Cloud rap torchbearers Main Attrakionz recently teamed up with cLOUDDEAD cohorts Jel and Zachg, who provide low key, ambient production underneath the Oakland rappers' laid-back flows on a new EP. That affair, a four-track EP called cLOUDLIFE and it's out today. Stream it below. Read More...
Here is the second mix in our What we Hear compalation/mix series. Seems to have a blue glow theme through out most of the tracks. What colors do you hear? Enjoy! Etbonz - What We Hear#2 01 - A Reminiscent Drive - New Jerusalem 02 - E.R.P - Silvae 03 - Cancer Fags - Shoud you go first 04 - Jazzanova - Another new Day 05 - Hook the Captain - Take me away 06 - [...]
by chuck bell There are very few bands that have had as much of an impact on the current state of both hip-hop and indie rock as cLOUDDEAD . The avant-garde group consisted of Doseone (Adam Drucker), Odd Nosdam (David Madison) and Why? (Yoni Wolf). While attending art school at the University of Cincinnati, Wolf met Drucker on campus after the semi-finals for the 1997 Scribble Jam, Cincinnati's annual hip-hop festival. Drucker had just battled the then-unknown Eminem, and having [...]
cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD (Mush, 2001) Man, what a dream team we had with cLOUDEAD. In retrospect, I probably should have cherished it more. But the splitting of the group hasn't been all bad. I mean, Subtle and Why? are both super amazing on their own, but it was the teaming of emcees Doseone and Why? together with the brilliant Odd Nosdam which started it all. Their debut reeks of the most inventive, forward thinking "hip/hop" music that has ever been created. Honestly, I don't consider the misty, [...]
The beautiful thing about hip hop is that you can say some of the weirdest, most inane, ridiculoid phrases, but say them with conviction or jest, and suddenly you're creating New Speak. From "rap at high speed strawberry kiwi" to "gimme them girls with the pumps and a bump", it's not really what you say, but how you say it. Try this on then: Rattlesnake caught in a wheel well, strawberry in an ostrich throat. Gully. [...]
Themselves is producer Jel and rapper Doseone, who detach themselves from the Anticon hive mind to release their own ultra-fractalized riffs on hip-hop and experimental music. Their newest CrownsDown is built on the same frame as Nas and Gang Starr and to fit alongside Doseone's side gig teaching kids how to rap. This interview by Matt Dupree.
Yeah, even though it's been about a month since I started trying to ride, I haven't ridden my unicycle since last Saturday. My hip has been feeling better but I've also been stretching a bunch too. I'm not sure if it's really fucked up or if I'm just getting old and pushing too hard. Either way, I'll be back trying to ride the beast tomorrow so more updates will certainly be forthcoming. In the meantime: MP3 | cLOUDDEAD - Physics Of A Unicycle Ten
Prolific hip hopsters Doseone and Jel have dusted off their Themselves project and created a new mixtape, entitled theFREEhoudini . As the title sort of suggests, it's a free download (although there is a CD version, too. More on that in a sec). But what would a mixtape be without guests? Nothing, that's what. So it's lucky theFREEhoudini is packed full of them. Pretty much anyone you could name from the Anticon family is in there, including a very briefly reformed cLOUDEAD, as well as Buck 65, Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Lionesque, Slug Of Atmosphere, D-Styles, DJ Baku, [...]
This was posted by Odd Nosdam at soleone.org Anticon is proud to present the newest addition to the Themselves catalog, a 39-minute-long free album of sorts, theFREEhoudini. Featuring guest appearances from Buck 65, Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Lionesque, Slug of Atmosphere, D-Styles, Pedestrian, Sole, Serengeti, and Yoni Wolf and Odd Nosdam as cLOUDDEAD (not to mention the whole entire mixtape being mixed down by Nosdam as well), theFREEhoudini serves as Doseone and Jel's return, posse record that never was, and contribution to [...]
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 (This originally appeared in Skyscraper ) The Cincinnati native and cLOUDDEAD [...]
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 (This originally appeared in Skyscraper ) The Cincinnati native and cLOUDDEAD founder brings out [...]
I've got your 2008 right here… WHY? - Alopecia that's it folks — if I took any new record away from 2008 and didn't have to listen to any of the others ever again, I'd be just fine. Portishead, The Cure, My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon, The Raconteurs, NIN, Sigur Ros and a few others (are we really counting Radiohead again? ) put out exceptional records this year, but c'mon when do they put out BAD music? The Mae Shi and The Dodos made exceptional music that blew me away [...]
"I only played chess once in my life and I lost" ALBUM: WHY? - ALOPECIA words: Jamie Milton The clocks had just struck past four o'clock today, the street lights were changing their on-times to conform to the darker afternoons and it was occurring to me that I hadn't yet scrolled anything on my favourite album of the year. And it's funny that it took so long because when playing 'Alopecia' all you think about is yourself and what's around you. You don't look back incase some nasty [...]
Here's a little something to celebrate DC's new freedom to carry handguns. Bang bang! cLOUDDEAD - Rifle Eyes Gorillaz - Kids With Guns ( Hot Chip Remix) Firefox - Sex Shooter ( Smash n' Grab Remix)
30th & Dolores, 2008 Pitch-bending knob twiddlers, Boards of Canada make music for the fourth dimension. What is the 4th D ? It's that sub conscience level of past memories long forgotten. It might even be from a previous life, if you believe in such a thing. It can be scary for some, and enlightening for others. It's best to listen to this music on a partly sunny day, in the shade, at about 2pm in the afternoon, on a Saturday. cLOUDHEAD - Dead Dogs Two (Boards Of Canada Remix) [...]
**photo taken by Steven , in Paris, 2007** Some song lyrics that have put a smile upon my face during the past week… Giant Bear – Devil On the Wall (If you like: folk) "There was blood on your wrist And a bible on your reading list" Slow Club – Slow Club Summer Shakedown (If you like: The Lisps if [...]
From: Dead Dogs Two (Mush, 2004) Download Learn Home MySpace Last.fm Interview
For a couple weeks now I've been getting continuous positive comments regarding the Diplo remix I posted. I thought I might acknowledge said reactions a little bit more and let go of some other tracks that manage to indulge similar feelings of guilty nostalgia while simultaneously generating some refreshing sensibilities. All of these tracks desperately strive to be passe, but manage to hook me back into my troubled youth, relentless in their refusal to let certain conditions and moods wane their own momentum. But I project... Perhaps, maybe these songs are in just [...]
- - - - It's said that yawns are contagious, like laughs, or syphilis. When there's a small group of people in a room and one person is inspired to yawn, be it by tire or light-headedness, it's almost a sure thing that another person in the vicinity will yawn, and possibly another, until there is [...]
Why? Genre: Indie / Folk / New Wave From: Oakland, California United States California's Why? (not to be confused with the 1990s British Christian Folk band of the same name) formed by cLOUDDEAD Yoni Wolf with his brother Josiah Wolf and Doug McDiarmid have just released 'Alopecia', their hair raising [...]
Stereogum
ALWAYSONTHEBRINK
Quiet Color
Forest Gospel
The Passion of the Weiss
L.A. RECORD
Can You See the Sunset
I eat music
FANGBEAR!
Chewing Pine
music is my boyfriend
Music Fans Mic
The Sean Show
FoeWeel
Letters Have No Arms
Audible Vitamins
LITTLE PETER SELLERS
The Missing Dufresnes
The Devil Has The Best Tuna
Hot Chip - Night & Day
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Madonna producer unloads of CD disaster
Michael Jackson - Bad (Afrojack Remix) [Preview]
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS – « You Are the One »
Mojo’s Free Yellow Submarine Covers Disk
Florence + The Machine - Spectrum (Calvin Harris Remix)
