The name Deep Dish as used for the house
DJs Ali "
Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi, heads of the
Washington, DC record label
Yoshitoshi, is remarkably apt.
You see, much like Detroit is the nexus of techno, Chicago is the nexus of house music. Many well known house DJ's hail from the Windy City: DJ Colette, Glenn Underground, and the especially important Frankie Knuckles who taught Derrick May how to work the decks back in the day. Even the term "house music" was created in Chicago; "house" comes from "house party", which in turn comes from "Warehouse party" (in particular, the Warehouse, a Chicago nightclub)
Chicago is also where deep dish style pizza was perfected (supposedly). Perhaps their name is a homage to birthplace of the music they love? <bugsbunny>Could beeeeee!</bugsbunny>
In 1991, Dubfire and Sharam met at a party in DC at which they were both performing. The following year, they started working together as Deep Dish, remixing and producing tracks, and spinning as a pair. They have won two Grammies for their remixes of Madonna's Music and of Dido's Thank You, and have been spotted remixing Michael Jackson and 'NSYNC as well. They played at New York City's infamous (and late *sniff*) Twilo and in fact had a residency there for a while, perhaps as part of Respect is Burning. They have even selected tracks for an installment in the cheese-parade Global Underground (specifically, GU21 - Moscow) Apparently they pal around with Carl Craig (who may not be an influence, but it seems dropping Craig's name in certain places goes a long way), which is an order of magnitude cooler.
Deep Dish have two mix albums on Yoshitoshi, a host of mix albums on other labels, one album of original material still in print (Junk Science), and several compilations of Yoshitoshi material.