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Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music
producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire"
Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., 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 1995
remix of De'Lacy's "Hideaway," a club classic. 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 the duo has released a number
of genre-defining mixed CDs. However, what catapulted Deep
Dish to prominence was the release of its debut album, Junk
Science, released on the now-defunct UK label deConstruction
and a dismal US release through Arista/BMG 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
2007. 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 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 DC, 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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