The album was released in 1988 following Sound-System which won Hancock's second Grammy award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance in 1985 and Round Midnight which won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Score in 1986.
Enigma machine | Rage Against the Machine | Automated teller machine | Victor Talking Machine Company | Soft Machine | The Time Machine | Linotype machine | Vickers machine gun | DeLorean time machine | Perfect Records | Darne machine gun | Rube Goldberg machine | MG 17 machine gun | The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company | Machine Head (band) | Machine Head | KPV heavy machine gun | slot machine | machine | ShKAS machine gun | PK machine gun | machine pistol | Love Removal Machine | Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine | A Perfect Murder | American Machine and Foundry | Zouk Machine | Wayback Machine | virtual machine | Turing machine |
His work has appeared in popular media, including the covers of Herbie Hancock's Future Shock, Sound-System, and Perfect Machine albums and an electronic version of William Gibson’s Neuromancer.