SOS David Axelrod interview

Really dope interview from sound on sound.

I loved this bit

""When people started calling me the king of the drum breaks, I didn't know what the f**k a drum break was!" says David Axelrod. "I called a very good friend of mine who's a drummer, and he said 'I'm not sure what that means either. Do they mean notes of some kind?' I said 'That's what I'm trying to figure out.' I hadn't realised until this started, when I started listening to my stuff again, but I have a habit of breaking up phrases -- I hadn't noticed that before. I'll break up a melodic phrase, and then all of a sudden I'll have a two- or four-bar drum break, or a bass fill, or sometimes it's drums and bass -- but that phrase is broken up. And I don't know why I do that!"




http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Aug01/articles/davidaxelrod.asp

nice read...

damm, Ras Kass on an Axelrod record?!?! tight....

has anyone heard any of the new Axelrod album?

"I have an idea on what I want to do next, and I'm telling you, its going to be a mutherf*cker" Axelrod says.

Dam!!!

"including Lauryn Hill, Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest, and most famously DJ Shadow, whose use and knowledge of Axelrod's work borders on the obsessive."

the guy that wrote this article is a fukkin moron...........LAUREN HILL? what da fuk are you talking about - she's not even a producer let alone nearly the first to discover Axelrod's breaks. Man everybody know that Lord Finesse and crew were the first to discover that shit long with Q-tip and VIC from beatnuts. Also what about Madlib for Lootpack Antidotes LP? Mannnnnnnnnnnn PETE ROCK? Hello!?

I'm over analyzing oh well......


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