Del The Funky Homosapien, Dan The Automator and Kid Koala — collectively known as Deltron 3030 — have released two truly innovative albums. Beginning with 2000’s menacing self-titled debut, a concept album centered on the dualistic conflict of fatalism, Deltron 3030 took listeners on a kaleidoscopic trip into the future.
Event 2 finally arrived in 2013 and delivered more of Del’s futuristic musings set to a consistently masterful yet sometimes ominous soundtrack. The latter peaked at No. 41 on the Billboard 200 chart and No. 6 on the Rap chart, selling more than 8,000 copies in its opening week.
The three Hip-Hop heavyweights ultimately continued down their own solo paths, leaving the project in limbo. In 2018, Dan teased a third installment in the series during a conversation with Red Bull Radio, saying “a couple songs exist.” But five years and one pandemic later, none of those songs have materialized. However, new Deltron 3030 music could be on the horizon.
On September 8, Deltron 3030 will reunite for an AEG Presents show in Denver, Colorado alongside Wu-Tang Clan and Run The Jewels, one of their first shows since 2020. Naturally, that begs the question — will there be new Deltron 3030 music to coincide with the performance? In a recent interview with Rock The Bells, Del The Funky Homosapien not only teased the possibility but also revealed what he’d do differently.
“I'm thinking about it,” he says of the next Deltron 3030 album. “We’re basically living in the future. I would just try to work on making it more whimsical this time, not as heavy. ‘Cause I think I kinda stepped away from that with the second one a bit. I would go back to it being a little bit more whimsical, a little bit more battle rhyme-ish, you know what I’m saying?”
Del, who just wrapped up two back-to-back weekend performances at the Coachella Valley Music & Art Festival, is still based in Richmond, California where’s he been for more than 25 years. A loyal Oakland native, he’s essentially enshrined in the recording equipment that occupies his home.
“I've got recording equipment all around my house,” he says. “That’s all I really do. I got multiple rooms in my house. I got a guest house out in the back with recording equipment in there. So it might be like three different rooms. Like my living room might be set up with recording equipment in there. That might be the main place where people at. Then I got two, three bedrooms, but I got a bedroom that just got equipment in there. So people just be in there. We just be getting loaded and just doing music.”