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Maker
Shooting The Breeze
Genres: Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Mango Lassi
2. Remember The Name
3. Love Tomorrow
4. Shooting The Breeze
5. Broken Promises
6. La Saluda
7. Streetstrut (exended)
8. Live It (prt1&2)
9. Train Til' Nowhere
10. Dialtones
11. Augusta 90b
12. Sandcastle

CD Details

All Artists: Maker
Title: Shooting The Breeze
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Galapagos4
Original Release Date: 7/5/2005
Release Date: 7/5/2005
Genres: Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop
Style: Pop Rap
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 708509003125

Synopsis

Product Description

Known as one of the most talented and prolific producers to come out of the bubbling Chicago scene in the last few years, Maker has been given the chance to shine on his own with his first full length instrumental album "Shooting The Breeze" on Galapagos4. The last 2 years saw Maker make his name with his debut compilation album "Honestly" and collaborations with Qwel (Qwel & Maker "The Harvest" Galapagos4, 2004) & with Adeem & DQ as Glue (Glue "Seconds Away", Ramona Records 2004). Fans and critics begged for instrumental versions of "The Harvest" and "Seconds Away". But instead of simply releasing an instrumental album of beats that were designed for MC s to rap over, Maker thought it was best to present himself as a solo artist and showcase his talents as an instrumentalist and song-creator. "Shooting The Breeze" is just that, a pure instrumental album of carefully crafted songs meant to stand out on their own.

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CD Reviews

Kewl

Mr. D. R. Ashton | 07/28/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"WOW. That is what I first thought when I gave this a listen.

Maker is well known in the Chicago underground as a producer. Here is I believe his first instrumental release and what a release it is. It personally reminds me of early 90's Mo Wax releases. Those who don;t know mo wax, well it is a seminal record label run by a guy called James Lavelle and responsible for the also seminal DJ Shadow Endtroducing, aswell as earlier ep's. Course, Shadow is dated now, and producing tunes that are so generic and boring they could be Moby or fatboyslim. As is a lot of stuff on Mo Wax now. Bully and Anticon are more than cool replacements though.

Back to Maker. This album has really cruchy beats. This is trip hop/big beat/ whatever you want to call it, at it's best, and believe me, I hunt for this kind of stuff. Personal favourite is track 5, Broken Promises. This track has a vocal which has to be sampled from some crazy jingle from the sixties or something!! It is fantastic, and used to a great effect.

Weakest track, track 2. Only because it is way too ska for me, never really being a fan of it, and for me it doesn't really fit on the album. But please don't let that put you off.

fans of Anticon artisist Alias, Controller 7, Sixtoo, Dj Signify etc will love this stuff.

couldn't recomend it more!"