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PLUS 825-5EP
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The fifth installment in Richie Hawtin's seven-part From My Mind to Yours 12" series, for which Hawtin has revived some of his most revered aliases -- Plastikman, F.U.S.E., Robotman, Circuit Breaker, 80xx, Childsplay, and R.H.X. The title of the series is a play on the now-classic early Plus 8 compilations From Our Minds to Yours from 1991 and 1992. The records were previously released in 2015 as very limited hand-stamped white labels via Hard Wax in Berlin. This 12" includes "Akrobatix" and "Cirkus," both credited to Plastikman.
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PLUS 825-3EP
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Richie Hawtin reveals From My Mind to Yours, a series of seven 12" on his own Plus 8 label for which Hawtin has revived some of his most revered aliases -- Plastikman, F.U.S.E., Robotman, Circuit Breaker, 80xx, Childsplay, and R.H.X. The title of the series is a play on the now-classic early Plus 8 compilations From Our Minds to Yours from 1991 and 1992. The records were previously released in 2015 as very limited hand-stamped white labels via Hard Wax in Berlin.
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MINUS 100LP
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Arkives Analog is the vinyl version on 6 pieces of 180 gram vinyl, featuring exclusive tracks taken from the Replikants remixes, plus a limited edition Plastikman poster. The set comes in a special deluxe custom box. Remix artists include: Gaiser, François K, Matthew Dear, Steve Bicknell, Berg Nixon, Dubfire, Moby, Ambivalent, Heartthrob, Carl Craig, Mathew Jonson, Psyche and Green Velvet.
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MINUS 099EP
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Richie Hawtin sneaks up with a new Plastikman single. If you heard Hawtin spin in the summer of 2010, you're going to recognize "Slinky" as one of the highlights of his set: a blistering acid track that immediately stands out from today's standard-issue bass line techno hits. "Monkee" is a properly minimalist jungle-drum groove made of dizzily syncopated toms and clean, linear 808 patter. It's a trip into the darkest recesses of the rainforest, complete with the screeching of unknown beasts.
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MINUS -002EP
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"Nostalgik.2 follows up 2004's Nostalgik.1 with more recovered unreleased material from the Plastikman archives, sounding as timely now than when originally recorded nearly a decade ago. The music and approaches heard within these unreleased recordings reveal Hawtin's blueprint for future mind-bending projects like Concept 1 and Plastikman albums such as Consumed and Closer. From his beginning projects starting in 1990 as States of Mind and FUSE, early on Hawtin has been able to reach futuristic rhythms while working with limited technology, found here with Nostalgik.2. Beyond the drums comes a groove -- 'Plink Plonk' is as raw and jacked as Hawtin pushed with his Circuit Breaker alias from the early 1990s, created with strict percussion, shuffling drums in between distortion and minimal effects. Caught here in a serious man-machine connection, much like the stripped playfulness behind his classic single 'Spastik,' the elements are limited but the output bounces and rattles within. Moving into more experimental zones of minimalism, the B-side delves into the drum manipulation and programming style that is unmistakably Plastikman. The sheer tonal pulse of 'Kink' gets heady right from the start with delays and echoes in the mood of his 1995 single, 'Sickness.' 'Plonker' and its detuned drums twist the few channels of sound into a psychological treatment of bass and Plastik-effects also from the time of the 'Sickness' sessions."
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MINUS -001EP
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"Nostalgik.1 is the first in a small series of recovered unreleased material from the Plastikman archives that sound as timely now than when originally recorded. Born from a similar vein of Plastikman classic's 'Sickness' and 'Panikattack', both of these tracks echo the tripped out, synthetic groove that came out of Richie Hawtin's Windsor Ontario Canada studios in the mid-1990's. 'Snark' builds and bubbles with its muted kick, signature Hawtin hi-hat programming and a snappy snare that manically pops like a firecracker. Recent edits by Berlin's Ricardo Villalobos help bring the schizophrenic hiccups and flares into the mix, building then rapidly dropping the beat, steering the track into even more loopy territory. 'Aquatik' moves along a similar axis as 'Snark' but walks closer in hand with Hawtin's Hardtrax, Robotman and Concept 1 identities. The off-kilter soul of Plastikman is undeniably present here as Hawtin tunes into the darker area of the dancefloor thru experimental sounds and effects. Hawtin's mixing and production from this era shows how his surgically-loose and unique off-balance rhythms can bend and flex within the lower frequencies."
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MINUS 002EP
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"PK was recorded during Hawtin's Consumed sessions, taking a dark journey down the sparse and spatial path that gave his Plastikman album Consumed such critical acclaim. Produced along a similar axis, PK stretches out to the dancefloor in a beat heavy acidic taste more keen to the likes of his Sickness angle."
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