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Plastikman is the main recording identity for Windsor, Ontario, Canada's Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman, F.U.S.E., Circuit Breaker, From Within to name a few). Since his debut as states of mind and fuse in 1990 to the launch of Plastikman in 1992, his sound has developed through early connotations of acidic techno and extreme levels of energy (1993's 'Spastik') to sonic experiments in futuristic-rhythms and off-world ambience (1998's 'Consumed' LP). Read Full BioPlastikman is the main recording identity for Windsor, Ontario, Canada's Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman, F.U.S.E., Circuit Breaker, From Within to name a few). Since his debut as states of mind and fuse in 1990 to the launch of Plastikman in 1992, his sound has developed through early connotations of acidic techno and extreme levels of energy (1993's 'Spastik') to sonic experiments in futuristic-rhythms and off-world ambience (1998's 'Consumed' LP). More minimal approaches were evident through his year long 12-record project 'Concept 1' from 1996. His recording attention is matched head-on by his groundbreaking DJ performances, which incorporate turntables, effects processors and additional instruments (the 909 Drum Machine and Roland SH-101 Synthesizer). His world-renown enhanced DJ set-up of decks, efx & 909 has kept pushing the boundaries of what a DJ can do by increasing the potential of creativity through once again, technology.

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03Ask Yourself Plastikman

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04Cor Ten Plastikman

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05I Don't Know Plastikman

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Plastikman Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Plastikman:

Ask Yourself (i guess it's a good place to start... inside my…
Disconnect I try in vain To disconnect my brain I don't know if…
Ethnik These guys in st. louis gave me crystals Like huge crystals…
Gak On the edge…
Gak (remix) I sve je pocelo ovako I tog dana kad sam video tvoje…
I Don I don't know What you're looking at What you're listening to…
I Don't Know I don't know What you're looking at What you're listening to…
I No I... don't... know...…
Mind In Rewind My mind Works in rewind Why was I so Blind?…
Okx I don't remember falling asleep The last thing I remember is…
Ovokx …

The lyrics can frequently be found in the comments below or by filtering for lyric videos.

Comments from YouTube:

ruudolol

13y↑28

it sounds boring on your computer, but when this is played at a party, it's AWESOME, believe me

Jason kojack

20w

To go back just for 1 weekend.

Kalan714

27w

One of the hardest baselines ever

Popol P

27w↑1

Mostly mixed with 1 or 2 other songs

MajorenSnor

34w↑2

boring? please

Ricky Baillie

40w

@Pao Castillo 8 likes 4 months after the last one

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PoPeYeBIGBOSS

7y↑486

if people actually knew how this was made in 1993 their view would be different. this track is a history lesson.

Kevin D

25w

@Dominik Pintarić oh that's pretty awesome and on point, but ain't ALL dance music just that?

Todd Holland

25w

Old school 90`s raver from Detroit & Windsor here... ritchie hawtin is top shelf.

Mirozenx

@ryanrc111 Very interesting insight for someone like myself who doesn't know much about the genres! Thanks for the good read!

Aye Ready

Boom boom boom boom

Robrecht Cornelis

@PoPeYeBIGBOSS different times of 'rona now I guess, still a great track

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BenDaijo

9y↑18

When you hear this in a proper set muxed with skill on a banging system at peak hour guaranteed you will lose your shit like everyone else... This is madness. Excellent ...and a tip of the hat to the machines that made this and all modern "electronica /edm " possible... The drum and bass machines by roland...

kij100

2y↑1

Heard the Slam crew mix it on several occasions.

Tim Ropkins

7y↑138

Richie Hawtin, Luke Vibert, Richard D. James, Josh Wink.. these are names all you modern EDM kids should know... without them none of this modern electronic would exist.. All of them were pioneers, and all of their bodies of work are fucking legendary..

Enimatek1337

40w

Couln’t agree more all Those listening to Peggy gou, boris brejcha, fisher, that aint techno this is

L. D.T.

48w

You forgot African percussion artists. Without those, you wouldn't have a drum, a bass, and a rythm to start with.

Mattie Mclean

1y↑1

stop telling people what they should and shouldn't know. Let them find their own path

DaviD

Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Kenny Larkin, Mad Mike, Carl Craig are more important.

kij100

@vinay the Hawtin mix is exceptional

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sky bound zoo

4y↑24

“Probably my most beautiful moment with an 808 was going back at 8AM on a Sunday morning after listening to Derrick May play in Detroit, and turning on my 808, and making a whole song out of it… trying to make an intense, rhythmic piece out of one machine. In actual fact it became one of my biggest songs; it was Plastikman ‘Spastik,’ which was pure 808.” - Richie Hawtin

marco ferri

@Renan Wutan Nice! thank you very much!

Renan Wutan

@marco ferri it's called '808' it's on prime video

marco ferri

@Renan Wutan can you please tell me which doc we are talking about please? thanks you :)

Sandro

What a Story 👽

Renan Wutan

I came because of that documentary, damn

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Vince

7y↑131

During this time I worked at a factory and one time a bigshot came to the back of the shop because I had this blaring on the radio. He thought a machine was damaged and making the "weird sounds." We both laughed when he found out it was music. Man Detroit raves were the best back then.

Techno Music

That's fucking jokes

Kev Moore

That's so funny Vince!

Filconmop

9y↑1

Son , back in the days (early 90's) this track was EPIC , the sub bass goes straight though your body . It was said that back then this track keeped ppl alive while partying toooo hard :)

myyst

3y↑1

just stumbled across this and i am completely grateful. never heard anything like this before in my entire life and this is beyond genius. will definitely be checking out more of his stuff <3

burteriksson

9y↑1

Recycled Plastik is such a wicked EP. Still remember hearing those great tracks back in '94 when I was 14. Those were good times to be growing up. It was a sick world then, too — don't get me wrong! But you didn't see it the same way. It was better, I guess. I still get that nice, warm feeling when hearing good acid, techno, jungle, (hard) trance, hip-hop or hardcore from those days.

Manny Regalado

8y↑39

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! I haven't heard this since the NINETIES!!!! Jumping and dancing to this in a fucking line with everyone else in the rave at the same time next to the ginormous speakers...GODDMAN THAT BRINGS ME BACK. CHICAGOOOOOOOOO!!!

Jeroen Lambrechts

13y

Being from that era i can say this is without a doubt one of the iconic tracks of the early techno years. it's in my top 3 techno for sure. Up there with "the first rebirth"

Jonny Armstrong

8y↑38

Militant, disorienting and showing what drum machines can do and not sounding tinny! Some may say repetitive, but fuck me! that's what techno was meant for. To entrance and take you on a journey, sometimes sinister and uncomfortable, other times euphoric. But the fact you took the journey speaks for itself. Plus a couple of decent E's helps - A LOT!!!!!!

Brian Findlay

7y↑4

I've never found this one to be that repetitive actually - if you pay full attention to how the claps are getting banged about by everything else in different bits, then you should notice that the dissonant harmonics change their melody for each "set" of it. As Hawtin stated in an interview a few years back, this track was basically a tribute to a night out seeing Derrick May, and it's everything he could recall from it melodically; it shows because for me there's about 4 different main "songs" in this.

publicenemymcmenemy

One of the most iconic.. Still bangs to this day, one of the best for looping over another couple of tracks in a mix!

tandtoast

13y↑11

i must admit, i thought this was boreing and rather pointless when i first heard it..then i heard it on a sound system....It Blew my HEAD off. one of the best tracks ever made.

Noah Tyson Highlonesome

2y↑1

Love this song! When I djayed, this was always in my rotation. That low sub bass. When it hits. BOOM!
Also, richie hawton is a great DJ! Saw him in 97-98 even further fest.. One of the 2. First time I took acid, too

stephen lafferty

13y↑1

richie hawtin was and still is an absolute genius and this is one of the best tracks ever!

Donpachido

14y

You really can't judge this track by this recording, you need to hear it uncompressed and with proper speakers or headphones. It's a timeless classic that transcends the genre. It might have to grow on you but I've never met anyone into electronic music, that didn't have an appreciation for this song.

kij100

12y

Along with Mills and Dave Clarke, Richie makes up the holy trinity of Techno they take you to very dark places but lift you so high that you're begging for 'just one more'. This will always be one of the great tracks for those that are serious about their techno. Richie we salute you.

Mohamad Hajar Neto

5y↑8

It is more than music, it is the sound of a machines' ritual, plotting to take the world over humans.
Pure art.

Marius Merchiers

This will never get old! Awesome beat.

MX5GS

13y

To this day I'm still fascinated by what one can do with a few TR-808s and effects processor. Still sounds as good as the day I first heard it, over 15 years ago...

Stunt Panda

1y↑3

This is a lesson in the mastery of the Roland 808. There are no other instruments except the 808. That said, imagine playing this to a minivan full of six year olds on the way to their first day at school... on full volume.

Whiite shirt

5y↑1

Once you realise there isn't going to be a tune/melody and that it's an exercise in drum machine acrobatics, you can enjoy it for what it is. And if you're on E at a rave, that helps too!

vigorous era

That bass drop at 2:00 is so, SO much more spectacular on a large sound system, and only then does the power of this track hit you -- especially if the DJ mixes the previous song out really early, so you're kinda zoning out over a minute of "light" percussion.

Martijn Klaver

8y↑6

An all time techno classic. Last song on Mysteryland mainstage 2005. Everyone went nuts!

meangene408

2y↑15

This mixed with Daft Punk's Rollin And Scratchin' is one of the best experiences you'll ever have.

meangene408

@Giselle Ha!!! Aye nae bothers. Yer only 20 odd years too late.

Giselle

Just tried it, I have to agree, thanks for that.

meangene408

@Max Letterman They were finished to me the minute Discovery was released. I will happily admit that I saw them live in 2007 and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen but anything after Homework is rotten.

Max Letterman

Daft Punk :-(

Rooster Thembones

Some time ago I took a pill with a friend in a house that on the same night another friend of ours and his girlfriend were moving in. She was a cop and I started coming up like a bastard in front of her. I thought I was dying until somebody put headphones on me playing that Daft Punk track. Saved my life.

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Jack Volare

Got through the whole compilation of the tracks you uploaded. So many memories, so much fun, and still is.

Thanks for all these uploads

Adinocc

3y↑1

Brings back memories of seeing Richie Hawton preform at the tunnel circa 94. blew me away!

spencechicago

7y↑1

Those of you dissing this have never heard it live in a club. If you've heard it live, blended in & out during a set blasting in a dark house club... you'll be convinced that it's sick as fuck, imo

Darron Greeves

7y↑1

Sick is not the word I would use as it's a term from a different era from the track although I would agree absolutely with your comment, excellent

Audiojack

11y↑61

It's funny, the whole is made with a Roland TR-808 and it is also 8:08 long.. I don't think that is a coincidence.

Daniel Silva

13w

Nice observation :)

Dan King

37w↑1

807

Steve C

52w

🤔

Den Baitos

1y↑5

And a 909 (ride cymbal and filtered snares after 3 minutes)

MARCG1969

13y

still hits you in the face when this gets dropped, classic all the way.

SmellMyKKPP

8y↑1

I've heard this track to death! Probably know each beat of drum in the whole track :D
Classic one.

Best place to enjoy a night/morning out on house music and techno is Belgium off course! ;)
Groet

katje

13y

Just heard this one live in Paradiso yesterday and I can guarantee you that shit was bangin'. Just another track which only works in a club.

Danny Joyce

13y

doesnt get any better than this! awesome track!

Filipe Tomé

12y

Melhor Dj de Sempre!! São musicas como esta que marcam a diferença num Dj, e o Plastikman tem Muitas.

HeelofAchilles

10y

The twisted snares that rush in after 6 minutes are genius!

Ezequiel Tropp

10y↑2

One of the minimal master piece ever made!this is just incredible,that snare tratatatatatatata!

Dave Ellis

13y

I'm not usually a dance music fan, but I really like this. It gives me shivers. That said, I am noted for a rather...unconventional taste in music, so perhaps it is natural I'd like this.

Michael Efstathiou

7y↑15

If it wasnt for this track, techno and more importantly minimal genres of music such as min. techno and house would sound very different. Give this guy, Riche Hawton a sick producer some credit for pretty much inventing a style of music.

DaviD

Nonsense, Minimal Nation by Robert Hood played a more important role. Robert Hood and Daniel Bell.

Mathias 23

Richie Hawtin

kajmal

10y

When DJs mix this (usually just the rolling intro a few songs before they play the whole track, as a teaser) into a classic set, everyone goes nuts.

Gustavo Silva

Of course it can be made. This has a feeling, are you aware of that? Are you aware this are thousands of hours of work on one god damn single project? As I said, ahead and build this masterpiece again.

Mauricio Trindade

12y

still being played. i reckon it's one of the most played among the top DJ's for all the time.

Maurice Van der Weerden

nog steeds een van de vetste ooit!Super tijd in the rave zone montini!!!💪💪💪

Lord Saruman

10y↑1

I heard this once a long time ago and liked it. Then one day I was very cold and my teeth were chattering and I suddenly remembered this song!

Robert Strickland

4y↑1

Heard this at the first tribal gathering in Oxfordshire blew me away and Mr hawtin spun it out for 20 minutes my mate collapsed at the end he couldn't take the techno it's still good and my mates fine by the way

iamthewanganator

12y↑4

listen to this on a massive sound system, and you will understand why it is so amazing.

Daniel Greene

1y↑1

It takes a lot of skill and talent to make a song like this entirely out of a drum machine.

Green Morning Dragon Productions

12y

It's all about the context. And of course, the kind of music you want to hear. Richie Hawtin Makes pretty sparse music, so if that's not your bag, fine. But in the context of what he does, I think he's excellent. And I agree with RallyCat, it sounds FANTASTIC in a nightclub, with a top quality sound system.

Richard Terrell

Still have this album.... a classic 👌

Unfvmous_Jack 9

4y↑1

I've been searching this track for 1000 years, finally found it !!

Colum Coyle

It was very revolutionary for it's time. True techno defies musical notation, it's about sound and texture and generally it's simple like this track above. What we have here is essentially one drum machine and a delay box and the results are one of the best techno records ever made.

Casseopaya Recordings

11y↑4

If you hear this track in an club, you´ll see it´s a bomb ! And there is definitly no need to layer it ! Never !

djwilly212

12y↑2

WOW Thank you man... This was The TUNNEL signature track.... I remember like if it was yesterday. This played all the time at the TUNNEL in MANHATTAN word.... You knew shit was going to get RAW when this track played. :) This track was the call to the dance floor to get you'r dance on..... sorry peps i have to play this LOUD!!!!!!!!!

3.75PASTORINHOS

This was the first time (1997) that i discover the greatness of Techno Music...Since then my world has changed.

Greg Spradlin

Brings back some great memories. Thanks Ritchie!

Sam Chapman

ya gotta love techno to truly appreciate this track, this is a #Banger

Daniel Garrity

12y↑1

Saw him live at technofest, (DEMF) two weeks ago. Best show this year so far.

Ton van Hoof

11y

An absolute epic classic !

tredamit

11y

I forgot how amazing this is until Green Velvet dropped it a few weeks ago. Cant wait to drop it next week !!!!

javier garcia

Ufffff los pelos de punta cuando sonaba este tema en la real casi siempre lo ponía Rudy

Juanfallerini Rrobinnn

Que locura como salte con este tema en los boliches :-) una lujo

domtring

11y

Total work of genius. Builds together so beautifully. I suppose ya either get it or ya don't. Personally, i pity the latter.

hueso411

7y↑17

Lol! I love it how people are freaking out over this track. Saying it was a complete waste of their time. They just don't get it. It's a really good techno banger!! :3

ShkyyBoy

2y↑2

They're too used to hearing frequent base drops and melodic beats aka EDM. Cant appreciate the music haha.

Miranda De Witte

4y↑1

Waarom geen zang

Jazzymanus

Ez nagyon pörög még mindig! :-) Óriási volt, van és lesz!

ruudolol

13y

it sounds so much better when mixed or when played live, but still, awesome track

Juanfallerini Rrobinnn

Que locura como salte con este tema en los boliches :-) una lujo

Arjan Massar

Back to the old days! This is so GREAT

Julien

Ce track est une pure tuerie .c'est brutal!

shelbradshaw1

Loved dancing to this back in the day.
High school marching band - give this one a try. I'll come to the game to cheer you on!

wiggerleague

8y↑3

+RIOTSOUND don't forget to add how different it is to hear on it's own or in a mix the way it was intended. Ritchie on four decks, dropping this for a mere 90 seconds or so = incredible! this kind of music was meant to be played in a big mix, n if played at the right time, at the right speed, blended with the right tracks, it is given an entirely different life, sound, whatef. I think Ritchie may even had intended it to be like josh wink's "just a track" just made purely to be played in the mix and used for transitions. just a track is nothing to shout about on its own, it's kinda boring even, but it's a good beat n great to use to segue from one track to the next. I have to say tho, this track is a little bit more than just a track. :)

Techno Music

Yeah man I've heard him donut in such fucking skill it gives me goosebumps

Ab4kus

There's a recording from luke Slater at fuse where he plays this track, you should listen to the crowd and see if they think it's boring. Absolute mad house even before the track begins because everyone knows what's coming.

AlexWoodGarbage

8y↑2

You don't play this track and not let it play up until the second break. Using it as a tool or a mixing track defeats it's purpose and it's status as a techno relic. Just put it on, let it play out and watch what happens.

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Rudy Rudy

Thank you for your work and time, what a wonderful memory 🇧🇪🙏

Paolo 69

2y↑1

Quando entrano i bassi...ballano anche le piastrelle...semplicemente unico.

stevey2020

11y↑1

the dubfire rework of this track adds the bass it craves

jose maria

A subir el volumen con los clasicoss

DREKADY GANGS_ONE PS4

13y

one of the best unique minimal tracks it is. :> this tune-style cant be better and its so f*ckin diffrent as all the others. richi u did it :D

eyekantbeme

2y↑1

Richie Hawtin and Jon Gaiser are my absolute favorite DJs. Just so elaborate while still being consistent.

Olivier DEGAND

6y↑6

Les nuits de la St Sylvestre des années 90 dans le nord, a écouter radio galaxie sur 95.3... J'avais 10ans !!! Que de souvenirs, ces skuds me donnent toujours le frisson. les cassettes tournaient en boucle pour en conserver la quasi intégralité, elles n'auront pas survécu aux années , merci internet de nous faire revivre ces moments !!! a ceux qui découvrent, oui ce titre a 25 ans !!
Que j'aimerai retrouver des samples de cette radio pour moi mythique, merci également à galaxie d'avoir osé proposer ce style musical

Philippe Concher

Excellent commentaires

jazzliscious13

12y

You don't always NEED to mix tracks. This one stands on its own.

steph ane

a pure masterpiece .... nobody was doing this in the world back in the days .. this LP is a pure genius track of electronic dance music

Truman Thomas

this plak dropped just as technology caught up to the man. then every one could do the greatness at hand

Kevin Tyrrell

11y

Spastik is on the whole a phasing masterpiece....Hawtin is a very talented producer and although he may not have any discernable musical talent...he will never get into Julliard or play Carnegie Hall but those are not his arenas and not where his talent lies....he is a sonic scientist and although that may sound systematic and overly formulaic it still requires talent and a strong understanding of a very difficult form of sonic balance and harmony to pull off.

springsten

14y↑6

This is one of the greatest techno-songs ever.

Wilfred V

41w

absolutely!

Dadahilismo Motjeniano

1y↑4

And 12 years later im replying

Dadahilismo Motjeniano

1y↑2

Its amazing you wrote this comment 12 years ago

woodsweb

14y↑1

good tunes always find their way back into playlists.

dududu59

Que du kiff, toujours au top. Par contre on se prend un coup de vieux whaw...
Jeunesse, sorties boites .... souvenir souvenir ;-))

Darionthisguy

multiple reasons, as an homage, to create nostalgia, its incredibly mix-able, if you at a decent club/venue i GUARANTEE it will generate a response.

James Pawson

6y↑6

I remember making stuff like this in Impulse Tracker on my 486. My friends hated it, and I deleted it. Always found it weird that Plastikman was popular with some of the ravers.

tim burgess

alot of its down to jon of the pleased wimmin coz he played this every set always in the 90s...an usually still does near end of his set,,,,thats why alot of the clubbers (hate the word ravers) liked it...shite if u ask me!!

Dan White

6y↑4

Not even, this tune is wild, James' friends just sucked.

SYNC303

6y↑7

lol check yourself

James Pawson

@Vince Rinehart
Haha, yup. Those were wild, fun days back then. MMm, Tiesto a bit later.

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porchmore

8y↑1

Is this one of the foundation tunes of modern techno? I'm just getting into it. Find it very interesting.I wanna know what makes Richie Hawtin so great

Matias Mannelli

Amazing and point of inflexion track, all machine drums and a concept new for techno.

adidashomeballs

12y

loving this song!!

Katy T

It sounds like angry rattlesnakes in a tree being pecked by a woodpecker.... amazing track

datb0yavi123456

7y↑6

Not a fan of Techno, but this isn't bad.

The Goomba

Ahead of its time! Sounds modern for 1993

huy vu

7y↑3

i'm a 90s kid, listen to a lot of techno, industrial stuff on film, tv and this is mind blowing shit, in 21st people just put percusion and make their dynamic range wider and call it minimal techno, this is different, this shit is fucking awesome

Nope

10y

@romaintuk Deadmau5 is excellent at creating technical house. His sounds are very clean and well-produced, but he also has the best resources at his disposal. I've never found his songs to make me go "oh holy shiiiiiiit" like many other, more creative house producers' songs.

Mike Sheppard

14y

No, YOU must be kidding. This is a classic. Recognize, or get educated on the aspect of classic techno. MANY true heads went mental to this tune back in the day...and its still effective, I promise.

Courtney Harris

Heard this at the club last night, so sick!!!!

Sofi Bonilla

tracks like this set a basis for the edm world making it what it is now :)

kij100

2y↑5

My favourite track of all time unfortunately makes my wife physically sick 😕😂

San91

She doesnt like raving ?

lightcrew

13y

Awesome track... reminds me Tiesto @ Dutch Dimension (2002)... what a party..especially when Alibi - Eternity was played next!

Eoin Kavanagh

12y

i keep waiting for it to break into an amazing beat but it just doesnt

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