Richie Hawtin

EXIT festival is continuing to add to its already stacked line-up with the news that Grammy-winning producer and DJ, David Guetta, will be headlining the festival on Friday 8th July at the iconic Petrovaradin Fortress.

As well as Guetta, EXIT has today announced that German institution Tresor will be celebrating 25 years at the festival. The international clubbing brand will be bringing Tresor founder Mortiz van Oswald alongside the likes of Zadig, Dasha Rush and Psyk.

Richie Hawtin is collaborating on a new piece of musical hardware together with Allen & Heath.

Hawtin announced the collaboration at a press conference during trade show NAMM. The as-yet-unnamed instrument took two-years to design and will be part of a wider brand called Play Differently.

Allen & Heath has just released the first video of the instrument — watch it below:

Richie Hawtin’s live Essential mix, the first in a new series on BBC Radio 1, is now available to listen to online.

The BBC station broadcast Hawtin’s two-hour set live from the main room of Exchange LA on Saturday (30th January).  

The Plus 8 co-founder played tracks by Joy Orbison, Nuno Lisboa, Tunnel, Huxley & J Philip and more.

In December, Hawtin released a compilation of fifteen tracks under a variety of aliases. The surprise album followed a trio of, originally uncredited, records on Plus 8.

Richie Hawtin is collaborating on a new piece of musical hardware together with Allen & Heath.

Hawtin announced the collaboration at a press conference during trade show NAMM. The as-yet-unnamed instrument took two-years to design and will be part of a wider brand called Play Differently.

"The ethos of Play Differently is to create products that will magnify the individuality and expand the creativity of today's generation of electronic music artists, producers and DJs . We hope to encourage and inspire creatives to PLAY differently,” Hawtin said.

Richie Hawtin's ENTER. party will not continue at Space Ibiza in 2016.

Hawtin announced the news via his Facebook page earlier today, thanking Space's owners and all the fans who've joined him at the famous night club over the last four seasons. 

In the past, ENTER. has welcomed everyone from Adam Beyer to Eats Everything to Space's dancefloor, offering up five different rooms of audio-visual delights for techno fans from around the globe. 

You can read the full statement from Richie Hawtin below. 

Following the surprise release of a new LP under multiple aliases including Plastikman, FUSE and Robotman last week, techno don Richie Hawtin has dropped yet another new track, this time via Red Bull. 

Titled ‘Crawlr’, it’s been credited under yet another of Richie’s production monikers, 80XX, and is currently up for free download (win!).

Some things in life are certain: the sun will rise; parking is futile when you’re already late; and Art Basel Miami will be exhausting in the most thrilling way. The annual Basel migration to Miami Beach each winter brings nearly 80,000 aficionados from all walks of life, seeking all types of art, from murals to music. Walls are splattered with paint and battered by beats; sheikhs dock their boats while tattooed kids park their bikes.

Surprise! Richie Hawtin has just dropped a brand new album under various aliases of his - Plastikman, FUSE and Robotman.

The producer recently revealed that he was in fact behind the anonymous Plus 8 releases that have recently appeared on the Hard Wax website, and today has announced a back-to-basics LP which arrives just in time for the label’s 25th anniversary.

In October, speculation was rife over two anonymous Plus 8 releases that surfaced on the website of Berlin record store Hard Wax.

The releases were initially credited to an “unknown artist” but in a new documentary Richie Hawtin has unveiled himself as the mystery producer behind ’25/2’ and ’25/1’.

Hard Wax have since added credits for the producer’s three aliases, Plastikman, Childsplay and Robotman, to their online listings.

Hawtin talks about the releases in an interview with EB.TV which you can watch below.

Fast rising techno star Fabio Florido mixed an exclusive set for DJ Mag this week, ahead of his performance at Sonus Festival in Pag Island, Croatia, later this month. 

In the lead up to the popular festival, we sat down with the M-nus signed star, to talk his top five tunes from Richie Hawtin's ubiquitous techno imprint. 

Sonus Festival runs 16th to 20th August in Pag Island, Croatia.

More details and tickets for Sonus Festival here.