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.
A quick jaunt to the KG Boom page finds a producer who works in a similar style. His beats are a bit slicker – not less gritty – but just a little more polished. Boom’s drum programming seems to be the vital difference between the two, even as both producers remain stylistically similar.
And by this point, you might be wondering what these two dudes have in common, apart from the fact that they live in the same country and serve to point out how truly international hip hop has become. Well, they’ve each produced a track for an upcoming project by none other than Hempstead’s dastardly duo of Hus Tha KingPin and SmooVth Dude, otherwise known as Tha Connection – and no, I won’t stop writing about ‘em.
Anyway, those gentlemen saw fit to send me a couple of tracks that these Swedes worked out. And frankly, both tracks are on par with the previous mix tape work that Tha Connection put out thus far.
“Bullshit Talks” (Production by KG Boom) and “Fly Crow” (Production by Eats Beats) each mirror the description of these producers’ styles, which isn’t too surprising. But also the similarities between the two works can move to unify the musical direction of the disc that they each end up on.
The KG Boom track – inna slick new millennium style - finds Tha Connection figuring that money’s the root of all evil – just like Horace Andy. There’s not a great deal of rappin’ on here, but the track only clocks in at about two minutes and frankly, that beat alone can keep listener’s attention.
“Fly Crow,” the Eats Beats track, moves a bit quicker, thanks in part to a more prominent drum program. Lyrically, this song deals with a failed relationship with Tha Connection arriving at the conclusion that “She put it on me/Like a tsunami.” It’s plainly something that everyone listener can relate to.
But if these tracks are representative of what’s to come in the future, will there be some sort of further, future development? Trapeze featured twenty seven tracks – most clocking in around three minutes and change. And while the talent that this duo carries around should not be in doubt, listeners have as of yet to hear some staggering and extended metaphors in the mold of “I Used to Love H.E.R.” or “T.R.O.Y.”
They don’t need to use acronyms, but the more abstruse the better.

