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Richie Hawtin
Richard "Richie" Hawtin (born June 4, 1970) is a British-Canadian electronic musician and DJ. A three-time DJ Awards winner, he was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s and has been a leading exponent of minimal techno since the mid-1990s. He became known for his recordings under the Plastikman alias. In May 1990 Hawtin and John Acquaviva founded the Plus 8 record label, which they named after their turntable's pitch adjust function. In 1998, Hawtin launched M-nus Records. In summer 2012 Hawtin first presented ENTER., his experimental event at Space in Ibiza. The following year, Hawtin launched his own sake brand ENTER. In 2016, Hawtin launched his own technology company called PLAYdifferently, and released the MODEL 1 mixer, co-designed with Andy Rigby-Jones.
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1970-06-04
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Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Deadmau5 And Richie Hawtin Talk New Gaming Venture Pixelynx

Technology within the dance music industry is moving at a rapid pace, and the trend continues with deadmau5’s and Richie Hawtin’s new gaming venture, Pixelynx. Pixelynx is a music gaming platform created by musicians and technologists deadmau5, Hawtin and music and gaming industry veterans Ben Turner, Dean Wilson and Inder Phull. The company, based in London and Los Angeles, is focused on building a music metaverse that transforms the way artists connect and engage with their fans through gaming experiences. Indeed, Pixelynx is shaping the future of music by giving artists the means to put power back in their own hands. More information on Pixelynx and its community can be found on the Pixelynx Discord.
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20 Questions With Richie Hawtin: Talks Unconventional Collaboration With Chilly Gonzales & Why ‘In a Way, It’s Always Been Business Techno’

Click here to read the full article. No matter how early you came into electronic dance music, it always felt like Richie Hawtin had already been there for a lifetime. The British-born but primarily Canada-raised Hawtin, is an elder statesman of techno, guiding the trajectory of the sound from the 1980s through to the present time. A forerunner in not just techno, but technology, Hawtin and his longtime business partner, John Acquaviva, started the seminal record labels Plus 8, MINUS Records and From Our Minds. They invested in Final Scratch, the predecessor to Serato and were founding members of Beatport. Hawtin’s...
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Detroit’s Movement Festival plots comeback with 2022 lineup teaser: Jeff Mills, Adam Beyer, Richie Hawtin, and more

After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, Detroit’s esteemed Movement Festival is back with a lineup teaser that artfully bridges the gap between genre-defining veterans and today’s most in-demand techno acts. The teaser includes headliners Jeff Mills celebrating 30 years of his label Axis Records, Drumcode head honcho Adam Beyer, and tech titan Richie Hawtin, along with a tantalizing taste of the talent slated for the festival’s comeback. Festival goers will once again descend on the mecca of techno for three days over Memorial Day Weekend, May 28 – 30 inside Hart Plaza.
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Movement lineup: Jeff Mills, James Murphy, Richie Hawtin to Hart Plaza

Producers unveil list of 20 artists headed to May's Movement festival, a return after two years off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Adam Beyer and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy are among the artists who will perform at this year's Movement Music Festival, the return of the Memorial Day weekend electronic music fest after it was sidelined for two years by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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