"Richie Hawtin (born Richard Hawtin, June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a 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 (graphically represented with a boxed underscore in place of the "i"), a label primarily for his own projects."

More of Richie Hawtin in this Sift http://www.videosift.com/video/Richie-Hawtin-The-Tunnel-2005-minimal-Techno

- More @ Wikipedia

Interesting bit of trivia, one of the reasons that this track is remarkable is that is shows off Richie using his brand new Devilfish modified 303 that was sent to him by the creator in 1994.

Back in the early nineties crazy technoheads in Australia went absolutely berzerk, drilling a dozen tiny holes in the faceplate of their Roland TB303. They hacked the circuitry and more than doubled the number of knobs and switchs. Suddenly the quirky, liquid sound of the TB303 is even more eccentric than ever before.

The 303 is just smoking me . . We've never heard
anything like it . . just freaking out and literally bouncing
off the walls shouting 'Yeah! Yeah! This is what we want! This
is what we want!'"

Then I designed some circuit boards and a front panel so I
could do the modifications properly. The first one was my own
303 - which later went to Richie Hawtin. This is serial number
-001.

Is that Mickey Mouse??

yay for r. hawtin! this still is the stuff.

I remember hearing Spastik off the album Recycled Plastik for the first time and it blew me away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBREj1UhiZI
(real vid? Its from MTV apparently)

Also saw him a couple times doing his DE9 stuff.. what an experience!

Didn't expect to see any Plastikman fans here! Great surprise.

witnessed a Hawtin Dj set in Spain a couple of days ago. whole new level of respect - technically he's absolutely brilliant. he basically just uses the turntables as simple sound generators and then creates everything else with layers and layers of effects.

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