Welcome to My Dream

{{Infobox album

| name = Welcome to My Dream

| type = Album

| artist = MC 900 Ft. Jesus

| cover = WelcometoMyDream.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1991

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Hip hop, acid jazz

| length = 41:46

| label = Nettwerk{{Cite web|url=http://nettwerk.com/label-film-tv/mc-900-ft-jesus|title=MC 900 Ft. Jesus | Nettwerk|website=nettwerk.com}}

| 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

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r28076}}

|rev2 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide

|rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=729}}

| rev3 = Muzik

| rev3score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine|title=MC 900ft Jesus: Welcome To My Dream (Network)|url=https://dancemusicarchive.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/pdf/muzik099_august_2003.pdf|magazine=Muzik|issue=99|last=Fruits|first=Lucy|date=August 2003|pages=79|access-date=11 August 2023}}

}}

Welcome to My Dream is the second album by MC 900 Ft. Jesus.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mc-900-ft-jesus-mn0000222959/biography|title=MC 900 Ft. Jesus | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ov3_OLmQ4PMC&dq=Welcome+to+My+Dream+mc+900+ft+jesus&pg=PT21|title=The Second Coming|work=SPIN|date=May 18, 1992|publisher=SPIN Media LLC|via=Google Books}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-11-08-9104100619-story.html|title=MC 900 FT JESUS: A FASCINATION WITH ABERRATION|website=chicagotribune.com}} 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. The album was recorded in Dallas.

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."{{cite web |title=MC 900 Ft Jesus with DJ Zero |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/mc-900-ft-jesus-with-dj-zero/ |website=Trouser Press |accessdate=18 November 2020}} 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')."{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/11/22/tall-rap-tales-from-900-ft-jesus/93cac9d9-95a0-4c3f-8d04-ac485a821970/|title=TALL RAP TALES FROM 900 FT JESUS|first=Mark|last=Jenkins|date=November 22, 1991|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}

Track listing

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

References

Category:MC 900 Ft. Jesus albums

Category:1991 albums

Category:Nettwerk Records albums