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With an adolescent Ween-like absurdist sense of humor that sometimes borders on creepy, Greenskeepers top bass-heavy beats with inside jokes, succeeding in taking a satirical home-recording project from the bedroom to the dancefloor before they were old enough to legally drink at a club. James Curd and Nick Maurer took the name Greenskeepers from the fact that they both paid the bills by working as golf course caddies. In their spare time they kept themselves occupied skateboarding the streets of Chicago, and Maurer performed as a singer/guitarist for various punk bands while Curd DJed the local scene. In 1998, the two paired up and wrote the amusing and danceable song "Should I Sing Like This." It became a minor club anthem and a set staple for DJ Derrick Carter, who released the song on Classic Recordings later that year. Several high-profile reviews about the band in the press caught the attention of multi-instrumentalist Mark Share, who sat in with Curd to help produce and put the ...