Richard H. Kirk

Real Name:
Richard Harold Kirk
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Born in Sheffield, former Cabaret Voltaire member Richard H. Kirk released his first album "Disposable Half-Truths" in 1980, and since then he developed a solo career parallel to the band until its dissolution in 1994, featuring a fusion of diverse styles music genres from dance-orientated Techno and House to Experimental Electronica and Ambient.
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Albums

Disposable Half-Truths

(2 versions)
Industrial Records 1980

Time High Fiction

(2 versions)
Doublevision 1983

Ugly Spirit

(2 versions)
Rough Trade 1986

Black Jesus Voice

(3 versions)
Rough Trade 1986

Virtual State

(4 versions)
Warp Records, Warp Records, Intone, Intone 1994

The Number Of Magic

(8 versions)
Warp Records, Intone 1995

Darkness At Noon

(CD, Album)
Touch 1999

LoopStatic (Amine ß Ring Modulations)

(CD, Album, Car)
Touch 2000

TWAT v4.0: The War Against Terror

(CD, Album, Mixed)
Intone 2003

Meets The Truck Bombers Of Suburbia Uptown Vol. 1 (Feat. Pat Riot)

(CD, Album)
Intone 2004

Sandoz A/K/A Richard Kirk* - Live In The Earth: Sandoz In Dub (Chapter 2) (CDr, Promo)

Soul Jazz Records 2006

Sonic Reflections (Unreleased Soundtrack Project 1994)

(3xFile, AAC)
Intone 2009

Anonymized

(13xFile, AAC, Album)
Intone 2011

Reality Is Opposite

(8xFile, AAC, Album)
Intone 2011

Singles & EPs

Hipnotic

(12")
Rough Trade 1986

Virtual State

(12", Promo, W/Lbl)
Warp Records 1994

Virtual State

(12", Promo, W/Lbl)
Warp Records 1994

LoopStatic (Amine ß Ring Modulations)

(12")
Touch 2000

Detonate / Reworks EP

(12", EP)
The Grey Area 2004

Fear (No Evil)

(12", EP)
Dust Science Recordings 2006

Neuroscience EP

(File, AAC, EP)
Intone 2009

Compilations

Richard H. Kirk / Sandoz - Earlier / Later & Digital Lifeforms (CDr, Comp, Promo)

Mute, Mute 2004

Earlier / Later - Unreleased Projects Anthology 74-89

(2xCD, Comp, Enh)
The Grey Area, Mute 2004

URP VOL 4

(12xFile, AAC, Comp)
Intone 2005

Miscellaneous

Knowledge Through Science

(CD, Car)
Blast First 1998
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by jonathan_armstrong Apr 21, 2004
What can you say? The history of electronic music wouldn't be complete without a paragraph or two about this guy.

For any serious student of electronica, you could do a lot worse than to pick up the early Cabaret Voltaire stuff. His style is generally to build the tracks gradually, using a lot of classic Detroit-ish melodies and straightforward percussion programming, while using strange sounds and catchy hooks and vocal (often left-leaning politically) vocal samples. His seminal releases mostly occurred on the Warp label ("Reality Net" makes my personal all time Top Ten electronic tracks, which is on "Artificial Intelligence II".) Sandoz' "Digital Lifeforms" is pretty much a classic in the early 90's IDM genre, as is Cabaret Voltaire's "International Language." If you like industrial dub (think the better On-U Sound stuff) you would be remiss not to own Sandoz’ “Chant to Jah”. To be honest, I don’t think any of his releases are bad, although as stated, some are only okey-doke (e.g., Sandoz’ “Every Man Got Dreaming.”)
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