★★★★★
Derrick Carter was one of the earliest second-wave Chicago house artists to make it big in Europe. He's the type of name that can pack houses and play festivals overseas but can probably walk around his native Chicago without being noticed. Carter hails from a generation of electronic artists who have enjoyed this peculiar fame dichotomy, and like many of those producers, he has built his reputation on DJ sets and remixes more than his original productions...
- pitchfork.com
2011-03-25
★★★★★
Part of me has always wanted to grow up in the New York or Chicago house scene of the mid-to-late Eighties. I'm not sure why. I'm not black, I'm not gay, I have atrocious hair and those who know me would refer to my fashion tastes as being 'conservative'. Yet from the first time I was introduced to house music as an uninitiated indie kid, I felt that connection that has made so many people swear allegiance to the boom, the bass and the rising cloud of soul...
- drownedinsound.com
2011-02-27
★★★★★
"American house music legend Derrick Carter presents Nearest Hits & Greatest Misses, a compilation of his finest remixes to date, including many rare and unreleased gems never before available commercially. In classic Derrick style, this collection is all the things that make this respected DJ / producer/ remixer one of a kind. Nearest.....
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Chicago house pioneer Derrick L. Carter is more legendary as a DJ than as an album artist. But Squaredancing, his first full-length in seven years, shines with tracks such as the pumping "Friends Talk," which extols the simple pleasures of tater tots, and "The Hollow Clash of Marionettes," a deliciously slow and acidic stomper. If Carter had as much fun making this deep, soulful record as it sounds like he did, we may have to wait another seven years for the sequel.
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
After Nigel Richards' 611 mix series released volumes devoted to jungle (Dieselboy) and tech-house (Richards himself), Derrick Carter took the baton for the best volume yet, a groovy outing dedicated to the kind of uplifting house Carter does better than any other DJ...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Derrick Carter's been such a vital part of house music for so long that it's difficult to believe Squaredancing in a Roundhouse is the first production LP under his own name, and only his second overall (1995's As Long as It's Groovy appeared under his Sound Patrol alias). Still, one of Chicago's best eases the way with a set of tight productions in different modes, each of them looking at the dark and twisted side of house -- more Adonis than Marshall Jefferson...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
While Carter's Cosmic Disco mix mostly concerned Chicago house, Pagan Offering shifts the focus overseas to Pagan Records, home of top-flight left-field house by Terry Francis, House of 909, Swayzak, Presence and Salt City Orchestra. It also includes five unreleased tracks.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27