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Listen Compute Rock Home | 
| Artists: Bruce Haack, Esther Nelson, Dimension Five
Label: Emperor Norton
Category: Music
Buy Used: $16.94
New (2) Used (5) from $16.94
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 127398
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 607217702125
EAN: 0607217702125
ASIN: B00002068V
Release Date: October 26, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Way Out -- Intro | | • | Motorcycle Ride | | • | Jelly Dancers | | • | Abracadabra | | • | Mudra | | • | American Eagle | | • | OK Robot | | • | Coco The Coconut | | • | Hand Jive | | • | Army Ants In Your Pants | | • | Clocks | | • | Popcorn | | • | Squarefinger | | • | Upside Down | | • | Funky Little Song |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Ostensibly, Bruce Haack made records for children, but as a friend said, "I would only play his stuff for a kid I really hated." Mystic, inventor, composer, dance instructor, Canadian, Haack was roughly akin to a psychedelic Buffalo Bob and occupied a universe purely of his own invention. His albums--recorded with his partner Miss Nelson and released in the '60s and '70s on his own Dimension 5 label--aren't your standard PBS fare. In fact, they're about as avant-garde as music for the iSesame Street/i set gets. Haack's use of primitive synthesizers wouldn't have sounded out of place on an early Neu album and his application of musique concrete techniques have a charming functionality that such abstraction often lacks. His mad-scientist concoctions come off a bit stiff at times, but this is certainly some of the wildest "edutainment" ever waxed. There's a brooding, almost creepy quality to many of the compositions, and their subject matter is utterly absurd, even by children's standards. But the world that Haack conjures is nothing if not liberating, and iListen Compute Rock Home/i is likely to set a child's imagination reeling. Haack understood that children comprise the most open-minded audience of all, and his work probably fell on more sympathetic ears than that of his eccentric peers who mined other genres. Captain Beefheart should've had it so good. i--Matt Hanks/i
Album Description
15 track 'best of' retrospective for this innovative songwriter of the '60s '70s, a must for fans of Raymond Scott, Luke Vibert Add N To X --the acts that championed his music al vision! Includes 'Coco The Coconut', 'Jelly Dancers' and 'Army Ants In Your Pants'. 1999 release.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 good array, but the real reacords are better July 25, 2004
S. M Smith (Washington, US)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a good sampling of bruce and miss nelson, but if you get into the weirder aspects of them like me, you'll want to hear the original records or tapes because the deep album cuts (hehe deep childrens' cuts) are full of all kind of weird bits both thematically and musically. You can actually still get the original tapes--I did--from miss nelson herself at www.grannypress.com, after discovering their www on...actually, this very record. I was thrilled to be able to get the tapes, although they are a little edited with some substitutions or alternate takes of songs on the LPs. The only place you can find the LPs is all scratched up in public libraries lol--that's where I first heard The Electronic Record for Children, which got me goin' on Bruce. Bellingham Public Library. If you really want to hear the genius of Bruce Haack goin wild and minus the childrens' act, I very highly recommend you get electric lucifer book 2. Its an beautiful, amazing peice of electronica, recorded in 1978. EL 1 was released in 1970 i think, and is good also, but has a little too much hippy-dippiness0. Bruce is beautiful on el2. Its available on CD only. I guess there's also a couple of recorded but as-yet not released records out there, like Skullastic and electric lucifer 3 --identified flying object [!!!!!] We can only hope to ever get to hear those. EL2 remained unreleased until just a few years ago itself. Bruce died fairly young at about 60, just two years before I first heard him.
Bruce Haack is The King Of Techno! April 4, 2004
Torbanon Stig Hansen (Denmark)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've just watched the movie "Haack: The King Of Techno", and if you don't know Haack, check this out: [...]. Bruce created some weird and wonderful records for children in the 60s, but the amazing thing is that the music is downright techno. He's a true original like Raymond Scott, and anybody interested in modern (electronic) music should listen to Haacks records. Imagination was his only guide, and when he in the 70s became irritated by the conservative and commercial music industry he recorded the angry album "Haackula" (1978), which sounds like a kind of techno-punk. He died in 1988, and recently people like Mouse On Mars and Money Mark from Beastie Boys have recorded a tribute album to the man. Bruce Haack is The King Of Techno!!!
 Yo...this cat is the fuzz October 24, 2002
Peter Panagakos (Philadelphia, PA)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
This disc kicks dragon man...check it out brb4 yo microwave starts talkin' 2 U when your'rebrasleep...namean?
One of a kind September 7, 2000
Elana Kieffer (Providence, RI USA)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I loved this album! I'm only 15, but i know my music, and this music is something i am definitely glad to know. It's different, it's fun, it's interesting, and it's one of a kind! If you don't have it, get it! Share it with everyone! I guarantee it will give you a whole new meaning of music. With Bruce Haack's inventiveness, and Esther Nelson's expressiveness, you will want to listen to it again and again!
Hold on, Miss Nelson while I bring the carpet in... May 26, 2000
fishanthrope (Cambridge, MA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
...for a wall-to-wall landing. To paraphrase a line in Bruce Sterling's Crytonomicon, Bruce Haack was the beard and Esther Nelson was the suit. Their unlikely union produced a dozen or so of the wonderful, incredibly strange children's records from which the CD has been compiled (most of the full albums are still available on cassette) -- basically, some strange, obliquely educational situation is set up, narrated by egghead Haack and the ever-clement Miss Nelson, and backed by BH's primitive synth contraptions and whirring oscillators. The Jelly Dancers is absolutelt infectious, as are Army Ants In Your Pants and the long, sad tale of Coco the Coconut (both of them among the many songs featuring Miss Nelson's own children), and Upside Down is so out it alsmost doesn't belong here, one of those stratospheric Haack compositions which take you so far into neverneverland you have to actually think about it to back down to earth when it's over. Hours of fun for the whole family -- buy an extra copy and send it to that stiff, dry old Calvinist who calls himself your father-in-law.
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