Richard Kirk

Richard Harold Kirk
Richard H. Kirk performing as DJ at Music for Real Airports event in Sheffield (2010)
Background information
Also known as	Electronic Eye, Sandoz, Trafficante
Born	(1956-03-21) 21 March 1956
Origin	Sheffield, England
Genres	Electronica
Occupation(s)	Composer, producer, musician
Instruments	Multi-instrumentalist
Years active	1973–present
Labels	Industrial, Doublevision, Rough Trade, Warp, Touch, Beyond, Alphaphone, Blast First, Intone, Mute/EMI
Associated acts	Cabaret Voltaire
Website	RichardHKirk.com

Richard Harold Kirk (born 21 March 1956) is an English musician who has specialised in electronic music since the 1970s.

Background

Kirk first came to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the seminal industrial band Cabaret Voltaire. His first release as a solo artist, Disposable Half-Truths, was released in 1980 and he maintained a career as a solo artist alongside Cabaret Voltaire until the band's dissolution in 1994. He reformed the band in 2014 as the sole remaining member, performing sporadicly with all-new material more akin to his solowork than the output of the original incarnation of Cabaret Voltaire.

During the 1990s his solo output increased considerably. Kirk’s works have explored multiple types of electronic/dance music under many pseudonyms. His prolific work has resulted in AllMusic calling him contemporary techno's busiest man.^[1]

Aliases

In addition to solo releases under his own name, Richard H. Kirk has used the following aliases:

Partial discography

Albums

• Disposable Half-Truths (1980, Industrial)
• Time High Fiction (1983, Doublevision)
• Black Jesus Voice (1986, Rough Trade)
• Ugly Spirit (1986, Rough Trade)
• Hoodoo Talk (with Peter Hope) (1988, Wax Trax!)
• Virtual State (1993, Warp)
• The Number of Magic (1995, Warp)
• Knowledge Through Science (1998, Blast First)
• Darkness At Noon (1999, Touch)
• LoopStatic (Amine ß Ring Modulations) (2000, Touch)
• TWAT v4.0: The War Against Terror (2003, Intone)
• Earlier/Later—Unreleased Projects Anthology ’74–’89 (2004, Mute/EMI)
• Richard H. Kirk Meets the Truck Bombers of Suburbia Uptown Vol. 1 (Feat. Pat Riot) (2004, Intone)
• Sonic Reflections (Unreleased Soundtrack Project 1994) (2009, Intone)
• Reality Is Opposite (2011, Intone)^[2]
• Anonymized (2011, Intone)
• #7489 (Collected Works 1974-1989) (2016, Mute Records)
• Dasein (2017, Intone)

As Sandoz

• Digital Lifeforms (1993, Touch)
• Intensely Radioactive (1994, Touch)
• Every Man Got Dreaming (1995, Touch)
• Dark Continent (1996, Touch)
• God Bless the Conspiracy (1997, Alphaphone)
• In Dub: Chant to Jah (1998, Touch; 2002, Soul Jazz)
• Afrocentris (2001, Intone)
• Live in the Earth: Sandoz in Dub Chapter 2 (2006, Soul Jazz)
• In Dub: Chapter Two/Extra Time (Under The Stones) (2006, Intone)
• Acid Editions (303 Excursions) (2009, Intone)
• Digital Life Time (2012, Intone)
• #9294 (Collected Works 1992-1994) (2016, Mute Records)

As Electronic Eye

• Closed Circuit (1994, Beyond)
• The Idea of Justice (1995, Beyond)
• Neurometrik (2000, Alphaphone)
• Autoshark (2006, Intone)

12-inch singles

• "Leather Hands" (with Peter Hope)
• "Surgeons" (with Peter Hope)
• "Hipnotic"

Collaboration

The following is a list of groups and artists Kirk has worked with:

• Acid Horse
• Cabaret Voltaire
• Peter Hope
• The Pressure Company
• Sweet Exorcist
• XON
• Kora
• The Tivoli

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Richard H. Kirk.

• Richard Kirk's Official Site
• Interview ith Richard H. Kirk by André Éric Létourneau- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Dust Science
• Richard H. Kirk at Discogs
• Richard H. Kirk Fan Club