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| | Future Shock | | | Music Artist : | | Herbie Hancock | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sony | | Release Date : | | 2000-02-08 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $9.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Rockit
2. Future Shock
3. T. F. S.
4. Earthbeat
5. Autodrive
6. Rough
7. Rockit (Mega Mix)
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 (1.5 stars) "Rockit!": The Maxi-Single
Submitted on: 2007-12-13 |
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| Ever wanted to hear Herbie's take on hip-hop? Yeah, neither did I. Despite that, I love the infamous "Rockit!", with scratching, vocoder, and Herbie's awesome synthesizer part. Even if the drum machine beats and random blasts of '80s guitar are stupid. It's dated, but good. The title track, on the other hand, is both dated and bad: a Curtis Mayfield cover done up in '80s funk style that goes on for eight minutes for some reason. The lowest point, though, either is "Earthbeat" - more or less a "Rockit!" rip-off (with all the vocoder and scratching, that is) that manages to be even more dated - or "Autodrive", more or less the same thing as "Earthbeat" (noticing a pattern?). Okay, so "Autodrive" has a cool piano part. Other than "Rockit!", the only successful track is the relentless "T.F.S.", with an endlessly repeating, funky clavinet part. And "Rough" is just an unimaginative, monotonous dance song (crooned by the same Curtis Mayfield imitator who sings the title track), other than the guitar solo, which bounces from speaker to speaker. That's kinda good. The guitar solo, I mean. Not the song. So if you've got a recording of "Rockit!", you more or less don't need this. I like a lot of Herbie Hancock, but this is the worst by him I've heard so far. |
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 I, Robot
Submitted on: 2007-01-26 |
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The legs of one of the robots in the fantastic video for Rockit says it all; grooving to the funky beat while moving in a tight circle, keeping in step with the turntable scratches and driving the beat where dub, hip-hop and jazz became a new dynamic in the studio. Everybody dance now!
Future Shock was a new sensation when released in early 1983, as Herbie Hancock (and his Rockit band) & Bill Laswell teamed up to deliver electronics with funk, fusion and a sprinkling of avant-garde.
Rockit garnered a Grammy award for best R&B instrumental performance, while the video captured five awards - including Video of the Year - in the first MTV Video Music Awards show.
The CD has five cuts sandwiched between Rockit and Rockit (Mega Mix), the latter not on the original release. A true gem is Future Shock, a Curtis Mayfield composition. Earth Beat and Rough pump the funk through the speakers, while Hancock lets the jazz notes do the talking in T.F.S. and Autodrive.
That the collaboration of Hancock and Laswell was unable to reproduce the magic in subsequent releases speaks greatly about the quality found in Future Shock.
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Is it HERBIE or is it LASWELL?
Submitted on: 2006-08-10 |
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| Herbie's alway's had his hand on the pulse of music, especially cutting edge stuff. He hooked up with Bill Laswell just when Laswell started an incredible run of "production jobs" that continues on through the 90's, and beyond. It's hard to figure just WHO get's the most credit here. Who cares? If you like it, dig! If you don't think it's "jazzy" enough, that's cool too, because it's very hip-hop/beats oriented (no guest "raps" but some cool soul vocals). A jazz artist incorporating the use of turntables and a whole array of synths and such-- read the liner notes with all the folks who appear here. One can't expect "Kind of Blue" now can you? Get funked up! |
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Excellent, risk taking album from Herbie Hancock
Submitted on: 2006-04-10 |
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| I'd like to defend this album, because between his more mellow jazz albums of the 70s and what he's doing now in 2005-2006, this 1983 album is still one one of my favorites from Herbie Hancock. Herbie took a big risk with going for the hip-hop sound and he succeeded. Every one of the six original songs are dynamite, are edgy and very creative for that period. I still love Rockit, perhaps one of Herbie's finest performances. Its mix of urban jazz and the turntable scratches of hip-hop was very unique. It has some hard hitting beats that could even rival most of Run-DMC and LL Cool J's albums. I couldn't stop playing the 45 single of the single and album versions for several months! It's still played over 2 decades later! The video for that song was phenomenal with the art direction and the marionettes moving to the song's beats. The album's very keyboard oriented, but Hancock kept the jazz style intact on most of the songs. I don't think he sold out,as some purists say. I think this album helped make him a more respected jazz musician and artist later on. Even if the album's massive success took him by surprise, he did it with class and he is still respected today. Very creative, chance-taking and wonderfully performed and done! |
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DO YOU NEED TO ASK?
Submitted on: 2005-10-24 |
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| IF THE NAME HERBIE HANCOCK DOESN'T GET YOU TO BUY IT,THEN "ROCK IT' MUST. REMEMBER THE VIDEO? |
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