cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD (Pre-Order)

cLOUDDEAD's debut album, compiling six 10" EPs that appeared between 2000-2001, is aurally dense and obscured. A sprawling mass of miniature beat-suites and Dadaist lyrics, this strange and beautiful 3xLP would influence a myriad of sub-genres (cloud rap, hauntology, lo-fi hip-hop, etc.) in the two decades since its initial release.

Only the three members of cLOUDDEAD – Why?, Doseone and Odd Nosdam – can speak to the group's origins, but in the context of underground hip-hop towards the end of the 20th century, their arrival makes perfect sense. Cincinnati had a vital scene; home to Scribble Jam, an annual confluence of MCs, DJs, B-boys and graffiti artists. While the trio soon relocated to the Bay Area where they co-founded the Anticon collective, their Midwestern roots – in ramshackle basements of off-campus hovels, as the "cerberus of Southern Ohio" – would remain the atomic heart of their early recordings.

Taken all together, cLOUDDEAD is an original interpretation of hip-hop in the surreal Y2K glow – a bizarre meeting point between William Basinski's Disintegration Loops and MF DOOM's Operation: Doomsday. All it took was a Dr. Sample SP-202, Tascam cassette eight-track and cheap RadioShack mic. There's truly nothing like it.

This edition has been faithfully restored by Nosdam. Comes with poster.

Tracklist:
A1. Apt. A (1) (2024 Remaster)
A2. Apt. A (2) (2024 Remaster)
B1. And All You Can Do Is Laugh (1) (2024 Remaster)
B2. And All You Can Do Is Laugh (2) (2024 Remaster)
C1. I Promise Never To Get Paint On My Glasses Again (1) (2024 Remaster)
C2. I Promise Never To Get Paint On My Glasses Again (2) (2024 Remaster)
D1. JimmyBreeze (1) (2024 Remaster)
D2. JimmyBreeze (2) (2024 Remaster)
E1. (Cloud Dead Number Five) (1) (2024 Remaster)
E2. (Cloud Dead Number Five) (2) (2024 Remaster)
F1. Bike (1) (2024 Remaster)
F2. Bike (2) (2024 Remaster)