Years active 1990–1994 Record labels Warp, Touch Music | Members Al Jabr, Richard Barratt | |
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Origin Sheffield, United Kingdom (1989) Albums Spirit Guide to Low Tech, RetroActivity, C.C.C.D, CC EP Genres Techno, Intelligent dance music Similar Forgemasters, LFO, Tuff Little Unit, All Seeing I, Nightmares on Wax | ||
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.
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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. Barratt had already supported a Cabaret Voltaire British tour in 1986. After both worked on several tracks together Parrot suggested making a club track with studio test tones. In January 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). 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.
Discography
Songs
Testone1990
Clonk's ComingCCCD · 1991
Test Four1990