Bruce Haack

Earlier in the week, we put up a post on 9 Flavors of Popcorn, a collection of music videos for a variety of versions of the synthpop classic.

Once again, though, a Synthtopia reader, Ian Page-Echols, has topped us – finding an ancient WFMU post that offers no less than 79 covers of Popcorn. They cheat a little and use Prodigy’s Popcorn Techno Dance 99 Remix 1 twice, but it’s a pretty good cover, so why not?

Others on board for this massive collection include Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, The Boston Pops & twisted children’s musician and techno pioneer Bruce Haack.

A few examples are embedded below; see the WFMU post for the motherload.

 

 Prodigy's Popcorn [3:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Aphex Twin Popcorn Remix [3:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Boston Pops Popcorn [2:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is a short interview with Philip Anagnos, director of Haack: The King Of Techno.

Bruce Haack was “a children’s songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s. His music combined homemade analog synths; classical, country, pop, and rock elements; and surreal, idealistic lyrics.”

It features awesome vintage video segments of Haack bringing his switched-on sounds to open minded places, like Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood.

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Ever wonder why there were so many psychedelic synth gods in the 70’s and early 80’s?

It’s all right here – they grew up with stuff like this: Bruce Haack demoing psychedelic synth toys on Mr. Rogers.

Best quote:  ”I’ll bet the children love this!” – Mr. Rogers

Just wait until the kids growing up on Yo Gabba Gabba start making music!

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