El Michels Affair - Enter the 37th Chamber





tracklist:
01. Duel of the Iron Mics
02. C.R.E.A.M.
03. Mystery of Chessboxin’
04. Can it All Be So Simple
05. Uzi (Pinky Ring)
06. Interl
07. Glaciers of Ice
08. Cherchez La Ghos
09. Criminology
10. Heaven and Hell
11. Bring Da Ruckus
12. Protect Ya Nec
13. Incarcerated Scarface
14. Shimmy Shimmy Ya
15. Outro


El Michels Affair first appeared in 2002 for a 12" single on Soul Fire records entitled Easy Access Parts 1 & 2. The release was a loose collaboration between Soul Fire session musicians that featured saxophonist and organist Leon Michels. However, the style and sound of El Michels Affair, which was later coined “cinematic soul”, came about when Leon Michels and Nick Movshon, fellow band mates from The Mighty Imperials, began recording music in Michels’s bedroom studio. Leon Michels had purchased a Tascam 388 (a home recording 8-track module from the early eighties), and began experimenting with music that purposely strayed from the cookie cutter funk that began to saturate the market at the time. Taking influence from all types of music, Michels and Movshon began to create new type of soul music that blended the cinematic quality of soundtrack records with the recording aesthetic of early reggae, and the rawness of 60's rock. As the record took shape, Michels brought in fellow musicians and friends to help shape the style and sound of the record, which would be commercially released on Truth & Soul as Sounding Out The City. Some of the musicians included in the sessions were old band mates from the Mighty Imperials, Homer Steinweiss and Sean Solomon, as well as Todd Simon, Michael Leonhart, Thomas Brenneck, Aaron Johnson, Ben Solomon, and Toby Pazner.

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