Welcome to My Dream | ||||
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Released | 1991 | |||
Genre | Hip hop, acid jazz | |||
Length | 41:46 | |||
Label | Nettwerk [1] | |||
Producer | MC 900 Ft. Jesus | |||
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Welcome to My Dream is the second album by MC 900 Ft. Jesus. [5] [6] It was released in 1991 via Nettwerk.
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The album is credited to MC 900 Ft. Jesus alone, with DJ Zero's contributions listed under his own name, Patrick Rollins. [7] The album was recorded in Dallas. [7]
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." [8] 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')." [9]
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