40-496: Future Development is the third solo studio album by American hip hop musician Del the Funky Homosapien . It was released by Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings in 1997. It was able to achieve decent success, selling over 400,000 copies worldwide. Stanton Swihart of AllMusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5, saying, "the album is less coherent than his previous two albums and less immediate-sounding without being immaterial." In
80-619: A 2000 article, Charles Aaron of Spin called it "perhaps Del's finest [album]". Del the Funky Homosapien Teren Delvon Jones (born August 12, 1972), better known by his stage name Del the Funky Homosapien (sometimes stylized as Del tha Funkee Homosapien ) or Sir DZL , is an American rapper. Born in Oakland, California , he is the cousin of seminal West Coast rapper Ice Cube , and began his career writing lyrics for Ice Cube's group Da Lench Mob . In 1991, with
120-565: A handful of B-sides from that era. Del was not pleased and advised people to not buy the CD, saying it was just Elektra trying to make money off of him due to his newfound fame. On March 11, 2008, Del released Eleventh Hour through Definitive Jux . On March 31, 2009, Del's next album Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) was made available for free download on the internet. The album is available at his page on Bandcamp , though he gave away some hard copies on his supporting Funk Man tour. In September of
160-399: A month before the release of his third album, Future Development , Del received a letter from his label, Elektra , stating that his contract had been terminated. Together with his crew, Del established his own independent record label, Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings , which primarily consists of an expanded Hieroglyphics roster and a few other artists with whom the group collaborates on
200-541: A regular basis. Future Development became available in 1998 and was only available on the Hieroglyphics website in tape form but was re-released in 2002 on the Hieroglyphics Imperium label. Del also released another collaborative work with the Hieroglyphics crew in 1998, which was also the Hieroglyphics crew's first album, 3rd Eye Vision . Two years later, Del released his fourth solo album, Both Sides of
240-545: A stand-alone marketplace and music community...". Bandcamp's employees voted to form a union via the Office and Professional Employees International Union in March 2023. On September 28, 2023, Epic Games announced that it was laying off 870 people, roughly 16% of its workforce. As part of this, Bandcamp was sold to Songtradr , another music platform. According to an Epic Games spokesperson, Songtradr incrementally offered employment to
280-451: A ticketed live-streaming service for artists. The service is an integrated feature of the Bandcamp website. Fees on tickets were waived until March 31, 2021, and became 10% from then. Bandcamp provides vinyl pressing services for artists. After a 50-artist pilot in 2020, the company opened limited access to 10,000 artists in early 2021 with plans for further expansion. Their fans preorder
320-509: Is based in New York. Its managing editor was jj skolnik, a writer for Pitchfork , BuzzFeed and The New York Times , as well as former author of punk zines . They were made redundant in October 2023. Among Bandcamp Daily 's columnists have been writers of Wired , Vice , NPR Music , Pitchfork and Paste . On August 4, 2017, the staff of Bandcamp Daily donated all of
360-603: The Cartoon Network animated series Craig of the Creek , with Del making an appearance in the episode "The Kid from 3030" as Deltron. The episode featured original songs by Deltron 3030 made just for the episode of the show. Deltron briefly returns in the Season 3 finale singing "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030's debut album of the same name. He has also made cameo appearances in films, such as Ted Demme 's directorial debut Who's
400-530: The Dust Brothers and Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo to produce the original score for Skate 3 , released in May 2010. In February 2016, Del, Black Thought , Murs and Fashawn recorded a new track called "Rise Up" for the video game Street Fighter V . A music video for the song was released by Capcom , and includes appearances by Del and his fellow collaborators. In October 2018, Deltron 3030 collaborated with
440-566: The NAACP Legal Defense Fund . Bandcamp gained much attention in July 2010 when Amanda Palmer , Low Places and Bedhed gave up their record labels and started selling albums on Bandcamp, using Twitter for promotion. Will Toledo initially released his 2011 studio album Twin Fantasy on Bandcamp. Several indie game developers published their game soundtracks on Bandcamp, including
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#1732881428483480-553: The Apocalypse EP: "Beast Mode" and "War Call". In January 2014, Del appeared on the track "Viberian Son" with MF Doom . In March 2014, Del appeared on the track "Life and Time" with Kool A.D. In 2016, Del was featured on the track "World Renown" with Mr. Lif's album Don't Look Down . In April 2017, Del appeared (along with Carnage the Executor) on the track "Lone Wolves" from Cas One Vs Figure's "So Our Egos Don't Kill Us". In 2017, Del
520-609: The Automator , Dan asked if he could stay in the studio a little longer to record new verses for the Gorillaz songs. 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
560-766: The Bandcamp application or website only once or, by preserving the purchase voucher, unlimited times. They can also send purchased music as a gift, view lyrics, and save individual songs or albums to a wish list. Uploading music to Bandcamp is free. The company takes a 15% commission on sales made from their website, which drops to 10% after an artist's sales surpass US$ 5,000, plus payment processing fees. Downloads are offered in lossy formats MP3 ( LAME , 320k or V0), AAC and Ogg Vorbis , and in lossless formats FLAC , ALAC , WAV and AIFF . In addition to digital downloads artists may offer to sell their music on physical media such as CD or vinyl . Bandcamp's website offers users access to an artist's page, with information on
600-582: The Bandcamp staff. However, several employees were locked out of their systems and faced uncertainty over their jobs. After the acquisition was completed on October 16, Songtradr stated that only 60 of Bandcamp's previously 118 workers had been offered a contract. Songtradr fired most of the staff involved in forming the unionization, as well as the ones that were helping to negotiate fair terms. In an internal email, Songtradr's CEO, Paul Wiltshire, said that Bandcamp's financial state had "not been healthy" due to increased operating costs over steady revenues, despite
640-661: The Brain , as well as Deltron 3030 which was a collaborative work with artists Dan the Automator and Kid Koala . With Nakamura and Koala, Del was also a guest performer for Gorillaz 's eponymous 2001 album . He appeared on the singles " Clint Eastwood " and " Rock the House ". 2003 saw the release of Full Circle , the second full-length album from the Hieroglyphics crew. In 2004, Elektra released The Best of Del tha Funkee Homosapien: The Elektra Years without Del's approval. The CD only includes songs from his first two albums, along with
680-564: The Indie Culture . Del collaborated with the virtual band Gorillaz on two songs on their debut album, " Clint Eastwood " and " Rock the House ", both of which became singles and videos and achieved chart success. Del was not, however, originally selected to collaborate on these songs. By the time Del came onto the project, the album was already finished, and British hip-hop group Phi Life Cypher had already recorded verses for "Clint Eastwood". But when Del finished making Deltron 3030 with Dan
720-503: The Man? , as a teen with two members of Da Youngsta's and an uncredited Ashanti , and Jonah Hill 's directorial debut Mid90s , as a homeless bum alongside Chad Muska . He made an guest appearance as a rapper named "Old Skool" (paying homage to Del's prominence in the 1990s) on the Nickelodeon series Middlemost Post on the episode "The Same Ol' Same". In 1993, Del collaborated with
760-407: The album Golden Era on April 19, 2011, in a three-disc set including Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) and Automatik Statik . Del shared a free LP entitled Iller Than Most on January 2, 2014. He uploaded the record to SoundCloud under the username Zartan Drednaught COBRA. He described the project as "lyrically ill but fun to listen to, nothing super heavy." Del handled the production on
800-467: The album reunites Kool Keith with Dan the Automator and DJ Qbert . On July 7, 2018, as he was appearing with Gorillaz during the final act of the 2018 Roskilde Festival , Del fell off the stage during a performance of "Clint Eastwood". He was unable to get back up, and it was decided to cut the performance short. Although he was at first thought to have suffered only minor injuries, he had actually fractured seven ribs and punctured one of his lungs. He
840-523: The artist, social media links, merchandising links and listing their available music. Artists can change the look of their page and customize its features. During the COVID-19 pandemic , in 2020 Bandcamp announced that they would be waiving their share of revenue and donating all sales to artists for 24 hours on March 20. They repeated the initiative in the following months and began calling these days "Bandcamp Fridays"; they are scheduled once every month and
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#1732881428483880-467: 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
920-441: The company was sold to Songtradr in 2023. Bandcamp was founded in 2007 by Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, headquartered in Oakland, California , US. In 2010, the site enabled embedding in other websites and shared links on social media sites. As of August 2020 , half of Bandcamp's revenue was from sales for physical products. In November 2020, Bandcamp launched Bandcamp Live,
960-655: The creators of Aquaria , Bastion , Cuphead , Sanctum , Machinarium , Terraria , Plants vs. Zombies , Limbo , Super Meat Boy , To the Moon , YIIK: A Postmodern RPG , Fez , Minecraft , Undertale , Deltarune , and Stardew Valley . In December 2014, Bandcamp for Labels was launched. Popular independent labels such as Sub Pop , Fat Wreck Chords , Relapse Records and Epitaph Records launched their own Bandcamp pages. In November 2019, Peter Gabriel added his complete solo catalog to Bandcamp. On June 18, 2020, Björk published her discography on
1000-459: 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, Event 2 , was released in 2013. In 2005 Del worked with the Wu-Tang Clan and their affiliates on the collaboration album Wu-Tang Meets
1040-423: The help of Ice Cube, Del released his first solo album, I Wish My Brother George Was Here , at the age of 19. The album was a commercial success largely due to the popularity of the hit single " Mistadobalina ". Ultimately Del, who was not pleased with the limited musical range of the album, severed his production-artist relationship with Ice Cube for his next album, No Need for Alarm . No Need for Alarm saw
1080-471: The introduction of the Oakland clique Hieroglyphics , whose original members included Souls of Mischief (Opio, A-Plus, Phesto and Tajai), Casual, Pep Love, Del, and producer Domino. No Need for Alarm helped to expose both the regional Oakland sound of hip hop, as well as the freestyle based, "golden era 90s" style of hip hop being expanded at the time. Del would not produce another album for five years. About
1120-419: The platform. In December, UK label Warp joined Bandcamp; this made records by Hudson Mohawke , Aphex Twin , Kelela and other artists available on the platform. On October 21, 2021, Radiohead published their discography on the platform. In the summer of 2016, their editorial content was expanded by launching Bandcamp Daily , an online music publication about artists on the platform. The publication
1160-448: The pressing rather than having the artist fund it upfront. Bandcamp lets artists set their own price. The company's two million vinyl sales in 2020 doubled that of 2019. Bandcamp was acquired by Epic Games on March 2, 2022. Epic said the platform "will play an important role in Epic's vision to build out a creator marketplace ecosystem...". Ethan Diamond said "Bandcamp will keep operating as
1200-661: The project as well. In 2024, Del formed a series named Manik Mondaze on his YouTube Channel where he and his local crew (which consists of Baslonius.Funk, Lord Takim from the Regional Oakland Group, AMW, Q Shy and many others) where they posts songs weekly and exclusive interviews and behind the scenes on the Manik Mondaze Official Website. Del's songs have seen frequent use in various forms of media including video games, film soundtracks, as well as skateboarding, rollerblading and snowboarding videos. In 2000
1240-417: The same year, he released a new album, Automatik Statik , for an unfixed rate with a minimum of $ 3. Del released his next album It Ain't Illegal Yet on August 6, 2010. There is no fixed price for the album, allowing listeners to pay whatever they wish for the album. Paying certain prices for the album will give certain incentives, including opportunities for personal collaborations with Del. Del released
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1280-452: The site's continuous profitability. In response to the layoffs, users and artists of the platform expressed anxiety about its future. As of December 2023 , Songtradr had not formally recognized the Bandcamp union. Artists and labels upload music to Bandcamp and control how they sell it, setting their own prices, offering users the option to pay more, and selling merchandise. Users can download their purchases or stream their music on
1320-595: The song "Catch All This" from Both Sides of the Brain was featured in the game Street Sk8er 2 , "Jaw Gymnastics", featuring Casual, was featured in Knockout Kings , and "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured in Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX . In 2001, " If You Must " was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 . In 2003, "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured in Tony Hawk's Underground and "The Izm"
1360-623: The song "Dreamin'" by Gift of Gab off his album Escape 2 Mars . 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. Del collaborated on the track "Smoke Rings" with Dirty Heads on their 2012 album Cabin by the Sea . In August 2012, Del appeared on the track "The Ride" from the EP Thrift Store Halos by ¡Mayday! . In September 2013, Del appeared on two tracks from Figure 's Horns of
1400-444: 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 2009, Del is featured on the song "Lothar" by Sleep off his album Hesitation Wounds , as well as on
1440-578: The website Is It Bandcamp Friday? was established to provide timing clarity to those outside the Pacific Time Zone . After raising more than $ 40 million for its musicians in 2020 through Bandcamp Fridays, the platform extended the program to four additional dates in 2021. In response to the protests that took place following the murder of George Floyd and other African Americans who had died from police violence, Bandcamp announced that for 24 hours on June 19, 2020 they would donate 100% of profits to
1480-508: Was a guest artist on the debut album of Halo Orbit (a band featuring Juan Alderete , ex– Mars Volta and Mark Guiliana ) on the track "One Of These Days". He also appeared on the track "Pizza Shop Extended" from the album Iwasverybad by Jay IDK . Using his Deltron persona, Del guests on the track "3030 Meets the Doc, Pt. 1" from Dr. Octagon 's Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation . Released on streaming services April 6, 2018,
1520-594: Was featured in Rolling . In 2005, the Hieroglyphics song "Soweto" is featured on ESPN NBA 2K5 (the Hieroglyphics crew is unlockable as a bonus team) and Del's song "Burnt" was featured in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland . In 2006, "Catch a Bad One" was featured in Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure and "At the Helm" featuring Hieroglyphics was featured in Tony Hawk's Project 8 . Also in 2006, his song "Dr. Bombay"
1560-791: Was still hospitalized in Roskilde four days after the accident. According to his Facebook page and official website, Del was back out touring in September 2018. Del once again collaborated with Gorillaz in 2023, appearing on the Cracker Island deluxe edition bonus track "Captain Chicken". Bandcamp Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California . Acquired by Epic Games in March 2022,
1600-587: Was used in the movie Beerfest . The Hieroglyphics song "Don't Hate the Player" was also featured in NBA 2K7 , and "Clint Eastwood" was featured in NBA 2K14 . "Teamwork" is featured on PlayStation Home. Del has had many songs featured in snowboarding movies. "Press Rewind" was the song for Eero Ettala's part in the film White Balance and "If You Must" was featured in DC Mountain Lab . Del collaborated with John King of
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