Haack, Bruce / Farad: The Electric Voice
| Album: | Farad: The Electric Voice | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Haack, Bruce | Added: | Oct 2010 | |
| Label: | Stones Throw Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2011-03-20 | Pull Date: | 2011-05-22 |
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| Week Ending: | May 22 | May 15 | May 1 | Apr 17 | Apr 3 | Mar 27 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 14, 2014: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
Lie Back |
4. | Feb 25, 2012: | Buford J. Sharkley's (Short) Themeless Escapades
Maybe This Song |
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| 2. | Mar 15, 2014: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
Electric To Me Turn |
5. | May 21, 2011: | Frequency Jam
Program Me |
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| 3. | Jun 02, 2012: | Frequency Jam
Party Machine |
6. | May 18, 2011: | Stokes Flow
Electric To Me Turn |
Album Review
Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2011-03-22
Reviewed 2011-03-22
Bruce Haack-- pioneering electronic musician, also weird composer of children's music about robots. (Seriously, check out "Hush Little Robot" in the library-- AMAZING.)
This is a bit odd of a concept for a Bruce Haack retrospective-- calling him the father of the vocoder, it's only music that features vocoding (or a close imitation.) Hmmm-- kinda arbitrary, but if gets Bruce Haack into the A-file, no complaints here.
It's the intersection of Walter/Wendy Carlos and Burl Ives-- this is freaking weird and incredible stuff. Every song bristles with incredible and unique production.
No FCCs.
PLAY: It's all worthwhile, though it divides easily into weird sugary pop and dirgey '60s bummers. I think the weird sugary pop is a million times more rewarding. (Read descriptions for details.)
Oh, and-- play TRACK ONE. Your life will immediately explode into anachronistic, tin-pan-alley meets robotic ecstasy.
1. ******* YES. PLAY THIS. PLAY THIS. PLAY THIS. Tin-pan alley razzle-dazzle sung by a robot, with ROBOT SCAT-SINGING. This is among my favorite two minutes of music ever. YES. (1:49)
2. Hippieish chanting (human) with jew harp background, and ultra-fuzzed out memory of an organ. (3:13)
3. Dirgey ballad with human voice, with vocoder voice as faint backing vocal. (2:38)
4. ***** Saccharine ultra-perky tune, with a HAL-like weird creep factor, as robot sings along. (3:24)
5. * Telstar-like romantic robotic ballad. (4:45)
6. ** Asymptotically approaching Rick James skanky funk, (as sung by a robot), but all perky and ray guns and zapping all over the place.(3:53)
7. Sounds like an "Outer Limits" backing. Fake theremin, and robot does main vocals. (5:47)
8. Just a short narration track, with massive distortion. (0:36)
9. Affectless, "Lady Godiva's Operation"-esque ballad. But by a robot. (3:58)
10. Another creepy robot dirge. (4:16)
11. Crunchy, sinister-sounding robot vocals. Unpleasant and scary. (1:51)
12. * Super Mario backbeat, perky subdued robot vocals. (3:21)
13. Sunny loungey whirring electric background, leisurely and odd. (5:00)
14. "Program me"! Weird, only vaguely melodic, robot whining. (4:02)
15. Similar (4:27)
16. Slightly unfortunate disco backbeat, but the robot vocals transcend it. Then an interview, which should be skipped. (8:38)
-Hervey Okkles
This is a bit odd of a concept for a Bruce Haack retrospective-- calling him the father of the vocoder, it's only music that features vocoding (or a close imitation.) Hmmm-- kinda arbitrary, but if gets Bruce Haack into the A-file, no complaints here.
It's the intersection of Walter/Wendy Carlos and Burl Ives-- this is freaking weird and incredible stuff. Every song bristles with incredible and unique production.
No FCCs.
PLAY: It's all worthwhile, though it divides easily into weird sugary pop and dirgey '60s bummers. I think the weird sugary pop is a million times more rewarding. (Read descriptions for details.)
Oh, and-- play TRACK ONE. Your life will immediately explode into anachronistic, tin-pan-alley meets robotic ecstasy.
1. ******* YES. PLAY THIS. PLAY THIS. PLAY THIS. Tin-pan alley razzle-dazzle sung by a robot, with ROBOT SCAT-SINGING. This is among my favorite two minutes of music ever. YES. (1:49)
2. Hippieish chanting (human) with jew harp background, and ultra-fuzzed out memory of an organ. (3:13)
3. Dirgey ballad with human voice, with vocoder voice as faint backing vocal. (2:38)
4. ***** Saccharine ultra-perky tune, with a HAL-like weird creep factor, as robot sings along. (3:24)
5. * Telstar-like romantic robotic ballad. (4:45)
6. ** Asymptotically approaching Rick James skanky funk, (as sung by a robot), but all perky and ray guns and zapping all over the place.(3:53)
7. Sounds like an "Outer Limits" backing. Fake theremin, and robot does main vocals. (5:47)
8. Just a short narration track, with massive distortion. (0:36)
9. Affectless, "Lady Godiva's Operation"-esque ballad. But by a robot. (3:58)
10. Another creepy robot dirge. (4:16)
11. Crunchy, sinister-sounding robot vocals. Unpleasant and scary. (1:51)
12. * Super Mario backbeat, perky subdued robot vocals. (3:21)
13. Sunny loungey whirring electric background, leisurely and odd. (5:00)
14. "Program me"! Weird, only vaguely melodic, robot whining. (4:02)
15. Similar (4:27)
16. Slightly unfortunate disco backbeat, but the robot vocals transcend it. Then an interview, which should be skipped. (8:38)
-Hervey Okkles
Track Listing
| 1. | Electric To Me Turn | 9. | Ancient Mariner | |||
| 2. | Incantation | 10. | Stand Up Lazarus | |||
| 3. | National Anthem To The Moon | 11. | Noon Day Sun | |||
| 4. | Maybe This Song | 12. | Lie Back | |||
| 5. | Rain Of Earth | 13. | Snow Job | |||
| 6. | Rita | 14. | Program Me | |||
| 7. | Man Kind | 15. | The King | |||
| 8. | Epilogue | 16. | Party Machine |