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3	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Deltron_2180.png]]
4	[[caption-width-right:320:What's cooler than [[Music/DaftPunk musical robots]]? ''Rapping'' robots.]]
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6	->''"Yo, it's three-thousand-thirty..."''
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8	Deltron 3030 is an alternative hip-hop supergroup that features Deltron Zero (Music/DelThaFunkeeHomosapien), the Cantankerous Captain Aptos (producer/remixer Dan "The Automator" Nakamura) and Skiznod The Boy Wonder (turntablist Kid Koala).
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10	Much like Nakamura's previous conceptual projects, Dr. Octagon and Handsome Boy Modeling School, Deltron 3030's self-titled album and single sends the hip-hop triumvirate into the year 3030, where -- as the sole survivors of earth -- they travel through the galaxy.
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12	Both the SelfTitledAlbum and single were released in 2000 on 75 Ark Records. An album of {{instrumentals}} from the album followed a year later.
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14	Deltron 3030 is also known for two of its members (Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and Dan "The Automator" Nakamura) later working with Damon Albarn to form Music/{{Gorillaz}}.
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16	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.
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19	!!Tropes featured in the works of Deltron 3030 include:
20	* AbnormalAmmo: 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".
21	* ArtificialLimbs: Briefly referenced in "St.. Catherine St." (where it sounds like they’re being sold by… a street vendor.)
22	%%* BigBad: Q-zar in "Battlesong" and [[TheEmpire the government itself]] in "Virus", "Madness" AND "Turbulence"
23	%%* BittersweetEnding: "Do You Remember" is one for the entire saga.
24	* 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".
25	* 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]].
26	%%* {{Camp}}: "Meet Cleofis Randolph the Patriarch"
27	* 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''.
28	* CatchPhrase: "Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)" gets one: "Upgrade your gray matter, 'cause one day it may matter!"
29	%%* ConceptAlbum
30	* 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":
31	--> ''They admire my enhanced stanzas''
32	--> ''and how I dodge manhunts and security cameras''
33	* CrapsackWorld: "Turbulence" describes a world so crappy that "aliens landed [and] said our planet wasn't worth invading".
34	%%* CreepyMonotone: the opening to "Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)".
35	* {{Dystopia}}: The setting of the album seems this way, although some still seem to have their fun.
36	%%* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: "The Assmann 640 Speaks"
37	* 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.
38	* FascistsBedTime: In "Turbulence": "YOU ARE TO BE INSIDE BY 9:00 OR WE WILL SHOOOOT 'CHAAA"
39	* FromBadToWorse: Sounds like the CrapsackWorld got even crapsackier after Deltron Zero [[spoiler: set that virus loose, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero spreading panic]] everywhere]]. (It seems like [[WhatTheHellHero this was his goal]], actually...)
40	* 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.
41	%%* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: A ''drinking game'' could be made out of how many of them are in "Battlesong".
42	%%* JiveTurkey: Whoever is talking in “St. Catherine St.”
43	* LargeHam: [[WorldOfHam nearly everybody]]! Especially the [[EvilIsHammy government]].
44	** Q-Zar (in "Battlesong"): "NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE I’LL HANDLE YA!!"
45	** "The plan is programmed into EVERY ONE of my THOUSAND RRRROBOTS!"
46	** [[MotorMouth "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN CHECK OUT THE RAP BATTLE OF THE CENTURY"]]
47	* [[MeanwhileScene Meanwhile Song]]: "New Coke" and "St. Catherine St."
48	%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Deltron Zero in "Virus".
49	* NonAppearingTitle: "Time Keeps on Slipping", "Battlesong", "Love Story" and all of the under-one-minute tracks.
50	%%* ObviouslyEvil: the empire/government/evil dictatorship of doom deconstructed in at least three songs definitely fits this trope.
51	* 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.)
52	* PerfectlyCromulentWord: "The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza pt. 1" gives us "interspectacular", "fantabulous" and "instupicuous"
53	%%* PoliceState: the setting of the whole album.
54	%%* RayGun: Deltron and Automator gets at least one in "Battlesong"
55	%%* 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".
56	* 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:
57	-->''I'm glad I love music and life\
58	'cos it's easy to see the pain and strife\
59	and end it all tonight''
60	* 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?
61	%%* SpaceOpera
62	%%* SpeculativeFiction
63	%%* SyntheticVoiceActor: Again, the opening to “Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)”.
64	%%* {{Technobabble}}: happens in "Virus" and "Battlesong," but doesn't
65	* TimeSkip: ''Event 2'', as established in "The Return," takes place in 3040 (and skips again at the end to 4010). Deltron and Automator haven't been seen in years -- an intentional reference to the album's long stay in DevelopmentHell?
66	* TotallyRadical: We don’t hear much from him, but the “National Movie Review” guy sounds like this.
67	** "How’s it goin', eh?"
68	** "...it chronicles the adventures of two latter-day Renaissance men--or, to use the correct 20th-Century terminology: hosers."
69	%%* TitleDrop: "3030", "Positive Contact", "Things You Can Do", "Madness", "Turbulence", "Virus" and "Memory Loss" all have one in their choruses.
70	%%* TitleOnlyChorus: “Positive Con-TACT!”

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