Never Lose Your Shadow

Richard H. Kirk

Never Lose Your Shadow

 

2014

  • 1.
    Never Lose Your Shadow
  • 2.
    Public Fun
  • 3.
    L.D. 60
  • 4.
    Magic Words Command
  • MW055

We’re honored to pre­sent a 12” EP of tracks from the archives of Shef­field based electronic music legend Ric­hard H. Kirk, en­tit­led “Never Lose Your Shadow”. Kirk first came to pro­min­ence in the 1970s as a mem­b­er of the semi­n­al in­dustri­al band Cabaret Vol­taire. His first re­lease as a solo art­ist, Dis­pos­able Half-Truths, came out in 1980 on Throbb­ing Gristle’s In­dustri­al Re­cords label and since then he de­veloped a solo care­er para­llel to the band until its dis­solu­tion in 1994.
On the EP, we com­pile tracks original­ly re­cor­ded bet­ween 1978 and 1987, which have never be­fore been re­leased on vinyl. The title track, ‘Never Lose Your Shadow’ blurs the lines bet­ween harsh in­dustri­al, dance floor, and no wave. This is one we’ve been play­ing out for a while now and won­der­ing why it hadn’t been pre­ssed on vinyl. The other three tracks are more ex­periment­al and re­fer­ence ideas Kirk was ex­plor­ing in Cabaret Vol­taire at the time. When asked specifical­ly about this col­lec­tion, Kirk ex­plains that “none of the tracks were out­takes for Cabaret Vol­taire, they were al­ways solo tracks, al­though I think ‘Never Lose Your Shadow’ was vey much a bluep­rint for the materi­al that Cabaret Vol­taire re­cor­ded for Vir­gin / Some Bi­zar­re bet­ween 1983-85. The minim­al sequenc­er / drum mac­hine loc­kdown that I used later for Cabaret Vol­taire was pioneered on this track. Lyrical­ly, ‘Never Lose Your Shadow’ was in­spired by the 1971 speed freak road movie ‘Van­ish­ing Point’, amongst other th­ings.”
The EP is li­mited to 999 hand-numbered co­p­ies, the first 500 are pre­ssed on solid grey vinyl and the re­maind­er on black. Pre-order avail­able on August 22nd. Due to pre­ss­ing plant de­lays, all ord­ers for this re­lease and which in­clude this re­lease will ship out on Sep­temb­er 25th.

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  •   12" EP   $20.00 Sold Out
  •   Digital WAV $5 Bandcamp
  •   Digital MP3 $5.16 iTunes
  •   Digital MP3 $8.99 Amazon
  •   Digital MP3 / FLAC £3.05 Boomkat
  •   Digital MP3/WAV $5.96 Beatport
  •   Digital MP3 $4.99 Juno

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