Sweet Exorcist (band)

Sweet Exorcist
Origin Sheffield
Genres Techno, IDM
Years active 1990–1994
Labels Warp, Touch Records, Plastex
Members Richard Barratt, Richard H. Kirk

Sweet Exorcist was a British music duo consisting of Richard Barratt (DJ Parrot) and Richard H. Kirk. Their sound is usually categorized as techno and IDM.

Career

Sweet Exorcist, which was named after a Curtis Mayfield track, was the project of Sheffield based musicians Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire) and Richard ‘DJ Parrot’ Barratt (later member of All Seeing I).

Kirk and Barratt knew each other since the mid-1980s.[1] Barratt had already supported a Cabaret Voltaire British tour in 1986.[1] After both worked on several tracks together Parrot suggested making a club track with studio test tones.[1] In the January of 1990 the tracks were released as Testone on Warp. It defined the bleep techno sound, by making playful use of sampled sounds from Yellow Magic Orchestra's Computer Game (1978) and the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).[2] The next release was Clonk, also on Warp. For both singles remix versions were released.

In 1991 the duo released the C.C.E.P., which later came as CD version C.C.C.D. and was also known as Clonks Coming. The band released the album Spirit Guide To Low Tech on Touch Records.

2011 saw the release of the compilation album RetroActivity on Warp.[3]

Discography

Albums
Singles & EPs

References

  1. 1 2 3 Interview Sweet Exorcist/Richard H. Kirk: This Used To Be The Future, themilkfactory.co.uk, 2011, retrieved 2014-02-23
  2. ↑ Dan Sicko, Bill Brewster: Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk. Wayne State University, 2010, ISBN 978-0814334386
  3. ↑ Sweet Exorcist: RetroActivity (Warp Records), themilkfactory.co.uk, 2011, retrieved 2014-02-23

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