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El Michels Affair – Bring Da Ruckus

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“Bring Da Ruckus”

El Michels Affair – Bring Da Ruckus

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“C.R.E.A.M.”

I first caught El Michels Affair in Austin during 2007′s SXSW, serving as the back up band for the Wu Tang Clan. I had never heard live band renditions of Wu Tang songs and looking back that was one of the highlights of that years music festival. After that I kept wondering, “wouldn’t it be great if they could get most of the members of Wu Tang remake 36 Chambers,” but it always seems hard enough to get them together for a new album and then someone would have to decide how to fill in Dirty’s vocals…ie it’s never going to happen. However El Michel’s Affair has an album dropping April 21 on Fat Beats entitled “Enter The 37th Chamber”, maybe they at least got U-God to show up, either way, WU TANG!

More About El Michels Affair
El Michels Affair, at the core of the retro-soul and funk movement, is led by saxophonist/organist Leon Michels and producer/engineer Jeff Silverman. The group began as a series of informal collaborative sessions with musicians from top-selling acts Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Budos Band, and Antibalas. In 2005, the group released their debut effort, Sounding Out The City on Truth & Soul, a label co-founded by Silverman and Michels. Since the album’s ’05 release, the El Michels sound has been prominent on successful collaborations with Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Just Blaze, Adele, and Iggy Pop. Furthermore, in 2007, a horn part written and performed by Leon Michels was lifted and used for Jay-Z’s “Roc Boys,” the lead single from the American Gangster album. Most famously, however, is El Michels 2007 tour with Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, which led to the recording of two widely successful 7″ instrumental singles for “C.R.E.A.M.” and “Bring Da Ruckus.” Since then, El Michels Affair has diligently been in the studio, interpreting fifteen of some of the most legendary and well-know Wu-Tang Clan songs, including “Can It All Be So Simple,” “Protect Ya Neck,” “Cherchez La Ghost,” and “Incarcerated Scarfaces” for their upcoming sophomore album, Enter the 37th Chamber, due in stores on April 21st via Fat Beats Records.

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