Track listing[edit]
All songs written by Herbie Hancock, Michael James Beinhorn and Bill O. Laswell (except where noted).
- "Rockit" - 5:28
- "Future Shock" (featuring Dwight Jackson, Jr.) (Curtis Mayfield) - 8:05
- "TFS" - 5:47
- "Earth Beat" - 5:13
- "Autodrive" - 6:27
- "Rough" (featuring Lamar Wright) - 6:58
- Remastered CD Bonus Tracks
- 7. "Rockit (Mega Mix)" - 6:18
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_World_(Curtis_Mayfield_album)
Producers
[edit]Musicians
- Herbie Hancock: Piano, synthesizer, Fairlight CMI, keyboards
- Bill Laswell: Electric bass
- D.S.T.: Turntables, "FX"
- Pete Cosey: Electric guitar
- Michael Beinhorn: keyboards
- Daniel Poncé: percussion
- Sly Dunbar: drums, percussion
- Dwight Jackson Jr.: Lead vocals on "Future Shock"
- Bernard Fowler, Roger Trilling, Nicky Skopelitis: backing vocals
About the Album
Composed in 1983, Hancock enlisted avant-garde bassist and record producer Bill Laswell to record an album that would go towards a postmodern direction, instead of his usual straight-ahead jazz. The result was a hip-hop influenced album, which combined Hancock's keyboard mastery with Laswell's innovative arrangements and Grand Mixer DXT's turntablism. According to 1999 re-issue's liner notes, when Laswell went to buy speakers at a music equipment store he would insist on testing them by playing the demos of "Rockit" and "Earth Beat". While those songs were played through the speakers, passing by customers apparently liked what they heard and danced to the music. Soon after Laswell let Hancock know about the incident, eventually telling him: "We got something good here."
"Rockit", the album's big hit, was accompanied by one of the most successful music videos ever. The video, directed by Godley and Creme, featured dancing robots made by [Jim Whiting], moving around to the beat of the music and the turntable scratching. Hancock won several MTVMusic Video awards in 1984, as well as the Grammy award for best R&B performance.
"Rockit" is a song recorded by Herbie Hancock. It was released as a single from his 1983 albumFuture Shock. The song was written by Hancock, bass guitarist Bill Laswell and synthesizer/drum machine programmer Michael Beinhorn.
Constructed and composed during the recording process at various studios, including Martin Bisi's in Brooklyn NY, "Rockit" was perhaps the first popular single to feature scratching and otherturntablist techniques, performed by Grand Mixer DXT - an influential DJ in the early years ofturntablism - using turntables as a musical instrument. Later turntablists, such as DJ Qbert andMix Master Mike, cited "Rockit" as revelatory in the documentary film Scratch, inspiring their interest in the instrument. The record Grand Mixer DXT used for scratching in Rockit was Change The Beat by Beside, released in 1982 on Celluloid Records.
The single was a major radio hit in the United Kingdom but more of an underground hit in the United States. The music video, directed by duo Godley & Creme[1] and featuring robot-like sculptures (by Jim Whiting) moving in time to the music, was among the earliest videos to feature African Americans on MTV[original research?] and garnered five MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, including Best Concept Video and Best Special Effects. Hancock himself appears and plays keyboard only as an image on a television, which is smashed on the pavement in the closing shot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock_(Herbie_Hancock_album)
Future Shock (Herbie Hancock
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