Vincere Featured Artist 03/03/2013
Kerri Chandler is a house legend, icon, inspiration, key figure, and a true house music purveyor. An ambassador of the natural and instinctive 4/4 beat, Kerri’s influences can be traced back to New Jersey growing up in a family of jazz musicians. His father, a respected deejay, provided Kerri with a rich background in the origins of soul, disco and the New York Underground Sound (known also as “Garage” music). Kerri began playing records at the Rally Record Club in East Orange, New Jersey at the tender age of thirteen and it was only a natural progression for him to become interested in production.
Since
the signing of his first single SuperLover/Get It Off by Atlantic in 1991,
Kerri began producing a prolific body of work that has helped coin him one of
the most respected house producers in the world. This has been achieved by
remaining true to his style. When listening to tracks such as the Atmosphere EP
on Shelter Records and the seminal A Basement, Redlight & A Feeling album
on Madhouse, one has to marvel at Kerri’s ability to not compromise his unique
sound for commercial gain. His ability to blend tradition and innovation
produces avant-garde music with soulful roots reaching back into the history of
Afro-American music. Kerri masters rhythm and space piecing together vocals and
instruments with uncanny precision delivering beautiful monster jams.
Kerri
is fascinated by technology and its application to creativity. He has built his
own studio and spends hours developing newer and more forward-thinking computer
programs to revolutionize the way we think of traditional deejay mixing. Kerri
uses his deejay sets to inject a spirit into the dance floor by playing “live”
sets during which he remixes tracks whenever he can by incorporating every
possible element, including visual and musical. Armed with two laptop
computers, thousands of music files, his own handmade mini-mixer and a
cutting-edge imagination.
Never
straying from his roots, Kerri has proved he’s remained loyal to the
underground movement by producing contemporary classics like Bar-a-Thym and
Back To The Raw. The future is very bright for Kerri who is now signing and
releasing productions through his new record label imprints: Max Trax, Grei
Matter and Lost Tribes of Ibadan. With such a hot hand, he is the man of the
house and undoubtedly will be responsible for many new classics to come.
Vincere Top 3 Chosen
Atmospheric
Back to the raw (ruff mix)
Get Out (Kerri Mix)
(Undercover sound)
Citys Streets ( Kerri’s
Dub)
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