Odd Nosdam is a musician, DJ, artist, and co-founder and ex-art director of record label/collective Anticon.

Nosdam was first noticed for the drone and warped pop of his former group cLOUDDEAD

CLOUDDEAD

Clouddead was a musical group consisting of the experimental hip hop musicians Doseone , Why? , and Odd Nosdam . Generally Drucker and Wolf provide the group's vocals while Madson produces the music...

 (with fellow Anticon

Anticon

Anticon is an Oakland based independent record label founded in 1997. It is collectively owned among six founding artists and one manager...

 founders Why? and Doseone

Doseone

Adam Drucker, better known as Doseone , is an American MC, artist, and poet from Idaho. Dose is known for his nasal, high pitched, fast polyrhythmic rapping style and abstract lyrics. He often simultaneously performs synth, sampler, or keyboard on stage. His words tend to express upon topics of...

); he has worked closely with Mike Patton

Mike Patton

Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...

 on his Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom (band)

Peeping Tom is a rock band led by Mike Patton. To date, they have released one eponymous album and two singles. Patton has enough material written for the project to possibly record two more albums.-Artists who have played with Peeping Tom:*Rahzel...

 project and remixed tracks by a variety of bands including The Notwist

The Notwist

The Notwist are a German indie rock band. Formed in 1989, the band moved through several musical incarnations despite maintaining a relatively stable lineup...

, Danielson, Serena-Maneesh

Serena-Maneesh

Serena-Maneesh is an alternative rock band from Oslo, Norway.- Significance of the Name:...

, Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...

, Bracken

Bracken

Bracken are several species of large, coarse ferns of the genus Pteridium. Ferns are vascular plants that have alternating generations, large plants that produce spores and small plants that produce sex cells . Brackens are in the family Dennstaedtiaceae, which are noted for their large, highly...

 and Black Moth Super Rainbow

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Black Moth Super Rainbow is an American experimental band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their music contains elements of psychedelia, folk, electronica, and pop...

. He has also produced, mixed or collaborated with Jel

Jel

Jel is a hip hop producer and rapper for the Anticon label. He is a part of the hip hop duo Themselves and is also heavily involved in the bands Subtle and 13 & God.-Style:...

, Jessica Bailiff

Jessica Bailiff

Jessica Bailiff is an American singer-songwriter from Toledo, Ohio. Her music is largely classified as slowcore, although it contains elements of post-rock and shoegaze. Bailiff was discovered by Low's Alan Sparhawk, who recommended her earlier demos to Kranky Records, the label on which Bailiff...

, Tunde Adebimpe

Tunde Adebimpe

Babatunde Omoroga "Tunde" Adebimpe is an American musician, actor, and director best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio. His vocal method often involves improvisation, the use of effects and repeating sampled loops....

, Restiform Bodies, Thee More Shallows

Thee More Shallows

Thee More Shallows are a three-piece San Francisco based experimental indie rock band formed in 2001, consisting of song-writer Dee Kesler, Chavo Fraser and Jason Gonzales...

, Themselves

Themselves

Themselves is an Oakland-based hip hop group, made up of rapper Doseone and producer Jel . Dax Pierson, from the affiliated group Subtle, has played keyboards for the group, though he is not considered an official member. To date, the group has released three full-length albums and two singles...

, Sole

Sole (artist)

Tim Holland, known as Sole, is an alternative hip hop artist and a co-founder of the Anticon collective/label. Sole is known for his dense and often dark stream-of-consciousness style of rapping. His verses are often filled with abstraction, metaphor and sarcasm while avoiding or deconstructing...

, Sage Francis

Sage Francis

Paul "Sage" Francis is a hip-hop artist from Providence, Rhode Island.-Biography:Born Paul Francis in Miami, Florida, Sage Francis is a rapper/writer/performer from Providence, Rhode Island. He is the founder and CEO of the independent hip-hop record label Strange Famous Records...

, Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...

, Dosh

Dosh

Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh , known in music as Dosh, is a musician and multi-instrumentalist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As an artist, Dosh is a percussionist uses various electronics, often with a Fender Rhodes...

, Bre'r, Múm

Múm

múm are an experimental Icelandic musical group whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.- History :...

, Eluvium

Eluvium

Eluvium is the moniker of ambient recording artist Matthew Cooper, who currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Cooper, who was born in Tennessee and raised in Louisville, Kentucky before relocating to the Northwest, is known for blending various genres of experimental music including shoegaze,...

, Grouper

Grouper (musician)

Grouper is the solo project for electro-acoustic ambient/noise musician Liz Harris, of Portland, Oregon. Harris' music is a mixture of softly-strummed guitar, Wurlitzer keys, and delicate vocals...

, Saroos and Hood

Hood (band)

Hood is a UK-based band from Leeds, that formed in 1991. The band consists of brothers Chris and Richard Adams, and friends .- History :...

.

Solo Releases

• Anecdoticselfportrait (Self-Released) Cassette (1998)
• Plan 9... Meat Your Hypnotis (Self-Released) Cassette (1999)
• nonametape (Self-Released) Cassette (1999)
• Reject (Self-Released) CD (2001)
• Eat (the WHY? & Odd Nosdam split ep) LP/CD (2001)
• Plan 9... Meat Your Hypnotis (Reissue) 2LP/CD (2001)
• No More Wig for Ohio (Self-Released) CD (2002)
• No More Wig for Ohio (Reissue) 2LP/CD (2003)
• Your American Bonus 7" (2004)
• Untitled Three 12" (2005)
• Burner 2LP/CD (2005)
• Vol. 8 (Self-Released) CD (2006)
• cLOUDDEAD instrumentals (Bonus) CD (2007)
• Level Live Wires LP/CD (2007)
• The Exciting Sounds of Level Live Wires (Bonus) CD (2007)
• This Is My Element Soundtrack CD (2007)
• Pretty Swell Explode 2LP/2CD (2008)
• 15 Minutes of Funk (Bonus) CD (2008)
• Circus Faux Prez Beats! (Self-Released) Download (2008)
• T.I.M.E. Soundtrack (Reissue) LP/CD (2009)
• flower snow falls (split w/Drape) cassette (2009)
• Vol. 9 (Self-Released) CD/Download (2010)

with cLOUDDEAD

• apt.A 10" (1999)
• and all you can do is laugh. 10" (1999)
• I promise never to get paint on my glasses again. 10" (1999)
• JimmyBreeze 10" (2000)
• (cloud dead number five) 10" (2000)
• Bike 10" (2000)
• cLOUDDEAD 3LP/CD (2001)
• This About the City / The Sound of a Handshake 10" (2001)
• The Peel Session 10" (2002)
• Dead Dogs Two 12" (2004)
• Ten
  Ten (cLOUDDEAD album)
  Ten is the only studio album by Clouddead, released in 2004.The album was preceded by the single "Dead Dogs Two", with b-sides "Mulholland Instrumental" and "Dead Dogs Two ". The sleeve of the single declares that "this is clouddead number 9 of ten", which would seem to indicate that Ten is...
  
  LP/CD (2004)

with WHY?

• MadToons Beat Orchestra - So Long, Mike Part 1 / Black Light District 7" (2000)
• Reaching Quiet - "113th clean" (Ropeladder 12) 3LP/CD (2000)
• Reaching Quiet - In the Shadow of the Living Room 2LP/CD (2002)

Collaborations

• Mike Patton & Odd Nosdam - Five Seconds (Peeping Tom) (2006)
• Mike Patton & Jel & Odd Nosdam - Your Neighborhood Spaceman (Peeping Tom) (2006)
• Jel & Odd Nosdam - Tune In An Afternoon (XLR8R TV) (2009)
• Bre'r & Odd Nosdam - @ Woulds (Self-Released CD/Download) (2009)

Remixes

• Sole - "Selling Live Water (Dead Food Remix) w/Jel" (2003)
• Themselves - "You Devil You Remix" (2004)
• Skyrider - "No Good (Nosdam's dub)" (2006)
• Windsor for the Derby
  Windsor for the Derby
  Windsor for the Derby are an American post-rock band based in Austin, Texas, whose members are originally from Tampa, Florida.Their debut album was released in 1996 on Trance Syndicate, and was produced by Adam Wiltzie, who then joined the group after the release of the album...
  
  - "Empathy For People Unknown Remix" (2006)
• Serena-Maneesh
  Serena-Maneesh
  Serena-Maneesh is an alternative rock band from Oslo, Norway.- Significance of the Name:...
  
  - "Don't Come Down Here (Blasted Remix)" (2006)
• Boards of Canada
  Boards of Canada
  Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...
  
  - "Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix)" from Trans Canada Highway
  Trans Canada Highway (EP)
  -External links:* at the official Warp Records discography.* at Bleep.com* music video .* on YouTube* at the official Warp Records site*...
  
  (2006)
• Galena - "Gorbesh makeover" (2006)
• Thee More Shallows - "Freshman Remix" (2006)
• Alias & Tarsier - "Ligaya (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2006)
• The Klez-X - "Yom Pom Nosdam (remix)" (2007)
• Bracken - "(growin' up in the Hood) Four Thousand Style" (2007)
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Forever Heavy (Shoegangster/JB Remix)" (2008)
• The Notwist - "Sleep (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
• Danielson - "Our Givest (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
• Genghis Tron - "Colony Collapse (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
• Sole and the Skyrider Band - "One Egg Short Of An Omelette (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
• Luke Elliott - "The Future Various... (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
• Restiform Bodies - "Consumer Culture Wave (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2008)
• Dark Dark Dark
  Dark Dark Dark
  Dark Dark Dark is an American chamber folk band based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Formed in 2006, the band has toured extensively in the United States and Europe and is known for their blend of New Orleans jazz, Americana, Eastern European folk and pop sensibilities.In 2008 Dark Dark Dark...
  
  - "Junk Bones (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2009)
• Themselves - "Skinning The Drum (Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2010)
• WHY? - "January Twenty Something (Jel & Odd Nosdam Remix)" (2010)

Mixes

• Le Mixtape (Self-Released Mix CD) (2001)
• Le Mixtape Delux (Self-Released Mix CD) (2002)
• Rap Tapes Mixtape (Self-Released Mix CD) (2005)
• Le Mix Ambient (Self-Released Mix CD) (2006)
• Thrift Store Mixtape (Self-Released Mix CD) (2006)
• dies of hap - pi - ness, of sor - row, dreams (Self-Released Mix) (2008)
• Mixtape Super Delux (Anticon Podcast) (2008)
• Nofoolisnotaintready (XLR8R Podcast) (2009)
• Albatross Pub Dub (Self-Released Mix) (2009)

Production Work

• Greenthink
• Sole
• Sage Francis
• Peeping Tom (Mike Patton)
• Telephone Jim Jesus
• Thee More Shallows
• Themselves
• Bomarr
• WHY?
• Dosh
• Engines
• Bre'r
• Jel
• vyle.

Additional Links

• The Top 5 Instrumental Hip-Hop Albums on Synconation