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Artist:	SANDOZ
Title:	Digital Lifeforms Redux
Label:	MUTE UK (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	KIRK 007CD

"As a founder member of Sheffield's legendary electronic cut and paste experimentalists Cabaret Voltaire and as a solo artist in his own right, Richard H. Kirk has been involved in electronic music and its development for over 30 years. Disc one of this set comprises the tracks that made up the original Digital Lifeforms CD release (1993) while the material on the second disc was recorded during the same period and with the exception of two tracks has remained unreleased until present. It's an account of how the Sandoz project developed and includes the first recorded Sandoz track, 'Medium Cool'. Richard still makes excellent Sandoz records with roots that are very much traceable to Digital Lifeforms and amongst the heated tribal rhythms, chanting samples and alchemic electronics there are some real moments on the set. Like the free-floating funk of 'Human Spirit' with it's understated crescendo of tribal vocal lick and May-an drum-splatters that leave you hanging for more, there's the cooled-out head-hypnotiser 'Drum Meditation', the smouldering warehouse party energy of 'Zombie Astral', the future/past electro twin-tank of 'Beam' and 'Steel Tabernacle' and the cinematic electric voodoo-dub of 'White Darkness' that's full of multi-coloured echoed fx flicking out of the speakers like paint leaving the brush of Pollock. And that's all before the previously secret sonic-sorcery on disc two. As a collection it crystallizes much of what was happening in the electronic scene of the early nineties and helps define a period that facilitated in the acceptability of new sounds. Digital Lifeforms is often recommended as one of the essential electronic albums from the period, but this re-issue shows that its simple musical beauty has transcended well the cycles of time." Limited stock, deleted item.

Artist:	SANDOZ
Title:	Sandoz In Dub: Chant To Jah
Label:	SOUL JAZZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SJR 059CD

"Sandoz is the solo moniker of Richard H. Kirk from Cabaret Voltaire. Inspired by twenty years of listening to Jamaican music, Richard H. Kirk has now mixed contemporary electronic dance music with Jamaican reggae and dub styles on Sandoz In Dub-Chant To Jah. As a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, Richard H. Kirk has been a pioneer of electronic music for more than twenty years embracing all the new developments in electronic dance music: In 1978 Cabaret Voltaire signed to a fledgling Rough Trade records releasing experimental electronic/post-punk classics such as 'Nag Nag Nag' and 'Do The Mussolini.' Ten years on and Cabaret Voltaire were sharing musical ideas with Chicago house pioneers such as Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy as well as their counterpart Detroit techno stars such as Derrick May and Ritchie Hawtin. With Sheffield's Warp Records acknowledging the debt that local group, Cabaret Voltaire, had played in defining electronic music, it was fitting that Richard H. Kirk started his solo project, Sandoz, on Warp's seminal Artificial Intelligence series. Twenty years on and Richard H. Kirk has made the logical link between his twenty years of experiments in electronic music and a similar process that Jamaican dub pioneers such as King Tubby, Lee Perry and Augustus Pablo were making in the 1970s. Sandoz in Dub -- Chant To Jah also makes the connection with contemporary Jamaican dancehall styles -- mixing elements of ragga, digital drum and bass and steppers into the equation."

Artist:	SANDOZ
Title:	Live in the Earth: Sandoz in Dub Chapter 2
Label:	SOUL JAZZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SJR 130CD

"New album of electronic and digital dub and reggae from legendary post-punk pioneer Richard H. Kirk. Richard H. Kirk founded the group Cabaret Voltaire in Sheffield in 1973 alongside Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson. One of the earliest signings to Rough Trade records, the group created a unique industrial sound that perfectly fit into the post-punk ethos of the late 1970s. The name of the group was taken from a meeting of Dadaist artists in Zurich, Switzerland in 1910. Cabaret Voltaire were at the centre of the burgeoning Sheffield music scene that also gave rise to The Human League, Clock DVA, Heaven 17, Pulp and is now the Arctic Monkeys. In the 1980s, Cabaret Voltaire left their punk roots and moved into a post-industrial dance territory - even recording an album with Marshall Jefferson in Chicago -- citing him as a similarly inclined maverick artist of the house community. As early as 1978, Richard H. Kirk had started his solo career with the album Disposable Half Truths, releasing material under his own name as well as under a stream of pseudonyms such as Electronic Eye, Sweet Exorcist, Trafficante, Blacworld, Nitrogen and more. His work has continued to appear on Rough Trade, Mute, Warp and numerous small independent labels. Since 1992, Kirk has been using the name Sandoz and in 2002 released Sandoz in Dub: Chant to Jah on Soul Jazz Records, an album of electronics mixed with reggae and dub. Live in The Earth is the second chapter in Richard Kirk's journey into the heart of dub. Taking his influences from dub producers King Tubby, Lee Perry, Scientist and more, Kirk has mixed these sounds together with his trademark electronic experimentation to produce a remarkable album."

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