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Minus Kompiles Plastikman - Resident Advisor


Minus Kompiles Plastikman
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Berlin-based minimal techno imprint Minus is set to release Kompilation, a retrospective of Richie Hawtin's productions as Plastikman. ...

Sonar announces Chicago festival - inthemix (blog)


Sonar announces Chicago festival
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This year's Barcelona festival featured plenty of big dance acts including Hot Chip, Plastikman and Matthew Herbert, the Chicago festival also looks the ...

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Richard Hawtin is a Canadian electronic musician and 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 pseudonym he still uses today.

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, England, but moved when he was aged nine 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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