Hours of wasted time browsing the internet bears fruit on occasion. Never heard the name Bruce Haack until I came across this video literally five minutes ago.
edit: 110,000 listeners on last.fm, apparently I’m a little late.
“Another magazine shot with what looks like the DERMATRON which was used to play people like musical instruments” (brucehaack.com)
Haack had a notoriously disturbed childhood, growing up in a dysfunctional rural Alberta home. He allegedly took Mescaline with Native Americans at the age of 8. He received a degree in psychology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Later, he attended the Juilliard School of Music in New York on a scholarship, where he made many friendships that would prove important to his career. However, he ultimately dropped out after 8 months.
Haack worked extensively on children’s music, releasing more music and seeing more success in this field of music than in any other. For these children records he worked together with Esther Nelson, a dance teacher. His most important records (for adults) were “Electric Lucifer” 1 & 2; the first of which was made largely on modified synthesizers. This attachment is explained in the film Haack: The King of Techno.
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