Chessie is an American experimental music group consisting of Stephen Gardner and Ben Bailes.
Gardner started Chessie in 1994, while he was a member of the Washington, D.C. post-rock band Lorelei.
His first full-length as Chessie, Signal Series, was issued in 1998 and was named Best Dance and DJ Album that year by Amazon.com.
[9] Reviewing Signal Series, M. Tye Comer of CMJ New Music Monthly considered Chessie a product of the closing gap between post-rock and experimental electronica in the late 1990s.
He noted that the album was a sound collage with raw loops and influences from dub music and drum and bass.