Composed in 1983, Future Shock was a marvel in both Jazz fusion and
synthesizer-based music. Hancock enlisted avant-garde bassist and
record producer Bill Laswell to record an album that would go towards a
post-modern direction, instead of his usual straight-ahead jazz. The
result was a hip-hop influenced album, which ingeniously 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." "Rockit",
the album's big hit, was accompanied by one of the most successful
music videos ever. The video, directed by Godley and Creme, featured
dancing robots, moving around to the beat of the music and the
turntable scratching. Hancock won several MTV Music Video awards in
1983, as well as the Grammy award for best R&B performance.
Unlike "Rockit", the track "Future Shock" (a song originally written
and performed by Curtis Mayfield) was greatly underappreciated.
EAC's log:
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EAC extraction logfile from 24. March 2007, 16:17 for CD Herbie Hancock / Future Shock
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