Richard H. Kirk

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.

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, Yorkshire, England
Died	21 September 2021(2021-09-21) (aged 65)
Genres	Electronica, industrial, techno
Occupation(s)	Composer, producer, musician
Instruments	Guitar, keyboards, saxophone, clarinet, electronics, sampler
Years active	1973–2021
Labels	Industrial, Doublevision, Rough Trade, Warp, Touch, Beyond, Alphaphone, Blast First, Intone, Mute/EMI
Website	RichardHKirk.com

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

Other websites

• Official website Archived 2021-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
• Interview with Richard H. Kirk by André Éric Létourneau- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Dust Science
• Richard H. Kirk at Discogs
• Richard H. Kirk Fan Club
• Richard H. Kirk on IMDb