(Justin, here’s the download instructions in case you need them and don’t have ‘em in front of you.)
Here are a couple of random points in the career of an excellent, undersung artist named Richard Kirk. Born in the northern British industrial wasteland of Sheffield, he started Cabaret Voltaire in 1973. Among other things, they were driven by rhythm, exotica, a fascination with religious dogma and ritual, and electronic sound and noise. You’ll hear the experimental aspects of that in The Original Sound of Sheffield below, and see a more pop notion of it above in “Sensoria”. After they broke up in the mid-’90s, Kirk went on to record stuff that went from the dystopic (like his Biochemical Dread work) to the opaque (like his Sandoz in Dub stuff), all informed by hypnotic repetition and the sounds of technology gone haywire. Enjoy!
Cabaret Voltaire–The Original Sound of Sheffield ’78/’82
Biochemical Dread–Bush Doctrine
Sandoz–Live in the Earth: Sandoz in Dub
