The Latest Breaking News from Richie Hawtin

For 808 Day, 13 iconic Roland TR-808 tracks that made a legend

808-featuring cuts from boundary-pushing artists, from Kraftwerk and Marvin Gaye to Aphex Twin and New Order

MusicRadar · Aug 8

Richie Hawtin produces short film inspired by '90s Detroit techno scene

Kids Like Us centres on one of a series of illegal raves Hawtin hosted at the city's abandoned Packard Plant, an event that saw the debut of the producer's legendary Plastikman alias

MusicRadar · Jul 8, 2025

“It sounds like I’m making this up… but something happened”: How a sudden weather event help shape the sound of Richie Hawtin’s ‘90s Warp Records classic

“I probably made some of the hardest tracks I ever did”: The literal lightning strike behind Dimension Intrusion

MusicRadar · Jun 17, 2025

How a lightning storm fried Richie Hawtin's gear and created the sound of F.U.S.E.'s Dimension Intrusion: "My equipment glowed and then shut down. After that, there was something wrong with my Wavestation; it was even more distorted"

Hawtin talks us through the electrifying story behind the making of his 1993 ambient techno classic

MusicRadar · Feb 16, 2024

Issue 405 of Future Music is out now

Master Your Synths. Plus: Richie Hawtin, Matmos, Karl Bartos, Airhead, Polyend Play+, Teenage Engineering KO II & much more!

MusicRadar · Jan 9, 2024

Music makers: from pocket synths to standalone beat machines, we’ll help you make some noise

Ten of the best-designed audio devices and experimental instruments for music makers

Wallpaper · Aug 16, 2023

The iconic Roland TR-808 tracks that made a legend

Key cuts from seminal artists, including Kraftwerk, Marvin Gaye, Aphex Twin, New Order, Afrika Bambaataa and more

MusicRadar · Aug 8, 2023

Prada and DJ Richie Hawtin threw the fourth Prada Extends in Bangkok

Prada showed up (and showed out) in Bangkok with a bang, bringing its “Prada Extends” music event alongside Bangkok’s fiercest (fashion-wise) under one roof at the Warehouse Stadium.

Bangkok Post · Jul 8, 2023

Richie Hawtin teams up with Erica Synths for Bullfrog, an educational analogue synth: "Our goal is to promote a fun easy learning path into basic sound synthesis"

Bullfrog is a single-oscillator synth that can be augmented with 'voice cards' which store presets and add features, turning the instrument into a sampler, sequencer and groovebox

MusicRadar · Jun 19, 2023

Octave One: "Once we got the 909 I was hooked. That machine’s like a drug, I could listen to the kick for hours"

Despite diverging from their techno roots, Octave One tell Danny Turner they’d sooner stop making music than sell their Roland TR-909

MusicRadar · May 23, 2023