RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #50

We’ve reached a milestone over here on the Wu-Wednesdays side project. This week’s episode marks fifty consecutive weeks that the series has run, and the light at the end of the tunnel is very near, which means I can soon look forward to not having to pore over thousands of music files in order to bring you the best the Wu-Tang has to offer. (This has been fun for me, obviously, because why else would I keep doing it, but I’m looking forward to a break from the pod, to be honest.) So why not present the two of you with something special: the collaborative efforts between the Clan and producer The Alchemist, of which there are far less than I had anticipated for a crew who we could consider early adopters of the Chemist’s style, but whatever, I found enough that I liked to fill the episode, so have at it, alchemy fanatics!



There are forty-nine previous episodes of the Wu-Wednesdays side project, but only the most recent are available on the Mixcloud site. The rest, or at least the songs featured wherein, live on at the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (whatever’s available, anyway – some are easier to find than others) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Although if I’m being honest, Spotify is kind of bullshit these days, so I’ve put together an alternative over at YouTube Music, which has more of the tracks available anyway. Give either one a look when you get a chance and tell anybody you know who may enjoy something like this – I appreciate every little bit of support you can offer.

Enjoy!

-Max

 

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #49

 

This week’s entry into the Wu-Wednesdays catalog has no real theme, apart from the interludes, which always seem to be related in some fashion unless they very clearly aren’t. Look, in the United States it’s a holiday week, so a lot of our minds are elsewhere, and sometimes you just need to hear good music without having to overthink shit. This week is perfect for that, whether you use this as a soundtrack while cooking or for bumping on your car stereo on Black Friday as you hit shoppers in the parking lot who were supposed to be boycotting, but whatever. Also, I cannot be held responsible if you actually do that thing I wrote in the previous sentence, as everything on HHID is classified as “satire”. Allegedly.



There are forty-eight previous episodes of the Wu-Wednesdays side project, but only the most recent are available on the Mixcloud site. The rest, or at least the songs featured wherein, live on at the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (whatever’s available, anyway – some are easier to find than others) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Although if I’m being honest, Spotify is kind of bullshit these days, so I’ve put together an alternative over at YouTube Music, which has more of the tracks available anyway. Give either one a look when you get a chance and tell anybody you know who may enjoy something like this – I appreciate every little bit of support you can offer.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #48

Heads that dare to press ‘play’ on this week’s installment of the ongoing Wu-Wednesdays side project will be greeted with some shining examples of rare and off-the-radar Wu-Tang wonderment, some of which you two may not be all that familiar with. Hopefully you two will wind up finding something new to love on here, as it was difficult to cull this one down to just ten tracks. Ultimately, this entire exercise is just about sharing music and finding new favorites to put others up on to, because music is meant to be shared, folks. So I hope the two of you participate in the manner as it was intended, which is a formal and ridiculous way for me to ask you to share this motherfucking mix with as many people as you can.

This week’s episode also has a lot more GZA than I had originally planned, and I’m not even talking about the skits, so you’ll want to check that out.



There are forty-seven previous episodes of the Wu-Wednesdays side project, but only the most recent are available on the Mixcloud site. The rest, or at least the songs featured wherein, live on at the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (whatever’s available, anyway – some are easier to find than others) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Although if I’m being honest, Spotify is kind of bullshit these days, so I’ve put together an alternative over at YouTube Music, which has more of the tracks available anyway. Give either one a look when you get a chance and tell anybody you know who may enjoy something like this – I appreciate every little bit of support you can offer.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #47

Shifting things back in a positive direction, this week’s entry into the Wu-Wednesdays canon (only a handful of episodes remaining, folks!) goes back to the “the Wu certainly is capable of playing well with others, why do you ask?” well as a rebuke of last week’s findings. But the truth is that the various members of the Wu-Tang Clan are complicated individuals. Obviously their first goal is to befriend their peers in the music industry, because that’s how they would get wind of any potential opportunities that they could later take advantage of. This week I’m not even just talking about hip hop – the Wu are fairly well known everywhere at this point. But if one were to cross them, wouldn’t you expect there to be some form of retribution? That’s just human nature, none of which is on display in this week’s episode.

Anyway, there’s some good shit here.



There are forty-six previous episodes of the Wu-Wednesdays side project, but only the most recent are available on the Mixcloud site. The rest, or at least the songs featured wherein, live on at the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (whatever’s available, anyway – some are easier to find than others) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Although if I’m being honest, Spotify is kind of bullshit these days, so I’ve put together an alternative over at YouTube Music, which has more of the tracks available anyway. Give either one a look when you get a chance and tell anybody you know who may enjoy something like this – I appreciate every little bit of support you can offer.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #46

 

There have been a couple of episodes throughout this Wu-Wednesdays side project of ours that were designed to showcase how well the various members of the Wu-Tang Clan (and their myriad affiliates) can play with others outside of their circle. This week, however, we’re going in the opposite direction. As many Wu stans are already aware, the Wu came out the gate ready for a fight, that aggression birthing some of their finest, hungriest work, but also occasionally resulting in bloody knuckles and/or bruised wrists from where the handcuffs were too tight. Basically, the Wu-Tang Clan entered the game with respect for the art form, but not for the various individuals who were considered their peers, and if anybody dared look at a member sideways, there would be some shit. They’ve mostly cooled off in recent years, as the clique’s vast connects within the music industry would attest to, but as you’ll hear today, that chip on your shoulder doesn’t just erode with time, even if, like the revelation Inspectah Deck has during one of the interludes presented here, you understand now that your attitude back in the day probably wasn’t the most financially profitable one to have.

Anyway, Wu-Tang is for the children, but any adult can get it, I guess is the lesson here.



There are forty-five previous episodes of the Wu-Wednesdays side project, but only the most recent are available on the Mixcloud site. The rest, or at least the songs featured wherein, live on at the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (whatever’s available, anyway – some are easier to find than others) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Although if I’m being honest, Spotify is kind of bullshit these days, so I’ve put together an alternative over at YouTube Music, which has more of the tracks available anyway. Give either one a look when you get a chance and tell anybody you know who may enjoy something like this – I appreciate every little bit of support you can offer.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #45

 

There may have been no barrier for entry with last week’s episode, but this week’s entry into the Wu-Wednesdays series could be considered the absolute most accessible of them all. You see, this week I decided to throw together a slew of tracks that you could play while your children are in the car. That’s right, all the songs presented this week are in their radio-edited form, so the entire family can join in on the Wu fun. And before you ask, that doesn’t necessarily mean that every track on this week’s episode was a mainstream hit, either, so your kids will receive the full Wu experience.

Because Wu-Tang is nothing if not for the children, of course.



There are forty-four previous episodes of the Wu-Wednesdays side project, but only the most recent are available on the Mixcloud site. The rest, or at least the songs featured wherein, live on at the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (whatever’s available, anyway – some are easier to find than others) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Although if I’m being honest, Spotify is kind of bullshit these days, so I’ve put together an alternative over at YouTube Music, which has more of the tracks available anyway. Give either one a look when you get a chance and tell anybody you know who may enjoy something like this – I appreciate every little bit of support you can offer.

Enjoy!

-Max

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #44

Episode forty-four of the ongoing RandoMax Radio Wu-Wednesdays miniseries eschews all of the myriad affiliates and friends of friends in favor of getting back to basics. The ten tracks selected this week represent some of the Wu-Tang Clan’s more mainstream offerings, measured by either potential or actual crossover appeal, and one thing I noticed while compiling this chapter is just how often this specific description wound up applying to Method Man, Ghostface Killah, and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the three most marketable members of the group by far. There are no coincidences, folks, but there is good music here, regardless of the intended audience. Some of these are obvious choices, yeah, but the rest are songs that should have been bigger than they were (or, in at least one instance, a song that would have gained in popularity had it ever been officially released).

Share this one with your friends – by theme alone, this is the episode with literally no barrier for entry.



There are forty-three previous episodes of the Wu-Wednesdays side project, but only the most recent are available on the Mixcloud site. The rest, or at least the songs featured wherein, live on at the RandoMax Radio Spotify channel, with tracks (whatever’s available, anyway – some are easier to find than others) being added to the playlist as they get taken down elsewhere. Although if I’m being honest, I don’t like how Spotify is allowing fucking ICE to advertise on its service, so there is now an alternative over at YouTube Music, which has more of the songs anyway. Give either one a look when you get a chance and tell anybody you know who may enjoy something like this – I appreciate every little bit of support you can offer.

Enjoy!

-Max