• Ultra Music Festival 2016 Lineup Phase 2: Deadmau5, Steve Angello, Crystal Castles & More Join

    Ultra Music Festival is just one month from getting under way and they have unveiled the second phase of artists who will join the massive three-day EDM festival in Miami. Among those who have joined the 2016 lineup include deadmau5, Steve Angello, Crystal Castles, Richie Hawtin and John Digweed. They will join already announced headliners like Armin van Buuren, Avicii, Kaskade, Eric Prydz, Kygo, Martin Garrix and a Pendulum reunion set.

  • Stream Richie Hawtin’s BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix [LISTEN]

    Last week, techno pioneer Richie Hawtin played the inaugural episode of BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix Live Series alongside longtime host and DJ Pete Tong, which was recorded live at Exchange in Los Angeles. The set was broadcast Saturday afternoon. Stream the whole set here.

  • Richie Hawtin Releases New Album 'From My Mind To Yours'

    Richie Hawtin has quietly working studiously on some new material and today, the producer, DJ has unveiled it as part of a brand new album From My Mind To Yours, which calls upon his various monikers Childsplay, Boxx, Robotman, R.H.X., Fuse, Circuit Breaker and most famously Plastikman to put together a full LP.

  • Groove Parade Canceled After 20 Years: Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin Set To Perform

    Music festivals are a place where people go to enjoy great artists and forget the worries from the real world around them. However those same issues sometimes afflict music festivals in ways that can be disastrous. Spanish house and techno festival Groove Parade had to cancel the 2015 edition of its festival after 20 straight years. The festival was slated to have big name acts like Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin and Laurent Garnier head to Northern Spain.

  • Aphex Twin Answers 25 Questions from Skrillex, Richie Hawtin, Nicolas Jaar and Others

    The enigmatic and at times odd Richard David James, better known as Apex Twin, shocked the world when he released an album this year after being silent for the previous 13. Using some rather ingenious marketing techniques, including an Aphex Twin Blimp over the London skies and Aphex Twin logos graffitied onto the streets of New York. The release of "Syro" has impressed his fans and music critics alike, earning plaudits and landing in the top spots of most end-of-year rankings. In honor of his 2014 and the 25th anniversary of "Groove" magazine, he fielded 25 questions from other highly touted DJs, including Skrillex, Caribou, Ben Klock and Richie Hawtin and answered them in kind. Below are some of the highlights, via "FACT."

  • Resident Advisor Releases Top 100 DJs Poll; The Anti-DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll

    When it comes to DJ polls, there are two very different opposite rankings for the top DJs in the world. The most controversial one, the DJ Mag Top 100, relies on fan voting to rank the top DJs in the world, which predictably has main stage heavyweights like Hardwell, Tiesto, Avicii, Armin van Buuren, Martin Garrix and others top the list. In a very different twist of events, Resident Advisor, a standard for underground dance music, has its own opinion on which the top DJs in the world are. German Steffan Berkhahn, label owner of Berlin based Innervisions Recordings and professionally known as Dixon, topped the poll for a second straight year, while others like Seth Troxler, Richie Hawtin, Tale Of Us and others trailed not far behind.

  • Richie Hawtin Pens Facebook Apology After Pushing Speaker on Fan at Time Warp

    Thanksgiving is a time for spending time with your family, stuffing your face with incredible food and being thankful for what we have. Over the weekend, dance music fans gave thanks to the techno gods for bringing German indoor dance music festival Time Warp stateside to the 39th Street Pier in Brooklyn for its 20th anniversary.Taking place on Friday, Nov. 28, and Saturday, Nov. 29, the two-day festival featured a lineup that included house and techno heavyweights like Richie Hawtin, Luciano, Dixon, Sven Väth, Joseph Capriati, Dubfire:liveHYBRID, The Martinez Brothers and others. The festival was seemingly successful, but one incident has caught headlines after the festival.One of the premiere DJs on the lineup, Richie Hawtin, was showing off his moves in the booth, and upon seeing a young woman standing there filming the whole thing on her iPhone, he vented his frustration by pushing a monitor onto the fan.After the dust settled and fans had seen the video of him pushing the speaker into the iPhone-wielding fan, Richie Hawtin took to his Facebook page to pen a public apology for the incident.
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