David Axelrod ‘The Solid Steel Interview’

RELEASED: 2001
FORMAT: CD
LABEL: n/a
CAT No.: n/a
DESIGN: Openmind
PHOTOGRAPHY: DK
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: Also featured on the 20 years of Solid Steel DVD
EXTRA ZEN: Discogs page

This was DK’s gig the whole way although he was accompanied by his musical partner from Arc, Dean Smith, during the meeting as they are both rabid fans of ‘The Axe’. DK’s resulting mix was a labour of love taking in obscure productions along with the better known ones and a plethora of hip hop records that had sampled Axelrod over the years. At one point, when discussing a Miriam Makeba album, Axelrod cut him dead saying, “How the hell did you know that I made that record?”

Bear in mind this was 2002 and people were still largely unaware of Axelrod’s wider production credits, DK had a spare copy of said album and, as David didn’t own one, dropped it off at his hotel later that night. When it came time to make some CDs, he photographed some of his collection relating to the interview against his old stereogram and we had some suitably retro artwork.