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| Sales Rank: | 93827 (lower is better) |
| Price Used: | $9.02 |
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| Release Date: | 2000-10-17 |
| Label: | 75 ARK |
| UPC: | 676217503322 |
| Binding: | Audio CD |
| Published By: | 75 ARK |
| ASIN: | B00004YYXL |
| Category: | Music |
Tracks on Deltron 3030 by 75 ARK
- State Of The Nation
- 3030
- The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza
- Things You Can Do
- Positive Contact
- St. Catherine St.
- Virus
- Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)
- New Coke
- Mastermind
- National Movie Review
- Madness
- Meet Cleofis Randolph The Patriarch
- Time Keeps On Slipping
- The News (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary Of Microsoft Inc.)
- Turbulence (Remix)
- The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza Part II
- Battlesong
- Love Story
- Memory Loss
- The Assmann 640 speaks
Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions
Album Description
Explicit Version. Self titled album of 24 tracks. Hip-hop forward-thinking with Deltron 3030 as they take one producer, one MC, and one DJ and throws them into the future. One track, 'Memory Loss' features Sean Lennon. Dan the Automator reinvents himself as the Cantankerous Captain Aptos and teams up with Deltron Zero (a.k.a. Hieroglyphics crew member Del tha Funky Homosapien) and Skiznod the Boy Wonder (bucky turntablist Kid Koala). Between the radio ads for future-funked, rap jams, and camouflaged cameos (by the likes of Prince Paul, a castrato Damon Albarn, MC Paul Barman and his Upper West Side doppelg„nger Sean Lennon), the Deltron crew advise you to upgrade your brain to avoid getting sucked into the time virus.
Amazon.co.uk
Hip-hop confabulations don't come much more forward-thinking than this. Working from solid atomic principles, Deltron 3030 takes one producer, one MC, and one DJ and throws them beyond Futurama. Dan the Automator (one of the founders of the Handsome Boy Modeling School and administrator of Dr. Octagon's porno hospital) reinvents himself as the Cantankerous Captain Aptos and teams up with Deltron Zero (a.k.a. Hieroglyphics crew member Del tha Funky Homosapien) and Skiznod the Boy Wonder (bucky turntablist Kid Koala). Between the radio ads for future-funked, rap jams, and camouflaged cameos (by the likes of Prince Paul, a castrato Damon Albarn, MC Paul Barman and his Upper West Side doppelgänger Sean Lennon), the Deltron crew advise you to upgrade your brain to avoid getting sucked into the time virus. ("Ugrade your gray matter," they chant, "'cause one day it may matter.") The thematic opener, "3030," sounds like a beat-driven David Lean movie that slipped into the DJ's fingers with 31st-century rhythm stutters and scratches. Automator ping-pongs loops as rousing choral parts swell with space pride. "Things You Can Do" riffs off mod rock while a harpsichord hack and Sean Lennon drops feature on the sickly sweet mental apocalypse of "Memory Loss." Over its 21 tracks, Deltron 3030 erases the errors of this rap era in favor of hip-hop's future fathers. --Chris Campion
Customer Reviews
DELightful! [4.5 Stars] - Reviewed on 2008-09-07
1 customer found this review helpful.
Using the year 3030 as a concept for the album, Del guides us through the dystopian world he envisions it will be. It is a little unclear to me exactly what kind of society that is so I wont go into details, but keywords would be totalitarianism, "global apartheid", some kind of evil ruler and tons of posers - one thing is for sure though! Hip-hop is still tha shiznit (quote: "In the year 3030 everybody wants to be an MC") and Del (aka Deltron Zero) is the best MC around, and he and his associates (Automator and Koala under some weird pseudonyms) are out to rid the urbanized future of general whackness! It may sound cheesy, but it really isn't thanks to Del's super skilled flow and instantly recognizable style teamed up with some really stellar beats, that I certainly would say is the albums strongest feature (check out: Deltron 3030 Instrumental Version too), and I would definitely rate them as the best and most coherent work by Dan the Automator, surpassing Dr. Octagonecologyst. As we saw on that record, he has a real knack for giving his superb productions a "futuristic" feel to them, which certainly fits the theme of the album. Kid Koala is on the turntable work and his sense of humor seen on his own excellent solo work, is really a good match with Del's similarly goofy (but pro-to-the-bone) style and playful flow. Of course it doesn't hurt that Koala is also one of the ablest turntablists I have ever heard (hear "Madness").
The only problem I have with Deltron 3030 is the choruses, especially on "3030" - a track that features one of my all-time favorite hip-hop productions (as smooth a bassline as you could hope to hear, awesomely subtle drums plus some very eerie, beautiful slide-guitar licks), and some sick verses - the chorus is just too slow and lengthy, and that really hurts the song. The same thing can be said about "Positive Contact" and "Turbulence". I suppose the hooks give the album some accessibility, but as the verses and productions grow on you with repeated listens, the choruses do the exact opposite thing.
But overall, an excellent and very interesting album. Can not wait for Deltron Event II!
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Book Subjects
- Alternative Rap
- Hip-Hop
- Pop
- Rap & Hip-Hop
- Rap, Hip-Hop
- Rap/Hip Hop
- Trip-Hop
- Underground Rap