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Herbie Hanccock: Perfect Machine

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1988
Time:
 50:29
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.herbiehancock.com
Appears with: Chick Corea, Jack de Johnette
Purchase date: 2000
Price in €: 12,99



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[1] Perfect Machine (Hancock/Laswell/Skopilits) - 6:35
[2] Obsession (Hancock/Laswell/Collins/Bonner) - 5:20
[3] Vibe Alive (Hancock/Laswell/Collins/Bonner/Microwave) - 5:26
[4] Beat Wise (Hancock/Laswell/Collins/Bonner) - 5:52
[5] Maiden Voyage/P. Bop (Hancock/Laswell/Collins/Bonner) - 6:34
[6] Chemical Residue (Hancock) - 6:01
[7] Vibe Alive [Extended dance mix] (Hancock/Laswell/Collins/Bonner) - 8:13
[8] Beat Wise [12-inch Edit] (Hancock/Laswell/Collins/Bonner) - 6:28

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Herbie Hancock - Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards, Producer, Vocoder, Fairlight, DX-7

Mico Wave - Bass, Vocoder, Talk Box, Mini Moog
Bootsy Collins - Bass, Vocoder
Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner - Vocals
Jeff Bova - Synthesizer, Programming
Microwave - Bass, Vocoder, Talk Box, Mini Moog
Nicky Skopelitis - Drums, Fairlight
William Collins - Bass, Vocoder

Steve Boyer - Assistant Engineer
Michael Christopher - Assistant Engineer
Joe Gastwirt - Release Preparation
Jon Goldberger - Assistant Engineer
Robbie Morris - Assistant Engineer
Robert Musso - Engineer, Mixing
Tony Lane - Art Direction
Nancy Donald - Art Direction
Eika Aoshima - Photography
Tony Meilandt - Associate Producer
Lawrence Duhart II - Assistant Engineer
Lawrence Duhart III - Assistant Engineer

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Set upon recapturing the pop ground he had invaded with Future Shock, Hancock relies upon many of the former's ingredients for yet another go-'round on Perfect Machine. High-tech producer Bill Laswell is back, so is scratchmaster D.ST -- and armed with a warehouse of mostly digital keyboards, Hancock adds the distinctive bass of Bootsy Collins and the Ohio Players' vocalist Sugarfoot, who always sounds as if he had just swallowed something. The music is mostly thumping, funk-drenched techno-pop which still has some verve particularly the designated single "Vibe Alive" and the "Maiden Voyage" interlude as heard through an electronic fun-house mirror. But this is not really an advance over Hancock's early-'80s pop projects. This would be Hancock's last album for at least seven years as he concentrated upon film projects and reunions with Miles Davis alumni (there was also an aborted deal with the Qwest label). As such, Perfect Machine is an appropriate end to this chapter in his career.

Richard S. Ginell, All-Music Guide



Seit ihm die Computersounds 1983 den "Future Shock" versetzten, tüftelt der Jazzer Herbie Hancock unermüdlich an immer neuen Disco-Sounds. Im Ver- gleich mit ihren beiden Vorgängern klingt allerdings die "Perfect Machine" nur noch nach steriler Routine. Das Feuer der Elektrobeats ist erloschen.

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Aus. Aus und vorbei. Herbie Hancocks elektronische Eskapaden, die ihn vor Jahren mit "Rock it" bis in die Top Ten katapultierten, verenden nach spektakulären Krachern wie "Future Shock" oder "Sound System" im Nichts. Seine perfekte Maschinerie klappert seelenlos vor sich hin. Die Scratch- Effekte und Vocoderstimmen sind nun wirklich von gestern, die Neuauflage seines an sich zauberhaften Klassikers "Maiden Voyage" entpuppt sich als absoluter Fehlgriff. Da können auch die beiden Nummern in George Clintons Funkadelic-Sound nichts mehr rausreißen. Mensch Herbie, wie haste dir verflacht... ** Interpret.: 2-5

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