20 key Kerri Chandler productions
Explore King Kerri's treasure trove
2007: ‘Computer Games’ EP (Deeply Rooted House)
The reason Chandler punched through his deep house legacy and connected with a new generation was tracks like this. ‘The Invaders (The Panic)’ is a slow burn of clipped drum kicks and pattering clicks with a synth murmuring in the distance. As it pulls into earshot it opens up and evolves into a thing of shiny, electro-house genius before morphing again into a storm of pew-pew lasers. The sound of Kerri capturing the house zeitgeist and making it his own. See also his third album, of the same name.
2008: 'Kong/Pong' (Deeply Rooted House)
The two tracks here see Chandler pushing the themes explored on ‘Computer Games’ a stage further. ‘Pong’ is particularly good. The digital spirals are a deliberate echo of the 1984 Balearic classic ‘E2-E4’ by Manuel Gottsching. Taken together with the tribal percussion, you get a strong sense that he had Ibiza in mind when he wrote this tune.
