20 key Kerri Chandler productions
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2010: 'The Thing For Linda 2010' (Downtown 161)
Like ‘Oblivion’, the A-side on the fourth ‘Thing For Linda’, ‘House Is House’ is an open letter to the dance community. “Tell me why some of the best DJs/producers I know are still in their bedroom, but you have some superstar DJs who can’t even turn on one machine,” he muses over a sparse, jacking groove. On the flip he recalls sharing a lift with a mother and son, the son asking, ‘Mommy, what’s a record?’ – the title of the track. Printed around the edge of the centre label, it says: ‘Records are forever held on to, files are not’.
2011: ‘Ozone' EP Madhouse Records Inc)
The infamous 2013 incident when Chandler subjected a Paris club crowd to a five-minute rant, saying he wasn’t going to play “commercial shit”, has passed into dance music folklore. Suffice to say, he’s always been keen to stay true to his roots. In 2011, after a nine-year break, he rebooted Madhouse, the label on which he released ‘A Basement, A Red Light And A Feeling’, proof that he hadn’t sold out. The lead track, ‘From Day One’, is uncompromising – kick drums like body blows, minimal, crystalline synths and not much else.
