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Three house heroes—Derrick Carter, DJ Sneak and Mark Farina—team up for a back-to-back-to-back set. Chicago house vets Derrick Carter, Mark Farina and DJ Sneak have all gone their separate ways—Carter is still in Chi-town, while Sneak lives in Toronto and Farina has called San Fran home for years—but the three share a heritage of Windy City–style jacking rhythms that define them to this day. Last summer, the old friends played their first-ever three-way tag-team set at Belgium’s Tomorrowland festival—and on Friday, May 17, the triumverate will be re-creating that date with a back-to-back-to-back set at Highline Ballroom. TONY managed to catch up with the house heroes via a multiline phone chat to talk about the upcoming gig.Time Out New York: Having all three of you on the phone at once makes me feel like I’m at a veteran-Chicago-DJ convention.Derrick Carter: It’s amazing that you were able to get us all at the same time.Time Out New York: Yes, I feel like that’s accomplishment in itself, and that we could call it quits right now.Derrick Carter: Okay—peace out!Time Out New York: Wait a minute—while I have you all, we might as well chat. You guys go back quite a bit, don’t you?DJ Sneak: Yeah, especially Mark and Derrick.Derrick Carter: Mark and I have known each other for about 25 or 26 years, and we’ve known Sneak for at least 20. So we go way the heck back. I’m gonna curse—we go way the fuck back.Time Out New York: Curse all you want.Derrick Carter: Yeah, it’s not TV—fuck th

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