While I agree with Maroko: That segment is just sheer brutal brilliance in full effect, there is no way he did that live.

This is a guy who is definitely a studio head, and Hawtin excels there - No doubt - But his live performances are often lacklustre, and pale in comparison to what he pulled out of the bag with this mix.

His live Decks, EFX, and 909 performances never came anywhere near his nigh on biblical judgements on the album. Yeh, they were good and they made me dance,

But you can't tell tell me he did that album live - Euh, euh I don't belive.

Doesn't stop it from being awesome though...Even though he's got a right twattish hair style (blood Sven Vath).

While I don't find "Decks, EFX & 909" as nearly as entertaining or essential as Richie's other two sequels, I just have to drop a comment or two about the entire segment which consists of tracks 14 through 22. Starting with Call Of The Wild, a Jeff Mills track from his 1999 EP on Purpose Maker, Hawtin moves through other two numbers from the same 12", L8 and Scout, and then really does some mixing magic with his own Minus Orange/Minus Yellow and Nitzer Ebb's Let Your Body Learn! He scratches, cuts 'n' pastes, pulls tiny loops and segments in and out of the mix at the speed of sound, and lets the vocal from the old EBM track stomp over his Minus Orange. Genius.
That whole segment is about 11 minutes long, and I cannot help myself - I just love it, and find it worth the entire purchase.
It sounds even greater if you have the original, unmixed versions of the tracks lying around somewhere, as only then can you fully appreciate Richie's almost surgical DJ skill.
However, keep in mind that he only got better from here.