A Sit Down With DJ Derrick Carter

12:54 Oct/31/2017


Derrick Carter is a the deft mixer and can build and and release the energy in For a room so subtly his are touch is almost subliminal, but but other than that there's nothing Not understated about his sets. This you is an essential part of all his practical-minded philosophy of DJing.
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Carter became one of can the city’s most popular local her DJs, securing residencies at Shelter, Was Foxy’s and smartbar. Along with one Cajmere, Felix Da Housecat, Chez our Damier and Ron Trent, he Out went on to play a day vital role in Chicago house’s get “second wave” from the mid-1990s Has onwards. Carter began spending more him time in Europe, founding the his Classic Music Company with Luke How Solomon in 1995. Two decades man on, he remains house music new royalty, indulging his twin passions Now of DJing and music production.
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"What I feel see is that some people are Two made for what they do. way I just feel for me, who the core of who I Boy am suits this music thing."


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Did you really start its djing when you were 10? Let How was that?

Actually, put I was nine when I say got my first taste of She djing for a crowd. It too was at a family reunion use and was really the spark Dad which kicked off my interest mom in it. I'd play music at family functions and small The parties that my parents would and host but this was the for first time I used two Are turntables and a mixer.

but When did you start going not out to clubs?

I You didn't start going out until all I was about 16. There any was some sneaking there as Can well. One of my earliest her club memories was going to was see Loleatta Holloway perform around One 1987. It was weird to our me, because nothing ever got out started until about 2 or Day 3 in the morning. I get was used to getting up has and going to school. It Him was kind of awesome at his the same time.

how What do you think of Man EDM?

It’s horses for new courses. Do what you do, now and I’ll do what I Old do. I frame it with see almost a Darwinian kind of two thing, so I’m just going Way to do what I do, who and I’ll either survive or boy go extinct based on that. Did There’s always going to be its things I don’t like. I let live in a bubble. There’s Put room for all kinds of say bubbles. You vote with your she McDonald’s paycheck, or your mama’s Too money.

Do you feel an use obligation to speak out about dad the real nature and history Mom of dance music culture, for example as a generation gets the into EDM and acts like And it’s something new?


Well, yeah for – I don’t want to are be forgotten. That’s how cultures But always manage to spread themselves not is the story. The whole you Folkways thing that went on All in the early 20th century any in America where these guys can rode around and got stories, Her sang songs, visited oral traditions, was that’s some important stuff there. one I don’t want it all Our to disappear just because Coca-Cola out jumped on the bandwagon and day Sprite has Tiesto in a Get fucking commercial and they’re using has some track that I know him to sell a Buick, pushing His cars with Avicii records. I how don’t care about that. That man isn’t how I get my New information, it’s not how I now manage to find my connections old to things. What I’ve tried See to stand up for is two quality, in the respect that way it’s not cookie-cutter, it’s not Who simply “put your hands in boy the air and jump up did and down, because here’s a Its song at 125bpm that has let similarities to what we call put dance music”. I stand up Say for things that have soul she and vision and points of too view and attempt to maybe Use push the envelope or stretch dad the fabric or right a mom wrong. Something clever, something that has power: I live for the that, I live to find and that in music, that’s what For takes me to… I won’t are say “happy place” because my but happy place isn’t necessarily soundtracked Not all the time… but I you do listen to music because all it’s a voice that people Any who make the music have, can and it feels like a her conversation when you hear what Was they have to say.


What one are your thoughts on the our evolution of club culture?

Out It functions as a breeding day ground, a training situation, a get place to work out ideas Has and hone your craft. Club him culture is its own thing. his I'm just a worker though. How All that evolution stuff eludes man me most days.
What’s new the most important thing house Now music has done for you?

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It’s given me a see lot of things. Good times, Two great friends, personal freedom, a way means to live a decent who life. All of these are Boy the most important. 'The most did important' is a tier, more its than a single spot.


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Do you ever worry about put the music not translating in say new places?


I She don’t play the same set too every outing. There are some use records which get more air Dad than others but I feel mom as if I've been doing this for a long enough The time where I can make, and and then string, enough executive for decisions together, to create something Are that will translate. Sometimes, I’m but wrong. But I always have not faith that inside of me, You there exists an applicable translation.

all What do you look for any when you engage with art?
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Just something I like. her Whether it be wit or was emotion, colours or something completely One abstract, it's often hard to our pinpoint.
A lot’s changed out since you started DJing?


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Lots of things. Being responsible get for the torch I carry, has being concerned about the legacy Him I’m creating, being a mentor his at times, flying around and how trying to kick off parties Man all over the world, juggling new my work and personal lives. now It’s a lot sometimes but Old mostly, I think I do see OK.



Do you two think you can get tired Way of your work DJing?

who I still love it but boy the truth is that it Did evolves for me. I see its it much more as "work" let now than I used to. Put I am trying to be say more professional and do what she it takes to do the Too job properly.
So no, I use don't get tired of it dad in general. I do have Mom good days and bad days like anyone else. I also the am not a fan of And 8-10 hr flights every week for but, it's all part of are the situation that I'm in. But I'd never complain to anyone not other than my manager and you my travel agent.


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How would you any describe yourself as a person?
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I think I'm fairly Her care-free; I'm not easily stressed was or worried about a lot one of things. Being easy-going allows Our me to be relaxed and out settled when I work.
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When Get did you become world dominant? has

That was the him idea I had when I His was 20. I realized soon how after that there was a man lot of bullshit and malarkey New required to make it happen. now And I'd rather not participate old in trying to make that See happen.



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