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Wu-Tang vs The Beatles?
Posted: Friday - Feb 12th, 2010
I got a tip from Soundcloud a couple of days ago that The Smoking Section had upped a new bit of material to the site. I skipped the last few files that they’d shared, but the name of this one intrigued me right from the get-go: “Wu-Tang vs The Beatles – Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers”
Too weird. One of the best hip hop crews of all time against one of the best bands of all time? I was half-intrigued, half-filled with that “urg, this is going to be a trainwreck, some unknown dude’s clamoring for attention, big time” feeling. So I clicked on the thumbnail for the LP cover, saw what you see above, and laughed. I figured that this Tom Caruana dude went all tongue-in-cheek when he put this project together, so I hit play on the file and gave it a listen.
I got four tracks in and I was hooked. Wu-Tang acapellas with beats made with Beatles instrumentals. I went about finding the full release right away.
Now, despite me getting hooked in and whatnot, I wasn’t entirely wrong with my initial “uh oh” feeling. In one sense, this LP definitely isn’t 100% as advertised. It turns out that only 6 of the 27 tunes use genuine Beatles instrumentals; the rest of the tracks use instrumentals from Beatles covers by other bands.
George, you so gangsta.
Knowing this only dampened my initial yes-ness for “Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers” a little bit, and all the bonuses (Beatles outtakes, clips from interviews with crazed Beatles fans, Ol’ Dirty singing “Love Me Do” with John and Paul) made up for it.
LP highlights? Give a listen below:
Killah Priest – Cross My Heart vs Marty Gold’s “Yesterday”
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Method Man’s bit on “Uzi (Pinky Ring)” (@ 2:18), on top of the original “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
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Rae, Ghostface & Cappadonna – Daytona 500 vs “Good Day Sunshine” by Roy Redmond
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Inspectah Deck – Forget Me Not vs “You Won’t See Me” by Ernest Ranglin
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Want to snag the whole project? Download a copy of it here. For all you trainspotting types, I include the names of each Beatles tune sampled in the Comments section of each track.
Let me know what you think.
