Mixtape Monday: Kerri Chandler


01.31.11 Posted in Blog by

Kerri Chandler is a respected DJ and producer that is known for his generous contribution to the formation and development of deephouse music. A contribution that he paid in the form of years of touring around the world as a DJ and in the form of dozens of influential deephouse EPs, albums and remixes that he has been releasing from the early nineties on until today. But although being known for his deephouse music, it’s not only house that Kerri Chandler plays, as he proves with this soulful mixtape.

Chandler is widely being recognized as one of the creators of the deephouse sound. His music is legendary and has been and still is an important influence on hundreds of producers and DJs. Several extended biographies of him circulate on the Internet that you might want to check out to find out how Chandler injects the soul in house music.

Chandler grew up with a father that was a DJ in the New York garage scene which gave the young Chandler a rich background in the origins of New York’s underground music. It’s this background that undoubtedly had a big influence on the rhythms, the grooves, and the vocals that are present in and characteristic for the productions of Chandler himself.

It’s also this background of underground and hard to find music that is represented in this mixtape. It presents over two and half hour of ‘Old school breaks, beats and rare groove’ as the title of the mix reveals. Take the Kerri Chandler education in the grooves, the breaks, and the beats and enjoy this mixtape that will get you through this Monday easily.

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