Future Shock (Herbie Hancock album)
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| Studio album by Herbie Hancock | ||||
| Released | August 1983[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1983 OAO Studios, Brooklyn, New York RPM Studios, New York City Garage Sale Recording, Los Angeles |
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| Genre | Electro-funk, Instrumental Hip Hop | |||
| Length | 37:58 (original LP) 44:16 (remastered edition with bonus track) |
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| Label | Columbia CK 38814 |
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| Producer | Material Herbie Hancock |
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| PopMatters | [3] |
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| Warr.org | [5] |
Future Shock is pianist Herbie Hancock's thirty-fifth album, the first of his Electro-funk era.
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About the album
Composed in 1983, Hancock enlisted avant-garde bassist and record producer Bill Laswell to record an album that would go towards a postmodern direction, instead of his usual straight-ahead jazz. The result was a hip-hop influenced album, which combined Hancock's keyboard mastery with Laswell's innovative arrangements and Grand Mixer DXT's turntablism. According to 1999 re-issue's liner notes, when Laswell went to buy speakers at a music equipment store he would insist on testing them by playing the demos of "Rockit" and "Earth Beat". While those songs were played through the speakers, passing by customers apparently liked what they heard and danced to the music. Soon after Laswell let Hancock know about the incident, eventually telling him: "We got something good here."
Future Shock takes the title name from Hancock's remake of the Curtis Mayfield song from ten years earlier, also featured here.
"Rockit", the album's big hit, was accompanied by one of the most successful music videos ever. The video, directed by Godley and Creme of 10cc fame, featured dancing robots made by Jim Whiting, moving around to the beat of the music and the turntable scratching. Hancock won several MTV Music Video awards in 1984, as well as the Grammy award for best R&B performance.
Track listing
All songs written by Herbie Hancock, Michael James Beinhorn and Bill O. Laswell (except where noted).
- "Rockit" - 5:28
- "Future Shock" (featuring Curtis Mayfield) - 8:05
- "TFS" - 5:47
- "Earth Beat" - 5:13
- "Autodrive" - 6:27
- "Rough" - 6:58
- Remastered CD Bonus Tracks
- 7. "Rockit (Mega Mix)" - 6:18
Production credits
Producers
- Material
- Herbie Hancock
Musicians
- Herbie Hancock: Piano, synthesizer, Fairlight CMI, keyboards
- Bill Laswell: Electric bass
- D.S.T.: Turntables, "FX"
- Pete Cosey: Electric guitar
- Michael Beinhorn: keyboards
- Daniel Poncé: percussion
- Sly Dunbar: drums, percussion
- Dwight Jackson Jr.: Lead vocals on "Future Shock"
- Lamar Wright: Lead vocals on "Rough"
- Bernard Fowler, D.S.T., Roger Trilling, Nicky Skopelitis: backing vocals
References
- ^ "Future Shock by Herbie Hancock". Rate Your Music. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ Ginell, Richard S. (2011 [last update]). "Future Shock - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ Zeltner, Mark (2011 [last update]). "Herbie Hancock: Best of Herbie Hancock, Future Shock, Sound System, Perfect Machine < PopMatters". popmatters.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ Futterman, Steve (2011 [last update]). "Herbie Hancock: Future Shock : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". web.archive.org. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ "Herbie Hancock". warr.org. 2010 [last update]. Retrieved 18 July 2011.