Cloud People Dream Bridge Video

May 17, 2012

"Dream Bridge" is taken from Cloud People's 4th EP, "The Wilds", out now on Batona Music.

Shot in and around the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Directed and produced by Todd Steponick.
Additional production by Nice Looking Designs.

Thanks to Pete Prochilo, Tab Brown and Paul Cyr.

Cloud People Remix The Carpenters' Top Of The World

March 11, 2012

A Pine Barrens Take: Take 2 Take 2 takes The Carpenters "Top Of The World" even higher, glittering through hyperspace, meeting Terence McKenna in the cloud along the way. Free to the world.

Samples from "Top Of The World" by The Carpenters.
Planetary intelligence from Terence McKenna
Drums by Nolan Chowansky.
Design by Nice Looking Designs.

Cloud People Remix This Mortal Coil's Song To The Siren

March 11, 2012

Inspired, Cloud People plunge into their favorite selections and take what they want. Introducing a new sonic series, Eastern Thunder presents - A Pine Barrens Take. Take 1 takes Tim Buckley's "Song To The Siren", as performed by This Mortal Coil. Siren voices sail the glowing heavens and delay like skipping stones, sending ripples through blissful, dubbed-out space. Free, because the world needs it.

Samples from "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil.
Drums by Evan Wilder.
Design by Nice Looking Designs.

Cloud People The Wilds

February 9, 2012

Down long, narrow, deer-trodden trails; through solemn stands of cedar; over half-frozen streams and bogs; across stretches of flat land shrouded in pitch pine; in the overcast light and cold of a Pine Barrens winter, Cloud People go with the flow and provide this dubbed-out, spacey synthesizer response to the colder months in the wilds of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Synthesizers, scratching, and vocals by Cloud People.
Conga and djembe by Sam Moskalik.
Synthesizer by Evan Wilder.
Percussion by Nolan Chowansky.
Design by Nice Looking Designs.

Cloud People Ever Wilder

February 9, 2012

On a bright summer day in 2001, Evan Wilder went dumpster diving at a construction site in Shamong, NJ. There he found a collection of discarded country records. He took them back to the studio to scour the grooves with Tru-Ade's Technics 1200. The sunniest bits were salvaged and dubbed out. Sam Moskalik came in with his conga and djembe and added some bone-shaking rhythm power where he saw fit. These tracks would later be used in live Cloud People shows over the years. In 2011, Evan revisited some of the tracks by adding new synth lines, new guitars, vocals, improving the mix, and trying out some new tricks, to keep the tracks, well, ever wilder.

Conga and djembe by Sam Moskalik.
Synths, samples, acoustic guitar, drum kit, occasional vocals, mix & production by Evan Wilder.
Vocals, thunder and knowledge by Tercluckius.
Guidance and delays by Cloud People.
Some photos by T. Charles and Evan Wilder.
Design by Nice Looking Designs.

Wild & Shit With Evan Wilder Episodes 9-16

February 9, 2012


Cloud People's definitive series on all that's wild and all that's shit in the New Jersey Pine Barrens continues with another 8 episodes. This set covers wind, archery, hunting, the hoover synth, a robin, and more pollution in the pines.

View the complete Wild & Shit with Evan Wilder series on Youtube.

Filmed on location in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
Directed and produced by Todd Steponick.
Additional production by Nice Looking Designs.

Cloud People's Even Wilder Out Now

September 5, 2011


Cloud People Even Wilder, Cloud 2, digital (Batona PATH5). Five new tracks of Pineland-style IDM dub psyche-out sky tunes: released Friday, August 26, 2011.


Even Wilder, the only place to go after A Wild Feeling, was released August 26th on Batona Music cloud-wide on iTunes and Amazon.

The pace is picked-up and suffused with 5 tracks Pine Barrens heat: rankin' bass heavy dance tracks like "Warm Front Pressure Drop" follow the fading hot vespertine glow of "Awesome Sunsets" before the hurricane gusts and surges of "Open Deck Cloud Ship"'s wild yelps, crashing drum breaks and bits delay across the stratosphere. "Helios I" and "Helios II" set out to join the pantheon of efforts in homage to our star system through spacey synth arpeggios and bluejay calls, to further transuniversal acculturation amongst the surface dwellers.

MP3s are be available on iTunes and Amazon and FLAC will be made available via this site and on Batona.com.

Cover art by Nice Looking Designs and T. Charles.

Even Wilder by Cloud People

Cloud People Remix The Killing

February 23, 2011



The Killing What Is Yet To Dub. Get the mixes for free: The Killing's page on BandCamp.


In 2003, Cloud People did a remix for The Killing. The Iraq invasion had only recently begun. Anger was all the rage, and metal seemed (to us) to be thriving once again in New Jersey and around the world. Cloud People descended from their happier demeanor and moved amongst the surface dwellers in the ever-expansive and bottomless pits of darkness of the times. "The Walls of Paradise Dub By Cloud People" of "We Kill For The Good" is the 10+ minute, dissonant, discomforting and dirty result.

Later, 2011. The Killing is on indefinate hiatus. The Iraq occupation is ambiguously over. Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and more have their own people overthrowing the powers that control them. The above remix as well others by At Work still linger and age. Talks with the Killing ensue. The remixes are to be released to help ease the silence while life still stirs from within The Killing. Evan Wilder produces and contributes one more mix for Cloud People - "Meet And Greet With The Angel Of Death (Cloud People Over Riff Valley)".

These two mixes and 4 mixes by Batona label-mate At Work are available, for free, at The Killing's page on BandCamp, in FLAC, 330 KBPS MP3 & more.

Cover art by the same names who do our art work: Nice Looking Designs and T. Charles.

Cloud People Remix "Trails" For BD1982

February 2, 2011



Our friend in Japan, BD1982, has an EP - Trails - that came out in October on Seclusiasis. We did a remix for him, added some recordings of squirrels, acoustic guitar from Evan Wilder, and Sam Moskalik even played the djembe. Our mix now is now available along with mixes from Gunhead, Jam City, Makumba Sound, and Brey. High-quality electronics for the dancefloor soundsystem or headphones in the forest. We love the mixes and we think you will as well - listen to previews via the stores below.


Available from: Seclusiasis, Beatport, Boomkat, iTunes, Juno and Zero Inch.

Art by Nice Looking Designs. "Trails" (BD1982's original version which can be heard below) is taken from the BD1982 album on Seclusiais, Lets Talk Math - one of our favorites of 2010.
BD1982 - Trails by Seclusiasis