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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 |
| Emerging from the mists of hyperbole and obfuscation which surround the Bay Area's notorious Anticon collective, the off-puttingly named trio of Doseone, why?, and odd nosdam have put together what is unequivocally the finest space-rock-rap album of 2001. If the prospect of eerie disembodied voices delivering lines like "We seem to be sinking into a vat of honey glaze" through a swathe of static electricity doesn't set your world on fire from the get-go, then ask yourself this: is a record which manages to combine the helium-fuelled urgency of pre sports-metal Cypress Hill, the trademark rubbery verbal gymnastics of the Freestyle Fellowship, the unfettered eloquence of the Rawkus label and the out-and-out strangeness of the Residents one you can seriously afford to live without? - Mojo |
3XLP/Out Of Print