DJ Dean Tyrell

Dean began his DJ career in 1990 when shortly after he was booked to play at most of Cambridge’s house parties including regular appearances in the progressive room at Eclipse. He is now resident at Garito Café in Palma, Mallorca and writer for electricsoul. He released a number of US house influenced tracks all to good critical acclaim in the early nineties, and more recently for Twilight Records in 2002.

Dean Tyrell has always been a massive music fan since he was a kid. His mother always had music on in their house from Mowtown, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, The Stylistics, Harold Melvin as well as Burt Bacharach and Elvis. With his sister being into the disco thing it was inevitable that something was going to rub off. Back then Dean was listening to rock bands such as The Clash, Santana, Pink Floyd and The Who which inspired him to learn to play the guitar. By the age of eighteen Dean has joined a band and had performed at the 100 club, playing on the same stage that Jimi Hendrix, The Stones and the Pistols had performed on. Dean’s group had some good times being managed by Oasis’ very own Alan McGee.

In the late Eighties Dean started going to parties and jams put on by Harvey Bassett and Choci, that later became the Tonka sound system. It was through this that Dean started to buy the records, and with his musical experience started to DJ, which he found easy due to the fact he had written songs in the past and understood the musical structure. It didn’t take Dean long to establish himself and develop a style.

Dean has spent a lot of time working in Spain where he has enjoyed three summers playing in various bars and clubs. With the advantage of playing for four hours, seven nights a week Dean got the chance to really experiment with things. Playing his own selection of house and disco, instead of the usual pop that was being heard at the time.

More recently Dean likes to play a bit of everything, especially old skool as well as a classic garage style sometimes blending the two together. He can also be heard playing a broad variety of choons from deep house to classic disco tracks as well as off the wall things including the Clash’s ‘Magnificent Dance’ being one of Dean’s favourites.

As for new material Dean released a track called ‘Legacy’ on Twilight Records last summer as well as other projects he has been involved with. Although there are no plans to release anything at the moment. These days Dean is just enjoying life in Mallorca, playing at Garito as a monthly resident and getting on with his day job. How the other half live!!!