(hi, John!) Actually, 'Strings' is sampled on track 8, "Alphabeta."
Future2Future is, how to say this, a pleasant pastiche. An extremely well done one, of course, after all this is Herbie Hancock we're talking about, plus a stellar cast (Laswell, Chaka Kahn, C2, Rob Swift, A Guy Called Gerald, Shorter, Williams, DeJohnette). The presence of the last three tells you how seriously H2 took this album. All the same, from the online samples it still seems to be a bit of a shopping expedition through the mid and late 1990s (references to "trip hop," tech-house, ambient jungle, even a bit of broken-beat), not a breakthrough. But that is not really a dis, just an observation. Actually, it might even be a bit of a statement. Listen to track 6 and you have an essay on why "trip hop" was so damn boring because it rehashed and smothered the classic jazz rhythm section -- a case where sampling worked against the grain, not with it. Just to hammer the point home, the track is titled "Tony Williams." So there. Overall, I like it. It certainly has more soul than most of the other tech-jazz fusion stuff out there. Quite a bit takes off from the same platform Weather Report launched from -- light'n'funky. Fred --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
