From Jon Drukman Sent Mon, Apr 6th 1998, 22:48
From Jon Drukman Sent Mon, Apr 6th 1998, 22:48
Aran M. Parillo wrote this: > If someone wants to review an old Herbie Hancock record (don't tempt me!) > for IDM, that's brilliant, appreciated, and very IDM worthy. the obvious choice would be "future shock" (or "headhunters") but i'm gonna forgo that and pick one of my personal faves: "secrets". first, the back cover photo - herbie with shirt off, massive 'fro, pointy beard, walking on a beach. ooooh, damn, i want a picture of me like that on one of my records some day. second, notable guest musician: ray parker jr, guy famous for bringing the "ghostbusters" theme to us. third, recorded in San Francisco, home of cool. the music: "Doin It" starts off with the funkiest grindy wah guitar lick you ever heard, replete with vocodered "DOIN IT" punctuation. eventually turns into full on boogie funk workout. all it needs to be a big beat hit is an unvarying drum loop sloppily pasted on, and a big 909 snare roll buildup. add lawsuit, stir to taste. "People Music" is a mellow arp dominated piece that sounds like background music to an episode of Barney Miller. today, you can hear people like muziq doing lo-fi casiotone remakes of stuff like this. "Spider" has this awesome synced oscillator buzz thing and some cool chase movie soundtrack pace. "Sansho Shima" is seriously mental jazz funk, way out of control. Much more bebop than the rest of this album. **FAST** damned awesome. there's so much more to say about this brilliant album (one of those "nice price" discs so you have NO EXCUSE not to own it) but my back really hurts. -- Jon Drukman xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Plan: Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.