They were among the flagship bleep techno acts on Warp Records in the late 1980s.
Sweet Exorcist, which was named after a Curtis Mayfield track, was the project of Sheffield-based musicians Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire) and Richard ‘DJ Parrot’ Barratt (later a member of All Seeing I).
[1] By 1989, Cabaret Voltaire had wrapped up a contract with EMI and had effectively stopped working together.
It defined the bleep techno sound, by making playful use of sampled sounds from Yellow Magic Orchestra's Computer Game (1978) and the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
The band released the album Spirit Guide to Low Tech on Touch Records.