Mike Ladd

Mike Ladd is a hip hop artist. He is an owner of the Likemadd label.

Biography

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Mike Ladd is influenced by Funkadelic, Charles Stepney, Bad Brains, Burt Bacharach, Kraftwerk, Bollywood, Jungle Brothers and Divine Styler.

Mike Ladd has released several solo albums, including Easy Listening 4 Armageddon, Welcome To The Afterfuture, Negrophilia, Father Divine and Nostalgialator. He also released Gun Hill Road as The Infesticons and Beauty Party as The Majesticons. He released two collaborative albums, In What Language? and Still Life With Commentator, with jazz pianist Vijay Iyer. He has collaborated with artists such as Company Flow, Rob Sonic, Saul Williams, U-God, Busdriver, Blue Sky Black Death, Daedelus, Jackson and his Computer Band, Coldcut, DJ Spooky among others. He has remixed songs for the likes of Yo La Tengo, Antipop Consortium and Enrico Macias. Mike Ladd has toured extensively for several years throughout America, Europe and Asia, establishing a cult following in the process.

Mike Ladd received his B.A. in Black expatriates in the Nineteenth century from Hampshire College and an M.A. in Poetry from Boston University. As a Fellow at the Institute for Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University, he produced and directed Blood Black and Blue, an audio documentary/performance about Black police officers in the United States. In 2005, he completed a fellowship at the Asia Society, where he created a musical/theatrical/visual installation In What Language? with Vijay Iyer. It was a project about people of color in relation to globalization in the context of airports. They also put up another installation Still Life with Commentator, which was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music for 5 nights of performances.

Mike Ladd has been published in several literary magazines including Long Shot Review and Bostonia. His work is also featured in the book Swing Low, Black Men Writing and several anthologies, including, Aloud: Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Café, In Defense Of Mumia, Bum Rush The Page, Por La Victoire and Everything But The Burden.

Mike Ladd now lives in Paris with his wife, daughter and son.^[1]

Discography

Albums

• Easy Listening 4 Armageddon (1997)
• Live From Paris (2000)
• Welcome To The Afterfuture (2000)
• Vernacular Homicide (2001)
• Nostalgialator (2004)
• Negrophilia: The Album (2005)
• Father Divine (2005)
• Kids And Animals (2011)

Collaboration albums

• Gun Hill Road (2000) as The Infesticons
• Beauty Party (2003) as The Majesticons
• In What Language? (2004) with Vijay Iyer
• Still Life With Commentator (2007) with Vijay Iyer
• Anarchist Republic Of Bzzz (2009) as Anarchist Republic Of Bzzz
• Bedford Park (2010) as The Infesticons

Guest appearances

• "Peace" by Youngblood Brass Band on Unlearn (2000)
• "Sublime" "Heroes" by Terranova on Hitchhiking Non-Stop With No Particular Destination (2002)
• "Les Halles" by Emmanuel Santarromana on Métropolitain (2003)
• "Films" by Sonic Sum on Films (2004)
• "TV Dogs (Cathodica's Letter)" by Jackson and his Computer Band on Smash (2005)
• "Welcome Home" by Daedelus on Exquisite Corpse (2005)
• "Long Division" by Blue Sky Black Death on A Heap of Broken Images (2006)
• "Everything Is Under Control" by Coldcut on Sound Mirrors (2006)
• "Eating People" by Soylent Green on Software And Hardwar (2006)
• "Alphabet & Burners" by dDamage on Shimmy Shimmy Blade (2006)
• "Missed Again" by Apollo Heights on Disco Lights (2007)
• "Showdown" by Grand Pianoramax on The Biggest Piano in Town (2008)
• "Turn Me Loose" by Arsenal on Lotuk (2008)
• "R Is For Ring-A-Ding" by Solex vs. Christina Martinez & Jon Spencer on Amsterdam Throwdown King Street Showdown! (2009)
• "Known Unknowns" by DJ Spooky on The Secret Song (2009)
• "Lipton" by U-God on Dopium (2009)
• "Not The Only Man" by Birdapres on Catch An L (2011)
• "Electric Blue" by Busdriver on Beaus$Eros (2012)

Remixes

• "Le Vent Du Sud" by Enrico Macias on Enrico Experience (2000)
• "Nuclear War" by Yo La Tengo on Nuclear War (2002)
• "Ghostlawns" by Antipop Consortium on Ghostlawns (2002)

References

External links

• Official website
• Mike Ladd on Myspace
• Mike Ladd discography at Discogs

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