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Noah Raymond Brickley, better known by his stage name Noah23, is an alternative hip hop artist and founder of the Plague Language collective.

Biography [link]

Noah23 was born in 1978 in Natchez, Mississippi, and moved to Guelph, Ontario at the age of 4.^[1] He began rapping in the early 1990s^[2] and released his first album, originally entitled Plague Language, in 1999. This album, initially released on cassette, was remastered and released on CD in 2006 under the name Cytoplasm Pixel. In the late 1990s Noah started the record label Plague Language, which released music from a diverse roster of artists including Penny, Orko, Baracuda, and also producer Orphan, aka Kingston, who went on to become one half of Blue Sky Black Death. Plague Language no longer functions as a label, but exists as a loose Guelph-based hip-hop collective. Noah is currently involved in numerous Plague Language affiliated side-projects, including Famous Playaz, The Weird Apples, CRUNK23 and Bourgeois Cyborgs, but is primarily a solo artist signed with American label Fake Four Inc. Noah is also a producer, and is often credited for his production work under the name Warhol. In addition, he pursues post-folk and witch house side-projects, under the alternative monikers Yukon Dawn and SabrToof respectively.

He has shared the stage with cLOUDDEAD, Sole, Kool Keith, Islands, and Matisyahu,^[3] and many more, including The Constantines, Plastic Little, Ceschi Ramos, Eternia, Grand Buffet, K-the-I???, Buck 65, Josh Martinez, Modulok & Red Ants, The Saurus, Radioinactive, Shabba D, Awol One, DJ Scientist, Astronautalis, Cadence Weapon, Krinjah, Shad K, Busdriver, and Swollen Members.

On May 3, 2011 Noah announced that he would retire from music at the end of the year.^[4][5]

Discography [link]

Albums [link]

• Cytoplasm Pixel (1999)
• Neophyte Phenotype (2001)
• Tau Ceti (2002)
• Quicksand (2002)
• Ancient Israelites Older Than Anorthosite (2004) w/ Jaffa Gate
• Mitochondrial Blues (2004)
• Sigma Octantis (2004)
• The Train Rawbers (2004) as The Train Rawbers w/ Homesick & Livestock
• Jupiter Sajitarius (2004)
• Amalthea Magnetosphere (2006)
• Clout (2006)
• Technoshamanism (2006) as CRUNK23 w/ Crunk Chris
• Funny Money (2007) as Famous Playaz w/ DS
• The Fool (2007) w/ Lord Kufu
• The Big Crunch (2008) as The Weird Apples w/ Livestock & Madadam
• Bourgeois Cyborgs (2008) as Bourgeois Cyborgs w/ Baracuda
• Dirty Bling (2008) as CRUNK23 w/ Crunk Chris
• Rock Paper Scissors (2008)
• Upside Down Bluejay (2008)
• Crab Nebula (2009) w/ Madadam
• Feature Presentation (2009) as Famous Playaz w/ DS
• Spare Ribs for the Eve of Destruction (2009) as CRUNK23 w/ Crunk Chris
• Noah23 / Playpad Circus (2010) w/ Playpad Circus
• Heart of Rock (2010)
• Fry Cook on Venus (2011)
• Vision & Voice (2011)
• Terminal Illness (2011) w/ Krem
• Illegal Ideas Inc. (2011) as CRUNK23 w/ Crunk Chris
• Zoom (2011)

Mixtapes [link]

• The Unmixtape (2009)
• Instant Classic (2009) as Plague Language Fam w/ Baracuda, Livestock, The Main, DS, Tykus, et al.
• Based Sky Black Death: Blue Lunar Night (2010)
• Noah23 vs Wu-Tang: Enter the 23rd Chamber (2010)
• Prefuse 23 (2011)
• Gimme Indie Rock (2011)
• Lamp of Invisible Light (2011)
• Noah23 Meets Company Flow: 23 from the Hospital (2011)
• Occult Trill: The Witch-Tape (2011)
• Occult Trill II: The Sun Rewinds (2011)

Compilations [link]

• Cameo Therapy (2007)
• Super Yukes 5000 (2011)
• Pirate Utopias (77 Lost Scrolls) (2011)
• Noah23 for Dummies (2012)

Singles [link]

• Crypto Sporidian / Deadly Rays (2002) w/ Baracuda
• Paper Cranes (2003) w/ Jaffa Gate
• Chicken Pox (2004)

Guest appearances [link]

• "A Bike a Horse a Tree" by The Twin Sisters on Amulet (2001)
• "Deadly Rays" "Dental Plan" "Duplicate Version" by Baracuda on Tetragammoth (2002)
• "Antique Couplings" by Penny on The Clockforth Movement (2002)
• "Coconut Bomb" by Livestock on Spiral Like the Nine (2005)
• "Anarcho-Taoists" by Livestock & Leon Murphy on The Rawganic EP (2007)
• "Isis Hathor" by Livestock on The Afterlife of Jazz (2007)
• "Electric Furs of a Lynx" by Factor on Chandelier (2008)
• "Off the Hook" by Baracuda on Knucklebone (2008)
• "Roach and the Beetle" by The Main on The Glass Slipper (2008)
• "Dead End Game" by StapleMouth on Ruler of Desperate Measures (2009)
• "Trilateral Damage" "Micron Helium Balloons" "10 Kings (Mega Tuff)" by StapleMouth on Un-Everything Except Three (2009)
• "True Cat" by BLEE on Solution (2009)
• "Fortune Cookie" by Wormhole & Sapience on The Mo'o (2010)
• "Sacrifice" by Factor on 13 Stories (2010)
• "Writing a Book" by BLEE on Cosmos Road (2010)
• "We Will Not Be Moved" by Sole and the Skyrider Band on Hello Cruel World (2011)^[6]
• "Red Panties (It's Over)" by Murk-a-troid (2011)
• "Flowers of Evil" "The Fishin' Song" "Alabama Tick" by The Main on Clamnesia (2011)
• "High" by Factor on Club Soda Series 1 (2011)
• "Another Dimension" by Shady Blaze on The Grind, Hustle & Talent (2012)
• "Daggers" by Sixo on Tracking Perception (2012)
• "Warlocks" by Baracuda on Beautiful Mess (2012)

See also [link]

• Fake Four Inc
• Canadian hip hop

References [link]

External links [link]

• Noah23 on Facebook
• Noah23 on Twitter
• Noah23 on Bandcamp (see also)
• Noah23 on Fake Four Inc
• Noah23 on Discogs
• Noah23 on tumblr
• Plague Language on tumblr