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Richie Hawtin
Background information
Birth name	Richard Hawtin
Born	June 4, 1970 (1970-06-04) (age 38) Oxfordshire, England
Origin	Windsor, Ontario
Genre(s)	Minimal Techno
Label(s)	Plus 8, M-nus, Warp
Website	plastikman.com

Richard (Richie) Hawtin (born June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) 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 haunting, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid 2000s.

Hawtin is also known for DJing intelligent, minimal techno sets making use of high-tech electronics such as drum machines and digital mixing equipment. With fellow second-waver John Acquaviva he founded and still runs the Plus 8 record label in May 1990, and in 1998 he launched Minus, primarily for his own projects.

Career

Hawtin has recorded music under the aliases Plastikman, F.U.S.E, Concept 1, Circuit Breaker, The Hard Brothers, Hard Trax, Jack Master, and UP!. He also recorded and performed, in combination with other artists, under group names such as 0733, Cybersonik, Final Exposure, Spawn (with Fred Giannelli and Daniel Bell), and States Of Mind. Additionally, Richie and Pete Namlook collaborated to produce the From Within series of albums blending minimal techno and ambient sounds. He has also released an album Sounds of the Third Season with Sven Väth.

Although he was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in England, Hawtin has spent most of his life in LaSalle, Ontario, a suburb of Windsor, Ontario. Hawtin attended Sandwich Secondary High School in LaSalle. He spent part of 2002 and 2003 living in New York City, and has since moved to Berlin, Germany. He has one brother, Matthew, who is a visual artist and ambient music DJ. Circa 1993, Hawtin was billed for DJ appearances under the name Richie Rich, a name also used by an American hip hop music DJ who was a member of 3rd Bass, and also a UK house music DJ who was actively producing remixes around the same time. Hawtin collaborated with choreographer Enzo Cosimi to create a composition called "9.20" for the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

In 2007, Slices DVD magazine launched a series of biographies called "Pioneers of Electronic Music", with the first issue being a roughly 60 minute documentary dedicated to the life of Richie Hawtin. The film follows his career from his early days crossing the border to Detroit to his current life in Berlin, interviewing many colleagues and family members.

Selected discography

• F.U.S.E.: Dimension Intrusion, 1993
• Plastikman: Sheet One, 1993
• Plastikman: Musik, 1994
• Plastikman: Recycled Plastik, 1994
• Richie Hawtin: Concept 1 96 VR, 1998
• Richie Hawtin: Concept 1 96 CD, 1998
• Plastikman: Consumed, 1998
• Plastikman: Artifakts [bc], 1998
• Richie Hawtin: Decks, EFX & 909, 1999
• Richie Hawtin: DE9: Closer to the Edit, 2001
• Richie Hawtin and Sven Väth: Sound of the Third Season , 2002
• Plastikman: Closer, 2003
• Richie Hawtin and Ricardo Villalobos Live at the Robert Johnson, Offenbach, Germany. 2004
• Richie Hawtin: DE9 | Transitions, 2005
• Richie Hawtin: DE9 lite: Electronic Adventures (Produced with MixMag) , 2006
• Richie Hawtin : Minus Orange 1 Decks, EFX & 909 , 2007

External links

• Richie Hawtin's official site
• Richie Hawtin's Minus record label site
• Press release on Olympic involvement
• Richie Hawtin at Discogs
• Interview with The End Club, 2007
• Interview with DJ Times, 2005
• Interview with Resident Advisor (Part I), 2005
• Interview with Resident Advisor (Part II), 2005
• Interview with Club Planet, 2005
• Interview with Higher Frequency (Part I), 2004
• Interview with Higher Frequency (Part II), 2004
• Interview with Furious, 2001
• Interview with Cubercoolische, 2008
• Interview with Garrett Shatzer for Onbeat, 2006
• Review of Slices' Documentary on Richie Hawtin by Garrett Shatzer for Onbeat, 2006
• Richie Hawtin in conversation with André Éric Létourneau, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1998

Video Links

• Plastikman - Plastique music video
• Plastikman - Disconnect music video
• Plastikman - Converge music video
• Richie Hawtin - We (All) Search music video
• Richie Hawtin - The Tunnel music video
• Richie Hawtin - Minus Orange music video
• Richie Hawtin - Concept 5.1 clip

Photo Links

• Richie Hawtin pictures by Merlijn Hoek

References

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