Remastered from the original tapes, Musik, the groundbreaking second studio album by Richie Hawtin as Plastikman, has been announced for release on NovaMute on 6 December 2024.
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The album, originally released via NovaMute / Plus 8, followed 1993’s Sheet One and propelled Hawtin into new levels of international success. On its initial release, in Nov 1994, Hawtin was central to a burgeoning underground scene in Detroit, and the album, which expands on his unique and innovative minimal techno world, was launched with Plastikman’s debut live performance in Aug 1994 – at the derelict Packard Plant in Detroit, in a room encased in black plastic sheets.
Before the full album hit the shelves, Plastique, set the stage for a more dancefloor-friendly album, albeit one with an unsettling and sinister side. It was Musik, which featured tracks such as Freek, Kriket (which Raf Simons used earlier this year in the Prada Men Spring/Summer 2025 show), Fuk and Marbles, that exposed Hawtin’s music to a much wider audience with live appearances at Glastonbury, Tribal Gathering and a headline slot at Megadog followed soon after.
Last year was the 30th anniversary of his debut album as Plastikman, Sheet One, and Dimension Intrusion by his alter ego F.U.S.E. for the Artificial Intelligence series on WARP, another incredible milestone for Richie Hawtin whose award-winning prolific career to date has seen him become one of the most important techno DJs globally; a technological wizard with decades of innovations behind him and label head for both Plus 8, with John Acquaviva and M_nus. Over the last thirty years, and often as Plastikman, Hawtin has collaborated with some of the cultural world’s leading creative figures including Raf Simons, Anish Kapoor, Andreas Gursky and John Gerrard.
Now, 30 years later, to mark its anniversary, the album has been remastered from the original tapes (manufactured with environmentally conscious packaging, pressed on bio-vinyl), reminding us why Plastikman is a name that still resonates and that the album’s intensity – on and off the dance floor – has lost none of its potency in the intervening years.
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Musik Tracklisting –
A1 Konception
A2 Plastique – listen to an excerpt here
B1 Kriket
B2 FUK
B3 Outbak
C1 Ethnik
C2 Plasmatik
C3 Goo
D1 Marbles
D2 Lasttrak
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