Richie Hawtin

From the intensity of small clubs to the energy of outdoor extravaganzas, it doesn’t get better than playing the music you love and watching it grow and take over the whole planet! What an adventure! Thanks to all of you Techno lovers & supporters and specially everyone at this magical gig a few weeks ago at @lafabrica_ in Córdoba Argentina. #Hawtin #Since1990 #TechnoAdventures #WorldDomination #Techno #Detroit track id: @cosmicboys ‘The Bast’

I can’t get enough of this track @matrixxman ‘Full Clipp’ SO DAMN GOOD! I tried to make the video feel like the track, dark and spooky!

Closing out with something new/old @plus8records to a great crowd at @terminalvfest and finishing up 3 incredible weeks on the road with a beautiful “Dimensions” exhibition in London @matthewhawtin @thestoresdotcom and amazing gigs all across the planet @time_warp_official @guidi_community @antoniolieu #SantaFe @lafabrica_ @pmopenair @florida135official @industrialcopera @tofflerrotterdam #Hawtin #Since1990 #PLUS8records #FUSE25

Throughout my career I’ve been very influenced and inspired by visual art. First through my brother @matthewhawtin and further by incredible artists some of whom I’ve been lucky enough to meet or even collaborate with like @dirty_corner This morning in Edinburgh, after an incredible raving night at @terminalvfest I had the pleasure of visiting @innes_callum at his studio. A living legend of sensitive visual subtraction & abstraction. Inspiring! #Hawtin #Minimalism #Reduction

Touring Spain over Easter had been a tradition of mine throughout the 1990s, so it was great to be back celebrating the holidays at two of the longest standing clubs in the country @industrialcopera @florida135official Both of these clubs have supported me for many many years and I’d just like to say THANK YOU to the teams and families behind these institutions, and of course, the crowds that fill them! #Hawtin #Since1990 #ClubTour #EasterTechno

Design week Techno madness last night in Milan at the FAI - Palazzina Appiani with Fabio Florido and the wonderfully crazy Guidi & Antonioli.eu gang! #Hawtin #ItalianTechno #DesignWeek2019 #Techno

My collaboration project with my brother Matthew Hawtin - F.U.S.E. Dimensions exhibition in London at The Store X has been extended and will be open to the public until April 14, from 12 noon - 7pm. FUSE Dimensions Exhibition at The Store X, 180 The Strand London #Hawtin #MatthewHawtin #ArtMusic #TechnoArt #Rave #FUSE25

So many beautiful moments, my body is still tingling with the energy from everyone! Time Warp ❤️ #Timewarp2019 #Hawtin

😶 INCREDIBLE ! Time Warp 25th anniversary - lost in a world filled with beautiful frequencies! 🙏 to team TW! What a night!!!!!!! #Timewarp2019 #Hawtin #Techno #Rave

The early 1990s were an important time in the creative development of the Hawtin brothers. While I experimented in frequencies searching for my sonic identity, my brother Matthew Hawtin peered deep into his canvas through geometric color fields. The resulting audio and visual works fused together to form my 1993 F.U.S.E. Dimension Intrusion album & Train-Tracs EP. Now 25 years later we revisit that time with the first ever F.U.S.E. exhibition giving a glimpse of the feeling from that time. The exhibition is open from April 5-7, from 12-7pm daily at The Store X at 180 The Strand, London with free entry, and the box set can be pre-ordered from fuse.plus8.com FUSE Dimensions Exhibition at The Store X, 180 The Strand London Video by FACT Magazine The Vinyl Factory #FUSE25 #MatthewHawtin #FromOurMindsToYours #Plus8Records #DimensionIntrusion #TrainTracs #ComputerSpace #RichieHawtin #FUSE #Techno #IDM #DetroitTechno

In 1993 I released my first album Dimension Intrusion under my F.U.S.E. pseudon-ame. The album was a collection of my early music experiments in my U.T.K. studio which was “Under The Kitchen” at my parents house in Windsor, Canada. I was 22 years old, was already running my label PLUS8 with my partner John Acquaviva but still in search of my own unique sound, something between the futurism of Detroit Techno and the hypnosis of Chicago Acid house (with a lot of hours of Sci-Fi movies thrown in for good measure). Within Dimension Intrusion you can hear both the sounds of what had inspired me and the developing acidic overtones of what would become Plastikman. Today, 25 years later, I’m very proud and excited to release the Dimensions collection, featuring all those early experiments, the unreleased 1993 Computer Space album and accompanying art and essay from my brother Matthew Hawtin, whose paintings and inspiration have been part of my adventure since the beginning. Order online here: http://fuse.plus8.com Video credit: DECOL #RichieHawtin #FUSE #FUSE25 #Techno #IDM #DetroitTechno #MatthewHawtin #FromOurMindsToYours

ARE YOU REEEADYYY??!!! Only a few weeks until the Time Warp's 25th ANNIVERSARY! For many of us TIME WARP is one of the highlights of the year, bringing together an incredible lineup of artists and friends in a celebration of TECHNO & PARTY culture! This year I’m playing 2 sets on the MAIN floor: the opening set from 7:30-9:00pm Saturday evening, April 6th. And then I’m closing with a mind-bending techno ADVENTURE on Sunday morning, April 7th, from 10am-the end! From the FIRST track to the LAST — HAWTIN style! Lets CELEBRATE 25 years of Time Warp TOGETHER!!!! #RichieHawtin Adam Beyer Ben Klock Charlotte de Witte Amelie Lens Boris Brejcha Marco Carola Nina Kraviz Sven Väth Dubfire Carl Cox Tale Of Us Monika Kruse #helenahauff Chris Liebing Jamie Jones #luciano #maceoplex

Looking back at the early days of PLUS8 and how the isolation of Windsor & London, Ontario pushed John Acquaviva and I to start our own label and follow our dreams!

Many of you know the label MINUS but before that there was my original record label which I started with John Acquaviva when I was 19 years old - launched in 1990 to release our own music PLUS8 quickly became a home for an international family of like-minded artists who all had the same intension, pushing the sound of Techno forward! From the 1990’s to the present and again into the future, we will soon continue with a special re-release and then continue... From Our Minds To Yours. #RichieHawtin #JohnAcquaviva #PLUS8 #FromOurMindsToYours #FromThe90sToTheFuture #Techno #Windsor #Detroit #Berlin #London

Hope everyone is having a great weekend, I AM! Here’s a quick glimpse of my gig a few weeks ago at MMA - Mixed Munich Arts - which btw was KILLER! Track ID: Raito ”Dark Ritual” #RichieHawtin #SaveMMA #PLAYdifferently

Saturday, March 30th Resistance presents PLAYdifferently at @Ultra Music Festival, Miami. FEATURING (listed by running order) Dubfire B3B Nicole Moudaber B3B Paco Osuna Richie Hawtin Matador MARCEL DETTMANN ANNA La Fleur SpinnZinn #PLAYdifferently #MODEL1 #LINKEDbyMODEL1 #JOINTHERESISTANCE #Ultra2019

LOVE THIS PHOTO! Thanks to @musicmovement.uk for posting! The perfect memory of Ricardo and I listening to music at @hardwax_official Berlin! Just sitting here listening to new music 15+ years later and preparing for my first tour off 2019 starting tomorrow! Can’t wait to get back on the road and start playing all the newest and freshest music for everyone! See everyone this weekend at @jaegeroslo OSLO @mixedmunicharts MUNICH & @aaniwalli HELSINKI! #ricardovillalobos #richiehawtin #hardwax

Saturday 2nd February 22.00 - 00:00 GMT Tune into NTS Radio for my interview with MUMDANCE! NTS Radio - www.nts.live

Here’s another great example of a video shot by you from CLOSE – taken at Mandarine Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2017. If you have attended a CLOSE show in Glasgow, London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, or any of the CLOSE shows around the world for that matter, I would love you to send us your original video footage– whether shot on a phone or a camera. We’re still editing a special multi-media CLOSE project and your footage could help us complete it. Please don’t worry about the quality – we’d love to see it all! Please upload your video files in native format, without editing, without processing, or without compressing to: http://close.richiehawtin.com/upload and include your name, email and social media tags… We will contact you if we use your footage. Thanks to 'martinnnnn' (via YouTube) for posting this one! #RichieHawtin #CLOSElive

For those who attended the CLOSE live shows in Glasgow, London, New York, Paris and Tokyo, or any of the CLOSE shows around the world for that matter, I would love you to send us your original video footage of my performance – whether shot on a phone or a camera. Your material could form part of a special multi-media CLOSE project we are working on. Please don’t worry about the quality – we’d love to see it all! Please upload your video files in native format, without editing, without processing, or without compressing to: http://close.richiehawtin.com/upload and include your name, email and social media tags… We can’t promise to use it, but we will contact you if we do. Here’s a great example of a video from CLOSE – taken at Mandarine Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2017. Thanks to Daro Alegre for posting. #RichieHawtin #CLOSElive

NYE started with a bang at HYTE at Funkhaus Berlin! Surrounded by a great gang of Techno freaks in the booth and on the dance floor creating the perfect frequency for the last dance of 2018! Beautiful set by Fabio Florido before me and happy to hand off to Chris Liebing before jetting off to Bulgaria for #intersolar2019 at YALTA CLUB and then WAN Festival in Madrid! A great series of gigs to wrap up 2018 perfectly and start 2019 with positive intensity! #RichieHawtin #20182019 #NYE #NYD #Techno #HappyNewYear

Closing out 2018 with a sincere THANK-YOU to everyone who came out to one of the many dance floors around the world! This was a year where you could feel the excitement of another new generation discovering our music for the first time, taking hold of it, twisting it, making it their own, once again making Techno sound refreshing and exciting. Thank you to all of you for joining this global adventure and dedicating your passion into the ongoing development of electronic music. High-fives to all the life long friends and supporters, hugs to my family and a big kiss to Laura! To celebrate another great year, here is my set from Contact Festival Munich, available on Mixcloud & SoundCloud: mixcloud.com/rhawtin/richie-hawtin-contact-munich-germany-01122018 #RichieHawtin #ContactFestivalMunich #HappyNewYear

HAPPY NEW YEAR! - A new year, “A New Day” F.U.S.E. (1993) PLUS8 #FUSE #DimensionIntrusion #Techno #Hawtin #FromOurMindsToYours #FastForwardToTheFuture #TestPressings #ComputerSpace

Pure warehouse Techno vibes last night at Kompass #BelgiumTechno #Techno #WarehouseRave #Hawtin #RichieHawtin #TechnoRave #Acid video: @philipp_altheimer

Lurking in the shadows in a cavernous warehouse called Kompass - Techno still resonates better in the darkness! #hawtin #plastikman #warehouserave photo: @philipp_altheimer @ Kompass