“Bruce Haack was nothing short of GENIUS”
Mark Mothersbaugh
“We listen to Electric Lucifer religiously. It’s a favorite on the bus and in DJ sets. I’m starting to explore the later albums. Really amazing music. an inspiration.”
Andrew VanWyngarden (MGMT)
“He was mystical… he would go to sleep in a lotus position on a concrete floor, and then sit there for four hours straight. Then he would get up and start working.”
Alan Entenman – Raymond Scott’s Engineer
“A very idiosyncratic pioneer in the world of electronic music. A hero of mine.”
Moby
“What a brilliant cut (Party Machine) that was. Bruce Haack anti-whack”
Erol Alkan – BBC Radio
“Visionary, lunatic, Pied Piper of the synthesiser!”
Momus
“Bruce Haack is one of the most interesting musicians ever, hands down. Similar innovators like Raymond Scott, Robert Moog, Dick Hyman, Silver Apples and The United States of America produced groundbreaking work, but Bruce’s story is the most impressive.”
Kirpatrick Thomas (Spindrift)
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“Incredibly varied and gives off sounds that UFO’s would make – if there were such things. And if there are they can drop in anytime as long as Bruce and Miss Nelson are aboard.” NY Times – George A. Woods (1968)
“Another company that has taken a bead on juvenile inertia is Dimension 5… it inspires children “To think- to love- to create- to shout ‘yes’ to the thunder and dance to the music of the wind.” New Yorker (1968)
“Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson have done it again. Small wonder that these records have the recommendations of NYC’s Board of Education and numerous periodicals. They are fun to work to and just to sit and listen to- for anyone.” Dance Magazine -Evelyn LeMone (1968)
FARAD
“If no description is more overused than “visionary,” Haack is one of the few artists worthy of the word.”
La Times – Jeff Weiss
“His scattered biography goes a long way toward explaining the playful weirdness and the philosophical underpinnings that made Haack so refreshing” (7.1)
Pitchfork – Patrick Sisson
“The diversity of Bruce Haack’s output is breathtaking” (5 STARS)
Record Collector – Ian Shirley
“There was certainly nobody like Haack, a pioneering creator of electronic musical gizmos and author of some of the weirdest kids’ music the world has ever heard.”
Popmatters – Josh Langhoff
“Finally brings to light the genius of this unsung hero of electronic music.” (9/10)
Blurt! – Ron Hart
“Insane, dark and deeply funky compilation.” (85%)
Filter – Jon Pruett
“One of the unsong heroes of 20th century electronic music.” (4 STARS)
Uncut – Piers Martin
“Helped put the mentalism back into experimentalism. Ace anthology.”(8/10)
NME – John Doran
“An indespensable portal into a mind-bending world of proto techno and fried pop. It’s all evidence that the time is long overdue for Haack to take his place beside Joe Meek and Bob Moog as one of the key progenitors of electronic music.”(5 STARS)
The List
“To call him ahead of his time is an understatment.”
Waxpoetics
HAACK… THE KING TECHNO
‘A FUN dive into BIZARRE creative sensibility’
- Variety
‘Proof that the world is still catching up to this PROLIFIC and DISTINCTIVE pioneer’
- Gene Siskel Film Center
‘ASTONISHING story’
- St. Louis Post Dispatch
‘Anagnos does a great deal to show the PURITY of Haack’s vision’
- The Documentary Channel
‘THOUGHTFUL documentary’
- Wire Magazine
‘A CHARMING and IMFORMATIVE DIY doc, FULL OF LOVE for the subject’
- Under the Radar Magazine
‘CRAZY animation…’
- Film Threat
‘If music is what excites you and you’ve never heard of Bruce Haack, you owe it to yourself to check out this REMARKABLE documentary’
- All Movie Guide
‘AMPLIFIES the Haack legend.’
- RES Magazine
‘By the end of this film you’ll see why he deserves to be called KING…’
- Startribune.com
‘ENDEARING’
- The Stranger
‘SO GOOD you’ll sh!# your pants’
- Alamo Cinemas
‘TRIPPY’
- Harp Magazine
‘A LEGENDARY appearance on Mister Rogers Neighborhood’
- Riverfront Times
‘DAZZLING’
- FuseLeeds
‘Detailed, concise & ENTERTAINING’
- Nashville Independent Film Festival
‘The GENIUS of Bruce Haack’
- Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival
‘COMPELLING’
- Turner Movie Classics
‘DEFIES EXPECTATIONS what to expect from a movie about electronic music’
- Antimatter Underground Film Festival
‘FASCINATING’
- Melbourne Intl Film Festival
‘Anagnos’ INTRIGUING film will have you scrambling for his records’
- SF Indiefest
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“Like a number of his contempories, including Mort Garson, Gershon Kingsley, Beaver & Krause and Jean-Jacques Perry, Haack saw a spiritual dimension to the sounds coming out of his circuits. However, no one else expressed that vision in such complex terms.”
Wire
“Mad electronics from the legendary Bruce Haack — easily one of the most unusual talents to ever pick up a moog!”
Dusty Groove
“An autodidact who built synthesizers that spewed a panoply of deliriously quirky sounds, this misfit composer is the only person to appear on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood and produce a classic acidhead LP (The Electric Lucifer).”
The Stranger
“Talk about fearless freaks: Bruce Haack was fiddling with incredibly strange noises (and drugs) when pretty much everything fun was taboo. That includes making music out-of-bounds, beyond the already vilified rock ’n’ roll and into territory that would make the longhairs (classical music and hippies) pee their pants.”
Harp
“Bearing the hallmarks of both the prescient electro-musician/inventor and “outsider” oddball, Alberta-born Bruce Haack (d. ’88) was always both ahead of, and at odds with, his time – like his music.”
Montreol Mirror
“Bruce Haack was a musical savant who made giant leaps in electronic music.”
Under the Radar
THE ELECTRIC LUCIFER
“If there were anything more compelling than a Canadian man singing about magic and love over Moog-driven, ’60s pop, we’d love to hear it. The Electric Lucifer crossed the threshold of electronic psychedelia far before a majority of “classic” analog acts, first hitting shelves in 1970. This Bruce Haack reissue is a timeless metaphysical journey to the stars.”
XLR8R
>“Perhaps the most awesomely bizarre psychedelic pre-Kraftwerk electronica album ever to be released on a major label (Columbia) or elsewhere.”
Aquarius Records
DIMENSION MIX
“Never heard of Bruce Haack? That’s because this children’s CD is on the cutting edge (you’ll hear Haack’s name quite a bit in coming months).”
Time Out – New York
“Pokmon-crazed kids might think it corny, but their parents will be enchanted by the delirious kookiness of it all.”
Entertainment Weekly
LISTEN COMPUTE ROCK HOME
“Quite simply on of the most exciting things I’ve heard in ages.”
Straight No CHASER – CT
“Ah, Utopia.” (4 STARS)
Alternative Press – John Pecorelli
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“I Like Christmas” sounds positively psychotic.”
New York Times – Kelefa Sanneh
“Neglected as a musical force during his lifetime…”
Pitchfork
“He’s really not like anyone else you’ve heard before. Though it wouldn’t seem that unusual to today’s experimental rock fans, this stuff must have been utterly mind-blowing in the sixties.”
PopMatters
“When music has become predictably homogenized and creative malaise begins to set in, it’s innovators like Bruce Haack who strive to bring and newfound sense of experimentation and fun to their art.”
All Music Guide
