El Michels affair
Album review: El Michels Affair -‘Yeti Season’: Big Crown kingpin proves he’s a 10th dan at soundtrack funk magic
Yeti Season? Pretty stunning. Leon is a soundtrack music 10th dan; an absolute master of the craft. Slip Yeti Season onto the decks, you have the most diverse, exciting, retro-soundtrack waiting there for you; there maybe no one better at this kind of the thing in the world right now. One moment R.D. Burman with Piya his Lata Mangeshkar, another Lalo Schifrin, another Piero Piccioni; all are here, ten short films in themselves, these tracks, scenes from a film so ace you have to make it. In your head. Pick yourself up Adult Themes, grab a giant bucket of popcorn, make it a double bill. Absurdly brilliant. Buy.
TRACK: El Michels Affair to release new album of funk exotica; hear ‘Murkit Gem’, feat. Piya Malik
EL MICHELS AFFAIR are going all out with the most transporting global groove these days; witness the brilliance of “Dhuaan”, the Hindu funk exotica single drop from last summer, which seems to wizard into being the kind of 7″ you can only crate-dig in some 4am dream. Such a tune can’t really exist, right; can …
TRACK: El Michels Affair – ‘Dhuaan’/’Sha Na Na’: 60s’ exotica brilliance from Big Crown
BROOKLYN’S Big Crown – well, in short, they’ve only gone and done it again. The label of love which just keeps producing cracking little 7″s for lovers of exotic and retro soul, funk and grooves – in short, the kinda 7″ you only usually find when you’re digging in the crates in your dreams, records …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Watch: Freddie Gibbs, Madlib and El Michels Affair Tear It Up At The Diamond Mine Sessions
If the world has got you down or quarantining is making you climb the walls, Freddie Gibbs, Madlib and El Michels Affair are here to raise your spirits. Gibbs, the gritty Gary, Indiana emcee, who now lives in Los Angeles, and the legendary producer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist Madlib, have formed a fruitful partnership over the …
Meet: Leon Michels / El Michels Affair on new album Adult Themes and more
Leon Michels is a talented man. Inbetween working with a who’s who of talent as a musician, including a brief spell as part of Wu-Tang’s touring band, he started making music under his own steam with the express intention that it be sampled by hip-hop producers. This worked, with songs by the likes of Jay …
Track: El Michels Affair – Life of Pablo
El Michels Affair, essentially Brooklyn producer/musician Leon Michels is preparing for the release of his new album ‘Adult Themes’, and ahead of it he’s brought out the third single to be taken from the record, Life of Pablo, out now via Big Crown Records. Life of Pablo has such a laid back warmth about it, …