Happy Birthday Bruce Haack!

Celebrating the birthday of Canadian electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack with an ace documentary.  

Unreleased Bruce Haack recordings surface on Preservation Tapes

Telephone Explosion has just issued a 10-track album of unheard recordings from electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack. 

Here's the scoop from the Telephone Explosion label...
In 2016, after reissuing two Bruce Haack albums, Haackula and Electric Lucifer Book II, Telephone Explosion began speaking with Ted Pandel (Bruce’s lifelong friend and business partner) about working on the 1970 masterpiece The Electric Lucifer. It turned out there was another matter that he wanted to discuss: finding a final resting place for the Bruce Haack archive.

We were shown test-pressings of The Electric Lucifer board mixes from his Columbia studio sessions, countless pieces of written music, a large number of personal photos, an invitation from Raymond Scott inviting Bruce to play his newly created Electronium instrument (now owned by Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh), poems, press clippings, and, most importantly, a heavy-duty shelf containing 213 reel-to-reel tapes.

All of the chosen material on The Preservation Tapes is unreleased – including the original version of the dancefloor filler "Party Machine" – and has only been heard by a handful of people. You can order a copy right here or grab the album on vinyl at Toronto's own Grasshopper Records (1167 Dundas St. West).  Listen to "When Mothers Of Salem" below.

The day Bruce Haack came to Mr. Rogers' neighborhood

Here's a clip of the surreal meeting of Canuck electronic music innovator Bruce Haack and Mr. Rogers in '68.

Watch the 2004 Bruce Haack documentary, Haack: King of Techno right here