January 2009

Eats Beats and KG Boom might not be producers that you’re familiar with. But maybe you’ll know ‘em soon enough even considering that they both live in Sweden.

A quick visit to the Eats Beats MySpace page allows listeners and well versed musical travelers to sample a few tracks. “Falling Beat,” which also has an alternate version for your listening pleasure, is basically a Brother Jack McDuff style keyboard riff with a huge drum beat behind it. It boarders on straight Acid Jazz and with the brief vocal sample tossed on top, it could probably ride for a bit longer than a minute and a half. Read more

The consequences of an accelerated culture haven’t been fully gleaned as of yet. And they probably won’t be fully grasped for some time to come. Obviously, digital music sharing has impacted record labels and the music business as much as any one group or artist. And while smaller, independent musicians and producers have found that everyone being jacked into the internet at all times of the day has enabled them to spread their names around, there are draw backs as well. Read more

The ever expanded reach of the Wu affiliates has gotten to the point where it mirrors some sort of filmic, secret society that controls things from behind the scenes. Wu hasn’t been overly flashy. They give more credence to reality than to pretending to be something that they’re not, but nonetheless. Read more

For a pretty long time hip hop has been a way by which a large and spread out community of people can communicate through music. Whether it’s about life, relationships, work or strife, everything discussed amongst the thousands of rap tracks that have been released give some insight into a very specific life.

Different rappers have decided to use this avenue of conversation with fans and like minded folks in different ways. Many choose to tell stories and allow the listener to draw their own conclusions. Papoose does that, but he’s also begun to build a pretty wide ranging law reference guide.

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