Stay Gold is my desert island track from them
Deep Dish
Seen them up end amnesia in 2001 played for 6 hours and absolutely thumped it out, also played in the Redbox a few times and were really good right on till flash dance came out and they became shit
Was the highlight in amnesia
Good tune that. Used to play the Gee Shock mix quite a bit. Oddly, the Trancesetters mix was probably my least favorite and I was a big fan of Jark Prongo/Pssst/other aliases they had at the time.
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jonattonyeah gee shock one is good to, good e.p all round
Saw Deep Dish at Amnesia alongside Darren Emerson and Justin Robertson, may have been 2001 actually.
Lovely stuff!
It used to go off in the clubs (not that I played it), but I do agree. I have the vinyl though.
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The only Deep Dish mix I have ever heard is Toronto. It’s awful iircc. They get the big s to the werve from me.
Like me, they’re best seen live!
Stone cold classic Ess Mix:
What little I ever saw/heard about these, I loved them. I think I caught them at Shindig, heard a CD here or there and then I stopped hearing about them. They were loved in the North East.
Saw them a couple of times at Bedrock and they were ace. Then I heard one of their mixes from a later appearance at Bedrock and it was dreadful. It was the one with ’DDD - Let’s go’ on it.
Yoshiesque 1 and 2 were superb. Two of my favourite mix CDs ever.
There was also a Deep Dish ‘Cream Separates’ CD around this time that was solid. In fact, that whole mini-series is often overlooked. Paul Bleasdale put out one that was very good.
Moscow and Toronto were, unfortunately, dogshit.
If you’re seeking out more similar stuff from slightly later than that period, I’ve recommended it before, in my view one of the most underrated Essential Mixes ever:
https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2005-09-04_-_Murk_-_Essential_Mix
They went downhill fast with Flash Dance and when they tied up with Puff Daddy/Tommy Lee for whatever garbage they put out. And I can’t say any of their mixes did anything for me, though my first GU purchase was Moscow and I did enjoy it for a short time. During my internship with BPM magazine, I was their ‘bitch’ for an event, sweet fellas and they were going pretty hard in the green room. Can still smell the ‘coco puffs’ in that room.
Admittedly my vinyl collection is full of Yoshitoshi stuff. I once made a massive purchase from their site, and they ended up sending me doubles by mistake. Still have a bunch of them sealed. Some of the in house we trust mixes weren’t bad. Can’t find it on YouTube, but Brother Brown’s Brotha Brotha is such a banger of a track.
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rhouses the uploader is Yoshitoshi’s official youtube channel lol.
But yeah it makes a lot more sense that the track in the mix you posted which says ‘Brotha Brotha’ in the lyrics is ‘Brotha Brotha’ and the other track is the B-Side.
I still think Under the Water and Slap Me Some Skin are better though.
bosstrabs Murk – now we’re fucking talking
Brother Brown at Fabric was good. Must’ve been 1999/2000. Under the water a definite highlight. Love that tune. Starecase with an underrated take on it too. Prefer it to the breeder mixes.
Remember that Mohammed is Jesus. They were very prophetic
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Saw Danny Howell finish a gig at the Electrowerks with the Starecase mix of Under the Water. Was Red Jerry’s night in about 2001. Scones
I’ll always be grateful for DD for signing this beauty.
Deep Dish I would imagine
Cheers Nick.
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Dan I’ve no idea it was on their label. Maybe it was initially signed to another label? I’m not trawling through Discogs.
The Breeder versions weren’t on the original 1999 Yoshitoshi release.
The Breeder remix and dub were initially released on Acetate and then on FFRR in the UK and Europe, also in 1999. But soon after those Yoshitoshi put out a CD single of the track which did have the Breeder remix on.
Then in 2000 Yoshitoshi put out a ‘Remixes’ 2×12 which had both the Breeder remix and dub.
https://www.discogs.com/release/84766-Brother-Brown-Featuring-Frankee-Under-The-Water
https://www.discogs.com/release/29708-Brother-Brown-Featuring-Frankee-Under-The-Water-Remixes
Very odd behaviour if they’d publicly slagged it off not long beforehand.
Sounds like Dan’s telling porkies.