WU-TANG VS. THE BEATLES: ENTER THE MAGICAL MYSTERY CHAMBERS

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Wu-Tang vs. The Beatles: Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers

This new mash up of the Beatles & Wu-Tang Clan isn’t really strictly a blend of Magical Mystery Tour with Enter the 36 Chambers, nor is it necessarily a combination of actual Beatles material.  Most of the loops and samples sound like they’re taken from a reggae Beatles cover band, whatever the Dread Zeppelin of Beatles might be, or taken from Big Band arrangements of Beatles hits.  Without working from the actual source material, the album suffers from the first time curiosity of the whole “How’d they do it?” thing.  That said, all the songs are buffered with radio news clips of Beatlemania at it’s highest, clips of teenage girls camped outside of the Beatles’ hotel or interviews with the band at the time.  These clips make what can be a tedious listen (27 songs here people) entertaining, and for every lackluster track or failed mash in the mashing up process, there’s a fit that is near perfect.  Check the obvious mash up of  “Got Your Money” and “You Never Give Me Your Money,” or especially “Uzi (Pinky Ring),” which flips through the dial of Beatles greatest hits with the change of Wu narrator, and as we know, any one of these songs can have a LOT of Wu narrators.  Worth a listen to check the archival interview stuff overlaid over the music, and for the occasional home run combo.

It’s a free download now from Tea Set Records, check it out HERE or check out a sample below:

Play Wu-Tang Clan x The Beatles – C.R.E.A.M.

– John Whitaker