Cloud People I Don't Even Know If We Could Get Any Wilder

January 14, 2013

Four fresh and dubby tracks from the Pine Barrens close out 2012. Forests covered in snow, sunny cloudscapes amidst a bright moon in blue sky, and winter starscapes sparkling in the cold, clear space above: This is the level of wild that we find at Cloud 8. Unlike previous Clouds (some of which took years), this set was made in recent months, specifically for winter.

Cloud 8. Released December 31, 2012.

Produced by Evan Wilder
Synthesizers by Cloud People
"Animals" samples Peter Singer
"Intelligence" samples Neil deGrasse Tyson
Photos by Evan Wilder
Design by Nice Looking Designs.

Wild & Shit With Evan Wilder Episodes 17-20

November 27, 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 4 episodes.

This set covers plastic bags, cornfields, PLUR, whistling, and dreams in the pines.

Episodes 17 & 19 premiered at Tracey Moberly's Tweet-Me-Up! at The Tanks, in London's Tate Modern in August 2012.

Episode 20 is a special extended harvest edition Wild & Shit.

Wild & Shit With Evan Wilder 17 - PLUR


Wild & Shit With Evan Wilder 18 - Whistlin' Wild


Wild & Shit With Evan Wilder 19 - Whistlin' Wild


Wild & Shit With Evan Wilder 20 - Dream Harvest


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 Remix Floods' "On The Corner of Metropolitan And Manhattan"

November 16, 2012

Inspired by the April light, with Jupiter and Venus shining over 2012's spring sunsets, Evan Wilder ventured out from the depths of winter and attempted to put the moment into this easy-listening remix for Floods' already dub heavy groove, On The Corner of Metropolitan And Manhattan. The original version first appeared on their debut release, Transmission. The remix is available on the EP Intermission, which features two remixes from At Work, was released November 10, 2012 on Batona Music.

Rearrangement and programming by Evan Wilder.
Ableton Live soft synths by Cloud People.

Cloud People Awesome Sunsets Video

November 1, 2012

Evan Wilder finds Cloud People in the awesome sunsets throughout the seasons.

"Awesome Sunsets" is taken from Cloud People's 2nd EP, "Even Wilder", 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.

Cloud People Buck Wild

October 23, 2012

As the harvest comes to an end and deer mating season begins, Buck Wild is delivered to connect you into the woodland wild via rhythm power. Tracks feature haunting vocals from 1692, a young woman who lives deep in a remote part of the Pine Barrens where she practices her crafts alone. This is the soundtrack for solo-excursions in the turning forest to ponder the thousands and thousands of years of peoples who have been here before, the generations to come, our fleeting place in the cosmos and what we can do with it. Maybe you'll find other uses. Highly suitable for 140 BPM dancefloors, retro raves, Pinelands gatherings and star watching.

Cloud 7. Released October 23, 2012.

Vocals by 1692.
Djembe by Sam Moskalik.
Produced by Evan Wilder.
Micromoog synthesizer by Cloud People.
Some photos by T. Charles and Evan Wilder.
Design by Nice Looking Designs.

Evan Wilder Performs Cloud People At Fall Arts Festival, Woodbury NJ

September 28, 2012


Short notice: Evan Wilder will perform highlights from Clouds 1-8 and Takes 1-2 by Cloud People on the morning of Saturday, September 29, from 10am-12 noon, outside, at the Woodbury Fall Arts Festival.

Last minute flier design by Nice Looking Designs.

Cloud People Dub Me Wilder

September 1, 2012

What feels wilder than dub? That's what we hear in the pines, and we don't know any sounds wilder. Inspired, we tried to express this in these recordings and productions. Drums Of Autumn and Bones at Frog Bog were started in the fall of 2001. The former has changed very little since then, while the later developed over the years since. Beyond The Call Of The Wild and Cool Cedar Flow were started in summer 2010, inspired by time in and around cedar streams out near Hawkin's Bridge in the pines. These tracks capture something of September and October, and hopefully can be taken out and ritualistically enjoyed every year, something like Halloween and the rest that goes with the season.

Djembe by Sam Moskalik.
Synths, samples, break chop-ups, mix & production by Evan Wilder.
Micromoog synthesizer by Cloud People.
Some photos by T. Charles and Evan Wilder.
Design by Nice Looking Designs.

New Wild & Shits in Tracey Moberly's Tweet-Me-Up! at The Tanks, Tate Modern

August 30, 2012


Cloud People's definitive series on all that's wild and all that's shit in the New Jersey Pine Barrens continues overseas in Tracey Moberly's installation of mass-participation Tweet-Me-Up! at The Tanks, under London's Tate Modern. Episodes 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17 & 19 were on display.

The new episodes (coming fall 2012) exlore the joy of whistling, relics of rave ideals, misplaced plastic waste, and more pollution in the pines.

Tracey Moberly's show celebrated sub-cultures and countercultures through video, sound, image, text message and tweets. Over 160 artists were involved, including Tracey Moberly, Kirsty Hawkshaw (ex-Opus III and collaborator on Orbital's classic “Halcyon”), ex-Cabaret Voltaire's Stephen Mallinder with his collective Wrangler; The Pop Group's Mark Stewart now part of the New Banalists; the Human League and Heaven 17's Martyn Ware in an instagram collaboration with his daughter Elena; TV presenter and journalist Kirsty Allison; Damian Alban's African Express co-founder Steve Budd; Blur's ex-manager and Teardrop Explodes Dave Balfe; to name a few. In the cross-platform work duos and acting debuts' feature unexpected roles for the unlikely, from Captain Sensible to Goldie Lookin' Chain's Eggsy.

Also: Alka, Drexciyan DJ Stingray 313, Team Doyobi, The Multi-Purpose Solution, Phil Ritz, Chlliary Patenaude, Jason Carr, Ki Ra, Maya Moksha, Dev79, Chris Moss Acid, Marie A. Roberts, Toni-Lee Sangastiano, David Liebe Hart, C Sides, Helium Ointment, and Calla Donofrio amongst many others shared their work. Contributors come from as far afield as Eastern Siberia, Uzbekistan, New Jersey, Haiti, Trinidad and Japan.


Photo courtesy of Toni-Lee Sangastiano.

View Tracey Moberly's official Tweet-Me-Up site here.
View Tracey Moberly's site here.

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 As Wild As We Want To Be

August 20, 2012

The wintery contemplation of The Wilds is over—it's time for fun. The Micromoog is warm and the summer sun still shines. Here we are, being as wild as want to be, so we called this collection just that. Behold, lovely surface dwellers, our most exciting and vocal effort to date. Our wild side shines once again through what will sound like an unfamiliar tongue in Nubbanoc-Noc (A Pine Barrens Summer Folk Song): Sam Moskalik on djembe; Evan Wilder on drums, vocals; Cloud People on what sounds like vocoder and the Micromoog synthesizer. We point to the heart of Cloud People country and share the story of Giant Sky Man, whom which bestows the heavenly sounds upon our sacred pine covered grounds. Download this (pay if you want) and play it into the colder months to take the light of summer with you.

Djembe by Sam Moskalik.
Synths, samples, drum kit, vocals, mix & production by Evan Wilder.
Vocoder vocals and Micromoog jam by Cloud People.
Some photos by T. Charles and Evan Wilder.
Design by Nice Looking Designs.

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