Artist
Plastikman
Plastikman is a techno artist from Oxfordshire, England formed in 1993. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Techno · Oxfordshire, England · Best techno albums
- 26
- Releases
- 1993–2024
- Active years
- 1993
- Formed
Artist
Plastikman is a techno artist from Oxfordshire, England formed in 1993. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Techno · Oxfordshire, England · Best techno albums
Most popular
Consumed
1998
Recycled Plastik
EP · 1994
TripTideThud (Prada SS22 Menswear Version)
Single · 2021
Inxtro (Prada FW21 Womenswear Version)
EP · 2021
LF RMX 020
Single · 2019
Slinky
Single · 2010
Nostalgik.3
EP · 2007
Nostalgik.2
EP · 2005
Nostalgik.1
EP · 2004
I Don't Know
EP · 2004
PK
EP · 2000
Sickness
Single · 1997
Spaz
Single · 1994
Plastique
EP · 1994
Krakpot
EP · 1993
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. 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. Hawtin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, but moved when he was aged nine to LaSalle, Ontario, a suburb of Windsor, Ontario, and just across the river from Detroit, the birthplace of techno. His father worked as a robotics technician at General Motors, and was a fan of electronic music, introducing his son to Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream at an early age. He has one brother, Matthew, who is a visual artist and ambient music DJ. Hawtin attended Sandwich Secondary High School in LaSalle. He began to DJ in cl…
