DJ Keri - Can U Feel It

I like a CD where I don't have to do so much pigeonholing, or which inspires my "mixer's mind" into even morecreativity.

If you are really ready to party and dance and you know how we do - this CD is for you. This segued joint has movements like a symphony of dance. "Can U Feel It?" [Toucan Cove-GPR-Media] by DJ Keri, is enhanced further by Keri's own vocals! "I work with a lot of producers as well as produce my own music," she says. This goddess of the one and twoz of Creole, German, and Choctaw Indian roots hails from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and as the late Frankie Crocker would say, "She's one fine figure of a woman," with natural gifts that have seen her featured in the pages of Maxim, FHM, and this spring in DJ Times (I gotta get that issue!).

A home house party must. All the cuts flow together (a novice DJ's delight). DJs can use cuts from this CD whenever they 'Feel It' throughout your night's work. With track one, the "Theme From Ocean Blue," we take our surpassingly beautiful selector's hand, embarking on a tour of her progressive electronic, house and breakbeat playground.

At times tribally trance, Arque's "Glorious Whole" moves to sway the crowd on the floor. It is but a bridge to one of my faves on the disc, "Dark Light" from James Black - a true burner as Keri Purrs. "One For The Road" by GrayArea, (track five) is where she employs the brief monologue which I miss in music, you know, a little unsung poetry or prose in the middle of a lyrical sway. Nice touch!

It is back 2 Back DJ Keri on tracks five and six as she shows off her slightly airy voice with "Affirmation" feat. Angelle), and "No Tears". Tracks seven and eight just kept my attention until the one with my fave vocals, Dena Carman's "My Way" (feat. Angelle & Aimee). After a track that employs the suddenly warm trend of Egyptian/Middle Eastern/Asian vocalizing integrated with pumping percussion, Keri draws the CD to climax like a true "Rhythm Rider" [GPR] who asks their partner "I Can Feel It, Can't U?" - The later being the special bonus track that really rocks steady.

Getting ready to tour in the name of her latest track "Skywalking," after WMC, Keri told me of getting stuck in an elevator and almost missing her entire set at the beginning of the "Can U Feel It?" tour. 'Totally "claustrophobic" moments in that "lift." I love it, Keri (laughing about it now), and can truly relate to that as the similar situation happened to me during the Northeastern blackout of 1977.

I rarely hear it voiced by many of our number, but her perspective on herself as a "community servant" who "takes [her] job seriously," helping "those who are kind enough to come out and forget their everyday stress and troubles" inside the dance party. That is both humble and reinforcing what I call the Sociology of the Dance; kudos and big ups there!

DJ Keri has a great website with a really cookin' audio bed. It was when I first spied it I said to myself, "this lady is global! Check www.DJ-Keri.com for yoself. This is indeed "74 minutes of non-stop music" from this former Miss Louisiana who, by the way is the niece of Cookie Thierry, of "Sea Of Love " fame, which was redone by the Honeydrippers back in '85, I guar-on-tee.

You may notice a credit, "GPR"... well, that stands for Good Pussy Recordings, and I just HAD to clarify that thereby making myself feel better about not renewing my Playboy subscription last year so I could have caught her featured in the DJ Spinners spread in March 2004.

To be totally validated, DJ Keri needs to play NYC, not just Buffalo, NY (that doesn't count) in my mind, so I can only apply four stars - can U feel that? Like Keri says, "I LOVE MY JOB."