Yes, it seems Deltron 3030 at the Fonda is a hot date night. Very mixed, hard to get a median age on it really, but one thing does stand out and that’s all the couples. Dan the Automator conducts the orchestra, all the instruments collide with DJ Kid Koala’s record scratching mastery and Del spits out his hypnotic lyrics: “I want y’all to meet Deltron Zero, hero, not no small feat/It’s all heat in this day and age/I’ll raid your grave, anything it takes to save the day.”Įverybody in the crowd is moving and what a crowd it is. The introduction “State of the Nation” comes over the speakers as the tension mounts and then Del announces that it’s “3030,” and the epic collection of sound commences. And shortly after DJ Kid Koala returns to his scratching post (initially playing a set after The Gaslamp Killer) and the voice of Deltron 3030, Del tha Funkeé Homosapien stands front and center, mic in hand and it’s time to get started.
DELTRON 3030 LIVE FULL
Next up is the conductor and legendary hip-hop producer Dan the Automator, dressed in full composer attire.
Tonight they’re backed by a 16-piece orchestra featuring guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, a horn section, a string section and backup singers, who all take the stage first. Why didn’t they ask me? Oh, yeah-because I have no musical talent.īut this tour in support of Event 2, the second album appearing now 13 years after its predecessor, Deltron 3030 will not be just a trio. On the first album, Jones, one of hip-hop's true oddballs, was criticised for a perceived lack of lyrical coherence, but on Event II, Nakamura says the rapper worked hard to create a more coherent lyrical flow.After an early set here at the lovely Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles’s own The Gaslamp Killer told us that we should expect “A hell of a show tonight.” Turns out Gaslamp was looking to buy tickets for this evening’s event when concert promoters asked him to open the show instead. We meant to deliver a big story and I think we did." "The hardcore following got it immediately, but then the album got out there more and it caught on with people. "The record came out and then people started to understand it six-eight months later," explains Nakamura. Nakamura says it took time for fans to get their head around the concept. Deltron One's story is picked up by Jones in the year 3040. Nakamura spent the next 13 years being asked when Deltron 3030's second album was coming, while also producing albums such as the debut Gorillaz album, two Kasabian albums and the Handsome Boy Modeling School album, White People.Įvent II finally emerged in late-2013, featuring guest slots from vocalists Zack De La Rocha, The Lonely Island, Damon Albarn, Mike Patton and Jamie Cullum, as well as actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Its concept was a sci-fi-based story set in the year 3030, with rapper Del the Funky Homosapien (real name Teren Jones) as superhero freedom fighter character "Deltron One" narrating his observations of a post-apocalyptic, space-age future.