You could turn on pop radio right now, and you know you’re not going to hear most of those songs in a few years. But there’s a lot of records that I think is hot for about a minute. Especially now, not only do the consumers have less value placed on music, but the artists have less value to the music they’re putting out to a good degree on a lot of people. I think a lot of the records you hear nowadays, it’s disposable music. For most lyricists, it’s whatever comes to heart and whatever comes to mind, but you were working on a concept.ĭan the Automator: I think you can go beyond that in the sense of like, if you listen to a Del record from any point in his career, like “Sleeping On My Couch” or something, it’s a subject, and I’m not saying if it’s timeless or not, but it encapsulates a moment in time. Paste: I’ve read you had to do a lot of research, Del. I’m not trying to belittle what you was doing, you feel me? He was waiting on me, basically. For Automator, too-a different kind of work. And we did it eventually.ĭel the Funky Homosapien: It just took a lot of work. What everyone was thinking it could be, what everyone wanted it to be, but is it ever really going to happen? But you two kind of perpetuated that through the years, too.ĭan the Automator: We thought about stuff. Paste: It’s at least been long enough that the legend had taken on its own personality. I guess when you’re talking about the entire span of time…ĭan the Automator: In terms of like thousands of years, it’s just a blip. It’s about time.ĭan the Automator: It’s only been a minute.

It’s with all of that in mind that we were able to chat with Dan and Del about their storied past, life in the future, the music of politics and the politics of music. The trio have spent a large part of this year on the road giving us what could possibly be our last chance to catch one of hip hop’s most treasured secrets. They called it Event 2, and if you were a fan, it was exactly that: the Second Coming. After 13 years, the teaming of Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan the Automator and Kid Koala finally made good on the rumored follow-up to their landmark debut.

One of the greatest moments in 2013 came when Deltron 3030 made their long-awaited return.

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