Grant Dell In Your Mind

After making a great impression with its first EP, Giant Records serves up a second
hot helping of house music from boss man Grant Dell, complete with fresh remixes
by Scottish techno stalwarts Silicone Soul.

Dell, also known as Chicago Transit Authority, has been doing his do for 25 years
now. As a DJ he is at home in clubs in Ibiza and Barcelona as well as around the rest
of Europe, and is someone who always prefers to push his own brand of widely
infused and influenced music than his own profile.

Once again here he comes up trumps with the emotive, glowing house cut ‘In Your
Mind’. With a neat bassline and mid tempo house drums, subtle but effective synth
smears add warmth and colour to the groove, whilst soul fuelled vocals add a real
sense of personality. This is sure to get people grooving at any hour and comes with
Grant’s own Space Echo remix. As the title suggests it’s a more dubby and reverb
rich affair with cosmic signifiers and sci-fi vibes pervading from start to finish.

Silicone Soul need little introduction having been at the heart of real deep house and
techno for decades on the Soma label. Their first remix is a Darkroom Dub - named
after their own label - and is a seductively slo-mo and lazily unfolding house cut with
languid synths that really suck you in. Their lush Hypnohouse Mix is then a twinkling,
late night bit of melodically rich deep house with starry skies twinkling above sombre
chords.

This is a patiently served but hugely alluring EP that is stuffed with plenty of tender
feeling. One again then, both Grant and Giant have come up with the goods.