Richie Hawtin
Richie Hawtin is a techno artist and label founder who also records as Plastikman. His official web address now leads to From Our Minds, the platform he describes as a home for new artists, events and releases. That site lists From Our Minds nights in Los Angeles in March and December 2023. Closer to now, we list him on the Saturday, October 31, 2026 bill of Insomniac's Escape Halloween at NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles.
Richie Hawtin is a genuine original. His critical acclaim spans the creative realm of the fine art community to the technological vanguard. Meanwhile, as a performing artist, he is constantly pushing conceptual frontiers, moving things forward, welcoming as many as he can to ideas and experiences that would have seemed pure science fiction when he began his career. Hawtin is British-born and Canadian-raised. He is the business mind behind Plus8 and MINUS Records, nurturing a plethora of talent from Speedy J in the early 90s to Gaiser in the 2010s. And, of course, he is Plastikman, perhaps that most of all, electronic musician par excellence, maintaining an underground agenda of avant-garde electronica over six albums (and two compilations). He returned spectacularly to the live circuit in 2010 with his Plastikman 1.5 incarnation which held its own among the new EDM generation of Skrillex, Deadmau5, etc, stars to whom Hawtin is both old guard ambassador and hero.
Bio from Insomniac artist page