Kerri Chandler reaches way back to his 1993 release Atmosphere EP on Shelter Records and comes up with a handful of gold. "Track 1" is widely considered one of Kerri's finest instrumental releases, and it brought back a flood of memories of the old school days before Techno and House hit a fork in the road and DJs easily mixed tracks from Chicago, New York, Detroit and Berlin in the same set. This new package of five mixes seems almost an individual challenge by Kerri to see just how versatile he can be, with mixes ranging from the ultra deep Bigga Mix to the smooth saxophone by Nadir Simon on the Jazz Mix. Even within the confines of each edit, there's an array of conflicting elements - the Jazz Mix, for instance, starts with a hard percussion roll leading into soft piano keys and sax solo that would be at home in a studio session with George Benson. The thing you notice here are the small touches - the fuzzy needle in the opening of the Bigga and Maximum mixes, or the smooth bouncy bass in the jacking New Old School Mix, which simply sounds like euphoria. This is a brilliant release from one of House Music's legends, bridging the gaps between dance music genres the way only Kerri Chandler can.

 

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:: posted jun 16 by terry matthew in music reviews, april 2009 issue