Richard H. Kirk

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Richard H. Kirk as DJ at "Music For Real Airports" in Sheffield (2010)

Richard H. Kirk (born March 21, 1956 in Sheffield , Yorkshire , † September 21, 2021 ) was a British musician , composer and record producer . He became known as a member of the influential industrial band Cabaret Voltaire . He remained active as a solo artist from the 1980s until his death.

Life

Kirk first studied art at Sheffield Art College .

From 1973 he appeared as a member of the industrial band Cabaret Voltaire .

His first solo album Disposable Half-Truths was released in 1980. Until the band split up in 1994, he pursued his solo activities in parallel and published not only danceable techno productions, but also experimental electronic music and ambient . The publications appeared under his real name and a variety of pseudonyms , of which Electronic Eye and Sandoz are among the best known. Together with Richard Barratt (DJ Parrot) he founded the project Sweet Exorcist , which became known through early bleep techno releases on Warp Records .

Since 2001, Kirk has been releasing mainly on his own Intone label . In his more recent publications he drew on influences from traditional African music .

Kirk expressly ruled out a reunion of Cabaret Voltaire . He died in September 2021 at the age of 65.

Discography (selection)

Solo albums:

  • 1980: Richard H. Kirk - Disposable Half-Truths ( Industrial Records )
  • 1983: Richard H. Kirk - Time High Fiction (Doublevision)
  • 1986: Richard H. Kirk - Black Jesus Voice ( Rough Trade Records )
  • 1986: Richard H. Kirk - Ugly Spirit (Rough Trade Records)
  • 1993: Sandoz - Digital Lifeforms (Touch)
  • 1994: Electronic Eye - Closed Circuit (Beyond)
  • 1994: Richard H. Kirk - Virtual State ( Warp Records )
  • 1994: Sandoz - Intensely Radioactive (Touch)
  • 1995: Electronic Eye - The Idea of ​​Justice (Beyond)
  • 1995: Richard H. Kirk - The Number of Magic (Warp Records)
  • 1995: Sandoz - Every Man Got Dreaming (Touch)
  • 1996: Agents With False Memories - Agents with False Memories (Ash International)
  • 1996: Sandoz - Dark Continent (Touch)
  • 1997: Dark Magus - Night Watchmen (Alphaphone Recordings)
  • 1997: Nitrogen - Intoxica (Alphaphone Recordings)
  • 1997: Sandoz - God Bless the Conspiracy (Alphaphone Recordings)
  • 1998: Sandoz - Chant to Jah (Touch)
  • 1998: Trafficante - Is This Now? (Alphaphone Recordings)
  • 1999: Al Jabr - One Million and Three (Alphaphone Recordings)
  • 1999: Richard H. Kirk - Darkness at Noon (Touch)
  • 2000: Blacworld - Subduing Demons (In South Yorkshire) (Alphaphone Recordings)
  • 2000: Electronic Eye - Neurometrics (Alphaphone Recordings)
  • 2000: Richard H. Kirk - LoopStatic (Amine ß Ring Modulations) (Touch)
  • 2001: Orchestra Terrestrial - Here and Elsewhere ( Die Stadt )
  • 2001: Sandoz - Afrocentris (Intone)
  • 2003: Biochemical Dread - Bush Doctrine (Cocosolidciti)
  • 2004: Richard H. Kirk feat. Pat Riot - Meets the Truck Bombers of Suburbia Uptown Vol. 1 (Intone)
  • 2005: Bit Crackle - Afro Digital (Intone)
  • 2005: Blacworld - Subduing Demons in South Yorkshire Part 2 (Intone)
  • 2006: Electronic Eye - Autoshark (Intone)
  • 2006: Sandoz - Live in the Earth: Sandoz in Dub (Chapter 2) (Intone)
  • 2006: Sandoz - In Dub: Chapter Two / Extra Time (Under the Stones) (Intone)
  • 2007: Vasco De Mento - Burning the Words (Part One) (Intone)
  • 2007: Vasco De Mento - Burning the Words (Part Two) (Intone)
  • 2009: Dollars and Cents - Unabridged Soundtrack to Future Movie (Intone)
  • 2009: Sandoz - Acid Editions (303 Excursions) (Intone)
  • 2011: Orchestra Terrestrial - Reload (Intone)
  • 2011: Richard H. Kirk & The Arpeggio 13 - Anonymized (Intone)
  • 2011: Richard H. Kirk - Reality Is Opposite (Intone)
  • 2012: Sandoz - Digital Life Time (Intone)
  • 2017: Richard H. Kirk - Dasein (Intone)
  • 2018: Peter Hope / Richard H. Kirk - Black & White Medicine (Wrong Revolution)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Reynolds : Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews. Faber & Faber, 2009, ISBN 978-0571235490 , page 229
  2. ↑ Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire is dead. In: Spiegel Online , September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  3. ↑ Not Forgotten: Cabaret Voltaire ( Memento from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Backseat Mafia, from January 1, 2013; accessed on January 29, 2016
  4. ↑ Richard H Kirk Interview at radio-canada.ca, accessed October 4, 2012
  5. ^ Warp Records: Richard H Kirk looks back on a futuristic life at guardian.co.uk, accessed October 4, 2012
  6. ↑ Sam Moore: Richard H Kirk death: Cabaret Voltaire musician dies aged 65 . In: independent.co.uk of September 21, 2021.
  7. ↑ Laura Snapes: Richard H Kirk, founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, dies aged 65 . In: theguardian.com of September 21, 2021.
personal data
SURNAME Kirk, Richard H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirk, Richard Harold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician, composer and record producer
BIRTH DATE March 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield , Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2021