Odd Nosdam

Odd Nosdam
Birth name	David P. Madson
Origin	Cincinnati, Ohio
Genres	Hip hop Ambient Dub
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Anticon
Associated acts	cLOUDDEAD
Notable instruments
SP1200 / MPC 2000 / Dr. Sample (SP-202) / cassette 8 track

Odd Nosdam (born David P. Madson) is a musician, DJ, artist, and co-founder and ex-art director of record label/collective Anticon.

Nosdam was first noticed for the drone and warped pop of his former group cLOUDDEAD^[1] (with fellow Anticon founders Why? and Doseone); he has worked closely with Mike Patton on his Peeping Tom project and remixed tracks by a variety of bands including The Notwist, Danielson, Serena-Maneesh, Boards of Canada, Bracken and Black Moth Super Rainbow. He has also produced, mixed or collaborated with Jel, Jessica Bailiff, Tunde Adebimpe, Restiform Bodies, Thee More Shallows, Themselves, Sole, Sage Francis, Boards of Canada, Dosh, Bre'r, Múm, Eluvium, Grouper, Saroos and Hood.

Discography

Solo Releases

• Anecdoticselfportrait (Self-Released) Cassette (1998)
• Plan 9... Meat Your Hypnotis (Self-Released) Cassette (1999)
• nonametape (Self-Released) Cassette (1999)
• Reject (Self-Released) CD (2001)
• Eat (the WHY? & Odd Nosdam split ep) LP/CD (2001)
• Plan 9... Meat Your Hypnotis (Reissue) 2LP/CD (2001)
• No More Wig for Ohio (Self-Released) CD (2002)
• No More Wig for Ohio (Reissue) 2LP/CD (2003)
• Your American Bonus 7" (2004)
• Untitled Three 12" (2005)
• Burner 2LP/CD (2005)
• Vol. 8 (Self-Released) CD (2006)
• cLOUDDEAD instrumentals (Bonus) CD (2007)
• Level Live Wires LP/CD (2007)
• The Exciting Sounds of Level Live Wires (Bonus) CD (2007)
• This Is My Element Soundtrack CD (2007)
• Pretty Swell Explode 2LP/2CD (2008)
• 15 Minutes of Funk (Bonus) CD (2008)
• Circus Faux Prez Beats! (Self-Released) Download (2008)
• T.I.M.E. Soundtrack (Reissue) LP/CD (2009)
• flower snow falls (split w/Drape) cassette (2009)
• Vol. 9 (Self-Released) CD/Download (2010)

with cLOUDDEAD

• apt.A 10" (1999)
• and all you can do is laugh. 10" (1999)
• I promise never to get paint on my glasses again. 10" (1999)
• JimmyBreeze 10" (2000)
• (cloud dead number five) 10" (2000)
• Bike 10" (2000)
• cLOUDDEAD 3LP/CD (2001)
• This About the City / The Sound of a Handshake 10" (2001)
• The Peel Session 10" (2002)
• edit] with WHY?
  • MadToons Beat Orchestra - So Long, Mike Part 1 / Black Light District 7" (2000)
  • Reaching Quiet - "113th clean" (Ropeladder 12) 3LP/CD (2000)
  • Reaching Quiet - In the Shadow of the Living Room 2LP/CD (2002)

  Collaborations

  • Mike Patton & Odd Nosdam - Five Seconds (Peeping Tom) (2006)
  • Mike Patton & Jel & Odd Nosdam - Your Neighborhood Spaceman (Peeping Tom) (2006)
  • Jel & Odd Nosdam - Tune In An Afternoon (XLR8R TV) (2009)
  • Bre'r & Odd Nosdam - @ Woulds (Self-Released CD/Download) (2009)

  Remixes

  • Sole - "Selling Live Water (Dead Food Remix) w/Jel" (2003)
  • Themselves - "You Devil You Remix" (2004)
  • Skyrider - "No Good (Nosdam's dub)" (2006)
  • Windsor for the Derby - "Empathy For People Unknown Remix" (2006)
  • Serena-Maneesh - "Don't Come Down Here (Blasted Remix)" (2006)
  • Boards of Canada - "Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix)" from Trans Canada Highway (2006)
  • Galena - "Gorbesh makeover" (2006)
  • Thee More Shallows - "Freshman Remix" (2006)
  • Alias & Tarsier - "Ligaya (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2006)
  • The Klez-X - "Yom Pom Nosdam (remix)" (2007)
  • Bracken - "(growin' up in the Hood) Four Thousand Style" (2007)
  • Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Forever Heavy (Shoegangster/JB Remix)" (2008)
  • The Notwist - "Sleep (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
  • Danielson - "Our Givest (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
  • Genghis Tron - "Colony Collapse (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
  • Sole and the Skyrider Band - "One Egg Short Of An Omelette (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
  • Luke Elliott - "The Future Various... (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
  • Restiform Bodies - "Consumer Culture Wave (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
  • Dark Dark Dark - "Junk Bones (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2009)
  • Themselves - "Skinning The Drum (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2010)
  • WHY? - "January Twenty Something (Jel & Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2010)

  Mixes

  • Le Mixtape (Self-Released Mix CD) (2001)
  • Le Mixtape Delux (Self-Released Mix CD) (2002)
  • Rap Tapes Mixtape (Self-Released Mix CD) (2005)
  • Le Mix Ambient (Self-Released Mix CD) (2006)
  • Thrift Store Mixtape (Self-Released Mix CD) (2006)
  • dies of hap - pi - ness, of sor - row, dreams (Self-Released Mix) (2008)
  • Mixtape Super Delux (Anticon Podcast) (2008)
  • Nofoolisnotaintready (XLR8R Podcast) (2009)
  • Albatross Pub Dub (Self-Released Mix) (2009)

  Production Work

  • Greenthink
  • Sole
  • Sage Francis
  • Peeping Tom (Mike Patton)
  • Telephone Jim Jesus
  • Thee More Shallows
  • Themselves
  • Bomarr
  • WHY?
  • Dosh
  • Engines
  • Bre'r
  • Jel
  • vyle.

  References

  1. ^ Brown, Marisa. "Biography: Odd Nosdam". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p542287. Retrieved 9 June 2010. 

  Additional Links

  • The Top 5 Instrumental Hip-Hop Albums on Synconation

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