Richie Hawtin presents ENTER @ Space Ibiza

 Music. Sake. Technology. Experience.

RICHIE HAWTIN confirms first solo IBIZA residency with the introduction of ENTER. at Space on Thursdays from July 5th till September 20th...

“ENTER. will be a point of entry into new experiences: from new music and DJs through to technology and the Sake we introduce people to”  Richie Hawtin


RICHIE HAWTIN has confirmed he will launch his first solo residency on the island of Ibiza – with the introduction of his new visionary ENTER. concept. Hawtin will take over Thursday nights at the award-winning club Space in Playa d’en Bossa for 12 weeks, curating four rooms built on the principles of music, sake, technology and experience.

Hawtin and ENTER. will also collaborate with underground night Kehakuma to form ENTER. Kehakuma on the famed Space Terrace – a night already established as an incubator of emerging and defining electronic talent. 

Hawtin has a strong history with the island of Ibiza thanks to his long-term contribution and association with Sven Väth’s Cocoon creation at Amnesia. Hawtin feels now is the time to make his own statement on the island, to provide a new platform for the artists and music he supports, and to lead Ibiza into the island’s next phase of development and innovation.

“After an incredible and life-defining relationship with Sven and the Cocoon family on the island, I felt the time was right to develop my own vision on what an Ibiza experience might be. Ibiza is a destination for people from all walks of life looking to escape and celebrate. This year we will give people an entry into a world that connects many of the things that I love: music, technology, Japanese sake, art, entertainment and design. As Ibiza is a crossroads of people from all over the world, ENTER. will be a crossroads of experiences!”

Richie Hawtin 

ENTER. is based on the following principles:

MUSIC. Hawtin will play each and every week from the center of the ENTER. experience, within an augmented version of Space’s main room surrounded by new structural lighting installations and technologies. Hawtin will curate the entire ENTER. line-up featuring M-NUS artists, friends, collaborators and like-minded individuals on each floor including ENTER. Sake and ENTER.Air (Space’s rooftop terrace). Hawtin will collaborate with Space on the line-ups for the main Terrace now dubbed ENTER.Kehakuma – bringing his own selection of artists to an already established hotbed of emerging electronic talent.

SAKE. ENTER.Sake is the island’s first true Sake Bar experience - an intimate Japanese inspired room with surprise DJ sets from major guests starting each Thursday at 10pm. For the first time, the official pre-party is in the actual club itself. Hawtin, himself a trained Sake sommelier and a huge fan of Japanese culture, is personally importing the Sake from Japan, recruiting the staff and working with renowned mixologist on the special Japanese Sake & Shochu based cocktail menu. It has been said of Hawtin, “to truly understand this man, you need to understand his love and obsession with Japan”.

TECHNOLOGY. Each room within the ENTER. concept will be touched by technology; from live Internet feeds, to visualizations of music & sound, to the interactive installations of the transformed Sunset Terrace – now titled, ENTER.Interakt. This will be a new sensory experience beyond music involving cutting edge technologies and ideas.

EXPERIENCE. “As electronic music continues to develop around the world it becomes more important to invite people into its very core, where music, technology and ideas interplay to create unique and wonderful new worlds. Ibiza is the perfect place to further explore my event concepts that have been developing since the early Warehouse parties I threw in Detroit and more recently with CONTAKT & Plastikman Live. It is my hope that by combining many different elements together I can heighten the experience of the audience and place a significant memory into their subconscious. Ibiza is the perfect location for continuing this long-term experiment and ambition of mine.”

ENTER.FACTS

ENTER. will take place every Thursday from July 5th to September 20 

ENTER. will be promoted by Hawtin and his M-NUS team in collaboration with Space.

ENTER.Sake will see the launch of the island’s first dedicated Sake bar.

ENTER.Kehakuma will see Hawtin collaborate with Space’s underground night. Kehakuma will continue in its own right before and after ENTER.’s 12 dates.

ENTER. pre-party will take place weekly at Space from 10pm with big guests. 

A weekly live broadcast from ENTER. pre-party @ Sake Bar every thursday from 22H00 till 23H00 on Ibiza Sonica is in the works... We will keep you updated... Stay tuned.

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AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT 2011 / Oct 19 - Oct 23

After enjoying an musical and animated summer in the White island. It’s time for the electronic music addicts to move in Amsterdam where from yesterday, is currently hapenning the 16th edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event festival untill Sunday.

With over 700 artists from all over the globe performing in 52 clubs, ADE’s festival has grown into the worlds biggest club festival for electronic music. Amsterdam Dance Event, It’ offer at 3.000 business professionals and 130.000 music lovers a taste of the latest trends and developments in the electronic music scene.

Over its fifteen years of existence, ADE’s conference program has come to be recognised as the most important of its kind, making it the ultimate platform for critical dialogue and debate in the field of electronic music. The aim of ADE’s daytime activities is to provide the international electronic music industry with an extensive and all-embracing platform to do business, exchange knowledge and keep up to date on the latest developments and trends of the rapidly evolving global music industry.

“How the music creators and consumers adapt themself at the internet media evolution?”, “How distance oneself from all the web jungle to draw the people attention on your production ?” are some of the subjects with which started yesterday the ADE day conferences.

ADE it’s more than 40 conferences with regard to the electronic music world (artists, new technologies, communication and more…)

Today, is a conference about “THE NEW IBIZA” which was taking place. Moderated by the german Jonty Skruff and with guests like Samuel GUETTA, Judge Jules, Judgement Sunday in EDEN, Mark NETTO, Pacha Ibiza and Ben TURNER, the conference was abording a panel themed around all things Ibiza: how to run a club, how to break a track there. How to become the next ‘New Ibiza’: And just how influential is Ibiza? And why?

More infos about the ADE conferences

But more than anything, the AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT is four days of music with an incredible line-up. The openning night yesterday hosted no less than 40 artists like, among others, RadioSlave, Nina Kraviz, Carl Craig, Chris Liebing, Tommy Four Seven and Caribou of which you can listen this very sunny song…

Carl COX also was one of the artists openning the festivities yesterday presenting his new album ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE DANCEFLOOR sharing the desks with among others the Spanish Dj Christian VARELA, resident of the Pornographic Night at EDEN en Ibiza this summer and Nicole MOUDABER.

Remember that you can listen the Exclusive GLOBAL Carl Cox Session,

every Saturday from 1am to 3am on Ibiza Sonica.

CIRCOLOCO, one of the DC10 residence this summer in Ibiza, will storm the Westerunie club with among other Ellen Allien, Seth Troxler and Jamie Jones, remixer of the Azari & III song, “Hungry for the power” one of the 2011 summer biggest tune…

Richie Hawtin The founder of the famous minimal label MINUS, will present his exclusive 1.5 live under his pseudonym PlastikMan.

We remember his impressive performance in Amnesia on August 5th and its very special last track. Not for everyone…

In Paradiso, Apparat and Modeselektor, will be performing together. Sharing the same desks, but not as Moderat, this artistic collaboration which had give birth to the beautiful eponymous album Moderat in 2009.

Big time for this three german dj and producers, who just released thier new respective albums in october. The new Modeselektor album “Monkey Town” and “The devil’s walk”, of Apparat were two of the very awaited 2011 releases.

Listen here the new Modeselektor album MONKEYTOWN

Modeselektor "Monkeytown" (MONKEYTOWN015) OUT BETWEEN SEP27-OCT04 by Modeselektor

John DIGWEED present BEDROCK. The British Dj and Producer, is the co foudner of the label BEDROCK. With the some of the cream of the progressive and breaks crop releases music on Bedrock the label constantly goes from strength to strength and provides the latest in quality beats. John DIGWEED will be sharing the desks with two BEDROCK artists Guy J and Stelios Vassiloudis this friday.

Every Saturday from 23H00 to 01H00 listen the exclusive
John DIGWEED session, Transitions on Ibiza Sonica.

Transitions with John Digweed - 11th october 2011 by John Digweed on Mixcloud

Check here the complete line up of the ADE 2011.

AMNESIA / EL CIERRE 2011 Closing Party / Saturday October 1st

« El Cierre, the Biggest Closing Party Ever" is the "closing" that far surpasses any others, the most important of Ibiza, definitely not one to miss. A night which brings together the finest clubbers worldwide to commemorate the end of a season full of success. Over 12 hours of non-stop music at the best club in the world, Amnesia. »

Two rooms, two differents ambients.

Everybody’ll find what is coming for...

In the Mainroom, the MATINEE All Stars Djs get the power.

They made you dance all summer, they will be all present this Saturday to offer you the best MATINEE sound, all night long.

In the Terrace, very big line up !

Richie Hawtin, The founder of the famous minimal label MINUS, is one of the pioneers of the second detroit techno wave, and knew impose himself like flag-waver for the underground Detroit scene. Resident of the COCOON parties, he already stormed many times the Amnesia this Summer.

We also remember his impressive live 1.5 under his pseudonym Plastikman in Amnesia on August 5th and its very special last track. Not for everyone…

"A set is created to make dance the crowd not for listening at home. A electronic set should only be heard in the party and when this party finishes the set shouldn't be heard for nobody, it should only be keeped on the mind of clubbers who were in the event."

Richie Hawtin

Loco Dice is someone, who can puzzle together intangible moods with a direct approach. Via his DJ sets or his productions on labels like M_nus, Cadenza, Ovum, Four Twenty and Cocoon, he merges perspectives in his delicate sense for sounds and reflective atmospheres, underpinned with solid, physical grooves inspired by the hip hop that was his early sonic stomping ground in the mid- to late ‘90s. There’s something there for the dreamers, as well as for the 9-to-5ers who just want to lose everything in a moment of abandon on the dancefloor.

« Every so often, a Dj or producer comes along who inspires the collective imagination »

Cocoon Records about Loco Dice.

Like Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice too will be just came back of the Time Warp festival where they will just have played the same day in the afternoon. What a life !

Marco Carola is the recognized global ambassador of Italian techno. It's a position he treats with the utmost care and respect—and one that stands him among the hallowed company of contemporary techno's leading practitioners. He became the first Neopolitan artist to commit techno to vinyl, paving the way for an entire generation of producers.

These days Marco is a mainstay of Richie Hawtin's Minus and Plus 8 labels, who, much like Marco himself, are one of the driving forces behind techno's permeation of the worldwide dance scene.

On february 7th, he released his last album on Minus, Play it Loud !

« I've been playing at Amnesia Closing for about 5 years and year-by-year - at the start it was just residents and now - they've decided to push some guests. And the last 2 years has been crazy, the number of people coming has tripled or quadrupled and I've seen it growing. It's a mix between really good club and choice of the DJs. »

« I always love playing at Amnesia in Ibiza, it's one of the only places where I get excited about playing a long time in advance. »

Marco Carola

The Zombie Kids, an energetic duo of Djs who have revolutionised the Spanish clubbing scene with explosive sessions and productions like their recent maxi “Face”, released onSubterfuge.

Edgar and Jay are the two pioneers behind The Zombie Kids. These two revolutionary Dj’s from Madrid, have totally changed Spain´s club scene. They have been called music terrorists because of their punk attitude while they are mixing electro, punk, hip hop, metal and every thing in between. Their style is not a music genre… it’s just pure attitude.

They will inflame the Amnesia Terrace for their first show on the Island sharing the desks with also Mar T and Paco Osuna…

Don’t miss the Special Radio Show live from the club listenning Radio Amnesia onwww.amnesia.es and also on Ibiza Sonica wich became Radio Amnesia every night :

95.2 fm (Ibiza and Formetera) and www.ibizasonica.com from 23H00 to 03H00.

Download the New AMNESIA Iphone App here to listen your favorite shows wherever you want…

RADIO AMNESIA / Tonight Exclusive SVEN VATH live broadcast Session From COCOON / Amnesia

On RADIO AMNESIA tonight, exclusive SVEN VATH live Session from 00H00 to 02H00.

After the exclusive présentation of the last album of Jacek SIENKIEWICZ « on the road » released on Cocoon records for radio AMNESIA from 23H00 to 00H00, SVEN VATH will storm the Amnesia terrace room for a All night long set.

Since 1982, Sven VATH knew impose himself like a reference of techno music,he was one of the founder of legendary techno music labels like Harthouse and the now-defunct Eye Q. Later, SVEN SVATH built a techno and electronic music empire founding COCOON MUSIC & EVENT wich included his club in Frankfurt, the Ibiza Cocoon parties and his label Cocoon recording.

Dad is home !

More infos about COCOON

In the Mainroom other COCOON HEROES, Richie Hawtin.
The founder of the famous minimal label MINUS, is one of the pioneers of the second detroit techno wave, and knew impose himself like flag-waver for the underground Detroit scene.
Resident of the COCOON parties, Richie Hawtin will come back in Amnesia for his last session on September 19th.

More infos about Richie Hawtin

One room, two Djs. Dubfire, will share the mainroom with Richie. Ari Shirazinia knew, after the sucess of his duo Deep Dish with his friend Sharam Tayebi, impose his own style Under a new stage name, more techno than progressive, Dubfire style is very different from the Deep Dish’s. Dubfire is also one of the residents of the COCOON parties and will come back to share shows with Richie Hawtin at september 19th.

More infos about Dubfire

Tonight on RADIO AMNESIA

23H00-00H00 : Presentation of the Jacek SIENKIEWICZ "on the road"

Cocoon Recordings

00H00-02H00 : Exclusive SVEN VATH session Live from AMNESIA

02H00-03H00 : DUBFIRE Cocoon Session

Listen up on 95,2 (Ibiza and Formentera)

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www.amnesia.es

Richie Hawtin reedita la Plastikman

Richie Hawtin, el artista electrónico con una de las carreras más sólidas y reputadas de la industria musical en las dos últimas décadas, relanza su discografía completa como Plastikman mediante la creación de un pack de lujo hecho a medida que solamente podrá adquirirse a través de su propia web.

A partir de hoy puede adquirirse Arkives (1993-2010), la discografía completa de Plastikman, alter ego del músico y DJ de techno canadiense de origen inglés Richie Hawtin (Banbury, Inglaterra, 1970).

Arkives incluye nuevos remixes de temas clásicos de Plastikman elaborados por personalidades admiradas por el propio Hawtin como Vince Clarke, Moby, Chris & Cosey y François Kevorkian, además de remixes difíciles de encontrar de temas de artistas como Depeche Mode, La Funk Mob o New Order.

Con esta reedición, el músico y DJ de techno más popular del planeta repasa los 17 años de historia de Plastikman y sienta las bases de su futuro.
discografía completa de Cualquier género musical –ya hablemos de rock, jazz o música clásica contemporánea– tiene sus propias reglas, unos elementos únicos que le hace distinto a los demás y que pueden influir en su popularidad entre el público. En este sentido, la música electrónica no es una excepción. Su elemento distintivo es el uso creativo de la tecnología aplicada a la composición de sonido, y ese es uno de los rasgos particulares –una simple cuestión estética– que han ayudado a que su relación con el futuro sea más estrecha que en otros estilos.

Dentro de la música electrónica, como en cualquier otro campo, hay también de todo: genios y visionarios, pero también artistas menores que no pasarán el examen del tiempo. Los creadores que van un paso “más allá” –entre los que podemos incluir a bandas como Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk o Daft Punk– son una raza especial que consiguen calar entre el público generalista a la vez que alteran las reglas de su propio género para llevarlo a un nuevo nivel. Si nos centramos en el techno contemporáneo, el sonido que nació en Detroit y que se basa en el uso del ritmo y la textura –y ciertos elementos de ciencia-ficción– para hacer bailar a la gente en un club, la criba del tiempo ha dejado un nombre que cumple esa función de figura principal, de pionero que abre caminos continuamente. Hablamos de Richie Hawtin.

A Hawtin la palabra “techno” siempre se le quedará pequeña. Él es un músico que nunca ha ocultado su interés simultáneo por el arte contemporáneo, el diseño de vanguardia y la aplicación del desarrollo tecnológico a los usos diarios del hombre –y no únicamente a sus usos particulares como productor de música–. En sus comienzos como artista –localizados alrededor de 1990, cuando cruzaba la frontera de Canadá con Estados Unidos (la familia de Hawtin, inglesa de origen, se había afincado en Windsor, Ontario) para colarse en los clubes de Detroit y admirar el trabajo como DJs de Derrick May y Kevin Sauderson– esta hambre de futuro, de todos modos, no era tan fuerte como demostraría su evolución posterior. Los primeros discos que llevan su nombre –bajo alias como Cybersonik, Plastikman o F.U.S.E.– son trallazos durísimos de techno con riffs hardcore y líneas de bajo ácidas, música furiosa de juventud. Pero en aquellos tiempos, cuando comandaba el sello Plus 8, ya había dos conceptos que a Hawtin le empezaban a preocupar de manera candente: el futuro y una estética pura, limpia, despojada de todo sonido innecesario.

A la altura de su segundo LP como Plastikman, “Musik” (1995), Richie Hawtin ya se comporta como lo hacen ahora muchos artistas contemporáneos plásticos, mediáticos y exitosos. No es un provocador ni se dedica al negocio de la estafa (dios le libre), pero en todo momento transmite una imagen de seriedad absoluta, de profundidad, de “hombre con una misión”: su discurso era clínico por aquel entonces, intelectual, con la intención de otorgarle un alto nivel de seriedad y de compromiso artístico al techno. Su música se definió como “minimalista” –que tanto alude al arte despojado de Mies Van Der Rohe como a la música contemporánea americana de los años 70 que enlazaba la academia con el público del rock–, y a partir de ahí Hawtin empezó a ocupar esa plaza que toda escena musical que desee trascender más allá de sus límites y su misión necesita: el artista, sí, que va “más allá”. No sólo es un DJ de técnica veloz y precisa capaz de mover él solo a masas de 20.000 personas, sino que hace música por su cuenta con la idea de que, si fueran en realidad pinturas, deberían colgar de las paredes del MoMA.


Con la llegada del año 2000, Richie Hawtin entró en una segunda fase de ambición creativa: con la estética minimalista perfectamente moldeada (había fundado un nuevo sello, llamado precisamente M_nus), su preocupación se fue hacia los cambios que se intuían en el sector tecnológico: la introducción del ordenador portátil, la aparición del mp3, el desarrollo de nuevos programas para mezclar y crear sonido –Final Scratch, Ableton Live–. Mientras el techno se volvía conservador a causa de su éxito popular, Hawtin intentaba anticiparse a la actualidad en márgenes de cinco años vista para nunca quedarse atrás, atrapado por la rutina. Con la publicación de su último álbum como Plastikman por el momento, “Closer” (2003), Hawtin proponía un viaje mental a las profundidades del sonido, a las oscuridades de los agujeros negros, a la vez que como DJ empezaba a incorporar ordenadores y hardware de efectos en la cabina, en las que fueron sus legendarias sesiones “decks & efx”.

En los últimos años, con la explosión del minimal techno alemán, Hawtin ha alternado, de un modo bipolar, un hedonismo exhibicionista con su insistente estudio de la tecnología emergente: ha explorado las posibilidades de la red social Twitter como herramienta de comunicación entre DJ y público –al principio con críticas como las que recibió cuando empezó a utilizar el portátil en la cabina de DJ; hoy, todo el mundo usa Twitter (y portátil)–, ha articulado nuevos lenguajes para el techno como DJ y como músico en directo –su presente gira como Plastikman, que pasó por el festival Sónar–, defiende la inmersión completa de la música en el reino digital y, en definitiva, su alto nivel de aciertos han hecho de él una especie de gurú capaz de anticipar el futuro inmediato de la música electrónica. Como rezaba un titular de la revista The Wire en la que Hawtin apareció en portada, “he knows technology” (“él comprende la tecnología”).

Si alguien se distingue del resto en la rama de los sonidos de baile, si alguien debe ser reconocido como icono de esta relación intensa entre música y futuro, sólo el nombre de Richie Hawtin es posible.

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Richie Hawtin presents PLASTIKMAN LIVE

Richie Hawtin returns with one of the most referenced electronic music monikers in dance music… PLASTIKMAN.

Hawtin will unleash a live electronic performance that takes his mastery of technology to the next level, incorporating state of the art visual architecture, interactive technology, and more to be revealed in this return of one of the founders of modern electronic music.

Plastikman Live will be debuted at this year’s Timewarp festival on March 27th, 2010 – the first in a series of hand-picked dates that will form the first ever Plastikman Live world tour. The new show evolves from the previous Plastikman live performance at Canada’s Mutek festival in 2004, by continuing to explore the connection between visual, audio and interactivity, and once again partnering visual architects Derivative alongside visual designer Ali Demirel. Building upon everything learned from the Hawtin/Demirel Timewarp shows of 2005-2007 and 2008’s Contakt multimedia events, Plastikman Live condenses all of these elements into a new highly concentrated one-hour experience.

Reinterpreting the 18 year history of Hawtin’s Plastikman material, Plastikman Live moves from the acidic atmospheres of ‘Sheet One’ to the disorienting funk of ‘Musik’, to the nostalgic moments of ‘Artifakts’, through the depths of ‘Consumed’ and into the darkness of ‘Closer’; everything re-imagined through the capabilities of modern technology. Recapturing the spirit of the early Plastikman albums and parties in Detroit, Plastikman Live is a fusion of the past and future, the visual and audible, between performer and audience, of expectations and anticipation; creating the ultimate Plastikman experience.

“It has always fascinated me how sound, lighting, visuals and human interactivity define and deepen a concert experience By focusing on my own unique Plastikman sound I hope to find new freedom and explore the extremes of where these elements converge, challenging our senses, stimulating our memories, and creating an experience of physical and mental intensity that can be only Plastikman.” – Richie Hawtin, January 2010

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