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Herbie Hancock
Future Shock/Head Hunters
Release Date: 2008 10 14
Label: Legacy
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This slipcase box packs two of Herbie Hancock's most commercially successful and wildly inventive recordings into one package. Issued exactly a decade apart, these two records both issued in specific changes in the world of recorded sound. 1973's Head Hunters marked the true beginning of hardcore electric jazz-funk. As an album, its killer breaks, badass bass whomp, and infectious vamps connected immediately with both the rock & roll hordes as well as those beefing up on Funkadelic and Earth, Wind & Fire. The latter recording, produced by Bill Laswell, all but took Hancock out of the jazz realm altogether and forged something else out of a meld of hip-hop beats, scratching (courtesy of turntablist DST), and futurist jazz vibes -- thanks to the participation of Laswell and his crew of downtown N.Y.C. musicians as well as Wayne Shorter, guitarist Pete Cosey, and drummer Hamid Drake -- to funky world fusion from Toshinori Kondo, Aiyb Dieng, Foday Musa Suso, Sly Dunbar, Daniel Ponce, and others. The album scored a big single and dance club hit with "Rockit," and even won a Grammy. Despite the wild differences in feel, these two sets are a perfect complement to one another. Usually these two-fers are simply a way for a record company to clear their shelves of excess inventory, and provide little rhyme or reason for pairing or even tripling titles together in a dodgy package. In this case, the intention might be the same, but the result is aesthetically and funkily on target. Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Rockit5:28
2Future Shock8:05
3TFS5:47
4Earth Beat5:13
5Autodrive6:27
6Rough6:58
7Rockit [Mega Mix][*]6:18
8Chameleon15:44
9Watermelon Man6:31
10Sly10:21
11Vein Melter9:09







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