Cult composer/arranger/songwriter David Axelrod's myspace site lists his top friends as Dr Dre, DJ Shadow, Snoop Dog and Eminem amongst others. Well you might expect these chaps as he has been heavily sampled and well respected by their genre but who is that on the left before Eminem..........It's The Chemistry Set! Mr Axelrod says of their music "Real music! music that makes you think and really listen to". London Psychedelic-Pop band The Chemistry Set have quite a history. Veterans of the late 80s neo-psychedelic boom, their music received regular airplay on John Peel’s show (Peel went so far as to sending the band a hand-written fan letter), featured in the mainstream and underground music press and the band appeared on the late, legendary Tony Wilson’s television show, who proclaimed himself to be a huge fan of the band. The first official release was in 1988, an eponymous cassette of bedroom demos, released on the Acid Tapes label. This was followed by a flurry of flexi discs, (for younger readers, these were 7” floppy plastic records that used to last for about 5 plays if you were lucky!) and for a period from 1988 – 1990, it seemed that every other fanzine was including a Chemistry Set flexi disc, giving the band a healthy international fan base. In the days before the internet, the only way to find out what was going on in the world of psychedelia was through fanzines, and The Chemistry Set were being featured in these mags in the UK, Spain, Italy, Holland, Gre