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Encyclopedia > Mike Ladd
For the Australian poet, see Mike Ladd (poet).

Mike Ladd is a hip-hop MC and producer. As an MC, he practices spoken-word and is known for his poetic lyrics. As a producer, he is known as the owner of the Likemadd label. Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Rap redirects here. ... Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music. ... Spoken word is a form of literary art or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ...

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History

Before entering the world of music, he won the Nuyorican Poets Café Slam and was published in the 1996 protest tome In Defense of Mumia. In 1997, he released his first album (on Scratchie) entitled Easy Listening 4 Armageddon. For his next two releases (Welcome To The Afterfuture LP and Vernacular Homicide EP) , he concluded a deal with Ozone Music. Afterwards he began a trilogy staging a battle between the good and the evil (represented by The Infesticons and Majesticons, respectively), which the two first LPs were released on Big Dada in 2000 (Gun Hill Road) and 2003 (Beauty Party).His last record Father Divine has been released on ROIR and co-produced by Gymkhana. He currently lives in Paris with his wife and kid. With pianist and composer Vijay Iyer he released a song cycle about the post-9/11 world In What Language?, in 2003. For the band, see 1997 (band). ... A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... // Extended play (EP) is the name typically given to vinyl records or CDs which contain more than one single but are too short to qualify as albums. ... Big Dada is Ninja Tunes Hip Hop imprint. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline for Music. ... Vijay Iyer is a New York based pianist and composer. ...


He features on the tracks "Sublime" and "Heroes" with Terranova on their 2002 record Hitchhiking Non-Stop With No Particular Destination. He also does vocals for the Jackson and his Computer Band song TV Dogs (Cathodica's Letter) from the album Smash. Terranova Logo Terranova is a German band made up of current members Fetisch, Marco Meister and Kaos. ... Jackson Fourgeaud Jackson and His Computer Band is an IDM artist signed to Warp Records consisting of Jackson Fourgeaud, a 26-year-old Parisian composer. ... Smash is the debut album from Jackson and his Computer Band. ...


Discography

Albums

As Mike Ladd:

  • Easy Listening 4 Armageddon (1997)
  • Live from Paris (2000)
  • Welcome to the Afterfuture (2000)
  • Nostalgialator (2004 on !K7, 2008 on Definitive Jux)
  • Negrophilia: The Album (2005)
  • Father Divine (2005)

As The Infesticons: Studio !K7 is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany that focuses mostly on electronic music. ... Definitive Jux or Def Jux (both shortened forms of Definitive Juxtaposition) is an independent hip hop record label based in New York City, United States, co-founded in 1999 by former Company Flow member El-P (real name Jaime Meline) and Amaechi Uzoigwe. ...

  • Gun Hill Road (2000)

As The Majesticons:

  • Beauty Party (2003)

Featured on

  • "Welcome Home (feat. Mike Ladd)" by Daedelus (Exquisite Corpse - 2005)
  • Long Division by Blue Sky Black Death (A Heap of Broken Images - 2006)
  • Eating People feat. Mike Ladd by Soylent Green (Software And Hardwar - 2006)
  • Missed Again (Apollo Heights and Mike Ladd) Disco Lights digital single- 2007

Alfred Weisberg-Roberts (also known as Daedelus) is an experimental electronic artist based out of Los Angeles, California. ... Exquisite Corpse is an album by Daedelus, an American hip hop experimental and electronic artist. ... Blue Sky Black Death (short BSBD) is an alternative hip hop production duo from San Francisco, California. ... A Heap of Broken Images is the debut album by Hip Hop production duo Blue Sky Black Death, released June 23, 2006 on Mush Records. ... For the metal band, see Soilent Green. ...

External links

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Low-Life | UK Hip Hop Story | International | Mike Ladd - Nostalgialator CD [!K7] (904 words)
Mike Ladd thought this was a good idea and through his lyrics shows that he would be glad if Bush went to Mars now and left us to clear up his mess.
Mike Ladd is confident and with the breadth of styles portrayed there isn't really any need for guest appearances on this record and so there are none.
Mike Ladd has said that this LP follows on from the Armageddon works and is meant to represent the After Future.
BU Alumni Web :: Bostonia :: Winter 2001 (891 words)
Ladd's lyrics are no easier to classify than he is. Those lines — which revel in the self-celebration, internal rhyme, and rampant simile characteristic of hip-hop, plus a range of allusion that stretches from antiquity into the 1960s — also scan as iambic pentameter.
Ladd crosses the Concourse, carefully, several times a day — moving between the apartment he shares with writer and actor Mums, who plays a character named Poet on the HBO prison drama Oz, and the apartment of Fred Ones, who engineers much of Ladd's music in his home studio.
Ladd is working today on his contribution to an album that a friend is producing —; a compilation of instrumental hip-hop tracks with time-signatures other than the standard 2/4 and 4/4.
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