Plastikman
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Biography
[Edit]His style formed by a fusion of the barest acid house and straitjacket-tight Detroit techno, Richie Hawtin became one of the most influential artists in the world of techno during the 1990s, even while sticking to out-of-date synth dinosaurs like the Roland TB-303 and TR-808. Hawtin combined lean percussion and equally spare acid lines into haunting techno anthems that kicked with more than enough power for the dancefloor while diverting headphone listeners as well. While even his early recordings were quite minimalistic, he streamlined the sound increasingly over the course of his recording career; from the early '90s to the end of the decade, Hawtin's material moved from the verge of the techno mainstream into a yawning abyss of dubbed-out echo-chamber isolationism, often jettisoning any semblance of a bassline or steady beat. Hawtin released material on his own +8 Records under several aliases — some in tandem with co-founder John Acquaviva — and made the label one of the best styled in Detroit techno of the '90s. He earned his pedigrees from worldwide fans of techno for his best-known releases, as Plastikman (for NovaMute) and F.U.S.E. (for Warp/TVT).
While original Detroit technocrats like Juan Atkins and Derrick May were changing the face of electronic music in the mid-'80s, Hawtin was growing up across the river in Windsor, Ontario. A British native born in 1970, he moved to Canada with his family at the age of nine. Introduced to '70s electronic/minimalist pioneers Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream by his father (who was a robotics engineer for General Motors), Hawtin began DJing at the age of 17 — as DJ Richie Rich — and soon landed gigs at Detroit hot spots like the Shelter and the famed Music Institute, home to all-night club sessions by May and Kevin Saunderson. Though many of Motown's innovators were skeptical of the skinny white Canadian, Hawtin's formation of +8 Records helped deflect much of the criticism.
Hawtin and +8's co-founder, John Acquaviva, began working together in 1989, originally to make a Derrick May megamix for use on the radio; they later emerged from Acquaviva's studio with several original recordings. The duo issued one single, "Elements of Tone," as the first release on +8 Records (credited to States of Mind), and sat back while many in the techno world puzzled over who was responsible. The label's later releases — by Kenny Larkin, Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J), and Mark Gage (aka Vapourspace), in addition to various Hawtin/Acquaviva projects — made the label famous for laboratory-precise techno based on slowly evolving and shifting acid lines. The aggressive sound matched the work of the label/artist collective Underground Resistance as the best techno to come out of Detroit in the early '90s, thanks to a slow down in the work of past masters Atkins, May, and Saunderson. At the same time, demand grew for Hawtin's excellent acid-inspired DJing.
The Plastikman project debuted in 1993 with two releases for +8: the seminal "Spastik" single and an album, Sheet One. Hawtin's first wide release, however, came with the alter ego F.U.S.E. (short for Further Underground Subsonic Experiments). A more varied and melodic project than Plastikman (but not by much), F.U.S.E. released the album Dimension Intrusion for British Warp Records in late 1993. As part of the label's Artificial Intelligence series, Dimension Intrusion was also licensed to Wax Trax!/TVT for release in America. (Hawtin joined such ambient-techno heroes as the Aphex Twin, Black Dog, Autechre, and B12, all receiving their wide-issue debuts.) Later, NovaMute signed an agreement with +8 and another Hawtin-founded label, Probe; Sheet One was reissued in 1994, followed by the second Plastikman LP, Musik. Much more restrained than Sheet One, the album fit in well with the growing ambient-techno movement. All told, Hawtin was responsible for the release of three albums and a good-sized EP in the span of just one year.
That impressive schedule was shattered in 1995, when Hawtin was entangled in difficulties resulting from a sudden crackdown on his usual procedure of crossing the American border to perform. Refused entrance for more than a year, he lost his inspirational grounding with the Detroit scene and found it difficult to continue recording for his third Plastikman album, Klinik. While he waited for re-entry, Hawtin spent time setting up the sub-label Definitive, and continued to DJ around the world. Though he recorded scattered singles for +8 and related imprints, his only full-length release that year was an excellent entry in the Mixmag Live! series, taken from a DJ set recorded at the Building in Windsor. By the time he was able to return to America, he had changed his musical direction and eventually abandoned the Klinik album.
Hawtin returned to his release schedule in 1996; during each month of the year, he issued a completely unadorned single recorded as Concept 1 (some were later collected on Concept 1 96:CD, mixed by Hawtin). Desperately minimal works, even compared to his earlier material, the singles showed Hawtin's reaction to the new school of barely there techno coming from German labels like Basic Channel, Chain Reaction, Profan, and Studio 1 — all of them originally influenced in no small way by Plastikman recordings. Finally, in early 1998, he released his third Plastikman LP, Consumed, which proved to be just as brutally shadowed as the Concept 1 material. The continued experimentalist direction showed Hawtin coming full circle, back to his position on the leading edge of intelligent techno. Many of the unreleased Klinik recordings surfaced in late 1998 on the compilation Artifakts [BC]. Much of the next decade found Hawtin busy with other projects and pursuits, living in New York shortly before moving to Berlin in 2003 to focus on his M_nus label. 2003 also saw the release of fifth Plastikman full-length, Closer, the first to feature Hawtin's vocals prominently in the mix. 2011 saw the release of Arkives: 1993 - 2010, an extensive collection of the complete Plastikman discography and lots of unreleased material as well. In November 2013, Hawtin was invited by Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons to perform at New York's Guggenheim Museum for their annual fundraiser, an event that saw a Plastikman set performed around a specially constructed LED obelisk. The experience inspired Hawtin to complete work on a new Plastikman album, and the quickly realized Ex saw release in June of 2014. [See Also: F.U.S.E., Richie Hawtin]
Title: Be There Or Be Square / Aqua Riddim - Single
Artist: Plastikman
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Sheet One (Remastered)
Artist: Plastikman
Genre: Ambient, Electronica, Techno, Rock, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: EX (Performed At the Guggenheim, NYC)
Artist: Plastikman
Genre: Ambient, Electronica, Techno, Jazz, Rock, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Collections
Title: Azuli Amsterdam '12 mixed by Daddy's Groove
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: D. Part, Vol. 1 - Innerspace
Genre: Electronica
Title: Blueprints for Modern Technology, Vol. 3
Genre: Techno, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Minimize to Maximize
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: The Dark Lights Mix
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Miami Sessions 2015 - Ministry of Sound
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Expansion / Contraction
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Expansion / Contraction
Genre: Techno, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Minimize to Maximize
Genre: Techno, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: The Kings Of Electro
Genre: Electronica, Techno
Title: Privilege Ibiza 2008 Mixed By Cesar Del Rio CD1
Genre: Electronica
Title: Fabriclive 41 - Simian Mobile Disco
Genre: Electronica
Title: Rough Trade Shops 25 Years (CD3)
Genre: Industrial, Indie Rock, New Wave, Punk, IDM
Title: Vagabundos 2013 - Mixed By Argy & Andrea Oliva
Genre: House, Deep House
Title: Vagabundos 2013
Genre: House, Deep House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Clubland X - Treme Hardcore 7 (CD 1)
Genre: Hardcore
Title: Richie Hatin Presents Enter Ibiza 2013 (CD4)
Genre: Techno, Tech House
Title: Dubstep Allstars Vol. 03
Genre: Dubstep
Title: Azari & III Presents - Body Language Volume 13
Genre: Rock, Club/Dance
Title: Chatroom (Original Soundtrack)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Body Language 13 Mixed By Azari & III
Genre: Electronica, House
Title: Tech-House Winter 2014 Vol. 1 (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Club/Dance
Title: I Love Retro Volume 3
Genre: Dancefloor, Club/Dance, Disco, Pop
Title: De Maxx Long Player 30 (Origins Of House And Techno)
Genre: Electronica, Soul, Disco, Funk
Title: Groove 150
Genre: Tech House
Title: Minus # BeatportDecade Minimal 2014
Genre: Minimal Techno
Title: One Point O (Unofficial Soundtrack)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: RA Top 50 Charted Tracks For February 2015
Genre: Electronica, Techno, Tech House
Title: Beatport Top 100 Tech House February 2015 (CD1)
Genre: Tech House
Title: Obsession With Sound Energy (CD1)
Genre: House, Electro, Dancefloor, Club/Dance, Dance Pop
Title: Resident Advisor Top 50 DJ Charts [March 2015]
Genre: Electronica, Deep House, Techno, Tech House
Title: Resident Advisor Top 50 March 2015
Genre: Electronica, Deep House, Techno, Tech House
Title: Beatport Top 100 Tech House (April 2015) (CD2)
Genre: Tech House
Title: Djs Most Charted Techno April 2015
Genre: Electronica, Techno
Title: Arkives (1993-2010)
Genre: Ambient, House, Acid House, Techno
Title: Kontor Sunset Chill 2015 (CD1)
Genre: Downtempo, Chill Out, Electronica, Deep House
Title: Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 7
Genre: Hardcore
Title: Fabric 24: Rob Da Bank
Genre: Electronica, House, Techno
Title: Kontor Sunset Chill 2015 (CD2)
Genre: Downtempo, Chill Out, Deep House
Title: Enter. Ibiza 2015
Title: Fabric 83: Joris Voorn
Title: Underground - Ministry Of Sound 2015
Genre: Acid House, Techno
Title: Ministry Of Sound - Underground 2015
Genre: House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Berlin Sessions - Ministry Of Sound
Genre: House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Ministry Of Sound: Berlin Sessions
Genre: House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: The Greatest Switch Box (CD8)
Genre: Ambient, Breakbeat , Downtempo, Electronica, New Beat, House, Euro House, Hard Trance, Techno, Industrial, Electro, Rock, New Wave, Drum & Bass, Dancefloor, Dance Pop, Synth Pop, Lounge, EBM
Title: Solid Sounds 2008.1 (CD1)
Genre: House, Techno, Industrial, Electro, EBM
Title: Richie Hawtin Presents Enter. Ibiza 2015 (CD1)
Genre: House, Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Richie Hawtin Presents Enter. Ibiza 2015 (CD2)
Genre: House, Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Richie Hawtin From My Mind To Yours PROPER
Genre: House, Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Fabric 83: Mixed By Joris Voorn
Genre: Techno, Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Extrema Outdoor 2016
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Best Of Techno Vol. 4 (Compilation Tracks)
Genre: Techno
Title: 90s Electronic
Genre: Electronica, Pop
Featuring albums
Title: Azari & III Presents - Body Language, Vol. 13
Artist: Azari & III
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: From My Mind to Yours
Artist: Richie Hawtin
Genre: Electronica, Techno, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Balance Presents
Artist: Patrice Bäumel / Patrice Baumel
Genre: Techno, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: HYBRID: A Decade of Dubfire
Artist: Dubfire
Genre: Electronica, Techno, Rock, Punk Rock, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Blueprints for Modern Technology, Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, Techno, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Global Underground # 43: Joris Voorn - Rotterdam (CD1)
Artist: Joris Voorn
Genre: House, Deep House, Progressive House, Tech House
Title: Fabric Presents Overmono
Artist: Overmono
Genre: Breakbeat , Electronica, Garage, House, Techno, Minimal Techno, Electro, Drum & Bass