Shooting The Breeze

Track Listings

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

Editorial Reviews
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.

Maker has toured Europe and the US with Galapagos4, Qwel and Glue, who will be featured on this summer's Scribble Jam tour.

Shooting The Breeze,Maker,Galapagos4,Rap & Hip-Hop

Shooting The Breeze

Tracks:

Mango Lassi
Remember The Name
Love Tomorrow
Shooting The Breeze
Broken Promises
La Saluda
Streetstrut (exended)
Live It (prt1&2)
Train Til' Nowhere
Dialtones
Augusta 90b
Sandcastle

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. Maker has toured Europe and the US with Galapagos4, Qwel and Glue, who will be featured on this summer's Scribble Jam tour.

Customer Reviews:

kewl.......2005-07-28

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!

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