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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? Thanks I *

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> 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.

quoted 4 lines MC 900 Ft. Jesus is one Mark Griffin of Dallas, Texas. (Yay, Dallas!)

> 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.

Well, it may not be very IDM, but it's damn hilarious. Does anybody know who the woman is that is featured on the track "Born With Monkey Asses", on Hell...? That's about the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life, and I'm really curious if it was staged or not, because I can just imagine what the scene would look like with her going off like that for real. -- jr

Irene McC wrote:

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> 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?

Well, I have the MC 900 Ft. Jesus with DJ Zero "UFO's Are Real" CD single from '90 on Nettwerk and the tracklisting is: 1. UFO's Exhibit A 2. Revolution 10 3. UFO's Exhibit B On the back reads: Produced by Mark Griffin Engineered and mixed by Rick Rooney Recorded at Planet Dallas Thanks to Greg Synodis I hope this helps. E r i c F r a n s epf@internetconnect.net [subvox music] http://www.azstarnet.com/~subvox

off the idm topic, and discussing mc900 ft jesus, In a message dated 98-03-06 07:25:08 EST, you write: " _Welcome To My Dream_ is considered to be his best work by most fans." heck no! the best by far, imho, is: _Hell With The Lid Off_ (with DJ Zero) ol 900 ft tall really lost something when he lost dj zero... just another opinion- -thad

In a message dated 98-03-06 15:56:48 EST, you write: << Of course, Zero left so he'd be able to produce Vanilla Ice's attempt at a comeback, 'Hootie Mack.' >> your kidding!!! yikes! :) i still say _hell with the lid off_ is the best album though. "funky dope..." -thad