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“Haack saw a spiritual dimen-
sion to the sounds coming out
of his circuits. However, no one
else expressed that vision in such
complex terms.” -Wire
Up until now, the legacy of
Bruce Haack (1931-1988) has
only existed in the quirks,
glitches, and audio signals of
modern techno-luminaries
such as Kraftwerk and Daft
Punk, but unlike the aforemen-
tioned, Haack has been left
completely unacknowledged.
Yet with Stones Throw’s soon-
to-be released Farad (The Elec-
tric Voice), the electronic music
pioneer will be lifted out of the
sooty fields of obscurity and
rightfully placed into the spot-
light of the Electronic music
continuum.
Farad (The Electric Voice)
specifically focuses on tracks
using the “Farad”, the name
Bruce gave to his vocoder, one
of the first musical vocoders at
the time, which he invented.
It includes out of print and un-
released tracks accessed via ne-
gotiations with Haack’s estate.
“We are excited by the thought
of working with labels such as
Stones Throw to see what hap-
pens when their selective au-
diences discover Bruce,” says
Bruce Haack Estate director
Philip Anagnos. “The estate is
also very fond of the art of re-
mixing and is intrigued by the
notion that popular artists such
as Kanye West and Thom Yorke
may very well be on their way
to discovering Haack for the first
time.”
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