MC 900 Ft Jesus
Welcome To My Dream
Nettwerk
X2-13114
(1991)
Rock/Pop
CD, 8
Tracks, 41:50
Length
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01 |
Falling Elevators |
Mark Griffin |
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06:47 |
02 |
Killer Inside Me |
Mark Griffin |
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04:08 |
03 |
Adventures In Failure |
Mark Griffin |
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05:45 |
04 |
The City Sleeps |
Mark Griffin |
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05:32 |
05 |
O-Zone |
Patrick Rollins; Terry Robertson; William Jackson |
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04:33 |
06 |
Hearing Voices In One's Head |
Mark Griffin |
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05:54 |
07 |
Dali's Handgun |
Mark Griffin |
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04:40 |
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Ed Smith,
percussion-various; Bart Chaney,
percussion-various
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08 |
Dancing Barefoot |
Mark Griffin |
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04:31 |
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UPC (Barcode) |
022071311427 |
Packaging |
Jewel Case |
Spars |
DDD |
Sound |
Stereo |
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Drums |
Al Emert |
Percussion |
Mike Dillon |
Bass |
Steve Dirkx |
Guitar |
Mark Griffin |
Keyboards |
Mark Griffin |
Synthesizer |
Elon Bradford |
DJ (Scratch) |
Patrick Rollins |
Saxophone |
Chris McGuire |
Trumpet |
Mark Griffin |
Producer |
Mark Griffin |
Engineer |
Rick Rooney |
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Index |
#
2142 |
Owner |
Dave |
Tags |
Leftfield, Jazz-Funk, Downtempo, Cool Jazz, Jazzy Hip-Hop |
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The follow-up to Hell With the Lid Off is darker, less cartoonish, and far more influenced by funk and jazz than before (if it weren't for the slightly whiny vocals over top of the opening cut, you might mistake the backing track for something from Miles Davis' fusion period). In a lot of ways, Welcome to My Dream was a precursor to trip-hop, layering hip-hop beats over jazzy breaks and dream-like instrumentation. The problem is tracks like "Killer Inside Me" and "Adventures in Failure": the backing tracks are killer and the delivery of the rhymes are top-notch, but they're ultimately a bit silly, which makes it a bit hard to take the rest of the album seriously. That's a shame because there are some great tracks here, like "The City Sleeps'" and "Falling Elevators." As before, DJ Zero scratches with aplomb. -- Sean Carruthers (allmusic.com)