France has really become just about the whole show when it comes to vinyl these days. The cool thing about Deeply Rooted is that you can still see some of the creativity and love that used to be pretty commonplace among record labels. The packaging for this Kerri Chandler 10", for instance, is cleverly designed to look like a giant old floppy disk. Naturally, the packaging goes with the project, and featured here is one of Kerri's more tech-oriented projects, "Hexadecimal". Both mixes would sound at home in the catalog of Juan Atkins, with a certain Atari 2600-style sound but with Kerri's unforgiving devotion to a slick groove. The "Chord Version" approaches the comfort level of your average House DJ, if only as a "filler track", but stands better on its own than the original mix. It's experimental and requires a disciplined ear if you're waiting for the vocal, because no diva is going to appear midway through this track. But Kerri can't help but to give a little bit of soul to everything he touches, and so it is.

 

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:: posted aug 10 by chris hafner in music reviews, july 2008 issue