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Bruce Haack's career has produced a variety of musical styles, particularly electronica and children's music. His mostfamous effort is perhaps his influential 1970 release, Electric Lucifer. An album that incorporated an innovativeorchestration of psychedelic electronic music. He's often balanced out his two primary artistic focuses. Releasing a numberof Children's storytelling and activity albums, while also continuing to expand on his electronic projects, like 1971'sTogether, an electronic pop album. His darkest album to date, Haackula strikes into playful territory. Haackula seems tohave in ...read more

Bruce Haack's career has produced a variety of musical styles, particularly electronica and children's music. His mostfamous effort is perhaps his influential 1970 release, Electric Lucifer. An album that incorporated an innovativeorchestration of psychedelic electronic music. He's often balanced out his two primary artistic focuses. Releasing a numberof Children's storytelling and activity albums, while also continuing to expand on his electronic projects, like 1971'sTogether, an electronic pop album. His darkest album to date, Haackula strikes into playful territory. Haackula seems tohave inspired Haack's final landmark work, 1981's Bite. The albums share several song titles and a dark lyrical tonedifferent from Haack's usually idealistic style. Though Bite is harsher than his other works, it features his innovative,educational touch: a thorough primer on electronics and synthesizers makes up a large portion of the liner notes, andHaack adds a new collaborator for this album, 13-year-old vocalist Ed Harvey. In 1982, Haack recorded a proto-hip hopcollaboration with Def Jam's Russell Simmons, entitled "Party Machine", one of the final projects in his life. Bruce Haackdied in 1988 from heart failure. « hide