sorry for the late response, but IMHO everyone should have some RHK
material in their collection. Quite honestly he is one of the forefathers
of contemporary electronic music, although reclusiveness (not sure that's
a word) is one of his specialties, so he keeps a mad low profile. Anyway
the quick and dirty story is that he was the main musical force behind the
seminal industrial band Cabaret Voltaire from the late 70's to the early
90's, during which time CV produced an extremely wide range of records in
many styles. He has also released quite a few solo records under various
aliases.
His output over the past 10 years has been quite prolific with
much of the material falling in the range of IDM; house, dub, ambient are
all heard in his mixes. IF you like his AI 2 track, I recommend his 2
albums on Warp, 'Virtual State' and 'Number of Magic'. They were released
back to back and are beautiful recordings, if somewhat simplistic (in
terms of sequencing) compared today's lot of IDM stuff. Actually pretty
much all his recordings rely on a somewhat basic sequencing style that
from some reason never seems to tire me, although some may find it so.
After those 2 RHK records I would track down the Sandoz records (an alias
of his), especially the 2nd record, Intensely Radioactive, regarded by
many to be one of the great early 90's ambient dub albums.
really I could go on and on about RHK cuz his career has spanned such a
long time and he has released so many records. Check out
http://brainwashed.com/cv/discography/rhk01.htm#RHK for the full
discography...
hope that helps!
nate
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, a_tech wrote:
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> mornin'
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> Tell me please any info about Richard H Kirk. His track from
> Artificial Intelligence 2 - is excellent! What he makes now?
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> Pre-thanks.
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> np: Richard H Kirk - Reality Net
> 22.07.2000 [2:22]
> mailto:alexio@javasoft.spb.ru
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