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Studio album by Herbie Hancock | ||||
Released | 2001 | |||
Recorded | 2001 | |||
Genre | Jazz, electronica, jazz fusion | |||
Label | Transparent, Columbia (Japan) | |||
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Future 2 Future is the forty-third album by Herbie Hancock. Hancock reunited with bass player Bill Laswell (who worked on the influential early 1980s albums Future Shock, Sound-System and Perfect Machine) and the two of them tried to recapture the success of the three previous albums that fuse jazz with cutting-edge electronic music.
In yet another innovative stylistic move, Herbie reunited with Bill Laswell in the creation of a 21st Century collaboration with some of the young hip-hop and techno artists who have drawn on his massive influence to create their own music of the future. The album was released in spring, 2001, and is entitled FUTURE2FUTURE.
This group of artists (minus Tony Williams, due to his death four years prior) would go on tour, and produce a live concert that would eventually go on DVD (which features live versions of his songs "Rockit" and "Chameleon").
Future2Future is the only album Hancock released on Transparent Music, a label he created in the late 90's with Chuck Mitchell (one time president of Verve Records) and David Passick (Hancock's manager). The main collaborative source is in Bill Laswell, who Hancock had worked with many times before, including the incredibly successful Future Shock (most known for the club hit "Rockit"). Future2Future is very different from previous efforts due to its attempt to delve further into electronica. Hancock keeps most of his playing relatively conservative, holding to chords and sweeps while Laswell has short grooves on the bass guitar. The more intricate sounds on each track are in the drum beats (whether played on a kit or electronically generated) and the use of turntables.
Tony Williams, a drummer Hancock had worked with multiple times throughout his career, is sampled on track 6 under softly spoken poetry by Dana Bryant.