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The Cosmic Lounge presents Deep House Music:
'It's You' by Kerri Chandler feat. Dee Dee
Brave and Freddy Turner.
"Few artists in the music business reach the
level of accomplishment and status that Kerri
Chandler has achieved. He is known throughout
the universe as one of the original creators
of the deep house sound and his "basslines"
are now legendary. Kerri grew up in the New
Jersey area during the days of the infamous
Zanzibar club with resident DJ Tony Humpries.
Kerri's father was a DJ as well, which gave
Kerri a rich background in the origins of the
New York Underground Sound (known also as
"Garage" music). He made his DJ debut at the
Rally Record Club in East Orange, New Jersey
at the tender age of Thirteen.
Kerri eventually found himself intrigued with
the production element in dance music and
soon began to create his own grooves on his
one man label, Express Records. In 1991,
Atlantic Records signed his debut single,
"SuperLover/Get It Off" and the rest is House
Music History. Despite his success, Kerri
Chandler has always remained true to the
spirit of the underground. When listening to
tracks such as the "Atmosphere E.P." on
Shelter Records and the seminal, "A Basement,
Redlight and A Feeling" album on Madhouse,
one has to marvel at Kerri's ability to not
compromise his unique sound for commercial
gain.
Kerri Chandler is a vortex where tradition
and innovation meet. Tradition as in the
soulful roots of Jersey house, innovation as
in the streamlined, sparse arrangements and
shrewd use of technology. Kerri masters
rhythm and space.
Kerri prays before making a record, and
injects his free spirit into his
productions. With a solid education in Garage
grooves, Kerri takes vocals, rhythms and
instruments and with uncanny precision pieces
them together, delivering beautiful, monster
jams. In the expanses of his breaks the odd
counter rhythm will inexplicably appear for a
second and then disappear, creating fleshy
excitement, not mechanical repetition. His
basslines go from heavy and heady to playful
and quirky--always deliriously intoxicating.
His hooks are loving details like horn hits,
washes of synthesizer or catchy choruses that
emerge to create songs from a maddening
bulldozer of brutal drive. Here the dreamer
takes hold, transporting us into a dimension
of seemingly endless travel....
Kerri is sure to continue to startle us as he
has from the very beginning as with his first
remix, the now-classic scratch on "Get It
Off". His fusions, clamped to the beat of his
unique, thundering kick drum, redefine house
music at every turn."
http://www.last.fm/music/Kerri+Chandler
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