Riche Hawtin aka Plastikman
Hawtin was born in Banbury, England in 1970, but at the age of nine, his family moved to Windsor, Canada; just over the river from Detroit, the birthplace of techno. His father – a robotics technician at General Motors, fittingly – introduced him to Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and other early computer music, and it was somehow inevitable that he would become infected with the techno virus. He began to DJ in Detroit clubs like Shelter at the age of 17, mixing house and techno with European post-industrial electronic body music by the likes of Front 242, and even had his own show on a Detroit radio station. He started the Plus-8 label with fellow Canadian DJ John Acquaviva in 1990, releasing his own tracks – initially as FUSE – alongside those of producers like Speedy J and Kenny Larkin. Along with Underground Resistance, Plus-8 had a huge impact, launching the second wave of Detroit techno, just as its originators – Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson – became global stars.His subsequent albums as Plastikman and his Concept series of 12-inch releases helped to take the genre one step further in the mid-1990s. Hawtin had, by this time, established himself as one of techno’s leading innovators, a reputation cemented by his mix CDs. In 2003, after leaving Canada to spend a year in New York, he moved to Berlin – which has been the world’s second techno city since the fall of the Wall opened up creative spaces in derelict buildings left abandoned by the march of history. It’s an environment he’s found genuinely inspiring.
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Richie Hawtin is one of the best Deejay that i had ever listen to; but he became wonderfull when he plays together sven vath and villalobos.
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