Richie Hawtin

Infobox musical artist


Name = Richie Hawtin
Background = khaki
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Birth_name = Richard Hawtin
Origin = Windsor, Ontario
Born = Birth date and age|1970|6|4|mf=y
Oxfordshire, England
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Genre = Minimal Techno
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Instruments =
TB-303TR-909Ableton Live
First_album = Sheet One
Notable songs = Spastik
Label = Plus 8, M-nus, Warp
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URL = [http://www.plastikman.com/ 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)|Artifakts [bc] ", 1998
* "Richie Hawtin: Decks, EFX & 909", 1999
* "Richie Hawtin: ", 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: , 2005
* "Richie Hawtin: DE9 lite: Electronic Adventures (Produced with MixMag) , 2006
* "Richie Hawtin : Minus Orange 1 Decks, EFX & 909 , 2007

External links

* [http://www.plastikman.com/ Richie Hawtin's official site]
* [http://www.m-nus.com/ Richie Hawtin's Minus record label site]
* [http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.asp?ID=7501 Press release on Olympic involvement]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Richie+Hawtin Richie Hawtin] at Discogs
* [http://www.endclub.com/node/5914 Interview with The End Club, 2007]
* [http://www.djtimes.com/issues/2005/11/_features_index_11_2005.htm Interview with "DJ Times", 2005]
* [http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx?id=607 Interview with Resident Advisor (Part I), 2005]
* [http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx?id=674 Interview with Resident Advisor (Part II), 2005]
* [http://www.clubplanet.com/news/archive/richie_hawtin_interview.asp Interview with Club Planet, 2005]
* [http://www.higher-frequency.com/e_interview/richie_hawtin/index.htm Interview with Higher Frequency (Part I), 2004]
* [http://www.higher-frequency.com/e_video/richie_hawtin/index02.htm Interview with Higher Frequency (Part II), 2004]
* [http://www.furious.com/perfect/plastikman.html Interview with Furious, 2001]
* [http://www.cubercoolische.com Interview with Cubercoolische, 2008]
* [http://www.onbeat.com/interviews_Richie_Hawtin.php Interview with Garrett Shatzer for Onbeat, 2006]
* [http://www.onbeat.com/dvds.php Review of Slices' Documentary on Richie Hawtin by Garrett Shatzer for Onbeat, 2006]
* [http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/navire/rencontres_hawtin.html Richie Hawtin in conversation] with André Éric Létourneau, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1998

Video Links

* [http://www.videosift.com/video/Plastikman-Disconnect-Trippy-Video Plastikman - Plastique music video]
* [http://www.videosift.com/video/Plastikman-Disconnect-minimalist-trippy-techno Plastikman - Disconnect music video]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJF-M1TPqLQ Plastikman - Converge music video]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwnabBWBbo8 Richie Hawtin - We (All) Search music video]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCIAJRCxNGU Richie Hawtin - The Tunnel music video]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zlpB6V-yYs Richie Hawtin - Minus Orange music video]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPuioiOqGcc Richie Hawtin - Concept 5.1 clip]

Photo Links

* [http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=richie+hawtin&w=31496313%40N00&s=int Richie Hawtin pictures by Merlijn Hoek]

References