Richie Hawtin recalls hearing Derrick May back in the 1990s when the seminal techno DJ mixed two songs together in a way that somehow sounded like neither. Incredibly, it’s something entirely new, a ...

When the techno producer, DJ and EDM performance innovator Richie Hawtin returns to the Coachella Music and Arts Festival this week, he’ll do so as the rare artist who was also present at the first ...

The DJ mixer controls and contours all sounds. The slightest twist of a knob or the slide of a fader can change the structure of one sound to make room for another. The instrument, which is at the ...

Notes from the music beat … Coming home isn’t something Richie Hawtin takes lightly. The Windsor-Detroit electronic music pioneer will DJ in the D this week after presenting his Plastikman Live ...

It's a Thursday morning, in the NY offices of Mute Records, and techno star Richie Hawtin would probably rather be in bed than here, giving telephone interviews about his latest remix CD, DE9: Closer ...

When electronic musician and DJ Richie Hawtin played the inaugural Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 1999, the Sahara Tent was its modest stage for electronic music, years from sprawling ...

Richie Hawtin has been at the forefront of the electronic music scene for much of his life – from his early DJ sets in Detroit at age 17 to his groundbreaking work as Plastikman, which remains ...

Have you ever wanted to know exactly what DJs are doing during sets besides cuing the next track? You now have a good opportunity to find out. Minimal techno pioneer Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman, F.U ...

Techno titan Richie Hawtin has always been able to tweak existing ideas in a way that completely upends them. This time, it’s concert video. CLOSER is Hawtin’s app 10 years in the making. It’s an ...

Globe-trotting electronic musician and DJ Richie Hawtin is the living embodiment of techno, the man CMJ calls a "techno God." "He doesn't just play techno," the influential publisher of music ...