Deep Dish

As American leaders in the international dance music arena, Grammy-Award winners Deep Dish have become one of the most revered names in the genre. Their plate is filled with a long-awaited new artist album on deck for release; 100-plus DJ gigs a year from Los Angeles to Lebanon; high-profile remixes for such artists as Madonna, P Diddy, Dido and Justin Timberlake, just to name a few; a flourishing business in D.C. consisting of three record labels (Yoshitoshi Recordings, Shinichi Records, YO!) and a DJ agency, Bullitt Bookings.

Deep Dish's current smash single *Flashdance* peaked this September on the U.K. music charts at #3 and made its U.S. premiere in June as the #1 top-selling dance track on Apple's iTunes. The new song is the first production from the duo in six years and is the first single from their highly anticipated forthcoming album due out early next year. New wave guitars, powerful beat - builds and luscious vocals sung by newcomer Anousheh Khalili play up this homage to the 1983 hit film's sexy soundtrack smash by Shandi, "He's a Dream." A video for the song directed by Paul Minor was recently shot in Los Angeles and features Deep Dish's Ali 'Dubfire' Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi along with Anouseh performing the song in a Japanese Yakuza club.

It was a chance meeting in 1991 that originally brought Washington DC's Dubfire and Sharam together. At the time, the two were mastering their mixing skills at local DC parties and clubs when a booking mishap put them on deck duty at the same time. They discovered that they had a great deal in common, mainly a distinct vision for bridging the gap between the varying styles of electronic music. The formation of Deep Dish Records eventually led to their DJ and production skills attracting the attention of then-pioneering Tribal America Records and culminated with Deep Dish mixing/appearing on the now classic Penetrate Deeper compilation. The doors for them flew wide open globally by 1995; with an anthemic remix of De'Lacy's "Hideaway" and numerous collaborations with old school friend Brian 'BT' Transeau, the name Deep Dish became synonymous with the flourishing deep house scene (a term which they helped expand the definition of).

In 1998, Deep Dish released their debut artist album Junk Science, a blistering mix of deep lush house, rock/dance fusion, jazz-tinged soul and moody atmospherics. Propelled by the success of singles like "The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)," featuring the vocals of Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn, Junk Science underlined their talent for making records that sound as good on the radio or on the stereo as they do on the dance floor. Following Junk Science, Deep Dish continued with the mix compilation albums Yoshiesque (1999), Renaissance Ibiza (2000), Yoshiesque Two (2001), Deep Dish - Global Underground #021: Moscow (2001) and Global Underground #025: Toronto (2003), all dynamic examples of the Deep Dish clubbing experience. Infusing their trademark eclectic sound with house, techno, and trance, their mix albums are lovingly crafted melting pots of dance floor styles and genres.

Meanwhile, Deep Dish continued to remix works by artists across mainstream and underground echelons, which garnered them some of the highest accolades in the dance industry. Classic remixes including Brother Brown, Gabrielle, Morel, Beth Orton, Sven Vath and Depeche Mode along with breakouts for mega-stars like Janet Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Madonna, N Sync, and Justin Timberlake, sparked Ali and Sharam to become two of the most sought-after remixers around. As the offers came pouring in, Ali and Sharam selectively chose projects which reflected their taste for diversity and experimentation.

In 2001, Deep Dish earned their first Grammy Award nomination in the "Remixer Of The Year" category for their mix of Madonna's "Music," Amber's "Sexual (La Da Di)" and their own "Mohammed Is Jesus" original production to name a few. A second nomination