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
1. Deltron 3030 - State Of The Nation (0:26)
2. Deltron 3030 - 3030 (7:29)
3. Deltron 3030 - The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza (0:21)
4. Deltron 3030 - Things You Can Do (4:59)
5. Deltron 3030 - Positive Contact (4:42)
6. Deltron 3030 - St. Catherine St. (0:43)
7. Deltron 3030 - Virus (4:26)
8. Deltron 3030 - Upgrade (A Brymar College Course) (4:10)
9. Deltron 3030 - New Coke (0:41)
10. Deltron 3030 - Mastermind (3:34)
11. Deltron 3030 - National Movie Review (0:53)
12. Deltron 3030 - Madness (4:38)
13. Deltron 3030 - Meet Cleofis Randolph The Patriarch (0:36)
14. Deltron 3030 - Time Keeps On Slipping (4:59)
15. Deltron 3030 - The News (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary Of Microsoft Inc.) (0:49)
16. Deltron 3030 - Turbulence (Remix) (3:33)
17. Deltron 3030 - The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza Part II (0:37)
18. Deltron 3030 - Battlesong (4:07)
19. Deltron 3030 - Love Story (3:26)
20. Deltron 3030 - Memory Loss (4:39)
21. Deltron 3030 - The Assman 640 Speaks (0:31)
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