From Andrew Hime Sent Fri, Mar 6th 1998, 13:22
From Andrew Hime Sent Fri, Mar 6th 1998, 13:22
> I'd appreciate some help : > MC 900ft jJsus / Falling Elevators > T/listing > 1. Falling Elevators (edit) > 2. Killer Inside Me (meat beat manifestation #2) > 3. UFO's Exhibit B > 4. Falling Elevators (full version) > Nettwerk 1996 / play it again sam > Sale item : plain jewel case, no inlays or info. > Pease can someone supply the names of people involved - especially > the 3rd track? Interesting. MC 900 Ft. Jesus is one Mark Griffin of Dallas, Texas. (Yay, Dallas!) He attended the University of North Texas in Denton, where I live. He is known for a blend of rap and live instruments a few years before it was widespread. He has 3 albums so far: _Hell With The Lid Off_ (with DJ Zero) _Welcome To My Dream_ _One Step Ahead of The Spider_ The first two are on Nettwerk Records out of Canada, the last is on American. I can't find my copy of _Welcome To My Dream_ just now, but _Hell_ was released in 89, _One Step_ was released in 94 after a long wait. _Welcome To My Dream_ is considered to be his best work by most fans. It includes "Falling Elevators" and "Killer Inside Me". "UFO's Exhibit B", I am not familiar with, unless it's a B-side. I think it might be a B-side on "UFO's Are Real", one of his earliest singles. The first album is notable for its industrial overtones (ie industrial in the distortovox sense), but isn't cloying in the way your leather-pants brigade normally is. The second album is just full on hiphop/rap. Well ahead of its time. "The City Sleeps" is one of the best songs I know. It's essential listening at 3am on a dark road. The third album came as a bit of a shock... Mark had been working with a full band (he had done tours before and wanted to use less DATs) and it is very jazzy. So, in short, it's not IDM. But it's good. As for a fourth album? Well, American kind of went under. Mark's been playing around with a group called the Enablers (he's really good at... clarinet, I think?) and waiting for word from the label as to what's up. This time, at least, he's not suffering from the writer's block that plagued him after _Welcome_. Even he didn't know how he was going to top it. :) Oh, for the record, I think the Meat Beat Manifesto remixes sucked.