2006 or so, in Montréal briefly as Mum’s car was being repaired, I’m passing time at BANQ ripping selections from anything under “Avant/Électronique” that looked interesting. One of those was the Warp 10th anniversary compilation which exposed me to Richard’s work as Sweet Exorcist. Five years later I’m studying in Yorkshire and despite never visiting Sheffield then or since (so far) I devoured much of his work with Cab Vol and their peers. Fast forward to today and I’m preparing to eventually lecture on the post-punk socioeconomics and cite his material heavily. Look through my decade-plus archive of mixes and something he had a hand in will invariably show up.
This is an hour of works by him I liked, no regard to time space or context. Less of his newer stuff or collaborations than I wanted, but i'll be playing his music for the rest of my DJing days. Artificial intelligence. Burroughs’ cutups and dream sequences, concrète experiments recorded in a South Yorkshire attic. Trance deconstruction from the height of the trance era (in the vein of Mark Fell / Lorenzo Senni). A whacked out collaboration with Ministry that sounds like Severed Heads in hi-definition. A brief interview clip of him and Stephen Mallinder from 1990 when they were living in Chicago and working with Marshall Jefferson. A lot of solidly forged works on how this really could be the end of it all. Tired of all the artists I appreciate dying in short order, and I know it will only accelerate from here.
Cabaret Voltaire - Western Mantra [Rough Trade, 1980]
Cabaret Voltaire - Hallucination Sequence [Doublevision, 1983]
Cabaret Voltaire - Taxi Music 1 [Doublevision, 1983]
Cabaret Voltaire - The Arm Of The Lord [Virgin/Some Bizarre, 1985]
Richard H Kirk - The Feeling Of Warmth & Beauty [Warp/Intone, 1994]
The Electronic Eye - Harmonic Medication [Alphaphone, 2000]
Cabaret Voltaire - In The Shadows [Virgin/Some Bizarre, 1983]
Cabaret Voltaire - Digital Rasta (dub + vocal mixed together) [Virgin/Some Bizarre, 1984]
Cabaret Voltaire - Interview in Chicago [Snub TV, 1990]
Acid Horse - No Name, No Slogan (Side B) [Wax Trax!, 1989]
Blacworld - Gun Control [Alphaphone, 2000]
Sweet Exorcist - Clonk (Bonus Mix) [Warp, 1990/2011]
Sandoz - Beam [Intone, 1992]
Richard H Kirk - November X-Ray Mexico [Warp, 1994]
Cabaret Voltaire - Baader Meinhof (Early Version) [Mute, 1974-8/2002]
Digital Terrestrial - Deconstructed Trance Anthem Part 02 [Die Stadt, 2001]
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag (Akufen Remix) [NovaMute, 2002]
