Clouddead (styled as cLOUDDEAD) was an American

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group, consisting of

Doseone Adam Drucker (born April 21, 1977), better known by his stage name Doseone, is an American rapper, producer, poet and artist. He is a co-founder of the indie hip hop record label Anticon. He has also been a member of numerous groups including ...

(Adam Drucker), Why? (

Yoni Wolf Jonathan Avram "Yoni" Wolf (born April 30, 1979) is an American alternative hip hop and indie rock musician and co-founder of the record label Anticon. From 1997 until 2004, Wolf released music under the stage name Why?. In 2004 he transferred t ...

) and

Odd Nosdam David P. Madson (born 1976), better known by his stage name Odd Nosdam, is an American underground hip hop producer, DJ and visual artist. He is co-founder of the record label Anticon. He has remixed tracks by a variety of bands and artists in ...

(David Madson). The group's name came from a nonsensical

knock-knock joke The knock-knock joke is a type of audience-participatory joke cycle, typically ending with a pun. Knock-knock jokes are primarily seen as children's jokes, though there are exceptions. The scenario is of a person knocking on the front door to a ho ...

Drucker's sister told him when she was five years old.

Style

Generally Drucker and Wolf provide the group's vocals while Madson produces the music. Occasionally Madson's vocals can be heard, while Drucker and Wolf provide music, especially for the group's second album. Clouddead's sound is notoriously hard to define, and although it is undoubtedly grounded in "traditional" hip-hop, influences as varied as electronica, psychedelic music and

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can be heard. Because of this non-traditional take on hip-hop, more conservative elements of the rap community have characterized Clouddead as "smartarse surrealism," with some elements of the community rejecting the notion that the group can be classed as hip hop at all, ignoring Sole's request to "just call it hip hop."

History

Clouddead's first six 10-inch singles were compiled as a self-titled album, ''

Clouddead Clouddead (styled as cLOUDDEAD) was an American experimental hip hop group, consisting of Doseone (Adam Drucker), Why? (Yoni Wolf) and Odd Nosdam (David Madson). The group's name came from a nonsensical knock-knock joke Drucker's sister told hi ...

'', in 2001. Printed on the sleeve of the single "Dead Dogs Two" is "this is cLOUDDEAD number 9 of ten," indicating that as of '' Ten'' (2004), Clouddead have finished making music as a group. In an interview around ''Tens release, Drucker hinted that tensions between Madson and Wolf, as well as each member's heavy workload, had hastened the group's demise.

Discography

Albums * ''

cLOUDDEAD Clouddead (styled as cLOUDDEAD) was an American experimental hip hop group, consisting of Doseone (Adam Drucker), Why? (Yoni Wolf) and Odd Nosdam (David Madson). The group's name came from a nonsensical knock-knock joke Drucker's sister told hi ...

'' (2001) * '' Ten'' (2004) EPs * ''The Peel Session'' (2001) Compilations * ''Clouddead Beats: Collaged at Mom's (1998-2000)'' (2007) Singles * "Apt. A" (2000) * "And All You Can Do Is Laugh" (2000) * "I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses Again" (2001) * "Jimmy Breeze" (2001) * "Cloud Dead Number Five" (2001) * "Bike" (2001) * "The Sound of a Handshake / This About the City" (2002) * "Dead Dogs Two" (2004)

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