david axelrod

While best known as an actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS), David McCallum’s David Axelrod-produced ’60s records have been sampled by Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, DJ Shadow, Masta Ace, and more.

This week: Laibach cover ’The Sound of Music’ via North Korea; Jacco Gardner goes instrumental; and new reissues from The Spinanes, Sloan and David Axelrod.

…and Weezer’s Africa-shaped picture disc for their ”Africa” cover.

While he may not be a household name, his jazzy, groovy, lounge-y records from the late ’60s were a well that ’90s-era hip hop would go to again and again, his music being sampled on records by Lauryn Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, DJ-Shadow, De La Soul, The Beatnuts, Dr Dre.