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El Michels Affair

El Michels Affair is an American funk and soul group founded by New York-based musician Leon Michels.

Michels played with Soul Fire Records house band The Mighty Imperials before forming his own ensemble in 2002. This group released singles for Soul Fire and for Misty, a sublabel of Daptone Records, as well as a full-length album which was released on the Michels-cofounded label Truth & Soul Records in 2005. After performing with Raekwon at a concert, the group began working with other members of the Wu-Tang Clan and covered several of their songs for vinyl single releases. By 2009, this had yielded an album's worth of material, which was released in 2009 as Enter the 37th Chamber, the name a play on the album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). El Michels Affair followed this with a second album of arrangements of songs by Wu-Tang Clan and from its members' solo releases, titled Return to the 37th Chamber.

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Genres funk hip hop gangsta rock instrumental

Albums

  1. Sounding Out the City
    2005
  2. The Pj’s... From Afar
    2007
  3. Enter the 37th Chamber
    2009
  4. Sounding Out The City
    2016
  5. Return to the 37th Chamber
    2017

Other releases

  1. Easy Access
    2002
  2. Detroit Twice / Too Late to Turn Back
    2003
  3. C.R.E.A.M. / Glaciers of Ice
    2005
  4. Creation / Behind the Blue Curtains
    2005
  5. Duel of the Iron Mic / Bring the Ruckus
    2006
  6. Wu XM Radio
    2007
  7. Musings to Myself
    2008
  8. Walk On By (A Tribute to Isaac Hayes)
    2009
  9. 4th Chamber / Snakes
    2016
  10. Strange Boy / No Surprise
    2016