Bruce Haack - Electric to Me Turn

[cadmus98]

Something you don't hear very often in electronic music: a swing rhythm.

[wedonotcare]

Superb Artist! A true pioneer

[paul0o93]

father of tobacco?

[Burital26]

this is amazing , can't believe it's 41 years old

[Nijikuma]

I have two of his songs! he is awesome!

[cadmus98]

Does anyone else see Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips) in the cover?

[at3usz]

Bruce - geniusz el-muzyki. Sam budował instrumenty i stworzył te wspaniałe dźwięki :)

[at3usz]

Przekręć mnie elektronicznie :) Nie trzeba - z tym się urodziłem.

[BeatNick13]

My knowledge of electronic music is not great. Had anyone done that kind of voice effect before 1970? That seems really interesting to hear something like that done so early.

[ALXXMaXX]

@BeatNick13 Oh yes. The sonovox was used as a special effect back in the 1940's. Remember the talking train whistle in "Dumbo"? Hardly anybody used it for serious musical purposes though. It's a shame, too. It has such an awesome sound.

[AManNamedCM2]

Definitely beat the Black-eyed Peas.

To everything.

[ALXXMaXX]

@AManNamedCM2 The Black Eyed Peas haven't come anywhere CLOSE to this point, and probably never will.

[MrBobLucas]

A little remixing and I think this song would still be perfectly releasable today.

[TheSurfis]

God is the creator of the first world: the physical. Lucifer is the light bearer, who bestowed upon man the ability of intellect [fruit of knowledge], and is thus the creator of the second world: the metaphysical.

[MrPPreusse]

@TheSurfis very FUN

[Boogalooa48]

OFWGKTA

[Nvelopmusic]

@Boogalooa48 fuck off

[sistersheree]

Bout drove my granny nuts with this back in the 70's! Thanks for posting it!

[spencertron88]

Electric to me turn this night

and Time will know a brighter light

A light of Truth Energy

Light of You, Light of Me

Turn Turn to Me Electric

[racpembertondual]

is good. I´m fan of Zappa, this is diferent, is good, avantgarde

[Mannex17]

was that scat singing into a vocoder? has that ever been done?

[KidCanada1point0]

@Mannex17

dude invented that shit

[crescentfreshbret]

Were all the vocals on this album sung through a vocorder?

[ALXXMaXX]

@crescentfreshbret Not all of them. Check out "Cherubic Hymn". Anyway I don't think that this "Farad" device was actually a vocoder. It sounds more like a sonovox (kH-krlgo2e8) to me. I still LOVE the sound of it, though.

[veverzay]

is this a hole cover?

[MrLaFineFleur]

old shit can be bad too...

[WhiteHorseTavern]

The album sucks. Try Frank Zappa for something novel.

[checkoutmyplaylists]

@WhiteHorseTavern

Oh...is that so? Let me ask you, can you do better?

[MrArchangelfilms1]

@WhiteHorseTavern both r AMAZING! both frank zappa and bruce haack!

[sergios077]

the electro minimal techno and other mixes grandpa this is fucking good

[sergios077]

the electro grandpa this is fucking good

[10000000000000000mph]

I just snapped my smoke listening to this, bugger! cool music and i'll try again

[pop89bre]

OMG....what shit...

[salvadory]

@pop89bre this was recorded in 1968-69(released in 1970-71) and was the one of the earliest uses of the vocoder- whether you like it or not it is important in the development of future electronic music like kraftwerk or depeche mode etc- ps the albums others songs are cooler- sort of moody blues goes electronic

[12connection]

sound awesome i dont konow how i find this stuff or where im i right now

[MrArchangelfilms1]

favorite bruce haack song of all time!

[Sabrepulsified]

i gotta prepare something for music lesson in school and i just have to inform about electronic music and ..wow.. i'm impressed, it sounds really great

[salvadory]

one of the best albums ever in any genre- my life was never the same after i got this! get ti before it goes out of print on cd!

[skidotcom1]

this is interesting.

[psaavedrat]

Daft punk? jajajaja.

[stah1core]

ojej ojej;)

[knetterwauz010]

Bizar music

[freedom5370]

great pioneer!! first vocoder in a rock album!!!

[Lechekoopa]

Ah, I love Bruce HAACK!!!! ATTACK!

[MrUnclemuncle]

I understand that as a youngman Bruce spent time with some native american tribes in Canada. I wonder if thats when he discovered peyote?!

[stealthwang]

@MrUnclemuncle no peyote cactus in canada buddy :/

mushrooms maybe

[1jeans]

I can't even begin to express how much this music speaks to me, like it is in synchronization with my brain. I feel that his music is a solid representation of my mind.

[Bukosaure]

@1jeans Awesome comment my friend.

[adamtheskunk]

I'm a big haacker (haack fan). I love Pb&j wolf, and many a band, this is one song i do love, haack should be reguarded as one of the best musicians of all time. He saw music for what it is, you neglect instruments and focus on sounds, and how to achieve them, and use them as music.

[GBinkard]

Most people don't realize he invented the synthesizer and the sampler a decade before they are 'known' to have been invented.... he just never marketed and sold them. He said himself, in the 60's, "I feel my music will become popular in the year 2002". We owe him, and Les Paul, fpr modern music.

[p3on]

hahaha no he didn't, electric synths had been around pretty much the entire 20th century and the moog was the first commercial electronic one

[MrArchangelfilms1]

@GBinkard Haack's right! It is popular in 2002 and beyond!

[JingleJoe]

@GBinkard The synthesizer was invented in the early 1900's.

[JamesGod08]

This must have been very controversial at the time. I can see how adults must have despised the youth back then.

[salvadory]

@JamesGod08 well considering that haack was a christian and the album is about love being so strong that even the devil could be forgiven- id say the adults were morons!

[JamesGod08]

@salvadory You missed my point which was one of sympathising with old-school people

[MrArchangelfilms1]

@salvadory bruce haack's a christian? well, you just made me happy!

[werepyne]

@salvadory Ha ha i agree with this being a excellent album but this music and this guy do seen to be some outrageously cool devils. I got a album that I bet a lot of people here would really dig and if you message me ill link the megaupload link

[salvadory]

@JamesGod08 he also made childrens records and appeared on mr rogers neighborhood numerous times - in fact he is known for his children records more than this despite this album being a landmark electronic album with a positive message about life!

[WUTALAnna]

insane

interesting

[heyss]

wonderful

[televisionforghosts]

classic stuff baby

[AumentaLaTormenta]

Electric to me turn this night Reflecting universal light All I knew that should be true Is reality in You Turn Turn to me Electric Electric 2 me turn and see The universe reflecting me All I am would not be Without your electricity

[AumentaLaTormenta]

Powerlove is pulsing now And time is in reverse Our love is all it takes to move the universe Electric to me turn this night Time will know a brighter light Light of truth energy Light of you - light of me - Turn Turn to me Electric Electric Electric

[kingsoems]

dilla would have loved this...probrobly chopped it somwhere

[thinkbubblefilms]

yep... Dilla turn PBWolf onto Bruce

[SUSANOSSS]

Espantoso ....

[puddingkatapult]

some early form of industrial.

[andreadane11111]

bruce haack is the father of techno

[ALXXMaXX]

@puddingkatapult You want industrial, check out Haackula and its "little brother", BITE.

[kadricer]

turn to me electric.

[Anacross6]

Anyone knows the lyrics? Great Song! Great Album! Great Haack!

[TheGreatGoodenough]

electric to me turn this night reflecting universial light all i knew that should be true is reality in you turn, turn to me. electric

[Anacross6]

Thx, do you know the other part of the song?

[rattan6969]

i paid a buck for this record at k mart 1971.

whjat a deal.

[ali0tis]

SCORE!

[madamewoselle]

I'm so jealous! I adore this album, but I love the music he wrote for kids maybe a little more. Soooo trippy.

[MeenGMeenie]

wow!

a vocoder that doesnt make me wanna go out and kill everybody!

amazing!

[ALXXMaXX]

If vocoders make you do that...then you have to run away from the future.

[sterbus79]

I just discovered this album and I totally love it. Great songs, great melodies... and great arrangements for synths and moogs... "Song from the death machine" actually has a keyboard melody that could make you cry... try to listen to it!

[rchdsmth]

I got this album when I was 10 years old in 1971 (er, my dad got it upon my request at a department store bargain bin). I was attracted to the album art. About 3 days later, he picked it up and read the back cover, some gibberish about the misunderstood fallen angel, etc. etc., and actually confiscated the record, which I duly retrieved by week's end.

[aikoaiko1]

@rchdsmth The title "Electric Lucifer" didn't cause a raised brow? :-)

[SMiLEReconstruction]

This guy was a children's entertainer?

My parent's generation had it awesome! :(.

[TommyGunn1412]

You can say that again.

[groovechaser]

I am losing my mind over here!!! This is truly mindblowing!

[risottto]

Wonder if Kraftwerk heard Haack first, seeing as this was released several years before Kraftwerk 1

[vendom00]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!! respect for the king of techno1!!!

[megaloethor]

satanism occult thats every origin of genre

christ will defeat it

[chamoandstamm]

wtf im christian but i dont get what your saying

[TheUnresolved]

Claiming a religion you don't even understand.

[MrArchangelfilms1]

@chamoandstamm THEN GET IT!!! btw, im a christian, and i know exactly what their saying!

[chamoandstamm]

i got what you mean srry but that i just didnt get what you meant

[MaskedNaco]

the soundtrack of my dreams and nightmares GREEAATTT!!!!! justice for bruce the pioneer,the visionary "King of techno"

[babiislash]

Bruce Haack-"The King Of Techno".....yes i said it folks! its official lol rock on bruce r.i.p.

[ryanaaxxx]

I feel like quintron has benefitted from haack's existence. They'd be great friends if hack was around today.

[kristinahaack]

One of my faves :)

[nizxbit]

I got hundreds of seriously weird lps but this is so damn weird and undeniably genius that even now i still dont know what to make of it!

[soyvuestrohamster]

Amazing classic.

[CASIOFREAKS]

One of the Greatest recordings evahhhhhhhh!!!

[wawawis]

This was actually from 1969!

[djmrbrown00]

damn just got hip to this dude..

[VodeoJMC63]

bruce haack was brilliant!

[paulbrockenhagen]

I just can.t get enough of this kinda' stuff!

[babiislash]

man dis guy was a genius next to raymond scott n tangerine dream....RIP BRUCE HAACK

[n3553k]

Hooray for early electronic music???  this is the begining. It does not get any earlier.

[Nagelbrett]

Oh it does get earlier! :) That wasn´t Haack`s first album!

Check out Raymond Scott`s "Soothing sounds for babies" or the soundtreck of Alfred Hitchcock`s "The Birds" by Oskar Sala or Wendy Carlos, Gershon Kingsley, Stockhausen etc. etc. etc.

Paul Hindemith has composed "Des kleinen Elektromusikers Lieblinge" in 1931!!!

But that´s not the point. Bruce Haack has written awesome music and has invented very interesting instruments. A great artist and true pioneer.

[snevelin]

Wendy Carlos's Switched on Bach came out earlier.

And yes, electronic music has been here a LOT longer than most think.

[nondor13]

except for Varese and the ONdes martenot half a century earlier.

[toxee]

lol, shit gets way older than Haack even though he is awesome as hell.

[riccardoFRIK]

Haack is a genius!

[Nagelbrett]

The wonderful Mr. Haack :) Thanks for uploading!

[flosspoint]

Wow! Where did you ever acquire this rare gem? Thanks for posting it.

[snevelin]

I love this song. Hooray for early electronic music!

[Madguten]

Whoa i cant believe my last message was made yesterday..

It feels like an infinity ago.

wierd.

[Madguten]

The story of Bruce Haack is an interesting one.

[flosspoint]

Madguten: I agree. The man was quite genius and way ahead of his time. Not as many people know about him as there should be.

[esgotos]

Psyco!

[64mung]

Cool!