Plastikman is a pseudonym used by Richie Hawtin, a techno musician associated with minimal and acid techno. Reviews on DeBaser discuss landmark Plastikman albums including Sheet One (1993), Musik (1994), Artifakts (BC) (1998), Closer (2003) and EX (2014).

Plastikman (Richie Hawtin) is known for minimal, often acid-tinged techno, use of the TB-303, ambient textures and long, hypnotic compositions. Hawtin was born June 4, 1970 in Banbury, England and later moved to Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The Plastikman project is repeatedly described in reviews as alienating, repetitive by design, and focused on deconstruction of dance contexts into a more mental, sensory experience.

DeBaser reviews consistently praise Plastikman as Richie Hawtin's austere minimal/acid techno project. Key albums discussed are Closer, Sheet One, EX, Musik and Artifakts (BC). Reviews highlight hypnotic repetition, TB-303 use, ambient textures and deliberate alienation.

For:Fans of minimal techno, acid/ambient electronic music and experimental listeners

 An endless, symmetrical, alienating, and coldly calculated journey.

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 Sheet One came to grab the entire acid community by the collar and take it to an underground world, where pitch-darkness reigns, and the light at the end of the tunnel is a strobe.

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 EXpire is the best track of the album and truly shows us the newest side of the Plastikman project: without using a drum machine, but only hats and a driving combination of 303, Hawtin creates an evolving micro-universe, with overwhelming pathos sublimated in the final ascent; it’s a sort of journey towards sensory extinction that can only end in a digital supernova.

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