Wu Tang vs. The Beatles

First of all, I really really don’t like mash-up music. In fact this is not the typ­i­cal mash-up shit, it’s absolutely high-quality:

Wu Tang acapel­las over beats made with sam­ples of Bea­t­les songs, all mixed together with spo­ken word from both groups. Pro­duced by Tom Caruana.

I couldn’t think of any­thing more inap­propi­ate than com­bin­ing the Wu-Tang Clan with The Bea­t­les, but what can I say, it def­i­nitely works! Smooth beats, the dis­tinct wu flow, and every now and then some fancy Bea­t­les sam­ples. I’m lis­ten­ing to it for the first time while writ­ing this, and I enjoy it so much!

So go ahead and get Enter The Mag­i­cal Mys­tery Cham­bers from Tea Sea Records for free!

John Lennon met the walrus

In 1969, a 14-year-old Bea­tle fanatic named Jerry Lev­i­tan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and con­vinced him to do an inter­view. 38 years later, Lev­i­tan, direc­tor Josh Raskin and illus­tra­tor James Braith­waite have col­lab­o­rated to cre­ate an ani­mated short film using the orig­i­nal inter­view record­ing as the sound­track. A spell­bind­ing ves­sel for Lennon’s bound­less wit and time­less mes­sage, I Met the Wal­rus was nom­i­nated for the 2008 Acad­emy Award for Ani­mated Short.