- CLOUDDEAD
Infobox musical artist
Name = cLOUDDEAD
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Genre =Alternative Hip hop
Experimental
Ambient
Indie
Years_active = 1999–2004
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Current_members =Doseone Odd Nosdam Why?
Past_members =cLOUDDEAD is a musical group consisting of the hip-hop musicians
Doseone (Adam Drucker), Why? (Yoni Wolf), andOdd Nosdam (David Madson). Generally Drucker and Wolf provide the group's vocals while Madson produces the music. Occasionally Madson's vocals can be heard, while Drucker and Wolf provide music, especially for the group's second album.cLOUDDEAD's sound is notoriously hard to define, and although it is undoubtedly grounded in 'traditional' hip-hop, influences as varied as
electronica ,psychedelic music andindie rock can be heard. Because of this non-traditional take on hip-hop, more conservative corners of the rap community have labeled cLOUDDEAD as "smartarsesurrealism " [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2223794] - with some rejecting the notion that the group can be classed as hip-hop at all, ignoring Doseone's request to 'just call it hip hop.'cLOUDDEAD's first six 10" EPs were compiled in 2001 as a self-titled compilation album. The band's subsequent discography includes a further two 10" EPs, the single "Dead Dogs Two" and the album "Ten". Printed on the sleeve of "Dead Dogs Two" is "this is clouddead number 9 of ten", indicating that as of "Ten", cLOUDDEAD, as a group, have finished making music.
The group's name comes from a nonsensical
knock-knock joke Drucker's sister told him when she was 6 years old. The joke runs like this:"Knock-knock"
"Who's there?"
"Cloud-dead"...
But no-one remembers the punchline."Fact|date=December 2007
Discography
EPs
* "apt.A" (2000)
* "and all you can do is laugh." (2000)
* "I promise never to get paint on my glasses again." (2001)
* "JimmyBreeze" (2001)
* "(cloud dead number five)" (2001)
* "Bike" (2001)
* "The Peel Session" (2001)
* "The Sound of a Handshake / This About the City" (2002)
* "Collaged At Mom's" (Limited Edition Instrumentals) (2007)Albums
* "cLOUDDEAD" (2001)
* "Ten" (2004)ingles
* "Dead Dogs Two" (2004)
ee also
*
Why? (U.S. band)
*Odd Nosdam
*Doseone
*Anticon.
*Subtle External links
* [http://www.ninjatune.net/bigdada/ Big Dada]
* [http://www.dirtyloop.com/ Mush]
* [http://www.anticon.com/ Anticon]
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