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.

## 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

### 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
- Interview with Richard H. Kirk by André Éric Létourneau- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Dust Science
- Richard H. Kirk at Discogs
- Richard H. Kirk Fan Club

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Richard Harold Kirk
- **image**: Richard H Kirk DJ at Music For Real Airports Project 2010-04-24 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Richard H. Kirk performing as DJ at Music for Real Airports event in Sheffield (2010)
- **background**: non_vocal_instrumentalist
- **alias**: Electronic Eye, Sandoz, Trafficante
- **origin**: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
- **instrument**: Guitar, keyboard instrument, keyboards, saxophone, clarinet, electronic musical instrument, electronics, sampler (musical instrument), sampler
- **genre**: Electronica, industrial music, industrial, techno
- **occupation**: Composer, Record producer, producer, musician
- **years active**: 1973–2021
- **label**: Industrial Records, Industrial, Doublevision, , Warp Records, Warp, Touch Records, Touch, Beyond Records, Beyond, Alphaphone Recordings, Alphaphone, , Intone, Mute Records, Mute/EMI
- **associated acts**: Cabaret Voltaire (band), Cabaret Voltaire