Six Eleven DJ Mix Series 3: About Now

DJ Derrick Carter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: System Recordings
• ASIN: B00005QGA3
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,738 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Excerpt from "The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman"

2. Money Chocolate Keep The Love*

3. Eddie & The Eggs Me & My Watermelon

4. Ra-Soul Get Down Wid Yo Bad Self

5. 95 North Funk With Me

6. De Pompidou Girly Souly

7. Kojak You Can't Stop It

8. Stan De Mereuil et L'Anglais Le Rocher

9. 2nd Shift featuring Heather

10. Appleseed Pimpin' In Sao Paolo

11. 6400 Crew Brother's Hand

12. Deaf N' Dumb Crew Holiday On Night

13. Mel Hammond

14. Somore I Refuse

15. Paul Johnson You Got To Get Over

16. The Disco Dudes Boogie Down

17. The Track Assassin Gimme 'da Drumz

18. Sebastian Leger Come On

19. Flat Funk Flat Funk

20. D. Behar Sport et Detante

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Editorial Reviews

Urb Magazine, November 2001

"Few (if any) other Djs elicit the kind of unabashed love, awe and respect that Chicago's Derrick Carter Inspires."

Product Description

The long-awaited mix new mix album from the world's most beloved house DJ, one of Chicago's legendary names. This mix goes from deep to tech to jazz and all in between, accented by a capellas and the like. This mix showcases Carter's love and knowledge of house music.

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Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps Derrick's best CD, December 15, 2001

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M. M. Davis "Matt Davis" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Six Eleven DJ Mix Series 3: About Now (Audio CD)

I guess the reviewer below is right: this disc is not stuffed with the anthemic freak-disco of _Cosmic Disco_. But it's very, very well mixed--even for Derrick Carter.

Derrick always mixes in an aggressive and profoundly ambitious style. He spends an enormous amount of time in each of his sets keeping two--sometimes three--records playing, singing back and forth to one another for minutes on end.

He gets incredibly rich textures this way, but every once in a while an errant snare or an ill-timed breakdown on a record mars his symphonies, because he's just going for it so damned hard.

But not on _About Now_. He's locked into a groove here. Even the three-deck mixes are precisely beat-matched and perfectly balanced between all three audio sources. And don't get me started on the EQ shenanigans.

I felt that a technical note is in order to illustrate the tight composition of this mix. The reviewer below, who notes the 'blackness' of this CD, attributes the "black's worth more than gold" couplets to 'Girly Souly' by De Pompidou. If one reads the liner notes, it appears that the VOCALS are an a cappella version of 'More than Gold' on Nite Grooves, while the rhythm track is 'Girly Souly.' The fact that I had to read the liner notes to discover this fact should give readers some hint as to just how well this disc is mixed.

If you know enough about the art of house deejaying to appreciate technique when you hear it, you owe it to yourself to buy this album. It will be in your CD player very often, and for a long time.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the Gospel of Derrick L., December 11, 2001

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"moze22" (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Six Eleven DJ Mix Series 3: About Now (Audio CD)

The most important aspect of Derrick Carter's new mix "About Now" is that it reminds house fans that this music is very black music. From the "Excerpt from the Autobiography of Ms. Jane Pittman" to the rhyming couplets on "Girly Soully," Carter uses odd, seemingly out of place themes of slavery to evoke a free your (...) from the wall response. At the same time, Mr. Carter seems to be attacking some recent perceptions of dance music. Let's face it, a lot of trance DJs are feeling the backlash of that sorry genre and calling their stuff progressive house all the sudden. Carter has never fronted. He is the essence of house music, plain and simple. Bass is practically absent throughout the first five or six tracks as Carter seeks to showcase the rich, jazzy subtleties of these tunes. Your average Digweed fan may not dig this, but for anyone who appreciates house music as a whole and not only it's most recent incarnations, pick this up. You'll be reminded that house music can be classy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whose House? Derrick's House!, August 6, 2002

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The Groove (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Six Eleven DJ Mix Series 3: About Now (Audio CD)

Acclaimed DJ Derrick Carter has released a fine mix CD which features his love for soulful house. Derrick's beats are hyper and energetic, and the groove never relents from the first track. While some DJs inject techno and European influences into their mixing, Carter's a soul man all the way, featuring some pretty decent vocals, and even a spoken sample from "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," which opens the disc. The mixing is well done, as the tracks blend nicely together, and there are no awkward transitions. It's clear that Carter is a seasoned veteran in the game of house, and it's right "about now" that you should go and get this CD.