Award winning American DJ/production duo Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden have announced the end of their creative partnership.

They played their last gig together in Miami last week, exactly 7 years since they first met, at the 2001 Winter Music Conference. Dave was working as a scout for Pete Tong at the time and was handed a tasty track, Wave 3, by Josh. They ended up in the studio together and so began a partnership that had been one of the most proliffic in dance music.

Their 2003 hit as Motorcycle, As The Rush Comes, became a true trance classic, while more recently the pair had been producing with a more stripped back electronic sound on their acclaimed self-titled album.

In a final interview with About.com, the pair spoke of their reasons for the split, and it’s a kind of Deep Dish situation all over again, as explained by Dave: “Josh wanted to go in a more tech-ier direction where I’m into making the big vocal anthems with dramatic and emotional changes which we’ve become well known for. I think this can be best exemplified by Josh’s recent solo single Summit. We will most likely come together again one day and follow up our debut album, but until then, we’re both going to exercise our musical musings and enjoy the time apart as much as we can.”

If the exciting work Dubfire and Sharam have been coming up with since the Deep Dish parting of ways, then this news should in fact be an exciting rather than sad prospect for fans of the US artists. Watch this space, we suppose…