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Bestival Adds Fever Ray, The xx, Plastikman, The Flaming Lips, Flying Lotus ... - Spacelab


Bestival Adds Fever Ray, The xx, Plastikman, The Flaming Lips, Flying Lotus ...
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Bestival has just added The xx, Fever Ray and Rchie Hawtin as Plastikman for this year's show. It will be the only Fever Ray festival appearance of the year ...

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Plastikman and The Chems confirmed for Sonar 2010 - Resident Advisor


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Plastikman and The Chems confirmed for Sonar 2010
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... his meteoric rise with two separate performances at the Spanish festival, and Richie Hawtin will drop in for another stop on the Plastikman world tour. ...
The Chemical Brothers, Jonsi and Hot Chip For Sonar Festival 2010Gigwise
Sonar Festival Reveals Mouthwatering 2010 LineupPrefixmag

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About Plastikman


Richard Hawtin is a English-Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his abstract, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid 2000s.

Hawtin is known for DJing minimal techno sets making use of laptop computers and digital mixing equipment. In May 1990, Hawtin and fellow second-waver John Acquaviva founded the Plus 8 record label, which they named after their turntable's pitch adjust function. In 1998, Hawtin launched Minus records, a label he uses primarily as a launch pad for his own projects.

Hawtin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in England, but moved when he was aged 9 to LaSalle, Ontario, a suburb of Windsor, Ontario, and just across the river from Detroit, the birthplace of techno. His father worked as a robotics technician at General Motors, and was a fan of electronic music, introducing his son to Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream at an early age. He has one brother, Matthew, who is a visual artist and ambient music DJ. Hawtin attended Sandwich Secondary High School in LaSalle. He began to DJ in clubs in Detroit at 17, and his early style was a mix of house music and techno.

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