Artist: Richie Hawtin
Genre(s):
Other
Dance
Discography:
DE9: Transitions
Year: 2005
Tracks: 21
De9: Closer to the Edit
Year: 2001
Tracks: 31
Concept 1 96VR-(Thomas Brinkmann Variations)_CD
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Although of English and Canadian origins, Plastikman's Richie Hawtin is closely connected with the Detroit techno scene associated with figures such as Kenny Larkin, Stacey Pullen, Eddie Fowlkes, and Derrick May. His Plus 8 label -- co-owned and operated with John Acquaviva -- is one of the near influential experimental dance music imprints, and Hawtin's have tracks recorded as Plastikman and F.U.S.E. are highly regarded as close, well-informed, forward-stepping updates of the Detroit level-headed. A DJ of celebrity and growing in repute as a remixer, Hawtin has seen his visibility as one of data-based dance music's more than important and innovative figures prove ever since the release of his debut Plastikman album, Sail One.
Hawtin was born in the English borough of Windsor in the early '70s, and when he was nine-spot stirred with his parents to Canada. An early interest in electronic-based pop and dance music sour serious when Hawtin discovered the tracks organism pumped out of his neighbour crosswise the river, Detroit. Beginning as a DJ in 1987, Hawtin quickly became involved in composition through and through his direct involvement in Detroit's tightly knit community of musicians and producers. Combining early influences from European synth pop groups like Kraftwerk and New Order with the stripped-down techno futurism of Detroit innovators such as Juan Atkins and Derrick May, Hawtin's tracks ar as steeped in Motor City tradition as they deviate from it in damage of grain and rhythmic complexity.
Although 12" releases issued through Plus 8 and the European NovaMute mark have got all been pretty dancefloor-oriented, Hawtin's attention to techno-based listening music has been just as focussed through his full-length albums. His challenging series of mix albums -- including 1995's MixMag Live!, 1999's Decks, EFX & 909, 2001's DE9: Closer to the Edit, and 2005's DE9: Transitions -- has emboldened his repute as a conceptualist DJ.
