Mike Ladd

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Mike Ladd is an American alternative hip-hop artist. Based in Paris, France,[1] The Guardian once described him as "the king of the hip-hop concept."[2]

Early life

Mike Ladd was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[3][4] As a child, he lived in India and Zimbabwe for a while.[5] He graduated from Hampshire College.[6]

Career

Ladd's debut studio album, Easy Listening 4 Armageddon, was released in 1997.[7] He released Welcome to the Afterfuture in 2000.[8] Nostalgialator was released in 2004.[9] In 2005, he released Negrophilia: The Album, which was inspired by Petrine Archer-Straw's book of the same name.[10] In that year, he also released Father Divine on ROIR.[11] He has also released several collaborative albums with jazz pianist Vijay Iyer.[12]

Style and influences

Mike Ladd's influences range from Funkadelic to King Tubby, Minor Threat, and Charles Stepney.[13]

Discography

Studio albums

  • Easy Listening 4 Armageddon (1997)
  • Welcome to the Afterfuture (2000)
  • Gun Hill Road (2000) (as The Infesticons)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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  • In What Language? (2003) (with Vijay Iyer)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Nostalgialator (2004)
  • Negrophilia: The Album (2005)
  • Father Divine (2005)
  • Still Life with Commentator (2007) (with Vijay Iyer)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Maison Hantée (2008) (with Alexandre Pierrepont)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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  • Why Waste Time (2012) (as Sleeping in Vilna)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project (2013) (with Vijay Iyer)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Gain (2016) (with Jeff Parker, High Priest, and Tyshawn Sorey, as Illtet)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Epiphany (2017) (with Mankwe Ndosi, Sylvain Kassap, and Dana Hall)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • La chose commune (2017) (with Emmanuel Bex, David Lescot, Elise Caron, Géraldine Laurent, and Simon Goubert)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Visions of Selam (2018) (with Arat Kilo and Mamani Keita)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • The Dead Can Rap (2020)
  • Transatlantic (2023) (with David Sztanke Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)
  • EXILLIANS (2023) (with MIKE LADD, T.I.E, JUICE ALEEM)

Live albums

  • Live from Paris (2000)

EPs

  • Vernacular Homicide (2001)
  • Kids and Animals (2011)

Singles

  • "Blah Blah" (1998)
  • "5000 Miles" / "Planet 10" (2000)
  • "Activator Cowboy" (2001)
  • "Wild Out Day" / "Jet Pack" (2003)
  • "Housewives at Play" (2004)
  • "Shake It" (2004)

Guest appearances

  • Youngblood Brass Band - "Peace" from Unlearn (2000)
  • Mr. Flash - "Basementized Soul" from Le Voyage Fantastique (2001)
  • Thawfor - "Where Thawght Is Worshipped 2.2" from Where Thawght Is Worshiped (2001)
  • The Opus - "Where Thawght Is Worshipped 3.0" from 0.0.0. (2002)
  • Terranova - "Sublime" and "Heroes" from Hitchhiking Non-Stop with No Particular Destination (2002)
  • Emmanuel Santarromana - "Les Halles" from Métropolitain (2003)
  • Huge Voodoo - "NYPD Blues" from Affordable Magic (2003)
  • Sonic Sum - "Films" from Films (2004)
  • Jackson and His Computerband - "TV Dogs (Cathodica's Letter)" from Smash (2005)
  • Daedelus - "Welcome Home" from Exquisite Corpse (2005)
  • Stacs of Stamina - "Baghdad Boogie" from Tivoli (2005)
  • Blue Sky Black Death - "Long Division" from A Heap of Broken Images (2006)
  • Coldcut - "Everything Is Under Control" from Sound Mirrors (2006)
  • Soylent Green - "Eating People" from Software and Hardwar (2006)
  • dDamage - "Alphabet & Burners" from Shimmy Shimmy Blade (2006)
  • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer - "Machiavelli vs. Lao Tseu" and "Machiavelli vs. Lao Tseu (Remix)" from Mo' Dougly Weird Stories (2007)
  • Apollo Heights - "Missed Again" from Disco Lights (2007)
  • Grand Pianoramax - "Showdown" from The Biggest Piano in Town (2008)
  • Arsenal - "Turn Me Loose" from Lotuk (2008)
  • Solex vs. Cristina Martinez & Jon Spencer - "R Is for Ring-A-Ding" and "Action" from Amsterdam Throwdown King Street Showdown! (2009)
  • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer with Jessica Fitoussi - "Dirty Finders" from Modonut (2009)
  • DJ Spooky - "Known Unknowns" from The Secret Song (2009)
  • U-God - "Lipton" from Dopium (2009)
  • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer - "Norman Bates" from Remi Domost (2010)
  • Walker Barnard - "Ooty on Wax" and "Ooty on Wax (Iron Curtis Remix)" from Alacazam (2011)
  • Grand Pianoramax - "Domestic Bliss" from Smooth Danger (2011)
  • Birdapres - "Not the Only Man" from Catch an L (2011)
  • Busdriver - "Electric Blue" from Beaus$Eros (2012)
  • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer - "Life at the 9th" from Modonut 2 (2012)
  • Roberto Fonseca - "Mi Negra Ave Maria" from Yo (2012)
  • Ben Muller - "The Last One to Preach" (2013)
  • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer - "Wild Gun Mike" from Modonut Invasion (2013)
  • Dr. John - "Mack the Knife" from Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch (2014)
  • Nevche - "Rendez-Nous L'Argent" from Rétroviseur (2014)
  • Uncommon Nasa - "Black Hole" from Written at Night (2017)
  • R.A.P. Ferreira - "An Idea Is a Work of Art" from Purple Moonlight Pages (2020)
  • Billy Woods - "Christine" from Aethiopes (2022)

Remixes

  • Enrico Macias - "Le Vent Du Sud (Mike Ladd Remix)" from Enrico Experience (2000)
  • Yo La Tengo - "Nuclear War (Version 4)" (2002)
  • Antipop Consortium - "Ghostlawns (Mike Ladd Mix)" (2002)
  • Yameen - "Spirit Walker (Mike Ladd Remix)" from Never Knows More (2009)

References

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