Cargo Records - Catalog

Mike Ladd will go down as one of the most important artists of our time. With albums such as Welcome to the Afterfuture, Negrophilia, Nostalgialator, and through his Infesticons/Majesticons project, Mike makes unclassifiable music in the best possible sense-rock, soul, spoken-word, blues, punk, psychedelia all housed in a hip-hop shell and hatched through Mike's peculiar production techniques and vivid lyrics. To many, he's black music's Beck. Mike's delivery, which runs the gamut from the sweet world-weariness of an old bluesman to the righteous bark of a Last Poet, is