From eric hill Sent Mon, Jul 5th 1999, 09:07
From eric hill Sent Mon, Jul 5th 1999, 09:07
>>hancock's future shock is the shit too. anyone recommend any other hancock >>in this vein? this is about all i have... > >Herbie's best moments IMO are the "Headhunters" (73) and the "Thrust" (74) >albums. Totally doped up electronic funky stuff -- both amazing. in addition to these seminal herbie-fusion albums, the original poster is no doubt looking for herbie's collaborations with bill laswell, of which "future shock" was the first. they collaborated several times throughout the 80's, but the most emblematic of the "future shock" sound were two more herbie hancock albums: "sound-system" (84) and "perfect machine" (88). this is a lot of quite-similar material to stock up on, especially if your ears are as weary as mine are of vintage ledernacken drum machines (as well as d.st.'s scratching never having progressed much after "rockit"), but "perfect machine" might be worth tracking down for a nice dj's secret weapon called "maiden voyage/p. bop." as far as interesting electro-type tracks go though, you're really just searching out one track per album (two in the case of "future shock" if, like me, you dig "autodrive"). for the truly masochistic, the "freakazoid" 12" and a maurice starr (i think called "electric drummer") single both have "rockit" bites _not_ by herbie himself. eric onnow: lilienthal : castor & pollux (emanate)