He developed a guitar style that maintained a punk aggression but could work within a Dub/Jungle foundation, utilising unusual textures and FX (1).He has co-produced and co-written on all nine of the bands’ official studio albums and initiated the concept of what become their live re-score of the film La Haine which they have played consistently since 2001.

His father was Sharad Savale, chargehand electrician, an immigrant from Hyderabad, India, and his mother was Jean Worsfold from Littlehampton, England, who previous to marriage had worked on an assembly line packing biscuits.

However after taking Bird to an experimental rave featuring Headspace and Orbital, Kirk’s Equator morphed into the Higher Intelligence Agency who became a fixture in the nascent Ambient Techno scene.

He had co-produced and co-written on all nine of the bands’ official studio albums and initiated the concept of what become their live re-score of the film “La Haine” which they have played consistently since 2001.

[1] Savale has interviewed prominent leftist intellectual, historian, political campaigner, author, and filmmaker Tariq Ali about the War on Terrorism, Pakistan, 1960s musicians and their activism, and health care in the United States.

In 2009 Savale presented the Music of Resistance, a six-part documentary series that tells the stories of musicians who fight repression and sing about injustices.