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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Deep Dish machine churns out another winner..., 15 Sep 2003
Global Underground's series reaches #25 with a 4 CD spesh from Deep Dish, inspired by their DJ set in Toronto's club, Guvernment. The Global Underground series is home to mixes from top big name DJ's such as Sasha, John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia and this is Deep Dish's second one to date. The first being #21 Moscow. Now, I found Moscow a bit of a murky affair, very dark, very tribal. It had some fairly big name tracks on it, such as their grammy award winning mix of Dido's Thank You and their version of Iio's Rapture, but I found it just a little bit TOO murky at times. The 2nd CD (which CAN be a trouble area with these mixes) just didn't sit together nicely for me. Started off promising but lost it in places. Toronto on the other hand, is a whole lot lighter and a much more melodic affair. Also, big name tracks have been steered clear of (many surprises to see P Diddy's Lets Get Ill, Triple D's Nobody Listens To Techno and Coldplay's Clocks left off there ... all big tunes in Dish sets worldwide). What you end up with, however, is a superbly crafted mix, and with 18 hour days over 3 months doing this, it should be too! Disc 1 starts off with a dirty little breakbeat number, spiced up by Dish dropping a Julie McKnight (of Finally/Love Story fame) acapella over the top of it. From then on, we head into some lush light house music, less emphasis on tribal drums but subtle synths and melodies. Yoshitoshi artist Sultan appears on this disc many times, and his tracks provide the highlights for me ... especially the reworking of Valentino's Flying. Soft moods take a step into more 'Moscow' territories halfway through before a timely drop of Flying to lighten the mood. Moony's Doves also makes an appearence here. Disc 2 shifts through some lovely moods, whether its the wonderful Planet Funk remix of Elisa's Time, Sander Kleinenberg going for the NY tribal sound on Work To Do, a nicely done Paul Rogers medley, which brings back memories of UK house such as Gat Decor, or the fooking fantastic Detroit/Slam-ish track by The Youngsters & Part 1 by Lowriders. Where Moscow failed, Toronto's second disc is amazing, managing to shift from progressive, to funky house, to electro with vocals and dubs sitting alongside each other nicely. The mixing itself, is amazing, but thats to be expected of DJs THIS good. The GU series is really hitting high gear recently, #25 had alot to live up to after the frankly amazing #24 ... looking forward to whoever decides to take on #26. And I do hope the Afterclub series that accompanies #25 carries on from here on! Can imagine Digweed doing a fine fine chill out set.
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