Direct Step
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| Directstep | |||||
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| Studio album by Herbie Hancock | |||||
| Released | December 2, 1978 | ||||
| Recorded | October 17-18, 1978 | ||||
| Genre | Electronic, Jazz Fusion | ||||
| Length | 31:05 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Records | ||||
| Producer | Dave Rubinson Herbie Hancock |
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Directstep is the twenty-fourth album by Herbie Hancock.
[edit] About the Album
Directstep, released only in Japan, was one of the most remarkable albums that Hancock ever did. He went to Japan to record this (a direct-to-disc) album. It became one of the earliest albums ever released on CD. Webster Lewis, became a second keyboardist on this album in order for Hancock to handle the multiple layers of electronic texture that Hancock hoped to achieve. Hancock floated over "I Thought It Was You" from Sunlight, making it even more electronic and affluent with his vocoder devices. Butterfly was again floated over from Thrust making Directstep the second album after the original version (the first being Flood), to have a third rendition of "Butterfly". (The fourth would be Dis Is Da Drum.)
[edit] Track listing
- Butterfly (Hancock, Maupin) - 7:55
- Shiftless Shuffle (Hancock, Jackson, Mason, Summers) - 7:10
- I Thought It Was You (Cohen, Hancock, Ragin) - 15:30
