RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #33

 

While the various members of the Wu-Tang Clan and their ilk are mostly known for threatening to attack adversaries with swords in their music (and actually beating people down with their fists in real life, at least back in the early-to-mid 1990’s and whenever that Joe Budden thing happened), there’s obviously more to the guys than wanton acts of violence. Like the rest of humanity, the Wu-Tang Clan are multilayered individuals comprised of complex and often contradictory feelings, thoughts, and urges, and that also translates to their musical output. This week we’ll take it a bit easy on your AirPods by running through a selection of songs that showcase the Wu’s softer side, with love (and lust, let’s be real) in the air throughout.

This doesn’t mean the selected tracks aren’t hard, however.



Wondering what happened to the earlier episodes of Wu-Wednesdays? They’ve been removed from the Mixcloud site due to space limitations, but the songs themselves reside over on the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (the available ones, anyway) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Give it a look when you get a chance and tell your friends – every like and follow helps me out tremendously.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #32

 

This week we revert to the Wu-Wednesday episodes without an apparent theme, and while I’m serious about the music featured being objectively “good”, I’m not nearly as hard on myself when it comes to the other random shit here. As such, this week’s mix is amongst the silliest I’ve recorded, with at least one payoff that I thought was utterly ridiculous. Regardless of your sense of humor (or lack thereof – no judgment, of course, not everyone laughs at the same things, although what I do here is pretty funny), I think you’ll like this episode, and you’ll probably stumble upon a one or two that you weren’t aware of before, but now simply can’t get enough of.



Wondering what happened to the earlier episodes of Wu-Wednesdays? They’ve been removed from the Mixcloud site due to space limitations, but the songs themselves reside over on the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (the available ones, anyway) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Give it a look when you get a chance and tell your friends – every like and follow helps me out tremendously.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #31

 

We’ve been at this Wu-Wednesdays miniseries for more than half of a year now, and there are still several avenues I’d like to explore, but realistically I won’t be able to traverse them all. But fuck the future, because today we get a themed episode! This week is all about how the Wu-Tang Clan’s own Method Man quietly claimed the title of Cameo King within our chosen genre, usurping the likes of Canibus, Busta Rhymes, and the late DMX, and has yet to show a single sign of relinquishing the crown. Low key, Method Man has become the go-to guy for a cameo whenever you need grimy shit-talk presented over an unnervingly dark instrumental, usually with discordant keys for whatever reason, and what’s more, he doesn’t even fucking curse these days when he does it, a choice he made just to challenge his own pen, which I can respect.

Anyway, Meth is the man, and here is but a small selection of cameos from the world of hip hop, featuring other non-Wu artists you probably already enjoy listening to.



Wondering what happened to the earlier episodes of Wu-Wednesdays? They’ve been removed from the Mixcloud site as a way to free up space, but the songs themselves reside over on the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (the available ones, anyway) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Give it a look when you get a chance, and tell your friends – every like and follow helps me out tremendously, no seriously, you have no idea how much it helps.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #30

Okay, this week’s episode of Wu-Wednesdays is just fun, dorky shit. There are some unexpected guests, some really goofy stuff that you may or may not recognize from a project that isn’t really Wu-related aside from the artists involved, and, of course, some good music. As always, you get some older stuff mixed in with newer tracks that may have passed you by, the common theme being that they’re all well worth your time, whether you’re a Wu-Tang old head who kind of gave up on the crew a long time ago (it’s okay, you can admit it, this is a safe space) or a newbie that wants to know why the Clan was ever relevant in our chosen culture. Enjoy the madness.



Wondering what happened to the earlier episodes of Wu-Wednesdays? They’ve been removed from the Mixcloud site as a way to free up space, but the songs themselves reside over on the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (the available ones, anyway) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Give it a look when you get a chance, and tell your friends – every like and follow helps me out tremendously, no seriously, you have no idea how much it helps.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #29

This week’s episode of Wu-Wednesdays hits just as the United States celebrated an anniversary that means nothing these days. Look, I know that nothing in these mixes will help change the political climate. Hell, the Wu-Tang Clan aren’t even that political of a crew – oh, they’re fully aware of what’s going on in the world, to the point where you two will need to tell me if you interpret Cappadonna’s outro on one of the songs presented today as a blatant, if rather late, attack on a certain demographic of listener, but they tend to leave the actual commentary to their peers. (That’s how we wound up with a Ghostface Killah offering to take control of the Iraq War from George W. Bush, by the way. That song is not included today.) But even if I can’t help you change these circumstances, perhaps I can assist with allowing you a safe environment to forget about things, even for just fifty minutes. It’s what I have, so it’s what I can do right now, anyway. Hopefully it’ll help those that need it the most.



Wondering what happened to the earlier episodes of Wu-Wednesdays? They’ve been removed from the Mixcloud site as a way to free up space, but the songs themselves reside over on the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (the available ones, anyway) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Give it a look when you get a chance, and tell your friends – every like and follow helps me out tremendously, no seriously, you have no idea how much it helps.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #28

Listeners who were wondering exactly why I brought up Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai a couple of weeks ago will finally see (hear?) the payoff with today’s installment of Wu-Wednesdays. It isn’t going to be all Forest Whitaker reading samurai rules of engagement from a script, however – this week’s episode also features some great music, including one song I’d been legitimately wanting for decades, one that I happened to randomly come across (don’t you just love it when that happens?) which I’ll share with the two of you because we’re cool like that. Press ‘play’ right fucking now and relieve some of the tension in the air for the next almost-an-hour or so.

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A reminder: Wondering what happened to the earlier episodes of Wu-Wednesdays? They’ve been removed from the Mixcloud site as a way to free up space, but the songs themselves reside over on the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (the available ones, anyway) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Give it a look when you get a chance, and tell your friends – every like and follow helps me out tremendously.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #27

Not every episode in the ongoing Wu-Wednesdays series has a theme, as the two of you may know. Apart from featuring ten Wu-Tang or Wu-related songs, we keep things pretty loose over here, at least until we choose not to. This week is not one of those instances, as I chose to keep things simple by presenting a grip of unrelated tracks, some you’re probably familiar with, a few that may leave you scratching your head, and the rest falling somewhere in between those two extremes. With what’s going on in the world right now, I figured we needed “simple”, although that doesn’t mean we skimped out with the entertainment value. There’s some really good shit to be found here, including your new favorite song, so you should check it out before it gets away from you.



A reminder: the earlier episodes of Wu-Wednesdays have been removed from the Mixcloud site as a way to free up space, but they still exist over on the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks from the older episodes (the available ones, anyway) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Give it a look when you get a chance – every like and follow helps me out tremendously.

Enjoy!

-Max