Deltron - 3030 (www.youtube.com)
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One of my favourite albums. Del and Dan the Automator. Got to see him live outdoors in downtown Toronto. Epic

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[–] 10 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Hell yessss.

This is one of the very very few "hip hop" albums I just love. I usually can't really stand rap/hiphop but that seems to be because I hear mainstream junk a lot..

This is hip hop right? My favorite bands are Kansas and rush, I'm white as a ghost lol

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    You might dig stuff from the Ninja Tune label, they put out a lot of instrumental hiphop during the nineties-zeroes. Some of Dan the Automator's music resembles Ninja Tune's output a lot.

    YouTube likely has good mixes if you search for ‘ninja tune’, or their specifically mix departments ‘Solid Steel’ and ‘DJ Food’.

    E.g. Roots Manuva, The Cinematic Orchestra, Wagon Christ, Coldcut, Daedelus, DJ Vadim, Bonobo, maybe The Herbaliser.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Great album, with some silliness on it too! I believe "Virus" brought me to the album, listening to some obscure internet or satellite radio back then.

    I wanna devise a virus
    To bring dire straits to your environment
    Crush your corporations with a mild touch
    Trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

    Del of Deltron also goes by Del the Funky Homosapien (his original name). Recently been going backwards and forwards from this album, mostly forwards. Couple notables Nobody Can, and one he collaborated on with Amp Sit Ya Ass Down plus a remix to boot Sit Ya Ass Down (Del'Amott Remix).

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Del is also part of Hieroglyphics which is also great

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I've always wondered where some of the samples on this album came from. Great tracks and energy the whole way through.

    "And here at the Corporate Institutional Bank of Time, we find ourselves reflecting, finding out that in fact, we came back. We were always coming back..."

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    IIRC these are actually just their own recordings (might even be Damon Albarn doing the future-y voices on State of the Nation but I'm not the best at recognizing voices) and most of the samples are instrumentals, but I didn't look very deep into it

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Deltron 3030 is a trio. Apart from those two, it also includes Kid Koala, who's no slouch either.

    Dan the Automator and Kid Koala also had the one-album project Lovage.

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  • Fuck yes, this is the shit. I throw this on every now and then

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    One of my favorite albums from a genre I don't often enjoy.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Greatest concept album in the history of rap don't @ me

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    thanks tony hawk underground

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yo, Deltron, let's gooo! I love this album! I appreciate Cannibal Ox, El-P, and I specially love Non Phixion, but no one's done sci-fi hip-hop like Del.

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