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	Low-Life \| UK Hip Hop Story \| International \| Mike Ladd - Nostalgialator CD [!K7]
		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.
	www.ukhh.com /bhh/international/mike_ladd-nostalgialator.htm (904 words)

	BU Alumni Web :: Bostonia :: Winter 2001
		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.
	www.bu.edu /alumni/bostonia/2001/winter/ladd (891 words)

	Mike Ladd - Vocals and Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mike is the result of a little known early attempt at human cloning.
		His parents, Mike sample 8523266b and Mike sample 462257645p had high hopes for their offspring which he crushed early on by deciding to play rock and roll.
		Mike tried a number of instruments; glockenspiel, empty coconuts, pan flute, harpsichord, lute and a pantheon of others, before settling on guitar "because it's noisy".
	www.toyrobotgraphics.com /valves/mike.htm (736 words)

	Mike Ladd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mike Ladd isn't some gat-toting gangsta aiming to start a turf war with Snoop Doggy Dogg.
		And though he is from the Boston area, he's not trying to inflame East Coast/West Coast rivalries with his characterization of one of the other coast's biggest living gangsta stars.
		Ladd calls his thing "non-boxable," as in something that's not easily categorized.
	www.worcesterphoenix.com /archive/music/97/04/25/MIKE_LADD.html (692 words)

	The world according to Mike Ladd - The Boston Globe
		It also introduced Ladd, now based in Paris, to an audience larger than the esoteric circles of intellectual hip-hop and poetry slams where he is something of a reluctant cult figure.
		For the biracial Ladd, who was playing bass and drums in a band modeled on Funkadelic, the rapprochement between supposedly ''fl" and ''white" genres had the force of catharsis.
		Back in New York, Ladd and friends embarked on an urban exodus, leaving Brooklyn at the same time that all the hipsters were moving in, and setting up in the North Bronx neighborhood of Bedford Park, where the relative anonymity gave him creative space.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/11/20/the_world_according_to_mike_ladd (1175 words)

	Mike Ladd - Vocals and Guitar
		Mike is the result of a little known early attempt at human cloning.
		His parents, Mike sample 8523266b and Mike sample 462257645p had high hopes for their offspring which he crushed early on by deciding to play rock and roll.
		Mike tried a number of instruments; glockenspiel, empty coconuts, pan flute, harpsichord, lute and a pantheon of others, before settling on guitar "because it's noisy".
	the-valves.net /mike.htm (736 words)

	MIKE LADD NOSTALGIATOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mike Ladd heeft een merkwaardig muzikaal parcours: als tiener speelde hij in een punkgroep, maar op hetzelfde moment was hij al in de ban van hiphop.
		MIKE LADD: With lyrics you're still trying to make something that can be picked up easily on the first time, even if there's another meaning behind it.
		MIKE LADD: It's actually more exciting and more interesting to me to hear when people have a totally different interpretation of a piece.
	www.cucamonga.be /interviews/MikeLadd0704.htm (1045 words)

	Somnambule ~ Review of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd + Future Sounds Of Jazz, London Jazz Festival 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd might not be the main attraction for most of the audience on this, the opening night of the London Jazz Festival, but it’s to be hoped that one day they will be.
		Ladd’s delivery is generally wry, but also tinged with wonder as he mouths an imaginary talkshow interview with Laura Bush against a backdrop of plaintive strings.
		If Ladd fulfils the role of seer, poet and committed observer then Iyer, member of NYC conduction ensemble Burnt Sugar and leader of piano trio Fieldwork, is a conjuror of soundworlds and composer of brilliant solos which, if there’s one regret, occur all too infrequently.
	www.eleventhvolume.com /reviews/concerts/files/iyer_ladd_fsj.html (482 words)

	Amazon.com: Welcome to the Afterfuture: Music: Mike Ladd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mike Ladd is not a traditionalist and he manages to develop an original approach to the Hip Hop art form.
		Mike Ladd proves himself to be an intelligent wordsmith and he touches interesting and polemical subjects.
		Ladd is like some kind of millenialist Martin Luther nailing a declaration of righteousness on the hallowed doors of Hip Hop's cathedral(aren't some saints buried in churches?) He is preaching the science of fire and brimstone and political autonomy.
	www.amazon.com /Welcome-Afterfuture-Mike-Ladd/dp/B00004SCFA (1630 words)

	frontwheeldrive.com: mike ladd interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mike's spaced-out beats and intelligent wordplay push the limits of Hip-hop until they break into noisy splinters.
		That said, all of Mike's music runs along a spectrum from head-nodding to mind-expanding, and it often sits dead in the middle, bringing your dome the best of both.
		I think in a way, all of my records have touched on this topic, especially when you are a Black artist doing stuff that doesn't make the mainstream or is esoteric, and you have to contend with a large portion of your audience being white (especially when that wasn't your primary intended audience).
	www.frontwheeldrive.com /mike_ladd.html (1213 words)

	Mike Ladd :: Father Divine :: ROIR
		Ladd has a penchant for grandiose themed projects, in his Majesticons/Infesticons releases he wrapped hip-hop up into a neat two LP set.
		The spacious drifting tracks are free to evolve, as well as provide ample headroom for Ladd to oscillate between his various flows; brick-toothed word-association riffs, heavy-lidded spoken-word, and an occasional despairing moan of a hook.
		Maybe all his fans were on to something, as Ladd has succeeded where many fail; he has combined all forces indie into a magnum opus that is one of the best albums of the year.
	www.rapreviews.com /archive/2006_01_fatherdivine.html (685 words)

	frontwheeldrive.com: mike ladd interview
		Mike's spaced-out beats and intelligent wordplay push the limits of Hip-hop until they break into noisy splinters.
		That said, all of Mike's music runs along a spectrum from head-nodding to mind-expanding, and it often sits dead in the middle, bringing your dome the best of both.
		I think in a way, all of my records have touched on this topic, especially when you are a Black artist doing stuff that doesn't make the mainstream or is esoteric, and you have to contend with a large portion of your audience being white (especially when that wasn't your primary intended audience).
	frontwheeldrive.com /mike_ladd.html (1213 words)

	CD Review of Mike Ladd - Negrophilia, The Album on Thirsty Ear @ jazzreview.com
		Ladd has stretched the meaning of Archer-Shaw’s book to apply to the present perception of fl culture, the whole point being that the derogation of fls has not changed totally.
		Ladd has succeeded in creating a sense of the book, in which are portrayed the stark polarities of the cultural circumstances, through a pointillistic composition in which the mix of electronics, acoustic instruments and vocals tells the story of attempted homogenization within a complete contradiction of terms.
		Ladd’s musical ensemble, which carries within it piano, organ, synthesizer, drums, winds, trumpet, electronic looping, and programming, is directed towards magnifying the lustfulness of the era where flness was sucked into whiteness in the arts, in living style, into fashion, & crafts.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=8553 (618 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Mike Ladd: Father Divine
		In Mike Ladd's case, Father Divine's twenty-four-month gestation period also included the birth of an actual child (as well as a wedding and a move to Paris).
		Ladd wanted to make an album that would evoke the analog rawness of those early tapes, as well as their disregard for genre boundaries.
		Ladd's smart, often almost stream-of-consciousness rhyming enhances every track he's on, but instrumental cuts like "Crooner Island" (which starts out sexy dub and ends up punk rock/new wave slam) are so cunningly constructed that they don't lose anything for Ladd's absence.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=1133181665346303 (351 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Michael Ladd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mike spends most of his time today just trying to keep up with new technology and new communications opportunities that challenge the world of marketing.
		Mike studied architecture at the University of Detroit and Advertising Design at the Center for Creative Studies, both in Detroit, Michigan.
		Mike is a single father of a University of Colorado junior, a freshman at the University of Michigan, and a junior at Lahser High School.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Ladd_Michael_5200527.htm (171 words)

	AsiaSource Interview with Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mike has a fairly large collection of Bollywood music and we tried to delve through it to find something that would be iconically Bollywood-sounding, but we couldn't because it is so hybrid to begin with.
		Mike Ladd: This is a very old point, but if you have any shade that is not white it is difficult to extract politics from what you are doing.
		Mike Ladd: Ishmael Reed, especially in regard to this project, because he has one album called "Conjure" that he did with Taj Mahal which is a wonderful fusion of poetry and music.
	www.asiasource.org /arts/language.cfm (4078 words)

	Poetica - About
		Poetica presenter Mike Ladd has written two essays on poetry for a general audience wanting to find out more about the artform and for those interested in accessing some current Australian poetry titles.
		Mike Ladd is currently producer and presenter of ABC Radio National's Saturday afternoon poetry program PoeticA.
		Mike also writes radio dramas and features which have been broadcast both by the ABC and a number of overseas organisations including the BBC, CBC, NPR, Radio France, RTE Ireland, YLE Finland and many others.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/poetica/about/default.htm (438 words)

	Mike Ladd
		Look at him as a poet performing in relation to a mood-enhancing music track, less concerned with fitting the rhythm than he is with delivering the message; in that respect, he has more in common with Gil Scott-Heron (and to a lesser degree William Burroughs) than with Tricky, to whom he's likely to be compared.
		With solid cuts like "Bush League Junkies," with its brilliant slow-groove loop, and the apocalyptic magnum opus "Blade Runner", this won't be difficult, even when Ladd buries his voice deep in the mix.
		And the title track shows Ladd's lighter side -- a welcome injection of fun after some of the grimmer cuts on the disc.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/sep-8-97/mike.html (174 words)

	MIKE LADD IS LIKE MADD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		D’abord un slogan sur des tee-shirts londoniens, puis Mike Ladd a étendu le cri de ralliement à un authentique mode de vie et d’éthique musicale.
		Aujourd’hui, Mike Ladd a du abandonner son poste pour incompatibilité avec sa double vie de musicien sans cesse en tournée.
		Mike Ladd est aussi le géniteur d’un monde parallèle qui témoigne d’une autre de ses sources majeures d’inspiration : la science fiction.
	www.90bpm.net /grosplan/2002/mike.shtml (1065 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| Mike Ladd, Nostalgialator
		Mike Ladd is the king of the hip-hop concept.
		His 2003 work The Majesticons was his "battle for the soul of fl culture"; this time he positions himself in a post-Armageddon world where the future has ceased to exist and human beings are reliant on gadgets like the Nostalgialator.
		Ladd's concept blurs past and future as he fires space-punk, sirens, old-skool big beats and folk and blues through the musical mincer.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1266888,00.html (165 words)

	[ITM] Mike Ladd: Like madd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		All political, musical and literary, Mike Ladd invents his own brand of self-expression not yet bottled for the masses.
		Ladd elaborates, "First there was 'Easy Listening For Armageddon', then Armageddon came and now we're living in the 'Afterfuture', the period of time after Armageddon.
		Ladd adopts the same level of thoughtfulness and humour to all areas of life.
	www.inthemix.com.au /p/np/viewnews.php?id=16940&printstory=1 (930 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Mike Ladd: Father Divine
		In Mike Ladd's case, Father Divine's twenty-four-month gestation period also included the birth of an actual child (as well as a wedding and a move to Paris).
		Ladd wanted to make an album that would evoke the analog rawness of those early tapes, as well as their disregard for genre boundaries.
		Ladd's smart, often almost stream-of-consciousness rhyming enhances every track he's on, but instrumental cuts like "Crooner Island" (which starts out sexy dub and ends up punk rock/new wave slam) are so cunningly constructed that they don't lose anything for Ladd's absence.
	www.splendidmagazine.com /review.html?reviewid=1133181665346303 (351 words)

	Ladd
		Mike Ladd was born in 1959 and grew up at Blackwood in the Adelaide Hills.
		In the early 1980's Mike Ladd travelled in Europe and Africa.
		Mike has always been interested in collaborations between poetry and other disciplines, and has made poetic works
	www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au /ladd.htm (242 words)

	Mike Ladd - Biography - AOL Music
		The Bronx-based Ladd, whose roots lie in poetry and performance, has close ties to largely spoken-word artists like Saul Williams or Carl Hancock Rux as well as underground rap maestros like El-P or New Flesh.
		Born in Cambridge, MA, Ladd played bass or drums in varying types of garage bands while in high school and gathered a diverse set of influences, ranging from Funkadelic to King Tubby to Minor Threat to the work of Chess staff arranger Charles Stepney.
		Ladd had already recorded a 1998 single for top British underground label Big Dada, and he returned there for his third full-length, 2000's Gun Hill Road.
	music.aol.com /artist/mike-ladd/95979/biography (352 words)

	Mike-Ladd-Black-Atlantic-Artists-Music-Arts-British-Council-USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Check out Mike Ladd's My Space page to read his blog, listen to streaming tracks and get more info about his latest album.
		Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ladd started his career in music in high school by playing bass or drums in a variety of garage bands.
		Ladd is the winner of the Nuyorican Poets Café Slam; his writing was also published in the 1996 protest tome In Defense of Mumia.
	www.britishcouncil.org /usa-arts-music-black-atlantic-artists-mike-ladd.htm (405 words)

	Junkmedia: Mike Ladd : Father Divine
		Father Divine is both a love letter to Mike Ladd's past and to the history of ROIR records.
		Ladd is one of underground/experimental hip-hop's most politically charged voices, while ROIR is best know for releasing innovative Dub records as well as issuing the finest first generation hard core album, Bad Brains self titled debut from 1982.
		Ladd lets his guard down for the first time to wax poetic about his own past, which coincidentally references the era and music that made ROIR a household name.
	www.junkmedia.org /index.php?i=1775 (324 words)

	Mike Ladd: Father Divine: Pitchfork Record Review
		Ladd has assembled a crack band that draws in players from hip-hop (Antipop Consortium's High Priest on keys), jazz (pianist and frequent collaborator Vijay Iyer), rock (TV on the Radio's Jaleel Bunton on guitar), and dub (Raz Mesinai), among other styles.
		Thanks to the band, the album's instrumental tracks are nearly as crucial to the album as the vocal ones, especially "Crooner Island", which opens as a stuttering dub cut, slathered in bass and broad synth strokes from French producer Gymkhana, eventually morphing into a pumping shard of Thunderdome electro.
		Mike Ladd's contribution to Thirsty Ear's Blue Series takes its title from and is inspired by the writings of Petrine Archer-Straw.
	pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/19237/Mike_Ladd_Father_Divine (452 words)

	Big Dada Mike Ladd - Blah Blah
		Mike Ladd has been writing since he was four, hooked on Langston Hughes since eleven and performing in punk bands, funk bands, dolo and with DJ or DAT since he was thirteen.
		Asked to desrcibe his music Mike Ladd falls back on a phrase he picked up a couple of years back.
		The two tracks released on Ladd's first Big Dada single are in marked contrast to his earlier material - harsher, more rhythmic and displaying a true MC's attack.
	www.bigdada.com /release.php?id=8 (632 words)

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