BECK'S MASTER CLAN!
NME
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BECK, WU-TANG CLAN's RZA and members of CORNERSHOP are all involved in a hip-hop supergroup album being put together by Dust Brother Mike Simpson, Dr Octagon collaborator The Automator and De La Soul producer Prince Paul. The album has been described as a hip-hop 'Four Seasons' - a reference to Vivaldi's celebrated concerto. Work on it is due to finish in July with a release in the autumn. DJ Shadow is also featured on a handful of the tracks on the album. The Automator said: "There's going to be a lot of singles on it. Everything is 'hood-oriented. We ended up making tunes rather than long, drawn-out pieces." Dreamworks, the Steven Spielberg and David Geffen-backed company that Mike Simpson A&Rs for is, not surprisingly, among the labels foremost in the running to sign the project.