One of my favorite local beatmakers and tone heads, Odd Nosdam (aka David P. Madson) recently dropped a remaster of one of his more beautiful records, the soundtrack for T.I.M.E. (aka This Is My Element), a skateboarding video from 2007. The music is dreamy, grimy, richly melodic, and psychedelic, like hanging at an East Bay skate park on acid in the late afternoon.
If you’re unfamiliar, Madson’s a co-founder of the legendary LA-based indie hip hop label Anticon and producer for cLOUDDEAD. He is seemingly tight with Boards of Canada, as his sound influenced Campfire Headphase and vice versa. BoC remixed both cLOUDDEAD’s “Dead Dogs Two” (one of my favorite songs of all time and a must-hear, completely unique love letter to Oakland) and Odd Nosdam’s gorgeous track “Sisters.” There is a clear musical kinship between these artists and I like to think they were hanging out in Alameda when Boards of Canada snapped the cover photo for Tomorrow’s Harvest.
