Global Underground 21 - Moscow [Audio CD] Deep Dish

Recorded in a Russian opera house on June 2, 2001, Deep Dish in Moscow is the latest in the highly successful Global Underground series which showcases house DJs (NickWarren, PaulOakenfold, John Digweed among others) playing their favourite sets in cities around the globe. On this double CD set the two American-Iranian brothers known as Deep Dish push their well known mixture of soulful garage and hard house to the limit, digging deep into the last six months' releases for future classics such as El Greco's tribal thumper "Nightwatch", the trancey John Digweed favourite "Foundation" and the brother's own unreleased remix of Dido's "Thank You". These sit alongside more commerical cuts from the likes of Fatboy Slim and Brian Transeau (BT), an early working partner with whom Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi had a considerable falling out. Deep Dish are developing a Todd Terry-like trend to overuse their own work in their sets and mix CDs but their mixing is smooth without being dramatic and the only real disappointment is that there's no sense of this session being recorded in Moscow. Could have been anywhere really, apart from the fact that the CD cover shows the twosome wrapped up against the cold. Deep Dish really needed to release a set like this after remixes for Madonna and N*SYNC in order to reaffirm their club credibility--and they do it to great affect. --Jake Barnes