Richie Hawtin

Richie Hawtin is treated as something close to a deity in minimal techno, and I get why. British-born and raised across the river from Detroit in Ontario, he rode the second wave of Detroit techno in the early '90s and then helped define minimalism under the Plastikman and F.U.S.E. names. What sets him apart for me is the obsessive bond with his gear, technology and music fused into a single instrument. I'm no techno expert, but I'll always fall for a craftsman who carries an entire genre on his back. He keeps making the sound he believes in instead of chasing whatever's fashionable.

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Name (English)

Richie Hawtin

Name (Japanese)

リッチー・ホゥティン

Reading

りっちー・ほぅてぃん

Born

June 4, 1970 (age 56)

Origin

Banbury, United Kingdom

Occupation

record producer / club DJ / composer / disc jockey / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

• Official sitehttps://www.plastikman.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/richiehawtin/
• Xhttps://x.com/richiehawtin
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie%20Hawtin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%82%A5%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q378876

Tags

• record producer
• club DJ
• composer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.