Maker - Maker vs. Now Again

Album Rating:

9

What Maker lacks in dance moves, he makes up for in drums. From his first album that featured the lyrical stylings of Qwel and Them Badd Apples, through his instrumental masterpiece Shooting the Breeze, to his beaters with GLUE and his platonic solo albums of the verbose half-ginger Qwel (I made up the ginger part, but Fuck you Qwel, you fucking ginger), Maker has always been able to take a snare snap and a hi-hat combination and make it glimmer like he recorded it in his multi-million dollar studio made from the bones of Moby and the entrails of DJ Shadow.

When I heard this guy had a Stones Throw/Now-Again release on the way I was shocked. Not that I don't want Maker to succeed in every facet of his life, from his basket weaving to his glow in the dark tattoo practice, but having him on a record label of such esteem means that other people are finally waking the Fuck up to the huggable maestro.

Maker vs. Now-Again is one of those instrumental albums you fail to realize its importance because it is so straight forward. There are no fancy bells and whistles, no guest spots, no chipmunk vocal samples - this is Maker at his finest, just beating out beaters like only a meaty beat maker such as Maker can beat-make. Dude can craft an album from a .wav file containing a train whistle, a car crash and an elotes peddler ringing his handlebells for fuck's sake.

About 6 years ago Maker made a comment about wanting to make a house track, well for all you house homos out there, Maker made a fucking house track on this fucking album.

Listen to it, masturbate to it, then go buy it and act like you never touched it.

Interview with Maker [Elevator HipHop]