Back in the Dark

Shane Johnson has been playing and producing records in his hometown of Cork for more than twenty years. Throughout the 1990s his DJ residency with Greg Dowling at the city’s legendary Sir Henry’s venue introduced a generation of Irish clubbers to house music and played host to some of the biggest names on the international underground circuit.

Since then the duo have travelled widely, bringing their unique sound to clubs and festivals throughout Ireland, Europe and beyond. During that time they have also hosted many of the world’s top house DJs at their regular hometown Go Deep parties. Their radio show has championed new house music for more than 15 years and the podcast has amassed more than 5 million listens.

Since the late 1990s, their production work under the Fish Go Deep name has travelled far and wide. After an early series of EPs on New Jersey's seminal i! Records, dozens of releases have followed on labels as diverse and influential as Local Talk, Freerange, Nite Grooves, Strictly Rhythm, Innervisions and Om Records.

In 2005 their own Go Deep imprint got off to a flying start when the first single off their debut album with Tracey K, The Cure and the Cause, was licensed by UK house giant, Defected, and became a huge club and chart hit. Since then they have released three further albums and numerous EPs, and have remixed a wide variety of house luminaries - Kerri Chandler, Alton Miller, K-Alexi and Charles Webster, to name a few.

In 2017, their Baby Tell Me EP, released on Chicago’s legendary Large Music label, became one of the top ten sellers of the year on the influential Traxsource download store.

Fish Go Deep’s third album, This Bit of Earth, was released in 2021 and received praise and plays from a wide range of influential DJs: Laurent Garnier, Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy, Jimpster, Franck Roger and many more.

The follow up, What I Mean By Beautiful, was released in late 2023 to widespread acclaim.

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