SMALL FACES: Wu-Tang Clan members Genius, Inspector...

SMALL FACES: Wu-Tang Clan members Genius, Inspector Dek and Ol’ Dirty Bastard make guest appearance on the just-finished debut album by Wu-Tang associate Killa Priest, due Feb. 24. Genius is also working on new material for his next solo album. . . .

DJ Shadow and MoWax label founder James Lavelle are in London finishing a collaborative album under the name U.N.K.L.E. No release date has been set. . . . Also in London, Goldie is finishing his “Saturnz Revenge” album, with guest vocals by Bjork, KRS-One and possibly Seal. . . . The Chemical Brothers have done a remix of Spiritualized’s “I Think I’m in Love” for an upcoming single. . . .

Depeche Mode, while planning its first tour in five years for 1998, is starting work on new songs to be included in a singles compilation for next year. Meanwhile, the group is releasing an enhanced CD single with album and remix versions of the songs “Useless” and “Home,” plus CD-ROM videos of those two songs as well as “Barrel of a Gun” and “It’s No Good.” . . .

Ben Folds Five, which made a successful jump to the major-label world last year, is compiling a collection of live and rare tracks for an album to be released in January by its former label, Caroline. . . .

Pulp’s attempt at a theme song for the upcoming James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies” was turned down, but the band is releasing it itself under the altered title “Tomorrow Never Lies,” as the B-side of its English single “Help the Aged” in November. A full album is due next year. . . .

Pro golfers Payne Stewart, Peter Jacobson, Larry Rinker and Mark Lye are doing an album under the name of Jake Trout & the Flounders, an act they’ve done on the PGA circuit for years with familiar songs rewritten with humorous, golf-oriented lyrics. It’s due in January at the start of the PGA Tour.