About Kerri Chandler
Kerri Chandler is a deep house DJ and producer born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1969 whose career dates back to the late 1980s and has made him one of the genre's most cited originators. Chandler's discography of house classics, spanning labels including Madhouse Records, MadTech, Ibadan and King Street Sounds, has run alongside decades of club dates built around his signature muscular basslines and gospel-inflected chord work.
He has performed at clubs and festivals internationally, with his sets frequently anchored by tracks he produced or remixed himself rather than external material, a reflection of how tightly his DJ identity and production catalogue are linked. Chandler has spoken about his early years interning at New York studios and clubs, formative experience that shaped both his production techniques and his approach to reading a dancefloor.
Known also by the alias Third Generation, he has continued touring and releasing new material well past the three-decade mark, sustaining his relevance across shifting house music trends rather than being confined to a single era. His influence is frequently cited by younger deep house producers and DJs, and his club sets remain built around the emotionally driven, bass-heavy style that first distinguished his work coming out of New Jersey's house scene in the early 1990s.