Sharam is Tehran-born US house DJ and producer Sharam Tayebi, known as one half of the Grammy Award-winning duo Deep Dish. He works in house and related electronic dance styles, and is also associated with projects and aliases including Prana, Watergate, Quench, Moods, Dished-Out Burns, Chocolate City, and Dubfire & Sharam.

Career

Sharam builds a reputation as a club DJ and remixer as well as a producer. He is known for playing and producing music that ranges across dance music rather than treating it as a strict divide between underground and crossover styles. He describes his approach as one of constant forward movement in both DJ sets and studio work.

His work includes a long-awaited debut solo album, Get Wild, which contains 22 self-produced tracks and is structured as a broad survey of dance music. The album features a Western theme in its titles, artwork, videos and live presentation, with references to Spaghetti Western films and Sergio Leone. Its visual concept includes outlaw imagery and is tied to the Melody Ranch film set in Los Angeles.

Collaborations and releases

Sharam collaborates with a wide range of artists, including Kid Cudi, Tommy Lee, Diddy and Daniel Bedingfield. On Get Wild, the track “She Came Along” combines a sample from Patsy Cline’s “Strange” with vocals by Kid Cudi. He says he spent several years looking for the right artist to match the sample before working with Cudi.

Other tracks mentioned include “PATT (Party All The Time),” which reaches the UK Top 10 and remains in the Top 40 for an extended run, and “The One,” featuring Daniel Bedingfield, which reaches the Top 20 in several European markets. He also has underground club records such as “Texi” and “Crazi,” both associated with Ibiza.

With Deep Dish and other projects

Sharam is known to many as one half of Deep Dish, which is described as Grammy Award winning and later on hiatus. His wider credit list includes Prana, Watergate, Quench, Moods, Dished-Out Burns and Chocolate City, as well as the collaboration name Dubfire & Sharam.

Style

His production style emphasises strong hooks, genre blending and a preference for quality over trend-led choices. He frames his work as guided by ideas that are then left to DJs and fans to place within the wider dance music landscape.