Artist: El Michels Affair
Title: Tribute To Isaac Hayes
Release Date: n/a
Catalogue Number: TS027
Artist Page: El Michels Affair
One of the greats has passed and Truth & Soul has compiled a EP of Isaac Hayes covers to pay tribute to one of the most talented and innovative songwriters of the twentieth century. One of the creative forces behind Stax Records, Isaac Hayes has left behind a body of work that includes legendary film score, Shaft, classic albums such as Black Moses and Hot Buttered Soul, and of course, "Chocolate Salty Balls". El Michels has had a history of covering Isaac Hayes compositions and no one does it better then them. The EP features El Michels Affair doing reinterpolations of Shaft, Walk On By, Run Fay Run, Hung Up On My Baby, Red Rooster, Bumpy's Lament, and an additional remix of Walk on By.
"Considering how dense Hayes's version of "Walk On By" is, the El Michels Affair goes with a sparser approach, stripping the song down to the essence of its rhythmic thump and melodic sizzle." - NPR
"El Michels covers a fairly well known Hayes song with all the swagger of a 70s-era Stax house band, a touch of Funkadelic-like horns, and recorded by an engineer drunk off heavy-ass Reggae." -brooklynbodega.com
