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THIS ALBUM IS EXCELLENT, SOME OF THE SONGS SOUND LIKE THEY SHOULD'VE WON AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BESTSONG TO AN EPIC MOVIE,NO B.S, ITS A VERY OPEN MINDED AND INGENIUS ALBUM HANDS DOWN,DAN THE AUTOMATOR AND DEL ARE GREAT COLLABOS, I PARTICULARLY USE THIS ALBUM AS INSPIRATION WHEN IM DRAWING OR WANT TO KICK BACK AND DREAM ALONG WITH THE LYRICS.BUY IT.-PEACE.
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this is the best rap album to hit the shelves since the beginning of rap. unfortunately i missed this album when it was first released, but thanks to the gorillaz, i discovered this rare gem and hunted around for a month before copping it. i cant put it down. the beats and lyrics are amamzing. most say that del is too abstract, but that is because there is so much low-level rappers that people arent used to really listening and thinking about what they are hearing. this record is old-school as well as too ahead of its time. ultimately its artistry can only be appreiciated by those who still long for some substance and not nursery rhymes. this is a must have album for all music lovers, so go get it!
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I don't write many reviews, but I had to say a few words about this album. This album is simply a masterpiece from start to finish. This is easily both Del and Dan's best work. The music and the lyrics truly put us, the listeners, a thousand years into the future. The opening track, 3030, pulls us through the "looking glass" and we are put into another time and place for the next hour. There are few albums that have this affect on listeners (Off the top of my head; Abbey Road, Srg. Peppers, Pet Sounds, Dark Side of the Moon, Billy Breaths) and there are certainly no rap or hip-hop albums that have this affect. This is a must have for anyone's music collection, even those who don't like hip-hop. If your not into rap, you will still be amazed by this album. This is absolutely the best hip-hop album of all time, with only Paul's Boutique coming close to it, and it goes right up there on my list of best albums of all time with Paul's Boutique, a hand full of Beatles albums, Exile on Main Street, London Calling, American Beauty/Workingman's Dead, Songs in the Key of Life, Pet Sounds, and Dark Side of the Moon. If you don't have this album yet, get it as ASAP.
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Deltron 3030 is something of a hip hop supergroup, and one with a concept at that. With the very capable Kid Koala on turntables, the brilliant Del Tha Funkee Homosapien on vocals and Dan the Automator, arguably one of the world's most accomplished producers, handling the samples and editing, this is an album that looks very promising.
Del has always been the black sheep of the rap scene, prefering oddball humour and absurdity over the gangsta rap of his peers (suprising, for someone with Ice Cube as a cousin). Album after album, he could never really say anything relevant about the world, because it seemed as though he didn't even live in it, always prefering to sing about the strangest subject matter that could enter his head.
With Deltron 3030, it finally seems as though Del has found his place in the scheme of things, with it's futuristic setting allowing his immagination to roam free, and to speculate on any non-existant matter it wishes. The fact that he's a big science geek only increases the potential of such a premise.
This gives way to some great, truly immaginative lyrics, on topics both obvious (the increasing part played by computers, interplanetary travel), and a little more off-kilter (intergalactic rap battles and all manner of general futuristic weirdness). With a concept so easy to turn into an ongoing story in song, the album unwinds as what many have called a hip-hopera, with the centrepiece of the story being Del's participation in the afore mentioned rap battles. This competetive theme even allows him to indulge in every rapper's favourite topic - how much better he is than you or anyone else in the universe - without it sounding altogether unjustified.
Del's vocals are accompanied nicely by Kid Koala's turntable work, but the big highlight is the first rate production of Dan the Automater. The album is bursting with character, full of samples, effects and interludes (both musical and dialogue driven). The production was so good, it even warranted a separate release of an instrumental version of the album (entitled Tron "3030: The Instrumentals").
This is quite possibly the most breathtakingly original hip hop album to be released in decades, and definately a solid contender for the best album of 2000. Even if you don't like hip hop, this is an album everyone should hear.
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I think it was May 2, 2003. I bought my first Gorillaz album, and was blown away. It had so much to it, and I was suddenly in a wave of maddness trying to find out so much more about Gorillaz and related topics.
I guess you can call me a big hip-hop fan. I mean, I really don't have a lot, I just have some renouned artists. Dre, Eminem, Dr.Octagon, Snoop Dog, and others. When I found out about Deltron 3030, I decided to give it a try (I like Gorillaz, I might like this).
I was pissed when I listened to this album, not in bad way, but in a good way. Why didn't I jump the Deltron ban waggon earlier!? This was pure genious. Pure genious. Every track on this album is crafted so well, and are better then most Gorillaz songs (Except, Clint Eastwood, Tomorrow Comes Today, 19-2000, The Sounder, Clint Eastwood (Phi Life), Sound Check, and Left Hand Suzki Method).
This album is so perfect, that it got me jumping out of my seat. I am on a mission to get more people into this kind of hip-hop. Deltron 3030 is a different style of hip-hop that I enjoy. There's no talking bout drinking, sex, or any of that new hip-hop stuff. Deltron 3030 puts you in prospective, and gives you a storyboard hip-hop layout. Deltron is a story in the year 3030. Every song is crafted so it takes you through the story, and there are sub-plot tracks that explain the storyline even more.
This is a pure third-party record that romps with keyboarding, drums, lyrics, and rythems. Nakumara turns in creepy, futuristic and bizarre beats for this concept album about fantastic, backwards human civilization in the year 3030...crowded with guest appearances.
I feel that if you're a huge Gorillaz fan, Octagon fan, or any other fan of "The Automator" then you can't miss Deltron 3030. Don't miss the party, get this album.
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