[Stuff] Final Shuttle Landing.

STS-135: The Last Shuttle Mission.  Space Shuttle Atlantis touching down for the very last time.  End of a space exploration era. Screen grab (cleaned up) from the NASA live stream of the landing.

[Music] Wugazi.

Wu Tang Clan + Fugazi = Awesome.

Not so much your usual mashup, this is more a painstaking remix project. The vocal tracks are direct lifts from various Wu songs; the backing tracks are finely pieced together from chunks of Fugazi songs; a riff from here, a drum track from there.  The result is one of the best mashups out there, alongside the ubiquitous "Grey Album" Metallica/Jay-Z one by DangerMouse and "The Beastles" project Beatles/Beasties by dj BC.

The album opener "Sleep Rules Everything Around Me" sets the style straight away.  The fine piano riff from Fugazi's "I'm So Tired" and the vocals from "C.R.E.A.M."  The tracks are worked together so well that if you were hearing them for the first time you would assume it was how the track was meant to be.  The album continues in a similar vein; the flows of the various Wu emcee's fed over mashed, chopped and mixed versions of Fugazi songs.  The whole thing is genius, but there are some moments when the already broad grin on your face explodes - the moment 2.18 minutes into "Nowhere to Wait" when the guitar riff from "Waiting Room" breaks the beat-driven song is a thing of beauty.  Equally sweet is the chorus of "Forensic Shimmy".  Brilliant.  The only track I cant really get in to is "Sweet Release" as it seems the sung vocal sample just does match with the backing track.  A minor thing though.

Playing "spot the Fugazi sample" and "name the Wu vocals" is excellent fun. Not worked out them all yet...

Download the album from the Wugazi site now before it gets taken down. http://wugazi.com/

[via: Justin Craigen]