R. Hawtin @ Olympics
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- NegativeSpace
Really happy to see Richie Hawtin producing some music for the Olympic Opening ceremonies, should be cool to see. Great to see someone like Hawtin who is relatively underground to get some recognition like this.
There is a little preview on his website, not much but I am looking forward to it.
- danthon0
Has my interest for sure. I have never watched the opening ceremony. It is such a cool move for the olympics that I wonder how the hell it came together.
- _me_0
Let the Games [ and the 909 ] Begin!
- NegativeSpace0
haha @ 909, wicked!
He worked together with an Italian coreographer from what I know and they collaborated and he composed the music. Not sure how lengthy it will be it shoulds like its going to be different and well put together. I am certainly pumped since I was more than pleased with his latest cd release.
- horton0
wicked i didn't know about this.
- raiden0
i hope that the preview on the m-nus website isn't indicative of what hawtin has prepared...
nevertheless, glad to see a minimal techno artist doing a large scale project!
- BuddhaHat0
richie is the man.
i can't believe he's doing such a mainstream production like this, but hey, i'm not complaining.His Transitions album is just something else. words don't do it justice.
- GreedoLives0
jesus i used to rock teh plastikman ish back in college...never thought he'd have this much staying power...
- RobotGunslinger0
just returned from a modeselektor gig so I am in techno mood.
first off hawtin definitely isn't underground. still glad they got him and not some random trance dingo.
cover of his new cd is aweful though, really needs a haircut :)
- BuddhaHat0
I met him last year here in Adelaide when he had that haircut... I think it's part of him coming out of the closet... it certainly makes him look gay or bi...
Anyway, he pashed the male photographer at the end of the gig in front of everyone, so perhaps his hair is another way of expressing his sexuality. (even though HEAPS of the good minimal DJs are gay - Michael Mayer, reinhardt voigt, vladislav delay etc)
- stuff0
yay! Modeslektor! we booked them to play in glasgow next month with Monolake and sleep archive.
If they're gonna get a techno artist to do the Olympics they could have dug a bit deeper than Hawtin....But at least it ain't Tiesto!
- lvl_130
that's pretty cool. love hawtin and as someone already said that transitions disc is dope!
on another topic does vladislav have any new shit out or coming out? i haven't heard anything new for quite a while (since luomo-present lover actually)
- paraselene0
fantastic. a reason to get behind the olympics. by far the best sonar set i've seen to date was hawtin. you'd be surprised how un-underground he really is - at least in terms of the number of kids who turn up to see him.
- kelpie0
meh - has anybody seen the DVD that comes with transitions? totaly pretentious yadayada djGod bullshit, with f-all substance behind it. utter utter pish, and his music has gone backward since plastikman imo. All the fancy mixing stuff is a sham and very boring (again imo). Dissilusioned with old Richie am I :(
- kelpie0
haha, I just tried to do a text based representation of Richies tunes and QBN cleaned it all out as code! :D
- stuff0
never been a big fan. There is so much mo better techno in the world.
- paraselene0
*sticks tounge into bottom lip and goes Mmmmnnnggghh at kelpie
leave my high school nostalgia alone you poofter.
- kelpie0
pish pish pish pish pish pish pish.
pish.
pish
- stuff0
Quote from James Stinson aka Drexciya.
'The Caucasian Persuasion'
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"Ever since the blues and early jazz, black music has been
stolen and exploited. It pisses me off that we let it happen. It's
a political thing; everybody talks about it under their breath, but
they don't come out and say anything about it. As far as I'm concerned,
Richie Hawtin, Moby, and all the rest of 'em can do what they want, but
don't step into my house if you don't respect it. Don't even call what
you do 'techno'! I don't want to hear anybody saying Richie started any
damned thing, 'cos he ain't started shit. All he did was step in with
his money and his Caucasian persuasion and put himself on the market,
and now he's got all these kids riding his jock. We never had rich
backgrounds; we were working jobs for $4.25 an hour. Our mamas never
gave us money to buy keyboards and put records out. We work for our
stuff. That's why there's a big difference in the music.
"Why do Richie and his Plus 8 family come down here and throw
parties in downtown Detroit? He brings in all these kids from the
suburbs and from Canada, and that shows a lack of respect. I've been
to every one of those parties and I've never heard an Underground
Resistance record, a Cybertron record, a Model 500 record or an Eddie
Fowlkes record. It's a total lack of respect, and it's got to stop."
- kelpie0
hardcore.
you know the score
;)