Sweet Exorcist (Band)
Sweet Exorcist were a British band that were regarded as a pioneer of the so-called bleep techno.
Band History
The band, whose name went back to a piece of music by Curtis Mayfield, consisted of the two musicians Richard H. Kirk ( Cabaret Voltaire) and Richard " DJ Parrot" Barratt (later a member of All Seeing I). Kirk and Barratt knew both since the mid- 1980s. Barratt was in 1986 already gone on tour with Cabaret Voltaire. After she had previously worked on individual pieces, struck Barratt Kirk ago, a track from Studio test tones before. In January 1990, appeared on Warp Records, the single testone. The piece is considered to be one of the first bleep techno tracks. The second release was the single Clonk, which also appeared on Warp. For two publications also remixed versions appeared.
In 1991, the duo released the CCEP, the later as a CD version CCED appeared. 1994 appeared on Touch Records the album Spirit Guide To Low Tech.
Warp published 2011, the compilation album retro activity.