album, by Dubfire, was released in April of 2007.
They also own and run dance music record labels Deep Dish, Yoshitoshi Shinichi, and Yo. In addition, they owned and operated a retail store (also named Yoshitoshi) in the Georgetown area of D.C., which sold dance records and clothing. The store closed in 2003, although their labels continue to release music, mostly on the 12 inch single vinyl format.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Artist Albums
[edit] Singles/EP's
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[edit] DJ Mixes
[edit] Productions
[edit] Co-Productions
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[edit] Remixes
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[edit] Chart positions
| Year | Singles | Chart positions [1] | |||||||||||||
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| USA | CHE | NL | UK | BEL | FIN | IRE | GER | ITA | CAN | GRE | AUS | FRA | AUT | ||
| 1996 | "Stay Gold" | - | - | - | 41 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1997 | "Stranded" | - | - | - | 60 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1998 | "The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)" (with Everything But The Girl) | - | - | - | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2003 | "Like I Love You (Deep Dish Remix)" (with Justin Timberlake) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2004 | "Stoned (Deep Dish Remix)" (with Dido) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2004 | "Flashdance" | 36 | 89 | 5 | 3 | 25 | - | 14 | 63 | 43 | - | - | 14 | 33 | 55 |
| 2005 | "Say Hello" | 1 | 90 | - | 14 | - | 4 | 18 | 72 | 35 | - | - | 40 | - | - |
| 2005 | "Sacramento" | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 45 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2005 | "Flashing For Money" (with Dire Straits) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 48 |
| 2006 | "Dreams" (with Stevie Nicks) | 26 | - | 18 | 14 | 42 | 6 | 22 | - | 39 | - | - | 27 | - | - |
| 2006 | "PATT (Party All The Time)" (by Sharam) | - | - | 16 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
[edit] Awards
- Nominated WMC Best American DJ, 2008.
- Nominated DJ Awards for Best Tech-House / Progressive DJ, 2006.
- Won International Dance Music Award 2005 for Best House/Garage Track "Say Hello", Best Progressive/Trance Track "Say Hello" and Ortofon Best American DJ Award
- Won (IDMA) International Dance Music Awards 2005 for Best Underground Dance Track for "Flashdance"
- Recorded "Be the Change", an eclectic musical work dedicated to Anousheh Ansari's historic Space flight as she became the world's first female private space traveler
- Nominated Grammy Award 2005 "Best Dance Recording" for Deep Dish's "Say Hello"
- Won DanceStar USA Award 2004 for Best Compilation (US Releases) for Deep Dish - GU 025: Toronto and Best DJ
- Nominated DanceStar USA Award 2004 for Best Remix (Worldwide DJ's) for P. Diddy's "Let's Get Ill" (Deep Dish Remix) (Bad Boy)
- Won Ibiza DJ Award 2004 for Best Set of the Season
- Nominated DJ Awards for Best House DJ, 2003.
- Nominated DanceStar USA Award 2003 Party 93.1 FM Award for Best Remix for Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You" (Deep Dish remix) (Jive)
- Won DanceStar USA Award 2002 Best Compilation for Deep Dish - GU 021: Moscow
- Won Grammy Award 2002 "Best Remixed Recording" for Dido's "Thank You"
- Nominated Grammy Award 2001 "Remixer of The Year" (NonClassical)
- "Hot Duo", Rolling Stone Magazine, August 2001
- Won Muzik Magazine SAS Award 1998 "Best International DJ"
[edit] Other Rankings
- Number 1 in the "Best Progressive DJ" category of BPM Magazine's 2006 "America's Favorite DJ's" poll
- Number 2 in the "Best Dance/DJ Artist" category by the critics of Rolling Stone for their music awards of 2001
- Number 10 in DJ Magazine's World's Top 100 DJ's reader's poll for 2006, number 8 for 2005, number 10 for 2004, number 9 for 2003, number 16 in 2002, and number 10 in 2001
- Number 5 out of 50 of "America's Favorite DJ's" in BPM in 2005, number 12 in 2004 and number 9 in 2003 and 2002
