thank you, I appreciate that
thank you, I appreciate that
Best article so far:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...lbum-ever.html
Ruler zig zag ziglar...music journalism is a joke
And don’t worry—you may be able to hear Once Upon A Time In Shaolin in your lifetime. After Wu member Method Man criticized the 88-year ban, the group released a statement saying that the owner of the albums had the right to distribute its contents for free, or host free album listening parties....A Kickstarter group tried to do just that, hoping to raise the necessary funds to purchase the album and place it in the public domain. Following its failure, however, the album was sold in May and, following months of ironing out the legality of the purchase, the sale was finalized this week.
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Not sure if this was posted yet...
PMC Commissioned For One-Off Pair of Companion Speakers for Owner of Wu-Tang Clan Album
26/11/2015
British loudspeaker manufacturer, PMC, was asked to produce a one-off pair of speakers as part of the sale of the one-off album created by American Hip Hop group Wu-Tang Clan. The album was recently sold to a mystery private collector for an undisclosed sum in the millions. However, we won’t be able to hear the music, as the conditions of the sale stipulate that the buyer must agree not to release any of the album content or artwork to the public for a period of 88 years, and there is no physical or digital duplicate of the music in existence.
Robert "The RZA" Diggs of the Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan producers Robert “The RZA” Diggs (pictured) and Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarh insisted that a pair of the speakers should be included with the album sale.
The company hand-built an exclusive pair of its colossal MB2-XBD studio speakers – they are six feet tall, have two 12-inch diameter woofers, are capable of reproducing every musical nuance and audio frequency perfectly, and can handle an awesome 2000 watts—that will allow the new owner of the one-off album to experience the audio exactly as its producers intended.
The album, entitled Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, was recorded and mixed on an identical pair of PMC speakers. It is a retrospective soundscape that threads 31 songs, skits and stories into a 128-minute long aural screenplay. Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is the last album to include contributions by the entire surviving Wu-Tang Clan and represents the apotheosis of the group’s three-decade career. As a one-off album envisioned from execution through to distribution as both a work of art and an audio artefact, the piece is a sonic sculpture presented in an exclusive hand-carved nickel-silver box. It is accompanied by a 174-page manuscript containing lyrics, credits and anecdotes on the production of each song, printed on gilded Fedrigoni Marina parchment and encased in leather by a master bookbinder.
Recorded and mixed exclusively on PMC’s MB2-XBD monitors on Staten Island, New York, the Clan’s producers, Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarh and Robert “The RZA” Diggs, insisted that a pair of the speakers should be included within the sale, so that the new owner could hear the piece exactly as it was intended.
Talking about the speakers, RZA said: “In order to curate the experience of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for the collector, we decided to have two PMC MB2-XBD speakers included with the album. These speakers were used during production and mastering and distil this work into its purest form, and in sculpting each beat, each frequency and each flash of feeling, they are themselves a work of artistry.”
Miles Roberts, PMC’s head of sales and marketing, added: “It is a real privilege to be included within the project and is the ultimate ‘from studio to the home’ message we aim to convey. The speakers created to accompany the album are an absolute one-off, the likes of which we will never create again. We’re sure the lucky owner will be delighted with the performance.”
Ghost & Priest got wu chamber covered tho http://www.wutang-corp.com/forum/sho...66&postcount=3 THE GOO SAGA CONTINUES
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This is gonna be dope! Instant cop! Good to see these wu releases and affiliate releases come to fruition for the fans!Originally Posted by jäcobjäy
Those speakers look mean too damn wish I could afford those
Y'all some dickheads, that's not an new album that's some smoke product. Smh
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Aiyo...
I haven't posted anything about this topic yet,
but honestly, alot of y'all are some real sensitive people.
I personally would LOVE to have an album/piece of art that NOBODY has.
As a Wu-tang music collector, that's the EPITOME of collecting Wu.
As a business move it's brilliant!!!
Watch the SHARK BITERS come out of the woodwork.
YA YA Cilva said he had an album for "US",
but as an artist/business man it's only right for him to get visonz and see his album as something MORE.
ALL ARTISTS are trying to figure out an innovative way to get there music to the masses and still get paid.
KUDOS to THE RZA & CILVARINGZ for proving that WU-TANG are visionaries and trendsttters.
I will never lose sleep about this, some of yall are really hurt,
look how many other LOST wu-tang/killa bee albums that are out there but aint getting released .
That just adds to the mystic of the WU-TANG SAGA.
PEACE
From the Daily Beast article:
"In an era when popular music is more accessible than ever, it’s difficult to imagine ever expecting music—even when it’s in tangible formats like CDs—to achieve the venerable stature reserved for rare paintings or sculptures. Some would say that it shouldn’t, but certain art can be dismissed as simple entertainment despite the blood, sweat, and tears that went into making it. We can reduce a great song to just a frivolous 3 ˝-minute bit of escapism, but if that song came from the soul and spirit of an artist who sacrificed much to record it, there’s no reason to think it shouldn’t be as respected as any other form of art.
At a time when we can stream anything the minute it’s released and forget about it almost as quickly, there should be artists willing to present their art in a way that makes us rethink how we consume it. Now, that doesn’t mean the world needs a plethora of ornate rap vanity projects, but we should celebrate the spirit of innovation in commercial art. In the same way that Pete Townshend attempted to reshape the way fans interacted with rock music via his famously abandoned Lifehouse project, RZA has reshaped the way fans value hip-hop music via his fully-realized Once Upon A Time Shaolin."
Snypa LG
Cilva has resorted to paying random Euro's, outta the 5 Milli to post positive comments.
Ahahahahahwh
Hard to know where to start with a post like this. Let's start with the "rising piracy downloads". They're actually decreasing with the actual rise of legal streaming services that millions upon millions of people use and pay for, and much prefer as a service than pirate sites. How the private labels decide to distribute this money is a another issue, an is and has always been to screw the artists, who have never been paid well from sales, b4 internet or not.
Apparently you are also openly pining for a return to when music was exclusive to the richest classes. Are you actually comparing Wu Tang Clan with commissioned baroque music of 300 years ago?
In your unicorn fantasy inspired "privatised music industry of comissioned music" what is your plan for these artists to acrue any sort of a fanbase, you know, like how Wu Tang did, selling their tapes out the back of a car boot after live shows?
Or do You think artists should build up a fanbase in the usual way, by you know, making music people can hear, touring, and then privately release all the music to one very rich buyer, who only he can hear? Very interesting, but stupid, really really stupid.
Why would I be upset? There are tons of other albums out there. Hell, there are plenty of albums that never get released in the first place. Plus Cilvathingz is nobody's favorite artist. Neither are Cher, Carice van Houten and FC Barcelona.
Customers are always right? That's only if you can sell them shit. It's not like customers give a fuck about you if they can't buy something they like. You're not even a customer, because you did not buy this album.
Cappadonna and U-God still release albums and those sell about 10 copies. So if Cilvabling released this one, it probably would've sold like 2 copies. He played his cards perfectly. You had a chance to buy this album, but you did not buy it. It was on sale for months.
Any way: Cilvaswing, now you're rich, any chance of removing those shitty ads on this website?
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