
After meeting a few times in the past, present and future, we sat down with the electronic music legend, Richie Hawtin. Known for his revolutionary contributions to techno and his pioneering spirit, Hawtin has been a key figure in shaping the global electronic music landscape. In this in-depth interview, we explore the fascinating story of his lifeâhis early influences, his journey through the world of underground techno, and his continuous evolution as an artist and innovator. Here is the story of Richie Hawtin, told in his own words.
Letâs go back to your past before we chat about the present and the future.

Letâs start with the introduction, who is â Richie Hawtin â?
âWho is Richie Hawtin ?â That is a good question. Sometimes I donât know, Iâm 53 now. It feels like I have been through so many different versions of myself, you learn so much as you live through life. There is always a main inner being but youâre always changing through experiences in the world. Iâm traveling all the time so the outside surface changes a little bit, but on the inside, I still feel like Iâm the introverted geeky kid who loves technology and music. Those are the two forces that keep pushing me along this journey.
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You lived in the UK, Canada, USA and Europe, how did each period influence you and your career as a musician? What was the music scene back then? What are the biggest differences between what we experience now?

When I was really young and I moved to Canada it was a big shift in my life. I think it really made me malleable and able to navigate situations, it kind of put me in a place as someone who is really comfortable with going into the unknown, whether it’s a new city, new people, new club, Iâm pretty open. Detroit was really important to me in the beginning because of the music scene, the heritage of techno and music and that kind of gave me my first understanding of being a part of music and understanding it deeply. Then when I moved to New York, it was different, Manhattan, Brooklyn, club kids, it was a totally different vibe. And then coming to Berlin in the early 2000s it was super hedonistic. It was a place of freedom and a place to experiment. I donât know if it is still free now, it’s hard to understand because I have been here so long I see the city differently. At the end of the day, music needs free, uncontrolled places for people to express themselves whether thatâs in a dance club with music or in a warehouse. You need as few rules as possible to allow that expression to come out naturally. The most important cities in the world are places where that happens. And I donât mean the whole city has to be free, as long as there is a safe place where people are free, where they can open up. There are more places now than ever before, people understand that it is healthy, that people need to find somewhere to release themselves, you canât just work, work, work, You need somewhere to sweat. And enjoy. Thatâs some of the best things you can do on a dance floor.
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Yeah! (laughing) I donât know why! Why is it that we all seem to really love basements, or at least dark rooms. My studio is in the basement, and I love walking down the stairs. It’s beautiful outside, weâve finally got good weather and Iâm leaving the blue and the sun behind. It gets darker and colder as I walk down those stairs, and I go into a different frame of mind. Thatâs something special. My first studio at my parentâs house was in the basement (UTK studios âunder the kitchenâ, and other studios Iâve had have always had no windows. I donât like to know the passage of time when Iâm working. I like the studio, and the club also, to be a place where you just get lost.
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There are a whole bunch of reasons why I got involved in club music. I was a weird kid in my little city. I didnât feel connected to the music and fashion of my other friends, and going to other clubs I found something I was a part of. So that was going on, and there was also this incredible music happening, but what was important for me was that there was this real DIY approach. I was meeting DJs and label owners who were creating their records. It was like a little industry, it was tiny and independent. It felt like in every part of the equation you could put your personality in it. You wrote your press releases, the labels, and the artwork. We did it all ourselves. My partner at the time John Acquaviva had a credit card with a $5000 limit which was a lot of money to anyone, and that was how we could pay for our first record. We didnât have to ask anyone, we didn’t have to ask our parents. We just had a vision or a dream or a story we wanted to tell, and with every record, we told it. And with every record we found other friends and artists who we invited onto the label, Plus8, and we started doing these other records. We just built this family, this dream world together. Thatâs what it was. Techno was big, there were still these big parties in Germany, Mayday and things were going on in England, but it wasnât as big as it is now. If you wanted to go somewhere you could just call someone you knew and ask âhey, did you know anyone in England, maybe I could get a gigâ, and when you got there you were playing for maybe 100 people; it was a really small network. I know that exists still now, but that exists under this massive thing that’s happening. Back then, that was it, you would go to one city and meet 20, or maybe 200 people who were into techno and that was the whole scene. It was really a beautiful time of connection, finding friends that were purely connected by music, and the stories we were telling each other on our records. There was no email, no cell phones, and the only way we communicated was by using our records. If you wrote something on the record, or a special image of frequency, that was how you shared your personality with the whole world. Therefore, when you were meeting other artists, it felt like you knew each other but only through the machines you used, through the sounds you made. It was a pure, kind of sonic communication.

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When we started doing the warehouse parties in Detroit, so many people were traveling from everywhere. We were doing these black box parties with loads of strobes and extended sets. That’s even where the sound of Plastikman, one of my early aliases, came from. It was rhythmic, it was trippy, and that feeling came from those parties. Thinking about that DIY idea from earlier, if you wanted to create something, you did it yourself. You went to the studio where you made music, then you made a record, then if no one wanted to release your music you started a record label, then to play those records you hosted parties. When you started putting all of those things together, you made a community, a sound, and then in the end you created a following.
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How would you describe the change between Plus8 and M-NUS labels? What are the core values of both projects ?
From 1990 until 1997, I was a part of Plus8 with my partner John Acquaviva. In 1997 we were still working at Plus8 but we also had a house label, a distribution company and were helping run about 20 other labels. We had this whole organization that we built from the ground up, it had really become this really big business. Around this time, it really felt like for me, and for John, that it was really hard to find time to be creative. We had so many other business commitments and other people working for us, we knew we needed to make a change. We decided to close Plus8. It was important to get back to being more creative in the studio. That was when I started the new label M-NUS. M-NUS was more about a label that was only for my own work, it was about working on my own sound. For me, there was always this yin and yang, this ebb and flow between creativity and business. This is my life, I have to think about what inspires me creatively, but also what puts food on the table. Sometimes I feel like Rich the businessman, and other times. I am Rich the artist. When Iâm really lucky, I find a middle ground. Because I love both sides. It is a very difficult, fun, challenging way to live your life, this was what I was navigating with Plus8 and M-NUS.

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After you launched M-NUS, you released the Decks, EFX & 909 mix album shortly after the opening, which contains current legends of the genre including Jeff Mills, Surgeon, Ben Sims or EBM group Nitzer Ebb. What was your community like back then? What was it like working with so many other legendary artists?
What was special and important about M-NUS was that there was a real crew, a real gang that was really living, shitting and sleeping together. We were traveling to New York, partying together, and everybody was making music. It was a great gang of friends that were really on a mission. Everyone had their sounds, but we were all friends. I am sure there was competition, but everyone was really in it together.

The decks, effects & 909 was an important release for me as it was trying to capture the âHawtinâ style I was trying to perfect, a style that reached beyond what most people considered regular DJing. Using extra equipment like a Roland TR909 for additional drums, maybe an SH101 for little melodic hooks and then Hawtin-style delay effects on top. This was what the release was trying to capture, what can we do more of, how far can we go when we go beyond just two turntables?! That was the beginning of my style which I continue to develop up and until this day, always welcoming new tech into the booth with me. However, I must say that this type of DJing was not common then in Europe and around the world, BUT in Detroit, i heard of Juan Atkins, Derrick May & Jeff Mills all using different pieces of tech in their performances, so I just accepted this as the norm, anyway, wasnât Techno all about the future, experimenting and breaking traditions? At least thatâs what that nerdy kid inside of me thought!

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New York and Berlin? How would you compare them now and two or a decade ago? What are your thoughts on current changes in the music scene if it comes to the roots of it ?
I was in New York around 2002, and 2003 so it is really hard to make a comparison between the two. Manhattan was kind of empty back then, and Brooklyn was still pretty raw. There were cool warehouse parties. There was a real scene, but tiny! I was only there for one year. However, one thing that I do remember is all of us wanted to come to Europe. There wasnât as much of a scene in America at that point, there was so much more going on, more labels, more gigs in Europe. People wanted to be closer to what was happening. Right now, North America has this incredible new undercover scene growing, it feels more vibrant than ever before. But 20 years ago, it was difficult to find as many people who were interested in techno music. Europe was always more accepting of club culture, there was just more going on in Berlin and Europe. It was also a need to make money, we needed to find more gigs.
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How would you classify your releases and your aliases during your music career? Speaking from Cybertronik, Plastikman, F.U.S.E. or Richie Hawtin itself ?
My first real solo experiments were under the name F.U.S.E. A lot of those were heavily influenced by the Detroit sound and the Chicago acid sound, they were real raw, intense sounds. I wanted to make people feel like they were being pushed around, moved by my records. I wanted something that sucked people in. The reason I make music is for people to get hypnotized into this sonic experience and be lost for the duration. Take them away from their regular lives, just live within the frequencies for some time. With Plastikman I definitely incorporated more visuals. In early Plastikman shows there was always this question of how do we bring visuals into this. I focused on playing with these two senses and bringing them together in a beautiful way. I wanted to bring people together in this cerebral tunnel I was trying to create. That’s why quite a lot of the Plastikman projects experiment with both audio and visuals.
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You are a good friend of Sven Vath and you both played a lot together, how did you both meet up? Do you still influence each other after years ?
Sven was one of the first people who invited us to play in Germany. Sometimes you meet someone and you know instantly that youâre on the same wavelength. And Sven and I were on the same wavelength from the very beginning. At first, he was pretty crazy, and I was still pretty nerdy but as the years went on we found a perfect balance between our two personalities. We played a lot together, even recording a mix CD together. At his core Sven loves what heâs doing, and believes in how much great positive energy and power you can create and give to people through music and on the dance floor. I think this is where we find our shared beliefs and our friendship. For Sven, this is his whole being. For Germany, Sven has always been a strong leading light in believing in club culture. Germany was always open-minded when it came to clubs, but in the 90s some people disagreed. You need people with vision who are believing in themselves and what they stand for and Sven has been there since the beginning commuting to our scene.
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Which workflow of the artist stayed in your mind and you learned from them the most?
What Iâve learned through listening, and collaborating. And DJing with people is that everyone does things differently, everybody hears things differently. Itâs inspiring to see how a human stands in front of this technology and something completely different happens than when another human stands in front of the same technology. It is important to be as open-minded as possible when listening and watching how other people perform or play. Sometimes I hang out with Nils Frahm who is more of a pianist and classically trained and has all this beautiful vintage equipment. He does things in a completely different way than I would approach it. I couldnât or wouldnât do it the way he does but of course, what he makes is absolutely outstanding and beautiful. Especially with music and tech, there is no right or wrong way to be doing this. Thatâs why I am inspired by Sven, and inspired by Nils. I am inspired by people who are really strong in their belief in the way they are going to create and distribute music. They are really on their own path, those are the kinds of people I want to hang out with. I want to hang out with people who are doing their own thing, and doing it completely differently than I am and learn from that, be inspired by that, be challenged by it. Learning, thinking and listening is amazing.

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You are a co-creator of PLAYdifferently DJ mixer, what was the inspiration for creating it?
I wanted to create an alternative device for people to use when they perform. When you look at a studio there are so many different synthesizers, and drum machines and plugins. When it comes to DJing especially in the last 10 years, it became more and more about everyone just walking up to the pioneer mixer & CDJs and putting their USB sticks in, and performing.

I know that this does not mean that everyone is playing the same as I said earlier that different people use the same equipment differently BUT, at some point I think it can become dangerous when everyoneâs ideas are funneled through only a limited choice of equipment. It was also my inner voice saying to me âshouldnât there be a more independent mixer company or idea thatâs DJ-led and not corporate-led.â The bottom line here is that we need to keep the âcreativityâ in DJing and with all the music now being accessible to everyone, every DJ, itâs even more important for the creative energies of the artist to be transmitted through the equipment they play. I sometimes worry if DJing really becomes so homogenized and limited and even easy, then what will people be inspired to do, to be?

There needs to be alternatives for people who may want to âplay differentlyâ, to explore a different way of performing. The equipment always has a say in how you move and how you play. So getting involved in designing a DJ mixer was to create an opportunity for people to try something new. I donât think there is a cookie-cutter approach to being creative, weâre all different, so in the end itâs good to have alternatives.
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We used full looks of Prada in our editorial, and also did a soundtrack for their fashion shows but not only. What is your story with a brand?
In the mid-90s, I was trying to find an image.I was searching for clothes that I felt comfortable in, and that also projected this idea of Plastikman and this minimalistic sound I was working on. That was when I first started delving into fashion. I was really interested in designers like Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and Prada. At that moment Jil Sander was actually designed by Raf Simons. Those were some of my early experiments going from an early kid in just a T-shirt to something more refined or funky. Fast forward 20 years later, Raf Simons has then gone on to become the designer with Prada. They approached me to create music for their shows during the pandemic. So, my thinking was.. I love the brand Prada, I love the idea of the brand because it’s an independent brand, it’s still a family business. And aesthetically, Prada is absolutely beautiful. For me It’s about minimalism, it’s about details, it’s about silhouettes. And I always felt like that look connects to the sounds and the aesthetics that I have tried to create in my Plastikman albums. I wasnât necessarily trying to make Plastikman albums for Prada, it’s just that I believe we are both already working on a similar aesthetic. Me, sonically and Prada visually. It makes sense. So when they came to me to collaborate, it just felt right. And I really admire Raf, heâs a great artist and he liked the music I was doing, I was already wearing the clothes.You couldnât ask for a better situation. When it came to our editorial, we could have tried lots of different designers, but I am incredibly respectful of my creative relationship with Prada, but also I feel it’s really representative of me, of who I am, and the music style I am producing.
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Whatâs important as an artist as you grow older is that you try and remember who you are, where you’re going, and what your mission is. This means working with people or brands who connect with those same principles. It can be difficult, but if you do that most of the time then you really start to define a whole aesthetic idea, and then that becomes a part of the whole narrative of what youâre doing. You hear people mention me, and theyâll say âRichie Hawtin is Plastikmanâ or âRichie Hawtin is Decks, EFX & 909â, or âRichie Hawtin is the guy who played two weeks ago at Neopop or somethingâ but Richie Hawtin is so many different things now. I am always trying to keep it so that it makes sense to me but also makes sense to my audience. I can only do what feels right to me.
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What about when it comes to choosing projects themselves, how do you balance everything?
This year, I am learning to say no. I used to say yes to every gig, I used to do over 200 shows a year, or 12 gigs in a row, playing every single day. I like challenges. But now my position in life has changed. I have a family and there are other things I want to do. Right now besides my family, being in the studio is more important to me. To be in the studio, and be concentrated, and go deep into an idea, it takes time. Sure you can have an accident and create a great record in a couple of hours. But if you want to go deep into yourself, you need some concentration. This can be hard to do when youâre surrounded by social media, or youâre constantly on tour. The only way to try and explore these new ideas is to say no and to some extent isolate yourself from the noisy environment we all live in.

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So youâve just mentioned touring and being distracted, What works for your mind and body while youâre on the road?
I was always really strong and resilient being on tour. I always had a really strong discipline of waking up and getting to the next gig, or attending my meetings, even when I was partying or going crazy I was still very disciplined. You have to find a way to have that mindset and be healthy, in between being unhealthy. So, sports, swimming, nearly every year I would take January and February off, no parties, no gigs, to rejuvenate my internal clock, my energy, my humanity, my humility, you know, everything. And that helped. Being on tour constantly isnât healthy, you need to take a break. At times you need to walk away from what you love, to then come back to it.
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At one point in the late 90s, I was going to start a website called MyBookingAgent.com. That was going to be helping everyone connect, agents, clubs, promoters etc. But apart from that no not really. The technological part of my interest has always been developing technology that helps the creative part of DJing. Whether it’s the MODEL 1 mixer, or the Final scratch, I was also working with this company that made touch controllers. For me, cancellation issues can be difficult, but I never had a huge issue with that. If youâre focused, and disciplined, and mostly organized you will find a way.
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You are the creator of the ENTER. SAKE brand and SAKE 36 bar here in Berlin, it seems like you are very connected with Japanese culture. How did that evolve over the years?
I went to Japan in 1994 for the first time. I was drawn to the culture of Japan, it has this really beautiful special balance between this high-tech future, and past customs and traditions. It always fascinated me how those two elements existed together. When I visited Tokyo for the first time, I just felt at home there. It was the aesthetics, how it looked, and how people acted, at times it felt like taking a step into the future. Japan was always somewhere I wanted to go to, and during those trips I met so many incredible Japanese friends, I was introduced to Japanese Sake. I loved the taste of sake and how it made me feel. It was one of those things that grabbed me and I had to follow where it took me. Over the years I studied more about the industry, also became a sake sommelier and have even been awarded the title of âsake samuraiâ by the Japanese Brewers Association for the work I did with my ENTER.Sake project. Recently we opened our SAKE 36 shop & bar in Berlin, just to help spread the knowledge and the taste and the culture. I donât see much of a difference between playing a great record for somebody, or putting a delicious cup of sake in front of them. Introducing someone to something new is exciting. If I can do anything in life, travelling the world, having experiences, and then taking those experiences and sharing them with other people in a way that they can also have their own beautiful experience. That is what life is all about.
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What does the future look like for Richie Hawtin?
This is the question everybody asks. I never really know what to tell them. I have a new platform that is not really a label, more of a group of like-minded artists called âFrom Our Mindsâ. Itâs definitely focused more on a more repetitive minimalistic sound, surrounding a pureness of rhythm and frequency. Iâm also working on new Plastikman material. There’s an interactive DJ game experiment that Iâve been working on that connects game technology and interactive environments with my DJ shows. Its goal is to connect people who may not want to go to clubs, but may enjoy electronic music. Iâve been working with my team to create a gaming experience that connects you to the way I play. So yeah thatâs another project Iâm working on. In my brain right now, I look out at the current environment of DJs and music and techno. I find it inspiring the amount of young people coming out and performing techno for the first time or experiencing techno, and thatâs amazing. But because I have a 30-year perspective sometimes I question how new and fresh and exciting everything is because quite a lot of the current themes are based on things that have already happened. So how do we continue to make sure that our scene is forward-thinking and futuristic, if weâre not starting to repeat the past. DJing can be elevated to a really high artistic performance, but I donât necessarily think that a lot of DJs out there right now are really pushing the envelope as much as it could be. Playing one record after another and beat matching, these are things weâve been doing for a long time. They work, but can we do more? Can we take people further? Iâm not saying I have the answers to that. Is it about looking at performance differently, creating more of a show, creating more synchronization with lights and visuals? It could be any of these things. I tend to feel right now that most DJs are going from one plane to another playing the same songs, and are kind of going in a circle. That type of circle will not sustain a career or the creative vibrancy of our scene. We need to push the creativity a little bit more. And how we can continue to make our culture not only entertaining but also innovative.
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So do you think people need a new genre?
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Many electronic music producers are now incorporating AI and machine learning into their music production. Have you explored or experimented with AI-based tools and algorithms in your music-making, and if so, how do you see it shaping the future of electronic music?
I find it very interesting that AI is interested in itself. It has some kind of ego problem! Iâve been experimenting along with a friend with some AI machine learning on a whole back catalog of Plastikman. Analyzing some of my old DJ sets to create new sounds and samples. I find some interesting things that come up in that response with AI, but I find at this point it needs a lot of human curation to find the good stuff. Thatâs what interests me, this collaboration with AI. Iâm not so excited with these AI-driven songs. Where the AI just spits something out. I donât think the world needs a hundred AI versions of Plastikman, The world will probably get them, but I think there are enough people out there who are still very much interested in the physical interaction between humans and machines and not just an algorithm that spits out stuff with a few simple keystrokes. Art is a beautiful, often frustrating entanglement of us and the technology that weâve developed, itâs inside that struggle where we find magic. Honestly, I think the world would be much happier with five new real Plastikman songs rather than 1000 AI versions. I still believe at this point it’s always about this interaction, which is something I have been exploring throughout my career. What is enough tech and what is enough Rich? I look at AI in the same way, it is something to be used in the process, but it is not the process.
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If you could get any superpowers what would it be?
Time travel.
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More time! More time, and more time! Time frames everything for us, itâs the only thing we really canât control.
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