Hello everybody, this is Dan the Automator.
I'm Del the Funky Homosapien, down with Hieroglyphics, also down with
Deltron 3030 and this is What's in My Bag.
The Deltron record just came out.
There's a whole bunch of things that go on in making a Deltron record. Lots of influences.
So I thought today I would delve a little bit into the cinematic masterpieces
that maybe have influenced why this record came out this way.
So I'm gonna start right here with 'Looper.'
Becoming you.
Goddammit, you've lost your fucking mind. You let this boy live, he's gonna take everything you've got.
See what he becomes.
I haven't seen that yet.
'Looper' stars Joe Gordon-Levitt.
Really good guy, friend of mine, who was generous enough to do the intro to the '3040' record.
It's a sci-fi, futuristic time travel movie
So, thematically, it has a lot to do with the vibes we have.
Joe is an amazing actor and it was wonderful to work with him
and I just wanted to put him in my bag.
The music that I picked out, this is Black Flag 'Damaged.'
Big fan of Black Flag. I used to play this a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot.
This is Black Flag too. 'Beat My Head Against The Wall.'
When I was hella little, when I got mad I used to beat my head against the wall.
So I was like, ooh this is clean, I'm about to buy this.
'Shaun of the Dead.'
Now some of these are limited. What was that?
Dire Straits.
Throw it.
Sade.
Edgar Wright, good friend of mine, he makes these incredible movies.
Through Edgar, I got to work on Scott Pilgrim, do many fantastic things.
Just felt like I would put that in my bag.
This one's a new one, Earl Sweatshirt.
Ok first of all
his father is like an African poet laureate.
Poet laureate is like the top, you know what I'm sayin', like that's a big deal.
Even though I guess he was never really in his life.
He's young but his raps are exceptional.
They killin' old people, you know what I'm sayin'.
Busdriver told me about him, he was like, man have you heard this dude?
He's killing it, man. This was years before I'd even heard about Odd Future.
And then he got sent to Samoa, y'know to reform school or something like that, you know what I'm sayin'.
I guess he was acting a fool.
But when he came back, I just peeped the level of maturity out of his music and just
that impressed me, just that. Dude is hella smart, know what I'm sayin'.
I seen this, and I heard this group Apple and the Three Oranges.
I've heard of this group. They had a song on a compilation or something, like a funk song.
Some old, you know, older funk type of stuff.
So this one, this is Zapp.
They were down with George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic, y'know what I'm sayin'
all that type of stuff. Zapp was like the new generation of that.
To me, this was like the precursor to a lot of hip-hop stuff. It was kind of like in the same group.
We didn't really have a name for yet, we just called it 'the beat.'
Everything, that type of sound, we just called it 'the beat.'
Then we have 'Step Up.'
What the hell you doin' with my girl?
C'mon we're just dancing.
Shut up.
Hey bitch, I didn't see your name on her, man.
'Step Up' is a movie that, for whatever reason
ends up on TNT pretty much every Friday, Thursday night at around 2:00 in the morning.
That just happens to be when I'm making beats usually.
Half the records I make, 'Step Up' has something to do with it.
So I pulled out '21 Jump Street.' '21 Jump Street' is a masterpiece of comedy.
Dude, let's just finger each other's mouth.
No.
Yeah.
No you're not putting your finger in my mouth.
Do you want to die? Do you want to die?
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon.
But also, there's a scene where him and Jonah Hill, who's also a cool cat
are going to meet Ice Cube in this Korean church.
Jonah Hill's character is very nervous, so he starts praying to the Korean Jesus.
He's like 'Korean Jesus blah blah blah, can you help me make it through this, blah blah blah.'
As an anecdote, there's a particular artist who's a good friend of mine, this guy named David Cho.
He's done videos for me and record covers and whatnot. He did the 'Pillowfight' record cover.
One day Channing came over to Dave Cho's studio and brought him a present
and it was the Korean Jesus from '21 Jump Street.'
This right here, this is a new record, Papoose.
Papoose, I hella like Papoose 'cause I just like the way his mind thinks.
He coming from like a thug type of gangster, I guess you could say, background
but he got knowledge himself. It ain't just ignorant stuff he's spilling
But he's saying it in a way where he could relate to people that's, you know, in the streets or whatever.
Ok this one, Marley Marl.
Marley Marl, he's kind of from the old school, so to speak.
It was part of this compilation of records called Beat Generation.
So it had J Dilla had one, Jazzy Jeff had one, and Marley Marl had one.
He's one of my favorite producers, so when he came out with that, I had to get it just to see.
'Men In Black 2.'
There's a particular scene where a furry creature is clogging up the toilet.
Hey Newton.
There's a huge rat the toilet. It's all stopped up, so you're gonna have to pee in the sink.
David Cross. Another great character in the Deltron universe.
Plays one of two bickering old people
and the skit's called 'Lawnchair Quarterbacks Part 1 and Part 2.'
Madlib is one of my most favorite artists.
Love Madlib. Always been into him since I heard Lootpack on Tha Alkaholiks
'cause Tha Alkaholiks introduced him to the world.
I heard about this one, 'The Black Tape.' I wanted to see what it was about.
I think it's remixes of people's stuff.
Some crazy record stuff, y'know, obscure rappers and stuff.
So, to just cover it and go back full circle
'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.'
I thought I made it perfectly clear
that employee headsets are to be worn at all times.
Don't make me mention it again.
Which stars none other than Amber Tamblyn
who is David Cross' significant other
and the other foil in 'Lawnchair Quarterbacks.'
When my 'Sex and the City' DVDs are broken, I go here.
This is an older record, Kwamé The Boy Genius.
Kwamé, he was real dope to me.
This album in particular I really thought was groundbreaking.
He just was real lyrical, he wasn't trying to be tough.
He was like portraying a nerd, damn near. The Boy Genius, y'know what I'm sayin'
I could relate to him at the time, you know. Still could relate to this image.
He was just gifted, y'know, he was hella young.
He's produced by Hurby Luv Bug is what it says.
The greatest movie ever made: 'Cabin Boy.'
What the hell's that?
I'm a huge Chris Elliott fan.
Chris Elliott is actually the inspiration for the Handsome Boy Modeling School, a record I did with Prince Paul.
Back to Amber and Dave
one evening I'm sitting in the car with Amber and Dave
and we're driving around New York City.
Dave goes, 'so Dan, what's your favorite movie?'
And I go, 'Cabin Boy.'
Dave goes, 'shut up.'
I was like, no, seriously, 'Cabin Boy' is my favorite movie.
In fact, my publishing company's named 'Sharkman Songs' after Sharky the half-shark man.
And he was like, 'get the fuck out of here.' I'm like, 'what's the big deal?'
He's like, 'don't you know Amber's dad is Russ Tamblyn, who is Sharky the shark man.'
So it all comes together.
This is Dan the Automator, you've just seen what's in my bag.
Aight, peace.