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24 July 2025

William Smiles

 Left to right: John Giorno, William Burroughs, Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk 
 
 


Sandoz was one of the most prominent solo monikers of Richard H. Kirk since 1992. After Caberet Voltaire, Kirk focussed on solo projects such as Sandoz & Sweet Exorcist, his collaboration with Richard Barratt (aka DJ Parrot). With Sandoz he had the most post CV success.  As Sandoz, Kirk produced (after twenty years of listening to Jamaican music) contemporary electronic Dance music with Jamaican Reggae / Dub influences as well as other ethnic styles. 

 



In 2021 Richard H. Kirk died. His label, Mute, confirmed the news, giving no cause of death. Kirk was 65 years old.

Here's one of his earlier releases using the Sandoz nom de musique after a series of singles & EPs. Intensely Radioactive... 

 

Sandoz - Intensely Radioactive, Touch TO23, 1994.
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Beneath the City Streets
Inner Rhythms    
Exoskeleton    
Intensely Radioactive    
Atro City Reaction    
Intelligence    
Revolution    
Luminous 

 

 

Try these catchy rhythms / beats mixed with haunting tribal chants.

Sandoz - Afrocentris, Intone INTONECD001, 2001.

Spooks inna Congo    
Nye (We are Silent)    
I'm not Afraid    
Dissolved (in Acid)    
Beaucoup de Gris Gris, Beaucoup de Talisman    
Terminator Chop & Clean    
Na Panza    
Bring Me Joy    
Nye (....mix)    
O Technique ff Transformation    
Panza    
Phaseur
 
 

Look what the spice dragged in,
NØ
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  1. NØ7/24/25, 11:02 PM

    Intensely Radioactive
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    Afrocentris
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  2. michaeldustdevil7/25/25, 2:17 AM

    these suit my mood... thank you....

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    1. NØ7/25/25, 12:02 PM

      There are many times when I was in the mood for Sandoz, especially some Sandoz LSD25. Thanks for the comment.

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  3. Richard7/25/25, 3:12 AM

    I hate it when you bring sad news. I didn't know he passed away.One of those artists who kept reinventing, no, evolving himself. From the first time I heard Cabaret Voltaire's Slugging For Jesus to twenty years later when I changed my ways in music.
    Sandoz - Intensly Radioactive was not his first longplayer, a year earlier Digital Lifeforms was released (1993 Touch-TO21)
    https://mega.nz/folder/YK1ynCyS#oKa0O2i0IKU7xqGbpW1Ziw
    Another album I enjoyed was Electronic Eye - The Idea of Justice
    https://mega.nz/folder/4W1TXJAZ#2ZwrDCNxHRY9OGCEi6MPXg
    And the last is the 1996 one track brilliant Agents With False Memories
    https://mega.nz/folder/xT8DHAiK#iNO_GdVJG3bVa-_XyFuOSg

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    1. NØ7/25/25, 11:42 AM

      Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Just happens (more often than I like, for sure) when I'm doing these shares.

      Wasn't aware of Digital Lifeforms full-length, only the 4-track 12", so thanks for both the information & the link, as well as the other two links.

      Really appreciate it when you add to the current artist share with additional items. I know that visitors here appreciate it as well & most are polite enough to say thanks to you as well, which is as I think it should be.

      Thanks, Richard, for all the additional shares.

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    2. NØ7/25/25, 12:00 PM

      Actually, I was kinda correct. Digital Lifeforms full-length consists of tracks from three previously released 12"s: tracks 1, 4, 6, & 8 were originally released as Limbo; tracks 3 & 10 were originally released on Digital Lifeforms; & tracks 2, 5, 7, & 9 were originally released as Chocolate Machine. I should have said that Intensely Radioactive was the first "original material" Sandoz full-length.

      But still, thanks for all the additional Sandoz. I grabbed them all.

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    3. Richard7/25/25, 1:50 PM

      Indeed, it took me 30 + years to find out that a cherrished album I have is "nothing but" a compilation album.

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    4. NØ7/25/25, 3:12 PM

      This isn't a "nothing but" situation for me. I don't have all the tracks on the full-length so I'm more than happy to add it to what I've got.

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  4. Anonymous7/25/25, 6:17 PM

    Nathan, Richard, you made my day, you really did. Two Sandoz I didn't have, and then the Agents With False Memories (what a fan-tas-tic name!). I could almost cry, but instead I'll post CV "The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord", 1985 this is the CD version expanded with the Big Funk/Sleepwalking 12". My cd, my rip: https://www.imagenetz.de/FuVLo . Thanks a lot, and enjoy! Grtz Ja-Mike (posted Anon 'cause Goggle being a pain again).

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  5. Anonymous7/25/25, 6:18 PM

    Nice picture by the way, boys will be boys hhh. Grtz Ja-Mike

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    1. NØ7/25/25, 8:07 PM

      Couldn't resist that foto. Thank you for the share. I share, Richard shares, Ja-Mike shares, we all share. What a grand world that could be.

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