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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
American funk/soul band
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Bosco Mann
Bosco Mann
American musician, record producer and co-founder of Daptone Records
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Easy Star All-Stars
Easy Star All-Stars
band
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Sharon Jones
Sharon Jones
American soul funk singer from NYC
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Gaudi
Gaudi
Italian composer
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Liondub
Liondub
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The Budos Band
The Budos Band
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Victor Rice
Victor Rice
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Jordan McLean
Jordan McLean
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Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson
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Selan
Selan
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John Brown's Body
John Brown's Body
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Lee Fields
Lee Fields
American singer
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Plump DJs
Plump DJs
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New Kingston
New Kingston
U.S. reggae group
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Thomas Gandey
Thomas Gandey
British musician
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Shapeshifter
Shapeshifter
New Zealand musical group
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MK
MK
American DJ and record producer
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Caspa
Caspa
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Spank Rock
Spank Rock
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Novalima
Novalima
Peruvian Electronica band
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Ian Hendrickson-Smith
Ian Hendrickson-Smith
musical artist
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Vic Ruggiero
Vic Ruggiero
musician, songwriter and producer from New York City
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The Charlatans
The Charlatans
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Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse
English singer and songwriter
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Adrian Sherwood
Adrian Sherwood
British record producer
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Mad Professor
Mad Professor
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Passafire
Passafire
American reggae rock band
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Basque Dub Foundation
Basque Dub Foundation
band
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Mike Skinner
Mike Skinner
English rapper
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Phillip Leo
Phillip Leo
Singer, Songwriter and Producer
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Third World
Third World
Jamaican reggae band
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Geoffrey Chung
Geoffrey Chung
Jamaican record producer
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Glen Brown
Glen Brown
Jamaican musician
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Groundation
Groundation
band
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Collie Buddz
Collie Buddz
Bermudian musician
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Muneshine
Muneshine
Canadian musician
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Congorock
Congorock
music producer
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Roger O'Donnell
Roger O'Donnell
English keyboardist best known for his work with The Cure
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Rebelution
Rebelution
reggae music band
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M. J. Cole
M. J. Cole
English house and UK garage producer and remixer
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Gladstone Anderson
Gladstone Anderson
Jamaican musician
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The Orb
The Orb
English electronic music group
Victor Axelrod
American musician

Victor Axelrod

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American musician
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Music

Victor Axelrod is an American musician, producer, and audio engineer from Brooklyn, New York. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked primarily in the genres of reggae, Afrobeat and soul, recording and producing under his own name and using the alias Ticklah.

Axelrod became a founding member of Antibalas and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings after meeting musicians Martin Perna and Gabe Roth (a.k.a. Bosco Mann) in the late 1990s.

Starting in 1996, Axelrod appeared as a session musician playing keyboards for Easy Star Records, a New York City independent reggae label. This studio relationship eventually resulted in him taking on the role of co-producer and engineer of the label's release Dub Side of the Moon, a 2003 dub reggae reinterpretation of the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon recorded by the Easy Star All-Stars.

By 2002, both Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and Antibalas had begun touring and were in high demand. Being in both bands was no longer feasible, so Axelrod decided to focus his attention solely on Antibalas. However, he continued to occasionally appear on subsequent recordings playing keyboard and organ for Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Axelrod eventually left Antibalas in 2013.

In 2006, producer Mark Ronson hired Axelrod and other members of the Dap-Kings to play on the Amy Winehouse album Back to Black. This was to be the first of many Ronson productions where he utilized Axelrod and this group of musicians. The collective appeared on three of Ronson's solo albums (Version, Record Collection, Late Night Feelings) along with soundtracks, remixes and special projects with artists including Rufus Wainwright, Lady Gaga, Adele, Daniel Merriweather, Lily Allen, Miike Snow and Erykah Badu.

In 2007, Easy Star Records released an Axelrod solo album, Ticklah vs. Axelrod, continuing his relationship with the label. The record was a mixture of instrumental, dub and vocal tracks featuring Vinia Mojica, Rob Symeonn, Tamar-kali, Mayra Vega and Mikey General.

In 2008, Axelrod remixed the popular Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings song "How Long Do I Have to Wait for You” in a rocksteady style. Originally appearing on the Scion sampler compilation Volume 19: Daptone Records Remixed, this track was later released as a single on Daptone Records. Wanting to build on the momentum of its success, Daptone encouraged Axelrod to make more recordings for the label in a similar vein. This instigation would result in a series of singles that would feature such singers as Bob and Gene, Charles Bradley, Leon Dinero, Screechy Dan, and the band The Frightnrs.

Concurrently, in 2008, Axelrod partnered with New York City reggae and jungle DJ Liondub to release singles on his new sublabel Liondub 45. This gave Axelrod another outlet to release various reggae music he was making with both established and up-and-coming artists. Releases included collaborations between Axelrod and Sugar Minott, Judah Eskender Tafari, Jahdan Blakkemoore, Courtney John, and Victor Rice.

In 2011, guitarist/producer Jay Nugent enlisted Axelrod to engineer an EP that he was producing for The Frightnrs, a reggae band from Queens, NY. Following that, Axelrod began to work extensively with the group, serving as the producer and engineer on two acclaimed projects: Inna Lovers Quarrel EP which was released by Diplo’s label Mad Decent label in 2015 and the album Nothing More to Say, released by Daptone Records in 2016.

Despite their resemblance, Victor Axelrod is not related to Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry.