Deep Dish

Since the early '90s, Washington, D.C.'s progressive house emissaries Deep Dish have blown ecstasy-besotted minds from Moscow to Ibiza and along the way remixed the likes of Madonna and the Rolling Stones.

Deep Dish released their first mix CD, 1995's Penetrate Deeper, on Tribal America. But it was the duo's massive mix of De'lacy's "Hideaway" the same year that jammed open the remix floodgates as Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, and even Beth Orton lined up for the pair's beat-mining skills. In 1998 they dropped the masterful and eclectic Junk Science, a joint that cuts its house with jazz, techno, funk, and assorted ambient chasers. "The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)" became an instant dance-floor classic with Everything But the Girl's Tracey Thorn's golden voice soaring high above techno beats and watery synth lines. They released five rather indistinguishable mix CDS between 1999 and 2003 under banners like Global Underground, Yoshiesque, and Renaissance that don't come close to Junk's originality. (ANDY GENSLER)

From 2004's The New Rolling Stone Album Guide