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{{short description|American hip hop group}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Clouddead
| image             = 
| caption           = Odd Nosdam, Yoni Wolf and Doseone<br/>(from left to right)
| image_size        = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels -->
| origin            = [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/clouddeadiw.htm|title=CLOUDDEAD Interview|publisher=The Milk Factory|date=February 2004|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819163121/http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/clouddeadiw.htm|archivedate=2012-08-19}}</ref>
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Experimental hip hop]]|[[lo-fi hip hop]]|[[Ambient music|ambient]]|[[psychedelic music|psychedelic]]|[[cloud rap]]}}
| years_active      = 1998–2004
| label             = {{hlist|[[Mush Records]]<ref name="mush">{{cite web |url=http://www.mushrecords.com/artist.php?ARTID=27 |title= Mush Artists: cLOUDDEAD |accessdate=August 23, 2009 |publisher=[[Mush Records]]}}</ref> 
|[[Big Dada]]<ref name="bigdada">{{cite web |url=http://ninjatune.net/artist/clouddead |title= Big Dada cLOUDDEAD |accessdate=August 23, 2009 |publisher=[[Big Dada]]}}</ref>}}
| associated_acts   = [[Greenthink]], [[Reaching Quiet]], Object Beings
| website           = 
| current_members   = 
| past_members      = [[Doseone]]<br/>[[Yoni Wolf|Why?]]<br/>[[Odd Nosdam]]
}}

'''Clouddead''' (styled as '''cLOUDDEAD''')<ref name="amg">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p481525|pure_url=yes}} |title= cLOUDDEAD > Review |accessdate=August 23, 2009 |last=Prato |first=Greg |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref><ref name="nme">{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/artists/clouddead |title=NME Artists: cLOUDDEAD / Biography |accessdate=August 23, 2009 |work=[[NME]] |publisher=[[IPC Media]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001204147/http://www.nme.com/artists/clouddead |archive-date=October 1, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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 him when she was five years old.<ref name="bigdada"/>

==Style==
Clouddead's sound is notoriously hard to define, and although it is undoubtedly grounded in "traditional" hip-hop, influences as varied as ambient, [[electronica]], [[psychedelic music]], and [[indie rock]] can be heard.

==History==
Clouddead's first six 10-inch singles were compiled as a self-titled album, ''[[Clouddead (album)|Clouddead]]'', 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 (Clouddead album)|Ten]]'' (2004), Clouddead have finished making music as a group.

==Discography==
'''Albums'''
* ''[[Clouddead (album)|cLOUDDEAD]]'' (2001)
* ''[[Ten (Clouddead album)|Ten]]'' (2004)

'''EPs'''
* ''The Peel Session'' (2001)

'''Singles'''
* "apt. A" (2000)
* "and all you can do is laugh" (2000)
* "I promise never to get paint on my glasses again" (2001)
* "JimmyBreeze" (2001)
* "(cloud dead number five") (2001)
* "Bike" (2001)
* "The Sound of a Handshake / This About the City" (2002)
* "Dead Dogs Two" (2004)

== See also ==
*[[List of ambient music artists]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.mushrecords.com/artist/cLOUDDEAD.php Clouddead] on [[Mush Records]]
* [http://ninjatune.net/artist/clouddead Clouddead] on [[Big Dada]]

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[[Category:Anticon artists]]
[[Category:American experimental musical groups]]
[[Category:American hip-hop groups]]
[[Category:Cloud rappers]]
[[Category:Lo-fi music groups]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1999]]
[[Category:Musical groups disestablished in 2004]]
[[Category:1999 establishments in Ohio]]