★★★★★
The last few years have been very good for techno. It never really went away but it was quiet for a long time, a steady background hum in the general scheme of electronic music. Other genres came and went according to the whims of fashion--drum & bass and trance and progressive and electro and two-step--but behind the scenes and under the surface techno remained very much a going concern...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Richie Hawtin returns with a dancefloor inspired EP from the deejay's point of view." A deconstruction/tribute to Yellow's track "Oh Yeah". Written by B. Blank. D. Meier, R. Hawtin. Construction and reduction by R. Hawtin.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
For Closer to the (r)edit Richie Hawtin takes elements from the album and further reworks them into a DJ friendly ten inch, featuring pieces from his own previously unreleased track Freek and the Rhythm & Sound classic Range amongst others.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
DE9Transitions is the third and possibly final - part in Richie Hawtin's fabled Decks and FX mix series. Using Ableton Live, Hawtin carries on the concept on Transitions, this time manipulating tracks so fully they're rendered as entirely new forms. Hence the track-listing does not mention names as such, but offers 28 named sections "Welcomm", "Prebuild", "Jupiter Lander", "Noch Ein Mal" etc. - which serve as some kind of vague guidance through the stream of multiple-layered sound...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-08-22
★★★★★
It's not so much a workstation as it is a fortress of solitude. Surrounded by computer screens with colorful graphs and pulsing charts, Richie Hawtin sits at his desk, intently studying their every movement. Cramped as the space is, the area is conspicuously free of clutter. Nowhere do you find bobble-head dolls, pet photos or comic book figurines...
- www.lostatsea.net
2009-10-30
★★★★★
Since making his name in the early Nineties with funky, acidic techno records, Richie Hawtin (operating under the pseudonym Plastikman) has focused more and more on austerity and texture, climaxing with 1998's forbiddingly severe Consumed. That changed a year later with Decks, EFX and 909, a DJ set that found the Windsor, Ontario, rave veteran interlocking nearly forty tracks into a rough-and-ready dance mix - suddenly, the groove was front and center, more accessible than ever...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
A 12" of selected excerpts from the new Hawtin CD-only mix album, Decks, EFX & 909. Artists included in this 17-minute selection are: Grain, Santos Rodriguez, Richard Harvey, Richie Hawtin, Nitzer Ebb, Heiko Laux, Baby Ford & Eon, Savvas Tsatis and Stewart S. Walker.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
DE9: Transitions is Richie Hawtin's third release in his pioneering 'DE9' mix series, and is a CD + DVD 2 disc set. The CD contains a 75 minute stereo mix, while the DVD contains a 96 minute extended 5.1 Dolby surround sound mix, a 96 minute extended stereo mix, 2 music videos: 'We [All] Search' and 'The Tunnel' (done to excerpts from DE9: Transitions), a short film about DE9: Transitions, and footage from the Time Warp Festival in Germany from April of 2005...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Internationally known DJ Hawtin lays down his own unique variation on the DJ mix album concept. Because Hawtin employs his own 909 to keep the rhythm consistent and provide bridging material between tracks, there's a superficial similarity to his own Plastikman material a familiar sparseness, so to speak. Hawtin keeps himself busy, often using only a minute of each song, with a few fifteen-second cuts for good measure...
- www.splendidezine.com
2009-06-08
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