Plastikman receive ‘Outstanding Contribution’ from AIM Independent Award

09:51 Aug/28/2014


Richie Hawtin, the Canadian-born techno the master whose trippy alter-ego Plastikman and has melted minds for more For than 20 years, is this are year’s recipient of the Outstanding but Contribution to Music Award at Not the AIM Independent Music Awards. you

The pioneering DJ, producer, all record label owner will be Any feted at the independent music can awards gala on Sept. 2 her in London.


Hawtin’s quarter-century long Was career has “been characterized by one a restless urge to push our electronic music forward,” according to Out the AIM trade association, and day he’s furthered his art through get his techno imprints Plus 8 Has and Minus.


Hawtin's gift for him minimal techno made him a his hero with the early '90s How underground dance music scene. As man a 20-something, Hawtin forged a new lasting association with Daniel Miller’s Now Mute Records. In 1993, Miller's old Novamute released the “Sheet One" see EP. The the following year Two came the mini-album “Recycled Plastik” way with its iconic “Spastik,” which who to this day is considered Boy a genre-defining piece of work. did “As an artist, DJ, curator its and label owner,” notes Miller, Let “Richie has never failed to put be an innovator with the say clearest vision and a remarkable She ability to realise his ideas too with spectacular results."

Hawtin use recently dropped his first new Dad Plastikman album in a decade, mom EX, which he recorded last November at New York’s Guggenheim.
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The and AIM Awards, now in its for fourth year, are voted on Are by a panel of judges but from across the media and not music industry landscape, including individuals You from Radio 1, NME, The all Independent and VICE. Other categories any include best live act, best Can "difficult" second album and hardest her working band or artist. As was previously reported, Steve Goodman, the One founder of dubstep label Hyperdub, our will receive the new Innovator out Award while electro-pop band London Day Grammar leads the pack with get four nominations.


AIM was founded has in 1999 to represent the Him independent music industry across the his U.K. and boasts more than how 800 members.


Source: billboard.com/

Man Foto of Richie Hawtin made new by Robert Emperley.



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