Deep Dish f/ Dubfire & Paolo Mojo @ Bleu (Friday April 27)

[bleudetroit]

Friday April 27

DEEP DISH f/ DUBFIRE (TAIPEI-GU 31 / TOUR)

DeepDish.com / Yoshitoshi / Washington DC

PAOLO MOJO

PaoloMojo.com / Pryda / United Kingdom

SHAWN MICHAELS

Bleu / Detroit

UnderBleu Lounge:

MARCUS BEIER

Bleu / Forward / Detroit

THOMAS EMMANUEL

Bleu / Forward / Detroit

WILL EVO

Maximal Music / Lansing

Tickets @ www.wantickets.com

$3 Wells / Domestics 9-10pm

Doors @ 9pm

18+

Bleu Room Experience

1540 Woodward Ave.

Detroit, MI 48226

313-222-1900

www.bleudetroit.com

www.myspace.com/bleudetroit

[bleudetroit]

TICKETS @ WWW.WANTICKETS.COM

[bleudetroit]

ABOUT DUBFIRE

So you think you know all about Deep Dish? Think again...

Dubfire (aka Ali Shirazinia)--one half of the Grammy Award winning and four-time nominated electronic music duo Deep Dish--has joined forces with Global Underground for the April 10 release of his first solo mix album Dubfire GU31 – Taipei. The 2-CD mix set is a sweeping change from anything you would have previously expected to hear from the Deep Dish member and it features the finest in house, electro, techno, and even industrial music.

Growing up in the Washington, DC area, Dubfire spent much of his youth playing the guitar in school bands and listening to heavy doses of classic Hip-Hop, jazz/rare groove, dub reggae, new wave and industrial. Dubfire was also influenced by the local punk scene and the music of hometown bands like Fugazi and Minor Threat. Members of these bands also worked at a local record store called Yesterday And Today Records, and this is where Dubfire first picked up on the sounds of acts such as Kraftwerk, Ministry, Jesus & Mary Chain, Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, Adrian Sherwood/On-U Sound and Einsturzende Neubauten. Through this heavy industrial influence, namely the sound of Chicago’s famed Wax Trax! label, Dubfire discovered the Chicago house scene and what labels like Trax and D.J. International Records were releasing.

Dubfire’s eclectic new mix is the product of his diverse past and addictive music personality, and this mix is more about Dubfire personally and as a DJ. Dubfire’s mix was compiled with tracks that he’s both really into at the moment and that have also had a profound influence on shaping his love for music. Dubfire GU31 – Taipei is laced full of gems from a diverse lot including Depeche Mode, Carl Craig, Booka Shade, Extrawelt, Samuel L Session and Nitzer Ebb. However, the biggest surprise of all comes with Dubfire’s original production “I Feel Speed;†a cover of an obscure Love & Rockets song that, for the first time, features his own vocals!

Dubfire GU31 – Taipei is released April 10 on Global Underground. Keep an eye out for April/May tour dates and several major events at the Winter Music Conference in March.

Deep Dish’s previous releases for Global Underground include GU-025: Toronto (2003), Deep Dish - Global Underground 021: Moscow (2001) and Sharam GU29 – Dubai (2006). For more information on Dubfire and/or Deep Dish, please visit deepdish.com.

AWARDS

Winner: International Dance Music Award 2005 for Best House/Garage Track "Say Hello", Best Progressive/Trance Track "Say Hello" and Ortofon Best American DJ Award

Nominee: Grammy Award 2005 "Best Dance Recording" for Deep Dish's "Say Hello"

Winner: Grammy Award 2002 "Best Remixed Recording" for Dido's "Thank You"

Nominee: Grammy Award 2001 "Remixer of The Year" (NonClassical)

Winner: International Dance Music Awards 2005 for Best Underground Dance Track for "Flashdance"

Winner: DanceStar USA Award 2004 for Best Compilation (US Releases) for Deep Dish - GU 025: Toronto (Global Underground) and Best DJ

Nominee: DanceStar USA Award 2004 for Best Remix (Worldwide DJ's) for P. Diddy's "Let's Get Ill" (Deep Dish Remix) (Bad Boy)

Winner: Ibiza DJ Award 2004 for Best Set of the Season

Winner: DanceStar USA Award 2002 Best Compilation for Deep Dish - GU 021: Moscow (Global Underground)

Nominee: DanceStar USA Award 2003 Party 93.1 FM Award for Best Remix for Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You" (Deep Dish remix) (Jive)

"Hot Duo", Rolling Stone, August 2001

Winner: Muzik Magazine SAS Award 1998 "Best International DJ"

DEEP DISH ALSO RANKED

Number 1 in the "Best Progressive DJ" category of BPM Magazine's 2006 "America's Favorite DJ's" poll

Number 2 in the "Best Dance/DJ Artist" category by the critics of Rolling Stone for their music awards of 2001

Number 10 in DJ Magazine's World's Top 100 DJ's reader's poll for 2006, number 8 for 2005, number 10 for 2004, number 9 for 2003, number 16 in 2002, and number 10 in 2001

Number 5 out of 50 of "America's Favorite DJ's" in BPM in 2005, number 12 in 2004

www.deepdish.com

www.myspace.com/deepdish

[bleudetroit]

ABOUT PAOLO MOJO

There are DJs and then there are DJs. You know what that means�. People who rise above the simple act of playing records to create something magical. People who are born to play to a crowd, to heighten the senses and inspire reaction and emotion in both clubbers and their peers. People that create a palpable sense of anticipation when they take to the decks because the crowd know they are in for a ride. People that balance the atmosphere on a knife edge.. and then drop you off, pull you back up and throw your senses to all points of the emotional compass. Paolo Mojo is one of those DJs.

Paolo's sets are rooted in a love of house music, deep, warm or weird techy house with a strong breaks influence. Putting a label on Paolo is hard, and he prefers it that way - his hallmark is breathtakingly smooth, skillful and often rapid transitions between a wide variety of genres in any given set. "I couldn't stick to one genre" Paolo explains. "I want to enjoy what I hear as much as the crowd, so I need to keep myself entertained. Plus a lot of DJs get stuck in the rut on playing a sound that works and before they know it, they've been left behind. You've always got to keep seeking out those edgy records, push yourself and take risks with your music."

This refreshing lack of bollocks combined with a widely acclaimed flair behind the decks has brought Paolo to the ears and attention of the world in a short space of time. From triumphant sets with Tyrant @ Fabric alongside Craig Richards and Lee Burridge, who has regularly championed Paolo's sound, to wowing the crowds in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Moscow, to countless gigs in his native UK for the likes of Bedrock, Colours, Tribal Sessions and Space... he's risen far � and fast.

In the past 18 months Paolo he has played at some of the world's most prestigious venues, including Zouk (Singapore) Fabric (London), Bedrock (London) Pacha (Ibiza), Arc (New York) Maze (Miami), TeXound (Taiwan), Decedance (Greece) and TLV (Tel Aviv). He has toured Asia for DJ Magazine with Tom 'Superchumbo' Stephan and has held a monthly residency in Ireland for Inertia where six-hour sets earned him a fanatically loyal following. In 2002 he embarked on a short residency in London with Gatecrasher, successfully showcasing a deeper alternative tech / house sound to the Crasher crowd when hosting the entermusic room at Heaven. The room played host to the likes of Medicine8 and 16b and was a roaring success.

He has appeared regularly (5 times) at John Digweed's Bedrock nights in London and Brighton and also holds the rare honour of being the only non resident DJ to warm up the main room last year (with Xpress2). He has guested on John Digweed's Kiss FM radio show, again to huge acclaim. His monthly Music Is Freedom radio show on Groovetech.com, established due to popular demand after a number of widely praised guest appearances, is feted the world over for his distinctive, clever, style involving effects, edits and acapellas and occasional high quality guest appearance.

His ear for a tune encouraged him to set up and run firstly Entermusic and now Music Is Freedom - which is rapidly establishing itself as a respected underground house label. Music Is Freedom is developing a broad based eclectic release schedule featuring artists such as Dino Lenny, Simon Rogers, Smight, Koo and Paolo himself that has earned praise from a host of DJs including Craig Richards, Sasha and Deep Dish.

Paolo exploded on to the international scene in 2001 to unprecedented acclaim with the release of his promo CD mix, Music Is Freedom. Highlights included winning Muzik Magazine's Bedroom Bedlam competition (and a subsequent nomination for 'Best Bedlam DJ' at their annual awards) and being chosen as the winner of Rapture TV's Homelands Contest, which awarded Paolo with a 90 minute set in the Back2Basics arena at Homelands that year. Paolo also received personal messages of congratulations from Danny Tenaglia, Carl Cox and Lee Burridge for the mix. Music is Freedom took advantage of the huge growth in Internet popularity to become something of an underground phenomenon, with global message boards talking about the mix for months on end, establishing huge underground and Internet based support for Paolo and establishing without a doubt - a new benchmark for DJ demo cds. The impact of this cd has inspired two subsequent equally well received mixes and the record label, live parties and radio show of the same name. "There are no rules" says Paolo "Music Is Freedom just nicely sums up what I feel about music"

Other work has taken him to 25 countries across the world including South America twice (including an acclaimed NYE 2002 gig in Argentina), Russia, the Netherlands, Scotland, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Turkey. On the home front, he has delivered memorable sets at amongst others, Fabric, The Cross, The Gallery at Turnmills and even a special party for Lee Burridge and Boxed who asked Paolo to play at the launch party for Lee's Nu-Breed compilation.

Paolo is currently working on original productions and remixes as Paolo Mojo fro the Music Is Freedom label and also with acclaimed producer Simon Rogers in London, the results of which should surface later in 2003. He has recently remixed Dino Lenny's classic tech house track 'Acid Caracas', and will be releasing 'Back in The Day' (under his Parade breaks alter ego) on Cass' Sabotage Systems label later in 2003.