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1. State Of The Nation
2. 3030	Listen
3. Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza
4. Things You Can Do	Listen
5. Positive Contact	Listen
6. St Catherine Street
7. Virus
8. Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)
9. New Coke
10. Mastermind
11. National Movie Review
12. Madness
13. Meet Cleofis Randolph The Patriarch
14. Time Keeps On Slipping
15. News (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary Of Microsoft Inc)
16. Turbulence
17. Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza II
18. Battlesong
19. Love Story
20. Memory Loss
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Modelling School and administrator of Dr Octagon's porno hospital) reinvents himself as The Cantankerous Captain Aptos and teams up with Deltron Zero (aka 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 doppelganger 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 DJs fingers with 31st-century rhythm stutters and scratches. Automator ping-pongs loops as rousing choral parts swells 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 favour of hip hop's future-fathers. --Chris Campion

Description
This hip-hop supergroup journeys forward to the next millennium to encounter a future that's part Jimi Hendrix psychedelic and part Judge Dredd comic book, with a backdrop of a whole lot of synths, BLADE RUNNER-type sound effects, ambient steel guitars, and hip-hop beats. The main players here are Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Dan "the Automator" Nakamura, andKid Koala, who drape themselves in a host of exotic samples, roomy hip-hop beats, and sci-fi mythology.
There are cameo appearances by Prince Paul, Blur's Damon Albarn, who contributes an exhausted-sounding mini-monologue and co-writes the mutant Burt Bacharach-laced "Time Keeps On Slipping", and Sean Lennon, who lends his compositional talents to the harpsichord, string, and horn-coloured "Memory Loss". The sci-fi theme suits the hip-hop format remarkably well, giving the rappers the chance to shoot a few choice barbs at today's society; these relevant messages and the music's technicolour feel undercut the cartoonish quality of the project, giving it a substance beyond that of a mere vanity exercise.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: best hip hop album in a while, 17 Jul 2001 By A Customer Refreshing, Ingenius, Simply amazing. Those are the only words that I can use to describe Deltron 3030. If you are sick and tired of the same old reused base lines that you find in most of todays rap songs then this is definetly the cd for you. Also track 2 on the cd, the 7 minute one, is quite possibly the greatest and most innovative rap song that I have ever heard in my entire life. The whole album is awe inspiring and is deifnetly worth the money.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: The Finest HipHop In Tha Galaxy, 16 April 2004 By  "simplixtik" - See all my reviews When you combine one of the most lyrical Emcee'z with possible the greatest hiphop producer ever then you know your gonna get some legendary s**t. Del the funky homo sapien is one of the most under rated MC's around. Lyrical, intellegent and unique Del doesn't have to spit about the same s**t everyone else does. Forget all the bling bling, the long lines rap/pop music that fills the charts, this is what hiphop was invented for. With Dan the automater beats this albums one of the best you can buy. Totally unmissable Man! Put down ya pac and ya 50 Cent this is real hiphop man. 3030 is one of those albums where every track is supreme, automaters spacey beats and Del's intelligent rhymes makes this my favourite album since the turn of the millenium. Best tracks? .....3030, Things You Can Do, Madness and Mastermind...but all the tracks are 1st rate s**t so just buy the album.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Just Buy It!, 26 April 2001 By A Customer For everyone out there who has forgotten that hip-hop can be fun and inventive this may just make you remember; it did for me! There's no gangster-wannabe rappers here, just fresh ideas and clever production. Not every track is a killer (in my opinion), but overall the album is a worthy investment.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 23 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews ,, The theme of the album is cliché as hell; a futuristic, empty dystopian world where only a few people (this time rappers and producers) are left alive, but in the context of a hip... Read more Published 7 months ago by 77 deltronic supersonic This is an amazing album, i never really thought an unbased concept album could be any fun, but with del's aggravated rhyming (very much reflecting our present state as well),... Read more Published on 16 Sep 2005 by nevereverwillbe Amazing This is truly one of the best hip hop albums I have ever heard. Del's intelligent lyrics flow seamlessly over the perfectly produced beats. Amazing. Buy it, you won't regret it. Published on 17 May 2005 oh yes please! it's not the year 3030, but who cares?? this is amazing, it's kinda like the Gorillaz before the gorillaz, but more hip-hop and better, so good in fact i even crashed my car to... Read more Published on 8 Dec 2004 by M. Esq I wish it was 3030 Wow, this is a true hi-hop album, no fake gun , just good rhymes and good beats. I tend to be very wary of concept albums but this one realy shines through, the production is... Read more Published on 2 Dec 2004 by slacktrench - There is nothing more to be said... This is the best album i have ever heard. If you're still unsure after reading these reviews, buy it anyway, believe me. Published on 5 Nov 2004 by Mr. B. Avenell Amazing combination Kool keith, Dan the automator, Kid koala