Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 5 minutes ago
#psychedelic #ambient #hiphop
Support the artist, buy it here: clouddead.bandcamp.com/album/clouddead-2024-remastered
If you have any problem, or question about this upload please write to me in this email: panagiotisbo@gmail.com
01. apt. A (1) (2024 Remastered) - 00:00
02. apt. A (2) (2024 Remastered) - 06:24
03. and all you can do is laugh (1) (2024 Remastered) - 12:15
04. and all you can do is laugh (2) (2024 Remastered) - 17:47
05. I promise never to get paint on my glasses again (1) (2024 Remastered) - 23:36
06. I promise never to get paint on my glasses again (2) (2024 Remastered) - 29:20
07. JimmyBreeze (1) (2024 Remastered) - 35:30
08. JimmyBreeze (2) (2024 Remastered) - 42:30
09. (cloud dead number five) (1) (2024 Remastered) - 48:00
10. (cloud dead number five) (2) (2024 Remastered) - 53:22
11. Bike (1) (2024 Remastered) - 59:29
12. Bike (2) (2024 Remastered) - 01:06:40
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.
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
#psychedelic #ambient #hiphop
Support the artist, buy it here: clouddead.bandcamp.com/album/clouddead-2024-remastered
If you have any problem, or question about this upload please write to me in this email: panagiotisbo@gmail.com
01. apt. A (1) (2024 Remastered) - 00:00
02. apt. A (2) (2024 Remastered) - 06:24
03. and all you can do is laugh (1) (2024 Remastered) - 12:15
04. and all you can do is laugh (2) (2024 Remastered) - 17:47
05. I promise never to get paint on my glasses again (1) (2024 Remastered) - 23:36
06. I promise never to get paint on my glasses again (2) (2024 Remastered) - 29:20
07. JimmyBreeze (1) (2024 Remastered) - 35:30
08. JimmyBreeze (2) (2024 Remastered) - 42:30
09. (cloud dead number five) (1) (2024 Remastered) - 48:00
10. (cloud dead number five) (2) (2024 Remastered) - 53:22
11. Bike (1) (2024 Remastered) - 59:29
12. Bike (2) (2024 Remastered) - 01:06:40
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.
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
