Victor Axelrod- If You Asked Me To...Label: Daptone Released 9 22 2023 If youre a fan of Daptone Records, chances are youve read or heard the name Victor Axelrod, and even if you havent, youve heard music from his hand. As a producer, arranger, recording and mixing engineer, and keyboardist, his creativity has extended across more than two decades of the labels releases, even dating to its prehistory with Desco Records. Featuring previously unreleased tracks by Sugar Minott and Binky

with Brown completing one final Directions release on his own before retiring the moniker

Clouds in My Heart

Outbound Line

They played a few gigs and broke up shortly after

Exclusively available for Record Store Day 2021

12 Change on Me

Silver Haze

Dream Gone By

Post No Bill

they helped develop a style of music that took hardcore into convulsive new territory

frantic precision

inviting album