3 posts tagged “deltron”

It seems to be my place here to be the old fogey who's always talking about music gone by, so let me take you back in time to an age where everyone was still pretty excited about the internet, the Stile Project was still pretty cutting edge, and Old Man Murray was the place to turn for video game reviews. Besides, Vu challenged me to do an entry on white boy rap and this is what he's going to get.
 
Deltron 3030 has been mentioned here before and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien has enough other projects under his belt that he's not technically nerdcore, but the album was released around the same time and features futuristic rap battle in the year 3030, so it's hard to leave out the nod entirely.

And who could forget our favorite proto-Nerdcore synth act from back in the day: KOMPRESSOR?  KOMPRESSOR, otherwise known as Andreas K. or Drew (of Toothpaste For Dinner and Married to The Sea fame) was some kind of whack-job alien from Bremen, Germany.  With a heart full of hate in a time of deep seated indolence, he struck a chord with America's dotcom yuppies.

Enter onto the scene, the first nerdcore act that I can think of: MC Hawking.  Getting around the problem that white folks don't know how to rap by using a text to speech program, MC Hawking was supposed to have been Stephen Hawking's alternate life as a "lyrical terrorist".  Happily, the real Hawking was flattered by the homage and didn't sue MC Hawking into a proverbial black hole.

Finally, at around the same time, MC Frontalot emerged on the scene, and actually gave the genre its name.  Frontalot's is reminiscent of 80's acts like The Fat Boys, Fresh Prince, and Young MC when rap was fun, playful, and safe.  From there, the genre has taken off, to include all kinds of nobodys doing this for no particularly good reason (much like another genre close to my heart, Wizard Rock).  On the one hand, nerdcore is just another novelty genre, but on the other it's a place for you all to get off your collective asses and make some music, without worrying about whether it's terrible or not.

QuakeMaster 1 comment

This Old Man 2 comments

You know, not that I do that ever, but... hey... didn't we have a sponsored QotD about this sort of thing?  And next time, I swear I'll post something that can't be categorized as "novelty".  I'm just going through a nostalgia phase.

xoxo,
Mooxie Carmichael

This is a follow-up to the popular Deltron post.

This is a book, completely written and drawn (with accompanying soundtrack) by Kid Koala, called "Nufonia Must Fall". 

It's a love story between a lonely office girl and an out-of-work robot. 

When you reach to a certain page, you're supposed to cue up the cd, but I found it too ... demanding.  I think it's because I'm too lazy.

Anyroad, I am also going to be signing off with my name, since this has become a group effort.

yours,
vu

Artist: Album: Website: Members:

Deltron 3030 "Deltron 3030" www.hieroglyphics.com (record company) Dan the Automator as The Cantankerous Captain Aptos, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien as Deltron Zero, Kid Koala as Skiznod the Boy Wonder

I listen to very little hip-hop. :/

I went to see Deltron because of Kid Koala, and seriously, after that high-energy show, I was totally impressed. I bought the album plus the instrumental version of it (for the DJs out there).

Little known fact: Sean Lennon is the guest vocals for "Memory Loss".