Richard Kirk died

On September 21, at the age of 65, the British-electron-electron musician, one of the founders of the Cabaret Voltaire, Richard Kirk, died.

It is reported by The Independent with reference to the recording company Mute Records .

Richard Harold Kirk was born in 1956 in Sheffield, in 1973, together with Stephen Millinder and Chris Watson, he created an industrial group of Cabaret Voltaire , which remained before her collapse in 1994.

Cabaret Voltaire began with noise performances, later mixed pop music with dance, techno, dub-house and experimental electronics. With the active participation of Richard Kirk, the group recorded 13 studio albums and dozens of singles and EP , many of which occupied high places in national indie charts. By the beginning of the 1980s, Cabaret Voltaire became one of the leading groups of the UK electronic scene.

At the peak of the popularity of Cabaret Voltaire, Richard Kirk began a solo career, the beginning of which was laid in 1980 by the Disposable Half-Truths album. He worked in almost all genres of electronic music, speaking and recording under his own name and under many different pseudonyms, including Sandoz, Electronic Eye, Agents with False Memories, Outland Assassin, Anarchia, Pat Riot and Dr. XAVIE .

He also played with Richard Barratt in the Sweet Exorcist techno-Duet, collaborated with Acid Horse , Peter Hope, The Pressure Company, Xon, Kora and The Tivoli .

In 2014, Richard Kirk revived Cabaret Voltaire , remaining the only member of the group. Since the end of 2020, after a 25-year break, three studio albums have been released at Cabaret Voltaire , the last of them in April 2021.