website first_album birth_place label article_title name background birth_date genre origin birth_name
-lsb- http://www.m-nus.com/ m-nus . com -rsb- sheet one oxfordshire , united kingdom plus 8 , m-nus , novamute richie hawtin
 richie hawtin non_vocal_instrumentalist 4 june 1970 techno , electronica , minimal techno , detroit techno , ambient windsor , ontario richard hawtin
richie hawtin

richard `` richie '' hawtin -lrb- born june 4 , 1970 -rrb- is an english-born canadian electronic musician and dj and three times dj awards winner .
he was an influential part of detroit techno 's second wave of artists in the early 1990s and has been a leading exponent of minimal techno since the mid-1990s .
he is best known for his work under the alias plastikman and for his enter .
events in ibiza and around the world .
hawtin is known for djing techno sets making use of laptop computers and digital mixing equipment .
in may 1990 hawtin and fellow second-waver john acquaviva founded the plus 8 record label , which they named after their turntable 's pitch adjust function .
in 1998 , hawtin launched m_nus records .
in summer 2012 hawtin first presented enter. , his experimential event at space in ibiza .
