Tune of the Week: Plastikman

When people speak of the history of electronic dance music, two midwestern cities pop up: Chicago and Detroit. One for the innovations of acid and house musics and the other for techno. Despite the fact that these two rust belt cities are often rivals on the court or playing field, the two emerging scenes were quite supportive of each other and symbiotic to each other’s development.

Richie Hawtin is a Canadian Detroit techno musician known around the world. For one of his first full lenght endevours Hawtin adopted the alias of Plastikman, which was wholly devoted to the Chicago acid house sound. Based on the same Roland instruments and bare bones production as the Windy City sound, “Sheet One” achieves a maximal impact based on simplicity.