Hello.
Anyone else picked up the Clouddead album? Definitely one of the best
things I've heard this year. Take the lyrical stylings of Cypress
Hill, a spacey slow-motion makeover of Gescom's hip-hop sound, the
melancholic ambience of pre-"Kid A" Radiohead, the classical mangling
of Gas, plus lots of dubby white noise, clicks and scratches -- and,
well, that's it in a nutshell really.
They're on Big Dada, a Ninjatune off-shoot label. Here's the blurb
from Ninjatune's web site:
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Welcome to the world of cLOUDDEAD.
In late 2000 a series of very strange 10 inch singles began to trickle
out across the USA. With grainy photos for covers combined with odd,
constantly changing pieces of music slathered in hiss, pop and
distortion and combined with other-worldly 'rapping' this was some
sort of hip hop, but not exactly as anyone had heard it before. These
were the kind of records you sort of had to fall into, give yourself
time to adjust to, get used to the sheer newness of.
The vinyl was in such limited supply that the records quickly sold
out, the occasional copy turning up in shops in Australia, Japan and
London. There wasn't so much a buzz as a whisper - just the faintest
hint that something special was going on.
Jump on to May 2001 and now everyone has a chance to hear what the
original fuss was about.
cLOUDDEAD are Doseone, why? and Odd Nosdam and their debut album is a
collection of the 6 groundbreaking singles they released last year.
Almost impossible to describe accurately, the records have had them
tagged as a US Beta Band, Syd Barrett with a sampler, even Bone Thugs
'N Harmony on magic mushrooms.
The fact of the matter is they don't sound a whole lot like any of
these. They just sound different. And if you like difference, you're
in for a treat.
And if you don't? Well, then we can only suggest you get off now...
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Well worth picking up if you want something "a bit different".
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Mark Stevens
http://www.headspin.clara.net/
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