Richard Harold Kirk (21 March 1956 – 21 September 2021) was an English musician. He worked on electronic music since the 1970s. He was best known as a member of the band Cabaret Voltaire. He also played for Sweet Exorcist.
Aliases
In addition to solo releases under his own name, Kirk used the following aliases:
Agents With False Memories
Al Jabr
Anarchia
Biochemical Dread
Blacworld
Chemical Agent
Citrus
Cold Warrior
Countzero
Dark Magus
Destructive Impact
Dr. Xavier
Electronic Eye
Extended Family
Frightgod
Future Cop Movies
Harold Sandoz
International Organisation
King Of Kings
Multiple Transmission
Nine Miles Dub
Nitrogen
Orchestra Terrestrial
Outland Assassin
Papadoctrine
Pat Riot
Port-au-Prince
PSI Punky Dread Allstars
Reflexiv
The Revolutionary Army
Robots + Humanoids
Sandoz
Signals Intelligence
The Silent Age
Sweet Exorcist
Trafficante
Ubermenschlich
Ubu Rahmen
Wicky Wacky
Vasco de Mento
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) 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
Other websites
Official website
Interview with Richard H. Kirk by André Éric Létourneau- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Dust Science Richard H. Kirk at Discogs Richard H. Kirk Fan Club