I just say that the line up @ Pure in 1994 at The Glasgow Barrowlands was Plastikman, Green Velvet and Speedy J; needless to say it was a legendary night of Techno & Acid House music!!!


The cream always rises to the top and thats where Richie Hawtin belongs; still leading the way performing 'Around The World' in nightclubs From Asia, Europe, USA to Australia and back again - He's a legend and a true electronic music pioneer!!!

Just check him out and listen to his music - Genius all the way from Detroit to Berlin, He never fails to perform just the way you'd want, never letting you down!!

Richie Hawtin is definatly a VERY talanted DJ and Producer.
His mixing is so unbelievaley clean and perfect and as for his production, well,..don't get me started!! hehe

I have always enjoyed this richie and he is definatly one of the true techno pioneers to ever exist!

I heard him play and he was playing very good quality techno, but he wasn't as good as i had heard. I hope to see him come out to Aus again sometime soon for i wanna hear his talent once again.

Ritchie made his first UK appearance at PURE ('the greatest club in the world' - Derrick May) in Edinburgh as Cybersonic/ FUSE on 28.12.91. He fell in love with the club so much that he made his debut live UK gig as Plastikman at the PURE New Year Party in the Glasgow Barrowlands Ballroom in 1994 - tough luck Southern boys, we beat you :-)

I'll add a story to that.

In 1996 I bought my own very first CD in the fameous music store "USA Import" in Antwerp, Belgium, without really knowing what it was. Pre-listening didn't help much since every track took a while to open up. The CD was called 'Recycled Plastik' from Plastikman.

I listened to it a few times, and then gave it to my dad who didn't enjoy it much though he's fond of electronic music. After a few weeks I asked if I could have the CD back. I thought it would only be useful to sample some of the drums on it or something. My dad lost it somewhere, and he couldn't tell me why.

Four years later, my dad rang. He said he found that CD back that he lost. It turned out that it got stuck somewhere inside his player, and after opening it up for some other reason he found it between the drive mechanism and the electronics inside the case. So I got my CD back. By that time I thought the music would be completely outdated, and my taste moved from Jarre to Techno. Turned out the last track on it, Spastik, was even then spectacularly popular in clubs in Belgium and beyond. I was so proud I still had that CD, and even know when it's my turn to perform on a party I use that track when the time is right (around 4-5am).

I've been buying Plastikman tracks ever since, and I've been to a few performances of Ritchie on stage. I think that he performs better as a DJ mixing other people's music, but I can appreciate his minimalist records.

He's truly a role model and an inspiration to a lot of artists. He deserves every attention he's getting now.