Mashups 'n' Gravy: Depeche Dish
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Posted by Sara Churchville Apr 19, 2007 |
Depeche Mode seems to have joined The Beatles and Pink Floyd as one of the must-mash essential groups. In James Zabiela's mashup, "Future Dream," their 2001 single “Dream On” is mingled to irresistible effect with 1998’s “Future of the Future (Stay Gold).”
You might remember this last tune. It emerged from a collaboration of D.C. house music duo, Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi, better known as Deep Dish, with Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt of Everything But the Girl.
Been a while since you thought about Everything But the Girl, I’ll bet. Ben Watt is doing Buzzin’ Fly compilations and organizing giant house-music clubland parties now, and he’s got everything and the girl—three kids with Thorn.
EBTG did the vocal production on “Future,” (and there’s a David Morales mix with the then little-known Satoshi Tomiie on piano).
A Dave Gahan vocal is probably the last thing you’d expect on this upbeat, more or less basic house-music tune. Needless to say, when Depeche Mode is involved, everything becomes just a little bit darker.
In this mix, “Paying debt to karma/You party for a living/What you take won’t kill you/But careful what you’re giving/Can you feel a little love” abuts against “Get the funk, funk on baby, get the funk on baby” and Thorn’s ethereal dream of the future—and it’s a future that looks kinda sorta like the present.
Meanwhile, in the future of the present, Sharam and Dubfire are on tour this spring and summer, separately and together, in North America and Europe. Dubfire is touring in support of his new Global Underground-31-Taipei compilation (Sharam had last year’s GU-29-Dubai; 32 is, yes!, Adam Freeland in Mexico City.)
Check out their American tour dates, individually and as Deep Dish.
And lastly, what talk of the darkness of dreams would be complete without a little Waking Life? Enjoy a couple of scenes: