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maker - maker vs. now again - now again - cd

Genre: Hip Hop

1. Walk Away Son
2. Shout
3. The Love We Have
4. Everyone Else
5. Realization
6. Happenings
7. Everything Is Beautiful
8. The Fire That Burns
9. Hold'em
10. Organ Prelude Dub
11. Colors
12. Summer Times
13. Free
14. Southside Phantom
15. Forge Your Own Chains
16. Come home With Me
17. Sneak Into My Bedroom
18. Snake Bite
19. Summer Times pt.2
20. Ashtray

Chicago-area beatsmith Maker marks his Now-Again Records debut with Maker Vs. Now-Again, an entry in the same “music-library” series that saw the release of limited edition (and often not-for-sale) albums such Oh No Vs. Now-Again and MRR-ADM’s unnamed “black-album.” Check!

Emerging from Chicago’s underground hip-hop community of the late 90s, Maker’s role as producer kept him behind the scenes, tweaking levels and digging in the crates. Maker vs. Now-Again is a hip-hop exercise in those boom-bap era aesthetics: dusty drum breaks underscore two bar loops and make for an accessible series of tracks perfect for synchronization. It’s no surprise, then, that Maker Vs. Now-Again has been featured in an Apple Ipad webisode and the Fox television show The Chicago Code.
Previously only available in Japan, Maker Vs. Now-Again is packaged in a “mini-LP” thick cardboard “tip-on” sleeve and is available in limited quantities. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.