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MH-206 cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD  "It's all the same shit but they call it cLOUDDEAD." cLOUDDEAD is the avant-hip-hop grouping of Doseone, why?, and odd nosdam. Fusing abstract beats, ambient pads, and interweaving vocals, cLOUDDEAD has created a release that owes as much to the Beatles as it does to hip-hop. Like Doseone and why?'s Greenthink project, cLOUDDEAD renounces the traditional hip-hop song format in favor of music made in movements. Six such movements were created to be released as a limited edition ten-inch series. Each release features a guest (Illogic, Dj Signify, Sole, the Wolf Bros., Mr. Dibbs, and The Bay Area Animals) and focuses on a specific theme. All six are combined to create a full-length that nullifies any preconception of style and raises the artistic bar for future Mush releases. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Genius. - Mixmag / Utterly Essential - NME / Enthralling - All Music Guide / Startlingly Original - Wax / Certainly Beautiful And Strange - Rock Sound / Fascinating And Addictive - Esquire / A Landmark Album - Seven / A never less than intriguing debut - Q / Unequivocally the finest space-rock-rap album of 2001 - Mojo |
| Originally issued as a straggle of six ten-inch EPs, and now gathered on one long player, the sound on cLOUDDEAD depicts dense, foggy, enveloping noise, with fissured thick-set moods recorded on the cheapest of Tascam four-tracks. This album of six-seven minute tracks is as contemplative, strange, and un-thunking-beat-loopish as hip-hop gets; Doseone and why's rambling verbal turns often found buried in deep, disconcertingly loud vinyl crackles and machine hum. But to call cLOUDDEAD hip-hop's answer to post-psychedelic ambient guitar drone, or to, indeed, champion them as hip-hop's answer to the lo-fi confessionals that littered indie-rock throughout the 90s might obscure the bizarre shifts in tone, constant humor, subtle experimentation, and willful provocation of the set. Nevertheless, such thoughts could, if deployed, be used to highlight the set's literary lyrical evocations, whose scope is so substantial, and whose audio fidelity is so poor, that the need to have the lyrics reprinted in the CD booklet is a necessity of appreciation. - 3D World |
3XLP/Out Of Print