Cabaret Voltaire taught punks how to embrace drum machines—and their hips. But band leader Richard H. Kirk was never content to have the band be remembered merely as post-punk innovators. As the '70s progressed to the '90s, he updated his mainframe and went about rewiring dance music in his own image, doing things like adding a sinister bassline to the acid house of "Info/Acid" and boiling down house music to an eerie, minimal thump on "Don't Drive Fast".