Odd Nosdam

Anticon co-founder Odd Nosdam is really a prolific beatmaker known for his atmospheric, pastoral productions that pull from shoegaze and ambient in addition to hip-hop and dub. Given birth to David Madson in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1976, he 1st began tinkering with looping as an adolescent, which eventually resulted in the buy of a Dr. Test and eight-track participant while he was students at the Artwork Academy of Cincinnati. He started issuing limited cassettes (and finally CD-Rs) of materials documented at his mother’s home, you start with 1998’s Anecdoticselfportrait. Shortly he was dealing with potential labelmates Doseone and just why?, co-producing the latter’s Gradual Death (The Long lasting Cry) and collaborating with both MCs simply because avant-rap trio cLOUDDEAD. The group agreed upon to Mush Information and started issuing some groundbreaking 10″ EPs in 2000, that have been compiled being a well-received self-titled full-length in 2001. That same season, the label also reissued Unusual Nosdam’s Program 9: Meats Your Hypnotist, originally a self-released tape from 1999. Unusual Nosdam then shifted to California to be area of the Anticon group, producing albums for most of its people, sharing a divide EP with Why? in 2001, and self-releasing his very own No More Hairpiece for Ohio in 2002 (with a far more accessible Anticon reissue in 2003). His following record, Burner, made an appearance in 2005, and was a lot more concentrated than his prior scattered, collage-like produces, featuring guest music artists and vocalists including Mike Patton, Jessica Bailiff, Martin Dosh, among others. The dreamy “Untitled Three” with Bailiff premiered as an individual from the record. Level Live Cables followed 2 yrs afterwards, with returning visitor Bailiff in addition to TV for the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe. Pretty Swell Explode, an record of remixes and rarities, implemented in 2008, including remixed variations of Planks of Canada, Serena Maneesh, and Dark Moth Super Rainbow, in addition to a few of his very own unreleased work. In ’09 2009, Anticon reissued T.We.M.E. Soundtrack, a Compact disc of Unusual Nosdam compositions utilized to rating a 2007 Component skateboarding video. Third , release, Unusual Nosdam continued dealing with some Anticon performers, especially Serengeti (within the rapper’s Kenny Dennis group of produces), but he no more issued his personal music around the label. Rather, he continuing self-releasing digital mixtapes in addition to cassettes on smaller sized brands like Sanity Muffin and Baro Information. Swedish Fish, a divided tape with Matthewdavid, showed up around the latter’s Departing Information in 2011. Trish, a tape focused on the past due Trish Keenan of Broadcast, made an appearance on Baro in 2013 (having a vinyl fabric launch on Sonic Cathedral Recordings 3 years later on). Following many even more low-key digital produces and remixes for performers ranging from Un Ten Eleven to Teebs to Harold Budd, Unusual Nosdam came back to Departing Information in 2016 with Sisters, released like a VHS tape and a vinyl fabric LP.