Iconic House Artist Kerri Chandler Drops ‘Spaces And Places,’ His First Album In 14 Years


Legendary house producer Kerri Chandler is a true master of the game. The iconic artist has gone 14 years without an album release until September 26 when he dropped Spaces and Places.

The undeniable house heater boasts 24-tracks that range from soulful singing to jazz, pulsing basslines, piano, swirling synths and more. Indeed, the LP proves to be worth the wait.

Spaces and Places is inspired by Chandler’s love for space as well as how he recorded the album: in different clubs around the world. Here, Chandler shares with Forbes the inspiration behind the album, a song he sent to space, his first job growing up and more.

Kocay: Can you talk about the inspiration behind “Spaces and Places”?

Kerri: Chandler: “I’m an engineer at heart and I love anything to do with sound. That’s just how I work. I love sound systems. The other part of it is always [that I’m] fascinated with space. I’m on the board of Setti, which actually listens to sounds and we send signals out to space. I’ve actually sent music out space to.”

Kocay: That’s so cool. What music did you send out to space?

Chandler: “It was my track, ‘Track One.’”

Kocay: That’s pretty dope. Hopefully some aliens heard it and got down to it.

Chandler: “Funny enough on my album cover, it looks like a globe or a map or something. It’s actually a map of fast radio bursts. That’s what they are. It’s actually the location of every signal that was picked up as a fast radio burst. We hear back from a lot of these places pretty often. There’s one particular place where there’s a fast radio burst every six weeks. It’s been going on for years now.”

Kocay: So I’m guessing when the public really has a chance to be able to go to space, you’re going to be like first in line.

Chandler: “Well, no. I’ll keep my feet on the ground. I really don’t even like flying airplanes.”

Kocay: This is your first album in 14 years. Can you talk about why now is the time to release an album?

Chandler: “Well, I had a lot of ideas and thought as time was going by, I always was doing a lot of remixes and a lot of just ones-offs and singles. I was traveling so much and I said I want to have some fun, because I would always keep a balance at some point between the studio and deejaying.

“I was on the road so much, I never had time, but the time I got back home, I wanted to just rest and get ready for the next trip and it would happen, almost every week at someplace else. I’ve always had club systems in my studio and I’ve always liked producing in very loud systems and things like that.

“I had a couple of deadlines early on and…there was a club in Germany called Bob Beaman. It was set up more like a studio sound set up and it was more than a club. It was mono studio monitors all around this club. It had, not soundproof but sound ding material all around the club. So it sounded really great in the club. I asked my friend David if I could actually do this remix. While I was in the club, [I asked] if he’d mind because I had a deadline and he says, ‘No, sure, that’ll be kind of fun. Let’s go and do it.’ So I had a couple of days in the club and I literally just did the remix in the club, and then sent it to the guys and they were like, ‘This is great. This is exactly what we’re looking for.’

“It was a Kate Simko remix. I had a lot of fun doing it, and the more I thought about it, I said, ‘Yeah, you know what? I wonder how many places I could actually do this in and could I get away with trying to put an album together like this?’ I asked a couple of clubs and some friends of mine that I’ve done parties for, and it spread and everybody bent over backward to let me have the club and do the project. I was really happy and surprised. I found myself in different situations and different clubs that would lend themselves to different types of music. It just one club after another, and I found myself with a few songs and then a few songs turned into like 10 songs, then 10 songs turned into 15, and so on.”

Kocay: Can you talk about this love for space and talk about how you made all this music in different places? Is that how the title and the album came together?

Chandler: “That’s exactly what happened, and I kept finding myself in different spaces and places. Now I always come to this conclusion: when you write a description of something, if you can’t tell someone what you’re doing in one sentence, I think it’s not worth saying, or you going to really figure out how to break it down into at least one paragraph to really describe everything that you’re doing. I found myself with a bunch of different titles and that one just kept coming back to me and it was very synonymous with what I’ve been doing anyway with all the space stuff I’ve been working with.”

Kocay: What’s the first electronic music song you heard that made you fall in love with the genre?

Chandler: “I’m going to say Kraftwerk. I heard the Trans Europe Express album and I could not stop listening to it. I kept wondering how they were making these sounds. And there was the Robots album. Anything Kraftwerk made me take pause of wondering like, ‘Wow, how are he doing this?’ And Computer World just really just blew my mind, and I kept finding myself looking at the album cover and trying to figure out what some of these things they were using were. That, for me, was really the beginning of what I wanted to do.

Kocay: So when you say you want to learn how everything worked in the studio, is that more of the engineering side of you or more of the music side of you?

Chandler: “All of it. Honestly, I wanted to know how it came from one particular thing or an instrument, how they shaped the sound and how they made it into what it is.”

Kocay: What was your first job growing up and when did you know you’d be a producer?

Chandler: “My dad used to take me with him to the club. I used to warm up for him when I was 13-years-old. After that, I was an intern at a television studio and after that, I was a travel agent, and then I did interning and actual engineering for a studio called Mirror Image and deejaying on the weekends. I’ve always kind of had my hand in music at some point. I was a welder, too. I loved welding. That was another thing I used to love to do. But that was only for like a couple of years and I just had fun with it. But all my main jobs, they’ve all had something to do with music or some being something creative.”

Kocay: I you could go back in time to when you first started making music and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?

Chandler: “Beware of people that you thought you could trust. I had managers and people that I really trusted that I thought were like family to me. A lot of these things was just like…they just found a way because I was so green in the business, naive about a lot of things, I just wanted to make music and I thought these people had my best interest.”



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