After
Del made
No Need For Alarm in 1993 he went on to record his third album
Future Development which he planned to release on Elektra. Unfortunately they sent him a letter right before it was supposed to come out and told him they were dropping him from the label. Hiero made an attempt to release it and featured a downloadable version from their website, but for while it was a Japan-only cassette meaning that essentially it was lost to the public. I was lucky to get a dubbed copy made for me back in the nineties and found out that the unreleased album was tight as hell. My tape has long since worn through but luckily Hiero gave it a full release in 2002 and I picked it up on vinyl. This is really the last Del album that contains that nineties style of production and his 'everyday rhymes' since most material to come out after this seems to feature that "weirdo" version of Del (i.e. Deltron 2020). All of that aside,
Future Development has a really good feeling to it and is one of those albums you can just have on repeat for the afternoon. I couldn't find it anywhere online so I had to make some vinyl transfers. I noticed that I need a new needle so please excuse the sound quality.
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Why Ya Want To Get Funkee..
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Love Is Worth
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Corner Story
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Stress The World
Bonus:
I feel like if I'm going to make a Del post I have to include the video for 'Catch A Bad One'. If somehow you have never heard one of his songs before, this one will convince you right off the bat. It's so good, it even inspired me to name a zine after the title.
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Catch A Bad One (video)
Really excited about the new Matt & Kim record Grand that should be coming out soon. They released a song from the new album last week and it's been on repeat for the last couple of days. If this song is any precursor, you can expect a well aged second album. Kind of like that girl you know who was fucking crazy when she was 22 but you just ran into her 10 years later. She's all grown up and mellow now, but sill has that spark in her eye that says she'll smash bottles and jump fences. Yeah, it's like that.
Matt & Kim - Good Old Fashion Nightmare
