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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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| 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 |
| In 1917, French artist Marcel Duchamp signed a porcelain urinal bought from a New York plumbing supplier and entered the object into an art exhibition, asserting that it was not the creation that was important, but the idea ad selection. cLOUDDEAD - Doseone, why? and odd nosdam of absurdist hip-hop collective Anticon - invoke the spirit of Duchamp with raps such as "I urinate in a cup for the art of it / And you'll dissect all of it" and "I've classified water damage as art" implying that in hip-hop everything is (there to be) stolen and reassembled. cLOUDDEAD (who cite Pram, Hood, Radiohead, and most notably Third Eye Foundation as influences) coerce half thoughts and dysfunctional beats into hip-hop that revels the group's own claustrophobia and abstraction. - Alternative Press |
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