Jon Black (cloud-d)

Next up on the New Sound roster is young up and coming Denver producer Jon Black, aka cloud-d, aka earth tones. Jon is Denver born and raised, djs, has been producing for a little over a year and is a graphic designer. He currently attends the Art Institute of Colorado. Jon tells me he's always loved downtempo, started making it and this eventually led him into darker dubstep. I met Jon randomly shooting the shit on Soundcloud comments, liked each others stuff and realized we had a bunch of the same friends (btw.. time to buy stock in Soundcloud??). Most recently, I caught his set at Cervantes on the 7th and it was pretty impressive. A few of the other kids from The Mile High Sound Movement (a CO collective similar to ours, links below) also threw down good sets. I especially liked Wyatt and Project Aspect. Jon's set struck me as restrained (rather than over the top) and well-arranged. Any laptop kid can ask around, download the newest bangers and throw them together into shitty sounding "transitions", but i noticed Jon using minimal dub tracks (a bunch of them his own production) and drum loops to have his set flow up and down properly. Extra points for using a Maschine rather than an MPD. Another producer on our label (TK Kayembe, aka .anansi) also plays on and produces on a Maschine. A bunch of links are below for further exploration, including Jon's websites, old flyers and whatnot. His set from Cervantes this past week will be posted soon. This kid has a good work ethic, a good ear and is on the up and up. Watch out.

Latest tracks by cloud-d

influences:
-yukmouth
-three6
-techn9ne
-mrk1
-heyoka
-vinyl mind

Latest tracks by cloud-d

Review from last year's Mile High Meltdown

Mile High Movement Facebook Page