Dominic Maker

Dominic Maker (born 12 September 1986) is an English record producer and songwriter from Chichester.^[1] He is one half of the duo Mount Kimbie, and is known for his production work for artists such as James Blake, Slowthai, Rosalía and Jay-Z.^[2]

Dominic Maker
Maker in 2013
Background information
Born	(1986-09-12) 12 September 1986 (age 38) Chichester, England
Genres	Post-dubstep ambient future garage art pop hip hop
Occupations	Record producer songwriter
Years active	2008–present
Member of	Mount Kimbie

Biography

Maker initially met Kai Campos at London South Bank University, where he was studying film.^[3] Their debut album was released in 2010^[4] and since signing to Warp in 2012 they have released a total of three albums.^[5]

After moving to Los Angeles in 2017, he began to work more closely with Blake, co-producing and co-writing a number of tracks on his album Assume Form (2019).^[6] Through this he worked with Jay-Z on "MaNyfaCedGod".^[2]

He professes to not listening to much music outside work but has often been forced to in his new role as a producer for research purposes stating: "I don’t know that world very well, so I need to become more familiar with the things that are going on and the techniques people use...It does feel a little bit like research."^[2] In 2020, he co-produced Blake's single "You're Too Precious"^[7] and in May of that year, he produced Slowthai's single "Bodybag".^[8]

Maker collaborated on the tracks "Feel Away", "Focus" and "Push" from Slowthai's UK number one album Tyron. Following an interview with Highsnobiety, the "Feel Away" collaboration was described by Maker as an “instinctive piece of music”, going on to discuss how the track came to fruition. “You know who would be sick on this?” Ty suggested. “James — James should sing on it.” Maker sent the track to Blake, who was in New York at the time, and received his contribution a day later, with additional vocals and piano.^[9]

In 2021, Maker contributed to the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning short film Two Distant Strangers, co-producing the closing track "Two Distant Strangers" which features Joey Badass.^[10]

Maker, along with James Blake, co-produced the unreleased Travis Scott and Westside Gunn track that was premiered at the Cactus Jack Dior Summer 2022 fashion show in Paris.^[11][12][13]

In November 2021, Maker received a Grammy nomination for his co production work on James Blake's track 'Before'. The song was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Recording.^[14]

In July 2022 Dom remixed the title track from Flume’s 2022 album ‘Palaces’, for which he brought Zelooperz for a new remix feature alongside the existing guest appearance from Gorillaz and Blur's Damon Albarn.^[15]

September 2022 saw Dom announce the first full-length Mount Kimbie release since 2017's Love What Survives. His half of the double album, entitled ‘Die Cuts’ will release along with the full project in November 2022.^[16]

Maker preluded the release of the album with a double-sided single release, with ‘A Deities Encore’ featuring Liv.e and ‘In Your Eyes’ featuring Slowthai and Danny Brown.^[16] ‘Locked In’, a bonus track featuring Maxo Kream and Pa Salieu, was released the day prior to the album announcement.^[17]