Nitzer Ebb/Richie Hawtin/Intermission - "Orange Minus 1/Orange Minus 2/Orange Minus 2/Let Your Body Lean/Orange Minus 1/What The Hell Was That?" - (5:47) 139 BPM
Heiko Laux/Baby Ford & Eon/Sawas Ysatis/Stewart S Walker - "Five/Dead Eye/Club Soda/It's Process Not Substance" - (4:28) 138 BPM
Review: One of Richie Hawtin's early releases under the Jack Master alias from 1993 was originally released on Plus 8 sub label JACK and is now available digitally via Soma Recordings. A true zeitgeist of the early '90s techno sound as popularised by Jeff Mills, Joey Beltran, Mark Archer and Frankie Bones, this classic still gets hammered out today by the likes of Function. Its relentless and cavernous 909 workout beneath sonar bleeps and a jacking vocal refrain is the stuff of legend!
Review: Throughout the latter part of 2015, some anonymous Plus 8 white labels started to appear in Hard Wax, leading to some speculation. If the rumours were anything to go by, the legendary Richie Hawtin may have ventured back into the studio. And here we have it, a new album by Hawtin entitled "From My Mind To Yours" featuring some new material, the first in many years as well as some revised classics. Hawtin is said to have invested in and sought inspiration from the new AIRA series of Roland machines such as the TR-8 and the results speak for themselves. From the 13-minute long acid epic "No Way Back" to classic material from his old FUSE moniker featuring the rusty and high octane sounds of Detroit in the early nineties, there's some real gems on here. New Plastikman tracks such as "Purrkussiv" explore his stripped back rhythmic minimalism that he's famous for, while his new alias 80xx explores new acid capabilities like on the droning and hypnotic "Creatur" or "Grindr".
