10 Great Musicians That Are Slowly Being Forgotten

8. cLOUDDEAD

cLOUDDEAD are in danger of disappearing mostly due to their own layers of mystique and eccentricity. There isn€™t anything or anyone who has ever sounded like this three piece. You€™d probably put them in the experimental hip hop category but they sort of just float on the fringes of everything in a mad collage of love, life and everything that€™s in between. Full of wildly obscure and woozy beats watermarked by whiny, almost surrealist verses; cLOUDDEAD make music that throbs and pulsates like an electrical generator one moment and glides along next to God the next. This is a group that can easily annoy you. They€™ll dangle a sliver of information and clarity in front of you only to whip it away immediately and leave you hanging in a state of Pavlovian confusion. Fragmented and seemingly unfinished, cLOUDDEAD have left their audience in anticipated limbo, hankering for any sign that this group might return from the realms of the forgotten lands. While this group may not be remembered for their own albums, they may instead be remembered for other peoples as they founded the brilliant independent label Anticon; a recording company dedicated to signing original and experimental artists. Over the years, names such as Deep Puddle Dynamics, Buck 65 and Mercury award winning Young Fathers have all been signed to Anticon. While they may be remembered most for their work as a record label, cLOUDDEAD should never be forgotten for their captivating take on the hip hop world.