Shimmy-Disc Reissues Bruce Haack’s ‘This Old Man’ (1975) | Unveils New Video for ‘Thank You’
Once upon a time, in the shadowy fringes of electronic music’s forgotten corners, there was Bruce Haack—a Canadian mad scientist of sound, a DIY futurist, a one-man teleportation device to worlds no one else had even dreamed of yet.
Today, Shimmy-Disc cracks open the time capsule once more, unleashing the first vinyl reissue of Haack’s 1975 album ‘This Old Man’ (Shimmy-2029), a record that originally blinked into existence on his own Dimension 5 label and then vanished into the ether.
This marks Shimmy-Disc’s second resurrection of Haack’s work, following last year’s reissue of ‘Captain Entropy’ (Shimmy-2019). And while the world has spent decades catching up to Haack’s homemade electronic wonderlands, his music still glows with the eerie warmth of something both impossibly distant and eerily familiar—a lullaby from a future that never quite arrived.
Haack (1931–1988) was the sort of artist who didn’t just push boundaries; he erased them, rewrote them, then built his own blinking, beeping, sentient circuitry to dance on their graves. His music was a hybrid of whimsy and deep cosmic philosophy, a wild-eyed experiment in sound that managed to embrace both childhood innocence and the unknowable mysteries of existence.
To celebrate the reissue, Shimmy-Disc has unveiled a video for This Old Man’s closing track, ‘Thank You.’ Haack was never one for pretense—his music laid it all out, an oddball genius pouring his circuitry-wired heart straight into your hands. ‘Thank You’ is Haack at his most sincere, a song that shimmers like an electronic pulse from some lost parallel universe, flickering its gratitude across time and space.
The ‘This Old Man’ reissue is out now via Shimmy-Disc. The video for ‘Thank You’ is streaming now—go let Bruce Haack whisper his future-ghost lullabies in your ear.
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