Ticklah vs. Axelrod

Reviewed the new album by the Antibalis afrobeat collective member Victor Axelrod for Detour-Mag.com. Axelrod responded to the review and had some interesting things to say.

Excerpt:

Who are Ticklah and Axelrod and what’s their beef? As it happens, they’re the same person, Victor Axelrod, member of Antibalis, the Brooklyn-based afrobeat collective and (as Ticklah) co-producer of the novel 2003 Pink Floyd redux Dub Side of the Moon. So, the conflict? It’s all in his head. And considering that Axelrod has drenched these 12 reggae blends in the ech-ech-echo of space-aged dub, it’s clear that the clash he has in mind is one of style – a sound battle between the genre’s two primordial innovators, King Tubby and Lee “Scratch” Perry. Is it a question of the Beatles vs the Stones? Is dub similarly irreconcilable? Is Axelrod taking sides between Perry’s thin and trebly but brilliantly demon-possessed productions and the higher fidelity of Tubby’s more austere, bass-bullying cuts? Can he even do that?

Read the full review here.

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