SV: [sdiy] Bruce Haack

[Karl Ekdahl]

Bruce Haack is wonderful in the way he did electronics
music that wasn't done the way electronic music
"should" be. Electric Lucifier II is *highly*
recommended (among with everything else he did),
there's a lot of funny influenses going on there that
you normally don't see in this kind of music..

Karl


--- scottnoanh at peoplepc.com skrev:

> Hey all,
> 
> If you have access to the Documentary Channel (I get
> it on Dish Network),
> this month is music month, and they've been playing
> "Bruce Haack, King of
> Techno" quite a bit.
> 
> To be honest, I'd never heard of Bruce Haack, and
> just figured the film must
> be about one of the countless techno artists I am
> unfamiliar with.  Au
> contraire!  This guy was one of the original Synth
> DIY guys.  He performed
> on electronic equipment he'd built himself from the
> late '50's on through
> his last recording around '81 or so (he died in
> '88).
> 
> There's some great footage of him playing his
> 'dermitron' - a device that
> allowed one to 'play people' through skin contact. 
> It looks to be from the
> late fifites/early sixties on the old show "What's
> My Line".  Very
> theremin-like.  He produced a whole line of kid's
> records (he made a guest
> appearance on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in '68)
> and then moved on to
> hippiedom and some very dark stuff.  The last
> recording he made (circa 1981)
> "Party Machine" is played for the closing credits -
> really trips my trigger.
> All vocoder vocals and such.
> 
> If you get the Documentary Channel, check it
> out.....
> 
> Cheers,
> Scott
> 
>