Herbie Hancock's 'Future Shock' 20 years on

My other half bought this at the weekend expecting jazz and, well, not expecting what she got. Just listening to the whole album through now for the first time ever - I mean, I know Rockit of course but have never heard the whole album - and my first impression is wow, how influential is this??

I bought this when it came out and my impression was 'this is good but it is mostly about rockit'.

I went back to it last year, and... yeah the whole album holds up really quite well. And the CD which adds Grandmixer DST's 'Megamix' collage 12" at the end really pushes it over the top.

I bought 'Sound System' when it came out as well, and going back to that one, even though it's overall not as successful, parts of it go even further into sampledelic cut-up weirdness. a few moments definitely foreshadow Public Enemy. At the time I wasn't into it because things like Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'Esperanto' just went so much further out, and much more successfully, but most people were not listening to that record and you know Shocklee was obviously listening to things like 'Metal Beat' along with The Art of Noise and so on

compare the Yes sample at 0:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3sirmADxTA

with the sample in 'Fight The power' at 1:15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTrAVLhbS8

Uhh, listening kind of quietly at work, but it doesn't sound like the same sample to me. The first is very clearly the first note of "Leave It" -- at 1:15 of the PE, I may be hearing the percussion loop at 0:15 of the Hancock, but not the Yes sample.

What am I missing?

i love 'rough'. because it's not overreliant on samples like the other stuff, it's probably dated the least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxGuCHAgvM

er, maybe just the drum pattern is more 'universal'. doesn't scream 1983 electro.

but ya, this album is so underrated / influential

i think the yes sample in the HH is jon anderson's high pitched voice going "I" on the 4and

xpost the PE track samples a different sustained choral half-second clip than Yes, and it's much quieter. it's a similar deployment of a similar sample, not a sample match.

'Rough' does have a great drum pattern.

I also rented this as a kid, the video of the live tour from 'Future Shock', and the extended space music D.St scratching intro was pretty memorable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN5ltss0NMA&feature=related

hey milton, i saw a copy of D. ST. & Jalaludin M. Nuriddin - "Mean Machine" at rasputin union square in the world/european section yesterday if you're interested.

http://www.discogs.com/DSt--Jalaludin-M-Nuriddin-Mean-Machine/master/175958

I remember liking that track. Most of the D.St cuts from around 'Rockit' ended up on this comp:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Celluloid-The-Electro-Years-Why-Is-It-Fresh/release/58745

I love all those electro albums he did in the 80s. Not only this but also "Sound-System" and "Perfect Machine".

this album is great

"Earth Beat"! "Autodrive"!