cLOUDDEAD (2024 Remastered)

by cLOUDDEAD

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jsilvela Oh my god, a remaster of this album? Even though I already own the CD, I sprang for it. Worth it, I think the sound is more balanced.

What a weird and wonderful album. It's atmospheric like a David Lynch movie, and it's good music.
Favorite track: I promise never to get paint on my glasses again (2) (2024 Remastered).

Scorber23 where can I start in this dream-scape sequence? to be precise, the coordinates to this specific time/space fabric known as CLOUDDEAD is but a node within this network from the time-warping Quantum Internet simulation our minds connect to, daily. Dose One is a time lord, he can answer the fractal math which is the glue binding this sim🌐 together. ODD NOSDAM is a time-elf (like dmt) and WHY? is basically Cheshire cat w/ hookah
.. down the rabbit hole and into the SP202 Favorite track: apt. A (1) (2024 Remastered).

iowa91 I couldn't even begin to explain this album in a million years seriously Favorite track: Bike (1) (2024 Remastered).

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1.	apt. A (1) (2024 Remastered) 06:24	info	buy track
2.	apt. A (2) (2024 Remastered) 05:51		buy track
3.	and all you can do is laugh (1) (2024 Remastered) 05:32		buy track
4.	and all you can do is laugh (2) (2024 Remastered) 05:49	info	buy track
5.	I promise never to get paint on my glasses again (1) (2024 Remastered) 05:44	info	buy track
6.	I promise never to get paint on my glasses again (2) (2024 Remastered) 06:10		buy track
7.	JimmyBreeze (1) (2024 Remastered) 07:00	info	buy track
8.	JimmyBreeze (2) (2024 Remastered) 05:30	info	buy track
9.	(cloud dead number five) (1) (2024 Remastered) 05:22	info	buy track
10.	(cloud dead number five) (2) (2024 Remastered) 06:07	info	buy track
11.	Bike (1) (2024 Remastered) 07:11		buy track
12.	Bike (2) (2024 Remastered) 06:56		buy track

about

cLOUDDEAD's debut album, compiling six 10" EPs that appeared between 2000-2001, is aurally dense and obscured. A sprawling mass of miniature beat-suites and Dadaist lyrics, this strange and beautiful 3xLP would influence a myriad of sub-genres (cloud rap, hauntology, lo-fi hip-hop, etc.) in the two decades since its initial release.

Only the three members of cLOUDDEAD – Why?, Odd Nosdam and Doseone – can speak to the group's origins, but in the context of underground hip-hop towards the end of the 20th century, their arrival makes perfect sense. Cincinnati had a vital scene; home to Scribble Jam, an annual confluence of MCs, DJs, B-boys and graffiti artists. While the trio soon relocated to the Bay Area where they co-founded the Anticon collective, their Midwestern roots – in ramshackle basements of off-campus hovels, as the "cerberus of Southern Ohio" – would remain the atomic heart of their early recordings.

As Chris Martins writes in the liner notes, "The only reason we know their names today is because of how loudly and curiously they aired their insularity. They rewrote the entire world as they knew it through their own fucked perspective, and when those mysterious 10-inches started popping up in record shops, it wasn't just a puzzle to investigate: there seemed to be a whole cosmology hidden in those grooves."

Each side of the album represents one of those elusive 10-inches, each embodying a universe unto itself. Opening salvo "Apt. A" and "And All You Can Do Is Laugh" are perhaps most emblematic of the cLOUDDEAD experience. Why? and Dose create a new language through boundless non-sequiturs, sing-song non-choruses and call-and-response hooks, while Nosdam's dexterous production shifts from crackling ambience of Flying Saucer Attack to tight Ohio Players drum breaks and oblique film samples.

Taken all together, cLOUDDEAD is an original interpretation of hip-hop in the surreal Y2K glow – a bizarre meeting point between William Basinski's Disintegration Loops and MF DOOM's Operation: Doomsday. All it took was a Dr. Sample SP-202, Tascam cassette eight-track and cheap RadioShack mic. There's truly nothing like it.

credits

released September 3, 2024

• Faithfully restored from the original sources by Odd Nosdam
• Mastered by Jessica Thompson
• Lacquers cut at Dubplates & Mastering
• 3xLP reissue by Superior Viaduct

Written, recorded and mixed mostly in Cincinnati, Ohio between years 1998 and 2000

features:
1: Illogic
4: Dj Signify
5: Sole
7, 8: Josiah Wolf
9, 10: Mr. Dibbs

cLOUDDEAD is WHY?, Odd Nosdam, doseone

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cLOUDDEAD Cincinnati, Ohio

cLOUDDEAD is
WHY?
Odd Nosdam
doseone

established 1998
Cincinnati, Ohio
disbanded 2004
Oakland, California