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Plastikman – Musik (30th Anniversary Edition) LP [NOMU37VLP]

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In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Plastikman, aka Richie Hawtin, has remastered his groundbreaking second album, Musik, from the original tapes for a new limited bio-vinyl edition. The record was first released in November 1994 through NovaMute and Plus 8, following the debut Plastikman album, Sheet One (1993). A masterclass in minimal techno, Musik quickly propelled Hawtin to new levels of success. The release followed Plastikman’s first-ever live performance in a black vinyl-encased room at a semi-derelict Packard Plant in Detroit, where Hawtin was central to the burgeoning underground scene. Now, 30 years later, the album has been remastered from the original tapes, reminding us why Plastikman is a name that still resonates and that the album’s intensity – on and off the dance floor – has lost none of its potency in the intervening years. Available on limited edition double bio-vinyl from Mute and NovaMute.

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Plastikman – Musik (30th Anniversary Edition) LP [NOMU37VLP]

Speedy J – Rise EP [ROO002]

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Remastered reissue of the second landmark EP for Plus 8 Records by Speedy J. Again expanding on the emerging sounds of Techno Speedy J took it further into euphoric, minimal lofi and bleepy territory with ”Rise”, ”Tresor” and ”De-orbit”. All while effectively stripping it down to the bare bones rocking only a 909 and a vocal sample on ”Something For Your Mind”. This release and in particular ”Something For Your Mind” was there at the forefront of techno as we know it these days with a harder, raw and no-nonsense approach and all its variations such as Gabber that grew out of that in Rotterdam the following year.

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Speedy J – Rise EP [ROO002]

Speedy J – Intercontinental [ROO001]

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Remastered reissue of this seminal EP by Speedy J originally released on Detroit’s Plus 8 records. Taking his inspiration from the early Detroit and Chicago imports that landed on the Dutch coast in the late 80’s Speedy J ended up creating a classic that innovated and embodied the raw energy of the then still emerging sound of Techno.

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Speedy J – Intercontinental [ROO001]

F.U.S.E. – Dimension Intrusion LP [WARPLP12R]

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‘Dimension Intrusion’ was the first full-length studio album by Richie Hawtin, who was 22 years old at the time and living in Windsor, Canada. It was first released in June 1993 under the F.U.S.E. name on Hawtin’s own Plus 8 Records imprint and again as the second release of Warp Records seminal ‘Artificial Intelligence’ series. The album compiled previously released F.U.S.E. EPs from Plus 8 complemented with new music specially recorded for this release. It would be a fundamental album for the young producer, who was experimenting with different themes and techniques to find his very own sound. Largely inspired by sci-fi movies he used a collection of synthesizers and drum machines, playing with their electronic yet warm sound effects and in turn discovering some of his favorite instruments.

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F.U.S.E. – Dimension Intrusion LP [WARPLP12R]

It’s Thinking – Afterglow [FOM002]

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Frame Of Mind is back with another re-issue of a 25 year old record. Gerd’s very first house release called Afterglow, produced under the alias of It’s Thinking together with two of his (highschool) friends Mark and Dirk-Jan, was picked up by John Acquaviva for release on the short lived Plus 8 subsidiary called Malego back in 1992. The EP features five warm and atmospheric house tracks recorded at a dark attic room somewhere in the west of Holland in 1991. These days Afterglow is quite a sought after record that rarely turns up cheap on discogs.

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It’s Thinking – Afterglow [FOM002]