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British pro’doosa Tom Caruana has struck gold with his brilliant mash-ups of Wu-Tang Clan acappella tracks and samples of Beatles songs. Posted by Caruana to his label website in January, Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers, has already been downloaded over 40,000 times (source: Tea Sea Records).

While I’m not totally convinced that this project will win as many new fans for the Fab Four or the 36 Chambers as it will for Caruana’s Tea Sea Records, I’m dead certain that it’s worth a free download.

Naturally, people have compared this to Danger Mouse’s Grey Album, which paired vocals from the Black Album by Jay-Z with beat-deconstructions of the Beatles‘ White Album.  I think that Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers is better for two simple reasons:

1.) The Wu-Tang are by and large better rappers than Jay-Z (sorry, U-God), and 2.) Caruana has done a better job of selecting and splicing his samples than Danger Mouse did.

Speaking of the latter, it’s noteworthy that a lot of Caruana’s samples came from instrumental Beatles covers, which apparently ought to be its own genre. The samples are often difficult to peg, but that’s generally better for the song. I mean, if you’d rather spend your time picking out samples instead of rocking out to the beat, that’s your call. Just saying…

Check out Caruana’s New York Times Q&A.

And, in case you were wondering if the Beatles/Wu-Tang connection has a history, search no further:

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