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Deltron 3030

Deltron 3030 · 2000

Deltron 3030 is a 2000 hip-hop concept album set in the year 3030. It tells of Deltron-Zero and the Automator battling megalithic corporations in a thermodynamic universe. Its lyrics were written in under two weeks. Its samples come exclusively from William Sheller’s French classical compositions. It draws explicit lineage from Sun Ra and George Clinton’s Afrofuturism. It frames fatalism as a battle between 'righteousness' and 'malevolence'.