Richie Hawtin
Actor
- Born
- June 4, 1970 (age 56) · Oxfordshire, England
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Richard (Richie) Hawtin (born June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire) is an English-Canadian electronic musician and DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s and a leading exponent of Minimal techno since the mid 1990s. He is best known for his abstract, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a pseudonym he still uses today.
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Hawtin is known for DJing minimal techno sets making use of laptop computers and digital mixing equipment. In May 1990, Hawtin and fellow second-waver John Acquaviva founded the Plus 8 record label, which they named after their turntable's pitch adjust function. In 1998, Hawtin launched Minus records.
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Known for
Acting4
- 2020Plastikman Rewind
- 2014What Difference Does It Make? as Self
- 2010Making Contakt as Richie Hawtin
- 2006Pioneers of Electronic Music, Volume 1: Richie Hawtin as Himself
Behind the camera3
- 2014Packard: The Last Shift Original Music Composer
- 2010Making Contakt Director
- 1994X-Mix-3: Enter Digital Reality Music