Richie Hawtin is a genuine original. He is the business mind behind the labels Plus 8, MINUS Records and From Our Minds, nurturing a plethora of talent from Speedy J in the early 90s to Gaiser in the 2010s.
He is Plastikman, perhaps that most of all, maintaining an underground agenda of avant-garde electronica over six albums and still holds that tiled of old guard ambassador and hero to electronic dance music.