Virtual State


Artist: Richard Kirk

Label: TVT

Price: $14.95

Year: 1994
Format: CD

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Kirk's third release in 1994 (prolific is this gentleman's other middle name), VIRTUAL STATE is the misfi' in '94's triad of discs. Although released on a label known for contemporary, cutting-edge techno (Warp), the album is a remarkably understated and rhythmically subtle slab of plastic. What does strike an unusual note is that VIRTUAL STATE plows the cosmetics of the intelligent-techno trade unlike any previous Kirkmusic. "Soul Catcher" mixes Middle Eastern motifs in with cosmic appellations and electronic broadstrokes. "Worldwar Three" shuffles through murky, muted vibes amidst it's hip-shot hip-hop. "November X-Ray Mexico" recalls Cabaret Voltaire's audio-collage days through the use of insistent short-wave transmissions and disembodied voices juxtaposed atop cyclic waves of dissonant electronics. This all sounds unlike anything that has strutted out of most so-called progressive dance-music labels in the '90s. VIRTUAL STATE's veritable strangeness cements Kirk's iconoclastic locale in the global electronic village, where he maintains a well-deserved residence as the one lone wolf among the sheep.

...Kirk is still in top form, and this CD proves it with no room left for debate...
Alternative Press (03/01/1995)

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