Nakamura fuses odd samples, like the hook from the 1970 tune “Of Cities and Escapes” by Canadian pop group The Poppy Family on the track “Madness” to my favorite bass line on the album.
Octagon (with Kool Keith), and solidifies his vision with more intelligent and digestible rhymes from Del. Deltron 3030 takes the idea of Nakamura’s previous effort, Dr. Throughout this tale of hip-hop sci-fi set in the year 3030, Del delivers abstract ideas set against Nakamura’s signature production. It’s the work of mastermind Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan the Automator (Dan Nakamura) and Kid Koala, along with contributions from Damon Albarn and others.ĭeltron 3030 is Del and Dan the Automator’s concept album of a dystopian society with only one hope: Deltron Zero. The importance of their records are well-known, but my go-to record is more like The Soft Bulletin of hip-hop, Deltron 3030. Picking those groups are like picking The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Nirvana for me, respectively. I will spare you the obvious favorites from Run DMC, Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest.
Picking a favorite hip-hop record is – for me at least – a difficult task. Pittman dissects a not-so-obvious classic, an album whose much-anticipated follow-up is rumored to be finished with a possible release later this year.
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The 55th installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums and songs, comes from Harris Pittman, bassist for the Los Angeles-based Henry Clay People, who are playing Crescent Ballroom on Thursday night in support of their new album Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives, out now on TBD Records.
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