Del The Funky Homosapien - Collaborations

Collaborations

In 1993, Del collaborated with the band, Dinosaur Jr., to create the song, "Missing Link", featured on the Judgment Night (soundtrack). In 1999-2000, Del collaborated with Kid Koala and Dan The Automator as the supergroup Deltron 3030 whose debut self-titled album was released in May 2000. Exposure from the 3030 project helped to expand Del's fan base—the 3030 project worked well as a marketing move because the CD capitalized on the growing interest of computer technology, incorporating motifs of science fiction, telling stories about life and hip hop based in the year 3030, and infusing much of the popular internet terminology and culture in circulation at the time. A follow up album is set to be released in 2012.

Del collaborated with virtual trip-hop group Gorillaz for two songs on their debut album, "Clint Eastwood" and "Rock the House", both of which became singles and videos and achieved chart success. For the purposes of the music videos and the Gorillaz storyline canon, Del performed under the identity of "Del the Ghost Rapper", who was said to be a spirit that was hiding from death within the band's drummer, Russel Hobbs. Del later commented in an interview on the success of "Clint Eastwood" by saying that he actually wrote the song with the book How to Write a Hit Song, a book that he bought with a coupon his mother gave him. After the song went platinum he gave the plaque to his mother. As part of Russel Hobbs' back-story, the character of Del was one of Russel's friends that was gunned down in a drive-by shooting, whose ghost possessed Russel.

In March 2010 Del collaborated with independent pop/funk duo Modern Science on a track called "Do It Right Now" that is available on the band's Bandcamp website.