Del the Funky Homosapien and mars kumari connect Bay Area rap, uneasy storytelling and experimental production across their seven-track Handsmade release.
Del the Funky Homosapien has spent more than three decades giving hip-hop room to imagine other worlds. On Skeletor Bag, his collaboration with Bay Area producer mars kumari, that impulse takes a darker direction: grief, damaged trust and strange environments become the foundations for a compact seven-track project. Released September 25, 2026, through Oakland label Handsmade Collective, the record brings Del’s narrative approach into conversation with production informed by cloud rap, industrial music, jungle and ambient textures.
The project’s subject matter moves between recognizable anxieties and the impossible. Environmental danger, including drinking water contaminated by runoff from excessive coal burning, exists alongside a video-game afternoon that gives way to a monster-filled Backrooms maze. Those settings give Del different ways to approach loss and uncertainty, connecting the fear of an unfamiliar place with the more intimate experience of losing faith in people close to you.
For Del, imaginative storytelling is part of a career that extends from “Mistadobalina” and his role in founding Hieroglyphics to the self-titled Deltron 3030 debut. His Gorillaz collaborations, including “Clint Eastwood,” “Rock the House” and “Captain Chicken,” have taken that voice into another distinct creative universe. The connection continues in 2026: Deltron 3030 is on Gorillaz’s The Mountain Tour, with an Oakland Arena date scheduled for October 28.
mars kumari approaches that partnership with her own established interests in analog equipment and hauntology, an artistic vocabulary concerned with the persistence of the past. Her work spans hip-hop, jungle and drum’n’bass, with affiliations that include Handsmade, Bruiser Brigade and Deadverse. Critic Dylan Green has described her productions as “maximal, enveloping waves of synthetic rhythm,” a characterization of her broader practice that helps contextualize the producer behind this collaboration.
“Seventh Ring,” the lead single, and “Game Over,” featuring Jel, offer two entry points into the release. Across the full sequence, “Precipice” opens the project before “Seventh Ring,” “Land of the Lost” and “Game Over”; “Mode of Survival,” “Mirror” and “Known Opulence” complete the seven-song run. The concise tracklist keeps the focus on a defined collaboration rather than an extended collection of loosely connected material.
The guest list reaches well beyond the two names on the cover. QThree, Baslonious.Funk and Lord Takim appear on “Land of the Lost”; Acid Barbie joins “Mode of Survival”; and Jay Cinema, Oddity and doseone feature on “Mirror.” Fatboi Sharif and Skull the Starchild contribute to the closing “Known Opulence,” while Jel’s appearance on “Game Over” adds another connection to experimental hip-hop’s wider creative community.
The production credits also underline the collaborative work behind the record. Del wrote the project and mars kumari produced it, with Umamifunk co-producing “Precipice” and “Known Opulence”; Handsmade, Kelan Thomas and Umamifunk serve as executive producers, and Steel Tipped Dove handled mastering. Umamifunk’s connection with mars extends to the stage, with the pair having opened for Ghais Guevara in July.
Skeletor Bag is available to stream and purchase through the official Bandcamp release, with a vinyl preorder offered through the Handsmade shop. The label lists a pressing of 222 copies and currently anticipates shipping in late December. For listeners following Del’s continuing collaborations or discovering mars kumari’s production, the release brings both artists into the same tightly framed world, with a substantial underground cast helping fill it out.
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