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cLOUDDEAD is a musical group consisting of musicians Doseone (Adam Drucker), Why? (Yoni Wolf), and Odd 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.
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.
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 and indie rock can be heard. Because of this non-traditional take on hip-hop, more conservative corners of the rap community have labeled cLOUDDEAD as “smartarse surrealism” - 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.
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 and indie rock can be heard. Because of this non-traditional take on hip-hop, more conservative corners of the rap community have labeled cLOUDDEAD as “smartarse surrealism” - 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.
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Featured Tracks
| FULL TRACK Rapping For Money (Absorb Fish Remix) | 4:01 | Free MP3 |
| FULL TRACK Cold Lunch | 2:11 | |
| FULL TRACK Dead Dog | 3:14 | |
| FULL TRACK This About The City | 7:42 | |
| FULL TRACK The Sound Of A Handshake | 8:27 |
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Ten
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Notjoeybloom wrote:
i am in the state of "yo," my peeps, they gather at the borders.
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ErowidDotOrg wrote:
a wise man once said, "fuck em, if they cant take a joke"
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JustAWallflower wrote:
cool opinion bro VVV
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Inci90 wrote:
eponymous remains their only good album.
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yspyg wrote:
sticky like nearly dried paint
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Dr_MoonOrGun wrote:
To be TOUCHED,
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thePropmaster wrote:
C-c-c-center of a curious crowd....
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HourHeroYes wrote:
HAHAHA! I long to be dead!
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Notjoeybloom wrote:
blood breathing by the side of the highway!
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Insomniasaur wrote:
to be red tendoned dogs
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Notjoeybloom wrote:
webbing the back of your hand
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Insomniasaur wrote:
The nudity of swelling exposed vein
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Notjoeybloom wrote:
long to see your arms stripped to the tendons!
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yspyg wrote:
We secretly long to be some part of a car crash
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clutnuckle wrote:
the maida vale peel session w/ boom bip is fucking awesome
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Inci90 wrote:
ok.
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mr-ananas wrote:
nice.
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Notjoeybloom wrote:
there is silence in a five story stairwell because he only taught himself how to survive a four story fall.
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clutnuckle wrote:
i must admit, i've been greedy with the gravity i seek
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Rachyaar wrote:
check out La Petite Mort :)
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