Welcome to My Dream explained

Welcome to My Dream
Type:Album
Artist:MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Cover:WelcometoMyDream.jpg
Released:1991
Genre:Hip hop, acid jazz
Length:41:46
Label:Nettwerk[1]
Producer:MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Prev Title:Hell with the Lid Off
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:One Step Ahead of the Spider
Next Year:1994

Welcome to My Dream is the second album by MC 900 Ft. Jesus.[2] [3] It was released in 1991 via Nettwerk.

The track "Falling Elevators" was featured in the 1996 Levi's commercial "Washroom," directed by Tarsem Singh. The song "Killer Inside Me" is inspired by the book The Killer Inside Me by pulp fiction writer Jim Thompson.[4] U2 used a sample from "The City Sleeps" on the track "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" on their Zooropa album.

Production

The album is credited to MC 900 Ft. Jesus alone, with DJ Zero's contributions listed under his own name, Patrick Rollins.[4] The album was recorded in Dallas.[4]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that the album "releases [MC 900 Ft. Jesus] from his growth-stunting reliance on technology, using a complement of competent live musicians to erect a rhythmically intricate, stylistically varied podium-noir jazz, percolating funk and jumped-up hip-hop are the fundamental struts — on which he recounts his troubled character studies."[5] The Washington Post wrote that "900 Ft's signature sound ... is an industrial/jazz fusion that's pegged to rippling piano ('Falling Elevators') or wailing saxophone ('Killer Inside Me')."[6]

Track listing

  1. "Falling Elevators" – 6:46
  2. "Killer Inside Me" – 4:08
  3. "Adventures in Failure" – 5:45
  4. "The City Sleeps" – 5:29
  5. "O-Zone" – 4:32
  6. "Hearing Voices in One's Head" – 5:54
  7. "Dali's Handgun" – 4:41
  8. "Dancing Barefoot" – 4:31

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MC 900 Ft. Jesus | Nettwerk. nettwerk.com.
  2. Web site: MC 900 Ft. Jesus | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  3. Web site: The Second Coming. SPIN. May 18, 1992. SPIN Media LLC. Google Books.
  4. Web site: MC 900 FT JESUS: A FASCINATION WITH ABERRATION. chicagotribune.com.
  5. Web site: MC 900 Ft Jesus with DJ Zero . Trouser Press . 18 November 2020.
  6. Web site: TALL RAP TALES FROM 900 FT JESUS. Mark. Jenkins. November 22, 1991. www.washingtonpost.com.