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R.a.m Wagdug Futuristic Unity Rar

This is one of the odder releases, period, that I've ever seen through a major label. AA='s fourth studio album, for some reason that I can't comprehend, was split into two albums which came out only a couple weeks after one another, each with only seven tracks comprising about 20 minutes of material per disc. Perhaps it was a move to get the fans a little more involved in picking up the album? To making more money? I don't know. But in any case, it's a 'split album', and I have both parts.

‎Listen to songs and albums by WAGDUG FUTURISTIC UNITY, including 'Systematic People(Featuring Maximum The Ryo-kun (Maximum The Holmon) Dug Version,' 'Wall (x Chino Moreno) Deftones,' 'Ram the Crush!!!,' and many more. Songs by WAGDUG FUTURISTIC UNITY start at $1.29. However, when I made those posts, I didn't have any Wagdug Futuristic Unity stuff, unfortunately. Once I did get them, though, I spun the hell out of them to get a good feel for Kyono's new sound. The album on the left, Nu Riot, is a 'mini-album', more along the lines of an EP than a full-length album, whereas the one on the right, Hakai, is. Wagdug Futuristic Unity - R.A.M Full Album HD 720p(C) 2010 Sony Music EntertainmentReleased: September 29, 2010Tracklist:00:00 01. Ram the Crush!!!03:29.


The packaging of the two albums is pretty interesting, actually, particularly the second half's. Whereas # just comes in a normal jewel case with all the bells and whistles typical of Japanese CD releases, 4 is packaged in a liner notes booklet. Seriously. It's a liner notes booklet in a small mylar, with a cel of the album artwork in front of the blank white cover, as the CD itself sits inside the booklet in an LP-esque plastic disc protector. # is actually a 2-disc CD case with an empty spot in the back for the 4 disc, and the cel with 4's artwork is meant to go in front of #'s cover. (Scroll down all the way to the bottom of this article for the result.)

There are a couple disadvantages to this packaging, unfortunately, those being:
  • The mylar and disc protector for 4 become absolutely disposable once you combine # and 4 into their intended shape. Personally, I just keep the remains next to it in my stash of Mad stuff, but I can imagine other people thinking it sucks that there's disposable unique packaging with it.
  • When you do combine them, there's still the obi that only recognizes #. On the other spine is another #, and underneath the obi it only says 4 for some reason. If the obi had just said #4, that would have been alright.
Granted, those are nitpicks, but it's still odd that the packaging doesn't totally gel together.
In any case, the material here is really solid. It's a little poppier than #3Futuristic, and the songs are a lot shorter than most of their prior material. The short length of the material, considering you have to buy both halves of the split album separately, may scare some people off, but that doesn't make it not worth buying or anything. It's also odd that the music videos of the material are shortened even further for YouTube... splitting it in half to make people go for the tour DVD? I dunno. I don't have that one, either, nor do I have any of AA='s other tour DVDs.


1. Drone
3. Viciousness
5. Distrap
7. Kilroy Was Here
8. HUMANITY2 (4 Mix)
10. The Jam
12. Lasts
14. Endroll

NOTE: There was a recently released official #4 compilation that seems to combine the two albums into one disc. 'I'll just get that!' you might say, but Wagdugdon't. From the look of the official #4's tracklisting, it omits two tracks from the separate versions: PRG from #

R.a.m Wagdug Futuristic Unity Rare

and Endroll from 4

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. There's absolutely no reason to, either; it's not like they're interludes or anything, they're full songs! Just get these two and combine them, the extra tracks will make it worth it.

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