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Origin
  
Paris, France

Role
  
Hip-hop artist

Occupation(s)
  
Rapper, producer

Education
  
Years active
  
1997–present

Genres
  
Hip hop music

Name
  
Mike Ladd


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Associated acts
  
Vijay Iyer, Alexandre Pierrepont, Sleeping in Vilna, The Infesticons, The Majesticons, Anarchist Republic of Bzzz

Albums
  
Still Life With Commentator

Record labels
  
Big Dada, Definitive Jux, Thirsty Ear Recordings, Studio !K7, ROIR, Scratchie Records, Pi Recordings

Similar People
  
Vijay Iyer, Emmanuel Bex, Nico Morelli, Ornette, Stephane Kerecki

Profiles

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Mike Ladd is an American hip hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts. The Guardian described him as "the king of the hip-hop concept." He has released several collaborative albums with jazz pianist Vijay Iyer.

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Life and career

Mike Ladd was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Hampshire College. He is based in Paris, France.

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Mike Ladd's first studio album, Easy Listening 4 Armageddon, was released in 1997. He released Welcome to the Afterfuture in 2000. Nostalgialator was released in 2004. In 2005, he released Negrophilia: The Album, which was inspired by Petrine Archer-Straw's book of the same name. In that year, he also released Father Divine on ROIR.

Style and influences

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

Studio albums

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  • Easy Listening 4 Armageddon (1997)
  • Welcome to the Afterfuture (2000)
  • Gun Hill Road (2000) (as The Infesticons)
  • Beauty Party (2003) (as The Majesticons)
  • Nostalgialator (2004)
  • In What Language? (2004) (with Vijay Iyer)
  • Negrophilia: The Album (2005)
  • Father Divine (2005)
  • Still Life with Commentator (2007) (with Vijay Iyer)
  • Maison Hantée (2008) (with Alexandre Pierrepont)
  • Anarchist Republic of Bzzz (2009) (as Anarchist Republic of Bzzz)
  • Bedford Park (2010) (as The Infesticons)
  • Why Waste Time (2012) (as Sleeping in Vilna)
  • Holding It Down: The Veteran's Dreams Project (2013) (with Vijay Iyer)
  • Gain (2016) (with Jeff Parker, HPrizm/High Priest, and Tyshawn Sorey, as Illtet)
  • Live albums

  • Live from Paris (2000)
  • EPs

  • Vernacular Homocide (2001)
  • Kids and Animals (2011)
  • Singles

  • "Blah Blah" (1998)
  • "5000 Miles" b/w "Planet 10" (2000)
  • "Activator Cowboy" (2001)
  • "Wild Out Day" b/w "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 Computer Band - "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)
  • 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

    Mike Ladd Wikipedia