Throughout his remixes, DJ sets and mix CDs, Derrick Carter's music has evoked a kind of promiscuity. Bompty was what some people called it. Its signifiers were staccato bass, dusty samples and sexually suggestive vocals—or in a tangible sense, a cute girl shaking her hips. These building blocks, the ones that have made the Chicago DJ so revered since the early '90s, are all here in abundance on Fabric 56—which makes it tough to figure out exactly why this mix doesn't work. A clue, perhaps, can be traced in a track like Olene Kadar's "Baby Keep It Up." Drop the needle to its midpoint and a resonant filter glides over heavily swung hi-hats and provocative vocals ("girl can you still breath? / cus your shit's so tight"). Classic Carter. Only when the kick and bass give it up the inferred response is to not to shake, but to jump. Repeat the command often enough over 17 tracks and fatigue begins to set in—ditto Green Velvet's "La La Land" a cappe...