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Wu-Tang Clan
Soundtracks from the Shaolin Temple
Release Date: 2008 10 07
Label: Wanderluxe
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Right in line with 2005 compilation Wu-Tang Meets Indie Culture -- and even sharing a couple of the same tracks -- 2008's Soundtracks from the Shaolin Temple is a sampler focusing on the Wu-Tang Clan and their ever-growing gang of affiliates. Here the multitude of solo efforts released between 2005 and 2008 are represented, along with the ever growing importance of affiliate producer/rapper Bronze Nazareth, who appears on multiple tracks. It's hardly a "soundtrack", and while hardcore fans of the group might be disappointed by the lack of exclusives or the way some recent and very necessary tracks are skipped, there is a killer bonus for the collector. Packed into the slipcase and making the accompanying CD secondary is a 90-page booklet featuring photos of main Wu man RZA on his first pilgrimage to the Shaolin Temple in the People's Republic of China. It sits in the hands prayer book-style and features beautiful sepia-toned photographs of RZA and his 34th generation Shaolin Monk guide Sifu Shi Yan Ming as they visit the Temple and join in prayer. Consider it a coffee table compilation in the style of Kruder & Dorfmeister's G Stone Book where loyal fans re-buy music to get to the bonus, which, in this case, is very attractive. David Jeffries, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Darkness (Intro)		1:34
2	Killa Bee Swarm	Reed, Williams, Drayton, Cross	4:15
3	Lyrical Swords	Grice, Austin, Cross	3:27
4	More Than Gold	Cross, Drayton	4:12
5	On the Eve of War [Julio Caesar Chavez Mix]	Luviner, Baldwin, Grice	4:02
6	Iconoclasts	Arrington, Wilson, Maye, Reed, Woodland, Cross, Cross	4:53
7	My Piano	Jones, Jenkins, Coles, Woods, Cottrell	4:09
8	Biochemical Equation	Diggs, Dumile	3:58
9	Pencil	Grice, Bean, Turner, Diggs	3:59
10	Josephine	Cottrell, Cottrell, Coles, Bailey	4:11
11	Obituary (E.B.G.G.)	Cross, Collins, Smith	4:15
12	Chi (Interlude)		:34
13	Deep Space	Daval, Diggs, Allah	4:28
14	Alphabets	Grice, Harris	2:44
15	Original Man	Woods, Whittle, Daval, Allah	5:33
16	Bronzeman	Grant, Cross	3:52
17	God's Creatures (Interlude)		2:00
18	Animal	Sherner, Graham, Braccher, Williams, Murphy	3:49
19	Still Grimey	Ruff, Price, Daval, Hawkins, Shabazz	4:18
20	Ocean	Taggart, Maguire, Brown	3:41
21	Street Corners [Fam Members Only RMX]	Grice, Dale, Cross, Hunter, Turner	5:24

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