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Mike Ladd - Welcome to the Afterfuture (CD)

Welcome to the Afterfuture
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Album Details: Welcome to the Afterfuture

Release Date:03/07/2000
Label:Ozone [Caroline]
UPC:600308881020

Track List: Welcome to the Afterfuture

  1. 5000 Miles West of the Future
  2. Airwave Hysteria
  3. Planet 10
  4. Takes More Than 41
  5. Bladerunners
  6. No. 1 St.
  7. To the Moon's Contractor
  1. I Feel Like $100
  2. Animist
  3. Red Eye to Jupiter (Starship Nigga)
  4. Welcome to the Afterfuture
  5. Wipe Out on the Wave of Armageddon
  6. Feb. 4 '99 (For All Those Killed...

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User Reviews: Welcome to the Afterfuture

  • Overall:

    puff a blunt and chillllll music.

    By roasted_skunk  Feb 27, 2001

    not for the shallow listeners. this is one of those albums that takes many many listens to understand and appreciate fully. if you like anti-pop or sonic sum, this album is a must-have. i don't think ozone is capable of putting out a record not wo...rth listening to. if you like underground hip hop, check it out. but don't expect an easy listen. Read more Less

  • Overall:

    odd, amazing album

    By Paul Simpson  Oct 20, 2000

    took me a while to get into this.... but im glad i did. its very odd, lots of weird beats and sounds and noises and voices..... but once you get into it, you fall in love. I like the mainly instrumental tracks a lot too. if you like Last Poets you m...ight like this.Bonus points for referencing The Fall!ROCK!KID P Read more Less

Pro Reviews: Welcome to the Afterfuture

  • All Music Guide

    After a decade of underground recognition, New York-based producer/lyricist Mike Ladd has emerged since 1998 as the hip-hop scene's prime genius. Easy Listening 4 Armageddon put him on the map, the all-star Infesticons album put him over, and Welcome to the Afterfuture is the articulation of a musical vision. Whether it will pan out in the real future is another matter, but at least it stands a chance. Welcome to the Afterfuture is a blender of sounds and styles and epitomizes the search that is leading cutting-edge hip-hop further into avant-garde and non-Western musical traditions. "Airwave Hysteria" has a sweet bollywood sample with a tight chorus broken up by some hypnotic scratching. The ring mod and time-stretched vocals on "Planet 10" are reminiscent of a Kid 606 album. There's a number of good tracks, but a few stand out, particularly "5000 Miles," where Ladd gets to display his lyrical skills ("I'm 5000 miles west/Of my future/Where's my floating car/My utopia") against fuzzed... bass and organ figures. He gets props for entering the sci-fi realm without sounding like another Kool Keith carbon, although you might argue that it's simply more futurist than sci-fi per se. The most out track is "I Feel Like 100 Dollars"; it would be difficult to create more chaos at a slower tempo, for sure. There's some nice Air-esque jamming on "To the Moon's Contractor," and the title track features a crunked funk dissection of contemporary ills via -Nova Express. Not so successful is the cut "No. 1 St.," which falls into all the pitfalls of trying too hard, with self-important rhyming. It's not often that album reviews name check Ezra Pound, Mogwai, and Run-D.M.C., so buy this album. If hip-hop should have a tradition, then this is it -- experimentation. - Brian Whitener, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Mike Ladd

Mike Ladd is an iconoclast hip-hop figure, a producer with studio smarts and an intelligent MC as well, but a man with a wide-ranging set of aims that occasionally interfere with his 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 maest... Read more