20 key Kerri Chandler productions
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1997: Kerri Chandler & Joe Claussell 'Escravos De Jo' (Ibadan)
Chandler’s music is often described as having a spiritual quality, and never more so than the tracks he released on his friend Jerome Sydenham’s Ibadan label. This collaboration is built around New York DJ/producer Joe Claussell’s Puerto Rican heritage – marimbas, Latin rhythms, Spanish guitar – which Chandler underpins with a restrained house groove. As Balearic as it gets.
1998: 'The Mood' EP
In the mid-to late-90s, as well as making a string of deep house landmarks, Kerri Chandler also released some influential garage tracks such as ‘Rain’, which appeared on this four-track EP. The classic garage contrast of silky-smooth keyboards, loud, hissing hi-hats and a soulful vocal are in the same skippety vein as Masters At Work. It still gets played on UK garage pirate radio.
