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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 - Rocksound / Fascinating And Addictive - Esquire / A Landmark Album - Seven / No combination of adjectives could accurately portray what you'll hear and no second-hand gushing will prepare you for the immense pleasure that is sure to wash over you when you put this album on. - Stylus |
| Edging hip-hop closer to the edges of its possibility, cLOUDDEAD are the latest murky beat-heads to force the boom-bap into a twisted, nasty place beyond simple headnod grooves. Though it doesn't sound like it, cLOUDDEAD are the hip-hop equivalent to free jazz, to psychedelia, burning the rulebook with untrammeled, untutored genius. Sing-song rhymes that sound like they're wafting from some railroad somewhere in the past, shuffling beats and blasted melodies like tr*p-h*p, if it ever had a point beyond feeding your dusted dreams - Far out is a funky place to be. The next (il)logical step after Anti-Pop Consortium and Anticon. - Sleaze Nation |
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