Mike Ladd

• Name — Mike Ladd • Birthplace — Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. • Origin — Paris, France • Genre — Hip-hop • Occupation — * Rapper • record producer spoken word artist • Years Active — 1997–present • Label — * Scratchie • Ozone • Likemadd • Big Dada • Definitive Jux • Studio!K7 • Thirsty Ear • ROIR • Marathon of Dope

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

Ladd's debut 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. He has also released several collaborative albums with jazz pianist Vijay Iyer.

• Easy Listening 4 Armageddon (1997) • Welcome to the Afterfuture (2000) • Gun Hill Road (2000) (as The Infesticons) • Beauty Party (2003) (as The Majesticons) • In What Language? (2003) (with Vijay Iyer) • Nostalgialator (2004) • 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 Veterans' Dreams Project (2013) (with Vijay Iyer) • Gain (2016) (with Jeff Parker, High Priest, and Tyshawn Sorey, as Illtet) • Epiphany (2017) (with Mankwe Ndosi, Sylvain Kassap, and Dana Hall) • La chose commune (2017) (with Emmanuel Bex, David Lescot, Elise Caron, Géraldine Laurent, and Simon Goubert) • Visions of Selam (2018) (with Arat Kilo and Mamani Keita) • 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 from Paris (2000)

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

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

• 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)

• 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)

Mike Ladd is recorded as musician, record producer, composer, rapper and poet.