My Field Trip to Planet 9

My Field Trip to Planet 9
Studio album by Justin Warfield
Released	July 13, 1993 (1993-07-13) [1]
Genre	Alternative hip hop psychedelic rap trip hop
Length	59:50
Label	Qwest
Producer	Justin Warfield QDIII Prince Paul
Justin Warfield chronology
My Field Trip to Planet 9 (1993) The Justin Warfield Supernaut (1995)
Singles from My Field Trip to Planet 9
"K Sera Sera" Released: 1993 "Fisherman's Grotto" Released: 1993 "Pick It Up Y'all" Released: 1994

My Field Trip to Planet 9 is the debut studio album by Justin Warfield. It was released on Qwest Records on July 13, 1993.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[2]
NME	8/10 [3]
Select	3/5 [4]
The Source	[5]
The Village Voice	A− [6]
Vox	7/10 [7]

Jason Ankeny of AllMusic wrote, "The hip-hop debut of Justin Warfield is built around old-school rhythms fleshed out with some intriguing samples, drawn largely from the canon of '60s psychedelic rock." ^[1] Geoffrey Himes of The Washington Post was more critical, saying, "[Warfield's] raps, with their tired mix of criminal boasting, gratuitous weirdness and hip-hop cliches, leave almost no impression at all." ^[8]

In 2014, The Village Voice 's Jonathan Patrick listed My Field Trip to Planet 9 as one of "The 10 Best Forgotten New York Hip-Hop Records", writing, "Perhaps best labeled as psychedelic rap (mostly on account of its subject matter), My Field Trip to Planet 9 plays out like a hippie's take on golden-era hip-hop". ^[9] The following year, Fact ranked it as the 43rd-best trip hop album of all time. ^[10]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tequila Flats"	0:30
2.	"Introduction by Eliis Dee"	1:01
3.	"Dip Dip Divin'"	3:37
4.	"K Sera Sera"	3:12
5.	"Fisherman's Grotto"	4:07
6.	"Live from the Opium Den"	4:56
7.	"Glass Tangerine"	3:28
8.	"Guavafish Centipede (Aquatic Meditations)"	1:27
9.	"Teenage Caligula"	2:22
10.	"Cool Like the Blues"	4:59
11.	"Drugstore Cowboy"	5:11
12.	"Pick It Up Y'all"	4:31
13.	"B-Boys on Acid"	4:17
14.	"Stormclouds Left of Heaven"	4:01
15.	"Thoughts in the Buttermilk"	4:57
16.	"Tequila Flats (Ghosts of Laurel Canyon)"	0:44

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• Justin Warfield – vocals, production, mixing
• QDIII – production, mixing
• Prince Paul – production, mixing
• Ellis Dee – vocals
• Scott Harding – guitar, recording, mixing
• Goffrey Moore – bass guitar
• Michael Blake – saxophone
• Steven Bernstein – trumpet
• Bob Morse – recording, mixing
• Jason Roberts – recording
• Brian Gardner – mastering
• Kevin Kosmann – art direction
• Anne Elliott Cutting – photography

References

1. Ankeny, Jason. "My Field Trip to Planet 9 – Justin Warfield". AllMusic . Retrieved December 1, 2015.
2. Christgau, Robert (2000). "Justin Warfield: My Field Trip to Planet 9". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 330. ISBN   0-312-24560-2 . Retrieved January 24, 2018.
3. George, Iestyn (January 29, 1994). "Planet Sweet". NME . p. 43.
4. Higginbotham, Adam (March 1994). "Justin Warfield: My Field Trip to Planet 9". Select . No. 45. p. 78.
5. Johnson, Brett (August 1993). "Justin Warfield – My Field Trip to Planet 9 by Justin Warfield". Record Report. The Source . No. 47. New York. pp. 84, 87.
6. Christgau, Robert (October 19, 1993). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved July 17, 2024.
7. McCann, Ian (March 1994). "Justin Warfield: My Field Trip to Planet Nine". Vox . No. 42. p. 107.
8. Himes, Geoffrey (August 11, 1993). "Recordings". The Washington Post . Retrieved January 24, 2018.
9. Patrick, Jonathan (December 9, 2014). "The 10 Best Forgotten New York Hip-Hop Records". The Village Voice . Retrieved August 17, 2023.
10. Twells, John; Fintoni, Laurent (July 30, 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time". Fact . Retrieved January 24, 2018.

External links

• My Field Trip to Planet 9 at Discogs (list of releases)