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." 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.