THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | OCTOBER 2010
HOUSE//ELECTRO//TECHNO 33 JOE LE GROOVE´S
RITCHIE HAWTIN
How was your Plastikman Live set @ Womb in Tokyo? It was really good thanks. As to be expected in Japan. The audience are so open to technology , music, flashing lights and craziness, they were really taken back by it. It was the last Plastickman Live show of 2010(15 shows world wide).The Idea of Plastickman Live was to do shows around the world, keep it special but get as many people as possible to see it within the 15 dates international dates. When we did the Contact Tour, we only did 9 or 10 in the end. so we felt the could have been a few more. I’m
really happy with the amount that we did. In the Future I do want to do more but with the show being so new and it being quite technologi- cally advanced we had to be careful how it all works together and touring .
How many people does it take to put the whole thing together? That’s a funny question, I’m just writing an email to the whole gang, I think if we really counted the amount of people that had a part to bringing it to the stage over the year, there was about 15- 20
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key people who were involved . We had friends building software patches and a lot of customizations and this and that. Its quite a wide spread dedicated team. Now it was up and running we are usually on tour with 9 to 10 people for each show. Once everything is plugged in and checked over with a sound check that takes anything from 2 hours up to 4 to 8 hours. Its like building a circuit board every time, circuit boards are complicated, it only takes one loose solder joint to make the whole thing fall Apart.
What’s the difference between JOE LE GROOVE´S
1. Locomotive / Artist: Lee Garner / Label: Brake Horse Records 2. The Cut / Shenoda / 1trax 3. A Shot In The Dark / Steve Bug / Poker Flat Recordings 4. Wallalu (Joe Le Groove vs Donewrong)/Kevin Andrews feat One/World Sound Recordings
5. Be Your Oooo…! (Gavin Herlihy remix) / Gav Memnos / Lower East 6. First Chapter / Mouj & Dan Lively / Variante Music 7. Welcome To 3D / Joe Le Groove / Brakehorse CDR 8. She Kissed Me First / El_Txef_A / Hypercolour 9. Solace / James Dutton / ALiVE Recordings 10. Right Now (Silver City Space Mix) / Freaks vs Robert Owens / Rebirth
and your Plastickman pseud- onym? Its changed over the years, I think Plastikman man has always been the pseudonym that I hid behind, its my alter-ego. Its more connected to the early years as opposed to of 2010. Now I’m quite well know now and I’m out there Djing, partying with the crowd. Plastikman was always a project where I locked my- self away in the studio and became closely connected to my machines as possible, its really about who I’m. that’s why on stage I’m not in front of people for Plastikman Live, I’m supposed to be introverted and locked away in my studio in stage, you get glimpses of me every now and then. One minute I’m there and then I’m not. The key idea with Plastickman Live is to use synchro- nised audio and video footage to heighten the experience. When I’m ding as I’m playing other peoples music there is a connection between me the DJ and the music. With Plastickman live I wanted people to get sucked away into the visuals so it was a lot more about the machines and the music.
I spoke to Jeff Mills a few months back and we were discussing lighting, visuals and the new technology that is available. Many clubs at the moment choose to have stan- dard lighting that was avail- able years ago. Both of you are pushing the technology that is available today. Its like you said Joe, its about taking people away. In the early days Jeff and I were lucky enough
to see that time were just playing music in a dark club with a strobe light allowed you to take people away, we are both interested in get- ting back to that point by using the technology that is available today. Heighten it and take it further. Tak- ing people away doesn’t just mean being in a pitch black room, its about taking people away from the reality that they are in, forgetting about time and place.
You also have the Plastickman Arkives box set coming out in 2011, can you tell us more about that? It’s the full archives of Plastickman to date, it’s a collection . Its me clearing out my archives and bring- ing it to the people. Plastickman used to be my most well known project but Hawtin as a DJ has taken over that role over the last ten years. I find myself connected to so many new fans and support- ers who saw Plastickman Lie for the first time this year. Arkives will be a companion piece that will go with the Live Show, its supposed to bring everyone out there up to date with who Hawtin and Plastickman is. For me to move forward full speed with Plastickman next year, I needed to compile it, box it and put it out there so the information and music would be out there for peo- ple to listen to and read. it’s a large collection, its come with a 96 page book, 12 CD’s and DVD’s and there is a vinyl set. It ships in February but the only way to get it is to order is to go to my website and order it before December 31st. it’s the biggest project that we have ever
done at my label, you can imagine trying to produce thousands of these hoping it will sell, we have made it very limited. Each order is personalised for every customer. We pulled out all the stops, for those who get it and buy it I think the will be very happy.
You are always really busy, what do you do when you are chilling out, I presume you have a family to tend to? I have a 3 year old son and I see him when I’m in Berlin, his mother takes care of him a little bit more than me because of my travel schedule. My life is pretty normal, I have been travelling and doing this for 20 years. Luckily I love what I do and usually when I wake up I jump out of be and continue working on the project I was doing the night before.
If you could change one thing about the world what would it be? I would like to see more people conscious of the future. By say- ing that it takes in a lot of things, besides just thinking about today and themselves, people would think more about others, where we are going and future generations
Richie Hawtin will be releasing his new album Arkives 1993-2010 early next year.
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