Tag Archives: Bruce Haack

Records Reissues at Random Vol. 68 - Laurie Anderson Big Science

It was more than a year ago, during Summer ‘07, that I first had the itch to switch up the Records at Random posts I’d been doing every Friday. I own a ton of vintage vinyl, but I have even more CDs (they’re smaller and take up less space) in my collection, and I […]

Happiness Is a Warm 4-Track

My desk is literally overflowing with music at the moment. So much so that (other than listen to it) I don’t even know what to do with all of it half the time. There are piles of CDs all around my terrestrial desk and just as many recently un-compressed folders full of MP3s that need […]

Records Reissues at Random Vol. 64 - Bruce Haack Haackula

I can think of no better way to cap off our week spent in analysis of the synthesis between humanity and technology in music than to profile Bruce Haack, one of the fathers of electronic music as we know it. In addition to being a “synthesizer music” pioneer Haack was something of a Nikola Tesla-like visionary. […]

Records Reissues at Random Vol. 62 - Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth

A couple weekends ago I dumped a bunch of albums on my best friend and housemate m. Cody’s iPod. A lot of them were records I recommended that she wanted to give a whirl. But a few of them were requests, mostly records she owned on tape or CD, some of which had […]

He Makes Beats Out of Wax, Not Wings

This weekend I saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army, director Guillermo del Toro’s sequel to his 2004 adaptation of Mike Mignola’s award-winning Hellboy comic. I was souped when the comic was brought to life in the first film, but I sat agape at the sequel, which improves tenfold upon everything they got right the […]