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The integrity of odd nosdam's work is also due in large part to the company kept in the studio: Dosh, Andrew Broder (Fog), Orvar Smarason (Múm), Dax Pierson and jel (Subtle / Themselves), Josiah Wolf and Doug McDiarmid (WHY?), Jessica Bailiff and Mike Patton. The talent meshes well here, but so do the styles. Mix and match Lee "Scratch" Perry's rhythmic spontaneity, the tape saturated drone of Flying Saucer Attack , the hip-hop collage of Prince Paul and Hood's emotional clarity and you'll have an idea what's going on here. After all is said, written, and done, odd nosdam's latest can be considered not only a firm assertion of his stridently independent, post-cLOUDDEAD aesthetic, but more importantly perhaps, his first true masterwork.

• Contributions from Mike Patton, Orvar Smarason of Múm, Jessica Bailiff, Andrew Broder of Fog, Dax Pierson, jel, and members of WHY?
  
• Producer behind cLOUDDEAD, Sage Francis, sole and co-producer of an upcoming Mike Patton project

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Untitled One
  Refreshing Beverage
  Choke
  Small Mr Man Pants
  Untitled Two
  11th Ave Freakout Pt 1
  11th Ave Freakout Pt 2
  Clouded
  Untitled Three
  Gun
  Upsetter
  Flying Saucer Attack

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  odd nosdam "burner" (anticon)

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Nosdamis fascination with these odd moments gives Level Live Wires its enveloping draw. Each bit that becomes a part of a song is an otherwise static and eventually staid sound that could have become mere memory. Instead, he takes each into his life (often burning sounds onto disc and listening to them throughout his day), and gives them blood in return.

This fully-realized work includes contributions by a number of Madsonis co-conspirators: Dee Kesler of Thee More Shallows, Whyis Doug McDiarmid and Yoni Wolf, Chris Adams (Hood, Bracken), Jessica Bailiff, Cosmos Lee, Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio), and more.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

On
Kill Tone
We Dead
Freakout 3
Fat Hooks
Blast
The Kill Tone Two
Burner
Up In Flames
Slight Return
Off
Lil Tone Kill
Freakout 3 Sound 1
Freakout 3 Sound 2
Full On/Off
Flames On Tape
Flames Sound
JB Doug Hook
Ambient Fat Hooks
Lil Tone Kill Two
Again
Burn

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no more wig for ohio is a meticulously deliberate two-part arrangement of instrumental songs and far found sounds collaged into a maniacal music quilt that somehow retains cohesiveness. Part one (tracks 1-11) listens like a razor-sharp piss-take on the world around the artist-- an orgy of church hymns and infomercials. The record's second half (tracks 12-24), in all its sick-drum sweet-tone eeriness, reveals a bit of nosdam's human desperation with some of the hardest beats he has ever unleashed upon a sound wave's trespasser's ears. Perfect for headphones, grind dancing, and formal get-togethers of all kinds.

• odd nosdam is one third of highly acclaimed cLOUDDEAD
  
• Producer responsible for numerous anticon hits such as sole's "salt on everything" and Sage Francis's "Eviction Notice"
  

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  [track 1]
  [track 2]
  [track 3]
  [track 4]
  [track 5]
  [track 6]
  [track 7]
  [track 8]
  [track 9]
  [track 10]
  [track 11]
  [track 12]
  [track 13]
  [track 14]
  [track 15]
  [track 16]
  [track 17]
  [track 18]
  [track 19]
  [track 20]
  [track 21]
  [track 22]
  [track 23]
  [track 24]

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  odd nosdam "no more wig" (anticon)

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The first disc is bombastic and beat-blown, and well displays Nosdam's impressive range as a remix artist. Two of the record's strongest pieces are remixes created solely for this project. "(growin' up in the Hood) Four Thousand Style" is Nosdam's electric tribute to Leeds cult heroes Hood (fronted by Chris Adams, who records for Anticon as Bracken). A year of work and various snippets from the Hood catalogue went into the crunchy, spooked-out opus, with Adams's words disembodied and scrambled into the heaving song body. On "Forever Heavy (shoegangter/JB remix)," Nosdam actually recreates a Black Moth Super Rainbow original from scratch. Drum machine maestro Jel (Subtle/Themselves) adds a few pounds and Flying Saucer Attack collaborator Jessica Bailiff sings ghostly overtop, recalling Stereolab caught in a heavy swirl of fuzz, grind, and unusual beauty. In fact, Bailiff's voice is a binding element of Pretty Swell Explode's first half, a compilation that plays like a true album.

The second disc is Nosdam's ambient EP, exchanging drums and voice for the fuzzy warmth of eight-track cassete composition. Burner-era B-side "My Prayer Rug" rocks a slow and steady crystalline stomp that morphs into the blissed-out record-skip trip of "Bear Hug" (exhumed from the cLOUDDEAD days) before reaching the nine-minute, four-chambered remix suite, "Dayvan Cowboy," originally by Boards of Canada. This hard-fought multi-movement reinvention moves between intensity and quiet like seasons or the sea (and an unused selection from this remix, "D C (bit)" can be found on disc one.) Fittingly, "20th" carries the listener to the record's finish on a broad swell.

Accompanying these blasted sounds are three videos. Recent single "Kill Tone" (from Level Live Wires) is given a suitably exuberant treatment courtesy of Ravi Zupa; Skhoinarion weaves a kaleidoscopic collage to the "Dayvan Cowboy" remix (originally an unsolicited YouTube video); Spencer Williams, one-half of Portland ambient duo Drape, constructs a slow rain of Fourth-worthy fireworks display around Burner's "Clouded." The limited vinyl edition of Pretty Swell Explode also includes a hidden unreleased version of Nosdam's Lee Perry-inspired "Upsetter."

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Untitled Three (JBs OG Mix)
Dont Come Down Here (Blasted Remix) - Serenah Maneesh
Freshman Remix - Thee More Shallows
D C (Bit) - Boards Of Canada
Hollow Me
NO Good (Nosdam's Dub) - Skyrider
(Growin Up In The Hood) Four Thousand Style - Bracken
Wreck Time
Ligaya (Remix) - Alias & Tarsier
Untitled Sketch (W/ Jessica Bailiff)
Forever Heavy (shoegangster/JB Remix) - Bmsr
CUT
Perfectly Pink Path (For Dax)
My Prayer Rug
Bear Hug
Dayvan Cowboy (Remix) - Boards Of Canada
20th

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The first disc is bombastic and beat-blown, and well displays Nosdam's impressive range as a remix artist. Two of the record's strongest pieces are remixes created solely for this project. "(growin' up in the Hood) Four Thousand Style" is Nosdam's electric tribute to Leeds cult heroes Hood (fronted by Chris Adams, who records for Anticon as Bracken). A year of work and various snippets from the Hood catalogue went into the crunchy, spooked-out opus, with Adams's words disembodied and scrambled into the heaving song body. On "Forever Heavy (shoegangter/JB remix)," Nosdam actually recreates a Black Moth Super Rainbow original from scratch. Drum machine maestro Jel (Subtle/Themselves) adds a few pounds and Flying Saucer Attack collaborator Jessica Bailiff sings ghostly overtop, recalling Stereolab caught in a heavy swirl of fuzz, grind, and unusual beauty. In fact, Bailiff's voice is a binding element of Pretty Swell Explode's first half, a compilation that plays like a true album.

The second disc is Nosdam's ambient EP, exchanging drums and voice for the fuzzy warmth of eight-track cassete composition. Burner-era B-side "My Prayer Rug" rocks a slow and steady crystalline stomp that morphs into the blissed-out record-skip trip of "Bear Hug" (exhumed from the cLOUDDEAD days) before reaching the nine-minute, four-chambered remix suite, "Dayvan Cowboy," originally by Boards of Canada. This hard-fought multi-movement reinvention moves between intensity and quiet like seasons or the sea (and an unused selection from this remix, "D C (bit)" can be found on disc one.) Fittingly, "20th" carries the listener to the record's finish on a broad swell.

Accompanying these blasted sounds are three videos. Recent single "Kill Tone" (from Level Live Wires) is given a suitably exuberant treatment courtesy of Ravi Zupa; Skhoinarion weaves a kaleidoscopic collage to the "Dayvan Cowboy" remix (originally an unsolicited YouTube video); Spencer Williams, one-half of Portland ambient duo Drape, constructs a slow rain of Fourth-worthy fireworks display around Burner's "Clouded." The limited vinyl edition of Pretty Swell Explode also includes a hidden unreleased version of Nosdam's Lee Perry-inspired "Upsetter."

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Untitled Three (JBs OG Mix)
Dont Come Down Here (Blasted Remix) - Serenah Maneesh
Freshman Remix - Thee More Shallows
D C (Bit) - Boards Of Canada
Hollow Me
NO Good (Nosdam's Dub) - Skyrider
(Growin Up In The Hood) Four Thousand Style - Bracken
Wreck Time
Ligaya (Remix) - Alias & Tarsier
Untitled Sketch (W/ Jessica Bailiff)
Forever Heavy (shoegangster/JB Remix) - Bmsr
CUT
Perfectly Pink Path (For Dax)
My Prayer Rug
Bear Hug
Dayvan Cowboy (Remix) - Boards Of Canada
20th

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Evidence of a renewed license to uncompromisingly chase the detours and dictates of his own inimitable aesthetic, untitled three is from Burner's early stages, where nosdam borrowed a dusty micro-Moog and began layering melodic lines. And as is true for the rest of Burner, untitled three is by turns painstakingly quiet and intensely compressed; it marries rap-raw drums and deep-sea synths, and, in so doing, threads subtle hooks through the rim of one's attention. untitled three commences and closes with duets with Kranky Records vocalist Jessica Bailiff. One is tempted to refer to Bailiff's singing as "unearthly," or, God forbid, "ethereal," but her voice is too consistently passionate for such airy adjectives.

nosdam's sound creations tend to defy description, though many stabs have been made: Grooves imagined him as the midpoint between My Bloody Valentine and the Bomb Squad; CMJ suggested "Negativland-meets-Schooly "; XLR8R somewhat hyperbolically called his work "the most evocative soundtrack ever"; and Splendid declared simply, "odd nosdam stands at the forefront of hip-hop's avant-garde."

• The single from odd nosdam's upcoming full length Burner due in June '05
  
• Critically acclaimed producer/member of cLOUDDEAD and stand out tracks by Sage Francis and sole
  
• Features two duets w/ Jessica Bailiff (Kranky)

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Untitled Three (edit) (w/Jessica Bailiff)
  Bonus Beats
  Neighbor Break
  Record Loop
  Hollow Me (w/Dax Pierson & JB)
  My Prayer Rug (w/JB & JE)
  Untitled Sketch (w/Jessica Bailiff & JE)

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  go to iTunes to browse downloads for odd nosdam "untitled three"

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