Wu-Tang Clan
josephcadieux@bigfoot.com
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 22:11:02 -0400
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 22:11:02 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970619221537.007b0570@tiac.net>
From: josephcadieux@bigfoot.com
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Subject: Wu-Tang Clan
"Wu-Tang Forever," the long-awaited album by Wu-Tang Clan, shot into the
charts last week at the No. 1 spot, having sold more than 300,000 copies
since its June 3 debut.
One of the album's two compact discs is an ENHANCED CD (ECD)that has been
designed to yield yet another view of the rap group's universe.
Costing no more than a conventional audio disc and playable in the CD-ROM
drive of both Windows-based and Macintosh personal computers, the ECD
provides entry to the Wu Mansion, a three-level structure with rooms
representing each of the clan's members.
In addition to the exotic swords and axes that dominate the decor, each
room has a television console that displays some biographical background on
each rapper and a brief video clip.
Only after the eight rooms on the upper floors have been explored are
visitors to the basement able to control the audio-video playback console
of the RZA, the album's producer.
Segments of previous Wu-Tang videos can be screened from the console, and
with password enabled access, six short ECD-only videos also can be viewed.
In the first of these "shout outs," the RZA proclaims: "You don't got to go
to summer school. Just plug in this CD into your CD-ROM or into your sound
system and let the sound and lights take you away, and get all the
education you need right here."
To learn the necessary passwords that unlock the videos, ECD owners are
urged to go to the Clan's Web site and fill out a questionnaire from its
label, Loud Records. The form does not have to be completed fully to
produce a password, which is delivered later via e-mail.
Copyright The New York Times Company
June 19, 1997
By Matthew Mirapaul
Edited for ConnTech. Full text at:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/mirapaul/061997mirapaul.html