History Music / Deltron3030

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Deltron 3030 is an alternative hip-hop supergroup that features Deltron Zero (Del Tha Funkee Homosapien), the Cantankerous Captain Aptos (producer/remixer Dan "The Automator" Nakamura) and Skiznod The Boy Wonder (turntablist Kid Koala).

Both the album and single were released in 2000 on 75 Ark Records. An album of instrumentals tracks from Tron 3030 followed a year later.

A sequel to Deltron 3030, called Deltron Event II, was in DevelopmentHell for eight years, until on August 13th, 2013, they released a three-song EP "City Rising From The Ashes" (which you can listen to on the official Youtube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5-ooSflOo here]]. Deltron Event II was finally released in September 2013, also featuring [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Zack De La Rocha]], Music/TheLonelyIsland, Damon Albarn, [[Music/FaithNoMore Mike Patton]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbIEg1DSHiI Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chang Chef David Chang]] among many other interesting choices. Also, they're bringing a 16-piece orchestra with them on tour.

* CastingGag: "National Movie Review" features [[Music/CrashTestDummies Brad Roberts]], a Canadian singer [[BadassBaritone known for his baritone voice]], narrating an ad for a showing of ''Film/StrangeBrew''.

* WeaponOfChoice: Deltron Zero's rhymes themselves are able to do damage, plus he uses all kinds of happy fun guns (and a few other weapons… what exactly IS a [[spoiler: "cranial disruption siphon"]] anyway?) in "Battlesong".

* CastingGag: "National Movie Review" features [[Music/CrashTestDummies Brad Roberts]], a Canadian singer known for his baritone voice, narrating an ad for a showing of ''Film/StrangeBrew''.

* CastingGag: "National Movie Review" features [[Music/CrashTestDummies Brad Roberts]], a Canadian singer [[VoiceOfDramatic known for his baritone voice]], narrating an ad for a showing of ''Film/StrangeBrew''.

Deltron 3030 is an alternative hip-hop supergroup that features [[AwesomeMcCoolname Deltron Zero (Del Tha Funkee Homosapien), the Cantankerous Captain Aptos (producer/remixer Dan "The Automator" Nakamura) and Skiznod The Boy Wonder (turntablist Kid Koala).]]

* ArtificialLimbs: Briefly referenced in “St. Catherine St.” (where it sounds like they’re being sold by… a street vendor.)
%%* BigBad: Q-zar in “Battlesong” and [[TheEmpire the government itself]] in “Virus”, “Madness” AND “Turbulence”

* BoastfulRap: Deltron Zero actually brags more about Automator in “Mastermind”. “3030” also counts as a Boastful Rap for both Deltron AND Automator, and “Positive Contact” is Deltron Zero’s bragging song. Deltron also brags about his 1337 hax0r skillz in “Virus”.
* BookEnds: “State of the Nation” is a brief little speech about the year 3030, and “The Assmann 640 Speaks” is [[spoiler: the exact same speech, but distorted and scratchy]].

* CatchPhrase: “Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)” gets one: “Upgrade your gray matter, 'cause one day it may matter!”

* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Deltron Zero pretty much spends all his time either rebelling against authority or writing rebellious raps. We hear this especially in “Virus”. (And yet, he’s oddly compliant in “Battlesong” when he was trying to get into the battle for free… maybe because the person handing out the battle forms was just doing their job.) This is even Lampshaded in “Love Story”:

%%* CreepyMonotone: the opening to “Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)”.

%%* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: “The Assmann 640 Speaks”
* EvilIsHammy: It isn’t quite clear whether the evil people in “Virus”, “Turbulence” and/or “Battlesong” are the actual voices or Deltron Zero doing an over-the-top impression of them--but either way, there is evil, and ham ensues.
* FascistsBedTime: In “Turbulence”: “YOU ARE TO BE INSIDE BY 9:00 OR WE WILL SHOOOOT 'CHAAA”

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Arguably, this happens in “Love Story”: Deltron Zero goes from [[spoiler: winning the “Rhyme Federation Championship”]] in "Battlesong" to [[spoiler: getting FIRED]]... Although, when he started working for said “Rhyme Federation” is never really explained.

** Q-Zar (in “Battlesong”): “NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE I’LL HANDLE YA!!”
** “The plan is programmed into EVERY ONE of my THOUSAND RRRROBOTS!”
** [[MotorMouth “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN CHECK OUT THE RAP BATTLE OF THE CENTURY”]]
* [[MeanwhileScene Meanwhile Song]]: “New Coke” and “St. Catherine St.”
%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Deltron Zero in “Virus”.
* NonAppearingTitle: “Time Keeps on Slipping”, “Battlesong”, “Love Story” and all of the under-one-minute tracks.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: definitely going on in “Virus” (and, actually, showing why it doesn’t work—according to this song, Deltron Zero and his super-hacking BROKE THE WORLD.)
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: “The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza pt. 1" gives us "interspectacular", "fantabulous" and "instupicuous"

%%* RayGun: Deltron and Automator gets at least one in “Battlesong”
%%* RedOniBlueOni: Deltron Zero is the Red Oni and Automator is the Blue Oni. This is especially evident in their exchange at the end of “Mastermind”.
* SanitySlippageSong: Zig-zagged in the appropriately-named “Madness”. It starts off pretty normal, but descends pretty quickly as Deltron talks about how shitty their world is. The chorus itself may count as a Madness Mantra. However, the last lines of the second verse suggest an aversion:

* SociallyAwkwardHero: Deltron Zero was able to take out three adversaries each in only one verse—oh, but when it comes to talking to some random chick in “Love Story”? HELL NO, gotta break out the Flirtbot 3000 for that one, eh Del?

** “How’s it goin’, eh?”
** “...it chronicles the adventures of two latter-day Renaissance men--or, to use the correct 20th-Century terminology: hosers.”
%%* TitleDrop: “3030”, “Positive Contact”, “Things You Can Do”, “Madness”, “Turbulence”, “Virus” and “Memory Loss” all have one in their choruses.

* WeaponOfChoice: Deltron Zero's rhymes themselves are able to do damage, plus he uses all kinds of happy fun guns (and a few other weapons… what exactly IS a [[spoiler: “cranial disruption siphon”]] anyway?) in "Battlesong".

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Deltron Zero was able to take out three adversaries each in only one verse—oh, but when it comes to talking to some random chick in “Love Story”? HELL NO, gotta break out the Flirtbot 3000 for that one, eh [[SociallyAwkwardHero Del]]?

* ConceptAlbum

* CreepyMonotone: the opening to “Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)”.

* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: “The Assmann 640 Speaks”

* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: A ''drinking game'' could be made out of how many of them are in "Battlesong".
* JiveTurkey: Whoever is talking in “St. Catherine St.”

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Deltron Zero in “Virus”.

* ObviouslyEvil: the empire/government/evil dictatorship of doom deconstructed in at least three songs definitely fits this trope.

* PoliceState: the setting of the whole album.
* RayGun: Deltron and Automator gets at least one in “Battlesong”
* RedOniBlueOni: Deltron Zero is the Red Oni and Automator is the Blue Oni. This is especially evident in their exchange at the end of “Mastermind”.

* SpaceOpera
* SpeculativeFiction
* SyntheticVoiceActor: Again, the opening to “Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)”.
* {{Technobabble}}: happens in "Virus" and "Battlesong," but doesn't

* TitleDrop: “3030”, “Positive Contact”, “Things You Can Do”, “Madness”, “Turbulence”, “Virus” and “Memory Loss” all have one in their choruses.
** TitleOnlyChorus: “Positive Con-TACT!”
* [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld Wake Up, Go To Interplanetary Rap Battle, Save The World]]: Deltron Zero was able to take out three adversaries each in only one verse—oh, but when it comes to talking to some random chick in “Love Story”? HELL NO, gotta break out the Flirtbot 3000 for that one, eh [[SociallyAwkwardHero Del]]?
* WeaponOfChoice: Deltron Zero's rhymes themselves are able to do damage, plus he uses all kinds of happy fun guns (and a few other weapons… what exactly IS a [[spoiler: “cranial disruption siphon”]] anyway?) in "Battlesong".

* BigBad: Q-zar in “Battlesong” and [[TheEmpire the government itself]] in “Virus”, “Madness” AND “Turbulence”
* BittersweetEnding: "Do You Remember" is one for the entire saga, and a real TearJerker at that.

* {{Camp}}: "Meet Cleofis Randolph the Patriarch"

* CastingGag: They were probably going for this by having [[Music/CrashTestDummies Brad Roberts]], a Canadian singer [[VoiceOfDramatic known for his baritone voice]], narrate an ad for a showing of ''Film/StrangeBrew''.

* CastingGag: They were probably going for this by having [[Music/CrashTestDummies Brad Roberts]], a Canadian singer [[VoiceOfDramatic known for his baritone voice]], narrate an ad for a showing of Film/StrangeBrew.

* DevelopmentHell: “Deltron Event II” was there for AT LEAST eight years before being released in late 2013. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5-ooSflOo City Rising From The Ashes]] EP was released just before.

* HeyItsThatVoice: That’s [[Music/{{Blur}} Damon]] [[Music/{{Gorillaz}} Albarn]] speaking on the first [[spoiler: and last]] song on the album, and also on “Time Keeps on Slipping”.
** Creator/JosephGordonLevitt takes his place on the opening track of ''Event 2''.

* OneOfUs: Deltron Zero, full stop. Over the course of the Deltron 3030 album, he throws out just about every reference he can think of: GhostInTheShell (in “3030”), {{Transformers}} (more than once, in “Things You Can Do”), Armorines and ComicBook/FantasticFour (in “Things You Can Do”) {{Gamera}} (in “Positive Contact”), and StarWars (in “Battlesong”). He also references Vex, a robot design system (in “Things You Can Do”) and talks about “perusing his 21st-century classic comics” in “Love Story”.

* CatchPhrase: “Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)” gets one: “Upgrade your brain matter 'cause one day it may matter!”

A sequel to Deltron 3030, called Deltron Event II, has been in DevelopmentHell for eight years—but on August 13th, they released a three-song EP "City Rising From The Ashes" (which you can listen to on the official Youtube channel [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5-ooSflOo here]], and Deltron Event II will be released on October 1st, 2013, also featuring [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Zack De La Rocha]], Music/TheLonelyIsland, Damon Albarn, [[Music/FaithNoMore Mike Patton]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbIEg1DSHiI Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chang Chef David Chang]] among many other interesting choices. Also, they're bringing a 16-piece orchestra with them on tour.

** JosephGordonLevitt takes his place on the opening track of ''Event 2''.

* ArtificialLimbs: Briefly referenced in “St. Catherine St.” (where it sounds like they’re being sold by… a street vendor? The future is weird.)

* BookEnds: “State of the Nation” is a brief little speech about the year 3030 [[spoiler: delivered by Damon Albarn]], and “The Assmann 640 Speaks” is [[spoiler: the exact same speech, but distorted and scratchy]].
* {{Camp}}: Cleofis Randolph the Patriarch IS this trope.
* CatchPhrase: “Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)” gets one: “Upgrade your brain matter / ‘cos one day it may matter!” (“Memory Loss” has “you try to get ovaaa, you’re gonna go undaaaa!")

* DevelopmentHell: “Deltron Event II” has been there for AT LEAST eight years. Provided nothing goes horribly wrong, it'll be out on October 1st. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5-ooSflOo City Rising From The Ashes]] EP dropped on time as well, as lead up to the album release featuring three tracks from Event II.

* FascistsBedTime: In “Turbulence”: “YOU ARE TO BE INSIDE BY 9:00 OR WE WILL SHOOOOT YAAA!”
* FromBadToWorse: Sounds like the CrapsackWorld got even crapsackier after Deltron Zero [[spoiler: set that virus loose and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero spreading all kinds of panic]] everywhere]]… oops. (It seems like [[WhatTheHellHero this was his goal]], actually...)

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Arguably, this happens in “Love Story”: Deltron Zero goes from [[spoiler: winning the “Rhyme Federation Championship”]] to [[spoiler: getting FIRED from said “Rhyme Federation”]]... Although, when he started working for said “Rhyme Federation” is never really explained.

* JiveTurkey: Whoever is talking in “St. Catherine St.”: “help a brotha out, man… yeah, lemme drop some knowledge on you… check out my wheels, yo” (This continues for about 30 seconds, and then the song ends.)

** Cleofis Randolph the Patriarch (Yeah, that’s his name) is a mix of this and Camp.
** “YOU ARE TO BE INSIDE BY 9:00 OR WE WILL SHOOOOT ‘CHAAA”
** “TOO LONG have we tried to reach our GLORIOUS EMPIRE out to the STAAAARS! OOOONLY to be drrriven BACK!”

** [[MotorMouth “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN CHECK OUT THE RAPBATTLEOFTHECENTURY”]]

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: “It’s… ''instupicuous!''”

* SanitySlippageSong: Zig-zagged in the appropriately-named “Madness”. It starts off pretty normal, but descends into randomness pretty quickly. The chorus itself may count as a Madness Mantra. The last lines of the second verse suggest an aversion:

* {{Technobabble}}: Usually averted, surprisingly, or at least [[DownplayedTrope kept unobtrusive.]]

* TimeSkip: ''Event 2'', as established in "The Return," takes place in 4010. Deltron and Automator haven't been seen in years -- an intentional reference to the album's long stay in DevelopmentHell?

A sequel to Deltron 3030, called Deltron Event II, has been in DevelopmentHell for eight years—but a post on their official Facebook page states that an EP called "City Rising From The Ashes" will be released on August 13th, and the official Deltron Event II album will be released on October 1st, 2013.

* DevelopmentHell: “Deltron Event II” has been there for AT LEAST eight years. Of course, according to TheOtherWiki, Kid Koala recently announced [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore that it would be coming out sometime in Spring/Summer 2013]]…