cLOUDDEAD

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?, Odd Nosdam and Doseone – can speak to the group's origins, but in the context of underground hip-hop towards the end

cLOUDDEAD's limited edition 10" EP, released after the licensing deal between Mush and Big Dada was finalised. "The Sound of a Handshake" touches on the insecurity of having personal art go public and the realisation that contracts are a necessary ridiculousness, ending with Odd Nosdam's mantra: "you must be satisfied."