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02/07/2006 Archived Entry: "Haack"
Bruce Haack: The King of Techno
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I caught an odd and intriguing short documentary last night on DOC entitled Bruce Haack: The King of Techno. I had never heard of Haack, an early innovator in electronica (1950s and '60s). He invented (and colleced) odd instruments (including one which he allowed him to play music off of people's bodies) and, at first, recorded children's records, like Funky Doodle. Later he put together some pretty wacked out stuff for Columbia, and finally recorded "Party Machine" for Russell Simmons before passing away in the early '80s.
Haack's stuff makes me think of Sun Ra meets Evan Parker meets Kraftwerk. That his work was mostly for children blows my mind even more.
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... I'll have to check this out as a Sun Ra meets Evan Parker is great endorsement.
... will have to look into Kraftwerk too.
... might i commend derek bailey and paul rutherford, if haven't encountered them already.
Posted by gvcarter @ 02/09/2006 07:21 PM EST
The movie's on the DOC channel - catch it if you have cable.
Or you can probably get it from Netflix. Worth watching. But nothing like Plezure! Plezure is, in the words of George Clinton, Da Bomb.
Posted by jeff @ 02/09/2006 05:36 AM EST
Sounds very interesting. Do you have it on record or cd, cause I'd love to borrow (rip) it whenever you're willing to part with it for a few minutes.
Perhaps a geneological study of Haack's influence on Plezure is in order? "Funky Doodle," after all, is only a 50s euphenism for "beat that b--ch with a bat."
Posted by srt @ 02/08/2006 10:43 PM EST
