Plasticman

Real Name:
Richard Michael Hawtin
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Probably the best known of Richie Hawtin's production aliases, the Plastikman project helped push the minimal aesthetic of techno to relative popularity in the early-mid 1990s, largely on the back of the drum machine track "Spastik", but also via the sound of a modified Roland TB-303.
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Shortcut Code: [a1030]
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Discography

Remixes:
DJ Collection Vol. 1 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Alphawave (Plasticman ... Arcade Deutschland GmbH 1995
Appears On:
Legends On Acid Pt. 2 (CD, Comp) Into The Nature (Plast... H&G Records 1999
Tracks Appear On:
Rave City - Beyond The Mix (2xCD) Lasttrak Motor Music 1996
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Review by elisirr Jan 09, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)
Before the time that I listened to Plastikman I was only 16 years old, he was on a issuing sicialian premises, a radio that passed "strange" music so-called or to the vanguard.
Now I am 27 years old, I've achieved a bachelor in law and I haven't never ended to listen to that music they defined "strange".
I've caught up my deeper aspiration: Minimal Sound.
The deep noises, the rhythm noises.
At this point I have all of Plastikman, perhaps some unreleased rare will lack me or "goodness knows other".
I've passed many nights to listen to the "sonorous madnesses" of Richie and I'm much debtor to him if my neurons have begun to turn for the just back.
Sure many times, I became account, than it was not possible to feel it. Pain, the "dead women". At least that one of the spirit.
But other times, others many times, the sounds of him have been hypnotist, evasive, from the abyss of human nature.
I don't know how many people could appreciate this "disease" that I've towards its sounds, but it isn't important for me.
Once I read this: "Minimal is the Answer".
I think it's true.
It has been for me, I hope it'll be for you.
I wish someone will clone Richie Hawtin.

-Vittorio-
Review by servo Sep 16, 2002
i always find it funny. kids really latched on to this whole thing. suddenly it wasnt really about the music and rich got a lot of flack for it. the scene was evolving. soon kids would flood the parties by the thousands. the scene flipped overnight. soon kids were selling their green day cds for plastikman paraphenalia. i wont comment on whether what was happening was good or bad. but it was undeniable. i will say this. detroits scene was changing. in due time, things got out of control. no longer was it a little secret. bigger parties were going to happen whether we liked it or not. it was just a matter of time. there was a new kid in town and his acid would change us forever.
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