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cLOUDDEAD is WHY? (Yoni Wolf)), Odd Nosdam (David Madson), Doseone (Adam Drucker) – in the context of underground hip-hop towards the end of the 20th century, their arrival makes perfect sense. Cincinnati had a vital scene; home to Scribble Jam, an annual confluence of MCs, DJs, B-boys and graffiti artists. While the trio soon relocated to the Bay Area where they co-founded the Anticon collective, their Midwestern roots – in ramshackle basements of off-campus hovels, as the "Cerberus of Southern Ohio" – would remain the atomic heart of their early recordings.

Their self-titled debut album (compiling six 10" EPs that appeared between 2000-'01), 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, lo-fi hip-hop, hauntology, letc.) in the two decades since its initial release.

cLOUDDEAD disbanded in 2004 after releasing their second and final album, Ten.