 Richie Hawtin
DE9: Closer to the Edit
Release Date: 2001 09 18
Label: Novamute Records
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Consider DE9: Closer to the Edit Richie Hawtin's turntablist record. Freed from the (only relative) constraints of his Decks, EFX & 909 setup, Hawtin applied Final Scratch technology, a system which pipelines any digital sound elements -- from CD, MiniDisc, an effects box, practically anything -- directly into the needle of a special turntable. (Needless to say, no digging through the crates on this one.) Hawtin spins through 30-odd tracks of moody minimal techno, including tracks -- or, to be more precise, elements -- from Basic Channel, Thomas Brinkmann, Stewart Walker, Carl Craig, Theorem, and Sutekh, plus his own F.U.S.E. and Plastikman guises. Most of these tracks are present in such wildly different versions, however, that listeners may not even recognize a usually familiar track; when all that's taken is a bassline and an effect here or a scratchy percussion line there, and each track includes elements of three or four different originals, the results are much closer to either remixes or a wildly eclectic turntablist album than a techno mix album -- thus the title. Instead of a hip-hop DJ's wild spinbacks, Hawtin uses only momentary pauses and beat disruptions to mark time and open new chapters in the mix. The result is a clean, precisely constructed mix, and one that ironically isn't especially evocative of the immense work involved in constructing it. All the better for the headphone and chill-out listening this record was made for, much more so than Decks, EFX & 909. John Bush, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | | 1 | Range/Smart Card?/10 Strikes to 2001 | O'Sullivan, Lowtec | 3:50 | | 2 | Smart Card?/10 Strikes to 2001/Monostatic/Diminishing Returns (Special | De Costa, D.J. Knigge, O'Sullivan, A. Nov | 1:20 | | 3 | Monostatic/Dimishing Returns /Concept Loop U:1 [Special Edition Dub] | Lawrence, Hawtin, Walker, Sienkiewicz | 1:50 | | 4 | Green Apple/Stereo Virus/Spastik | Besier, Heinicke, Hawtin | :51 | | 5 | Dada EP A2/Stereo Virus/Talk to Me | Akufen, Wessling | :28 | | 6 | Stereo Virus/Talk to Me/Dimishing Returns [Special Edition ...] | Sienkiewicz, Process, Anderson, Melchior | 1:25 | | 7 | Orph/Diminishing Returns [Special Edition Dub] | Krüger | 2:47 | | 8 | Silent Treatment/Diminishing Returns [Special Edition ...] | Dundov, Dee, Pascal FEOS, Zip, Hawtin | 1:18 | | 9 | Vacuum Cleaner/Silent Treatment/Into the Duster/Freek | Zip, Baby Ford | 1:15 | | 10 | Forever Love/Bredow | Villalobos, Ford, Melchior | :59 | | 11 | Forever Love/Courtesy Car/Into the Space/808 Loop | Hawtin | 2:32 | | 12 | Courtesy Car/Flibkà Top/Las Rambias (Forever Love) /No Milk Today | Zip, Ford, Auto, Melchoir, Baby Ford | 2:18 | | 13 | At the Front | Bug | 1:56 | | 14 | Untitled/Slacker Jack/Divisible/Muff Diver | Nikolai, Brown, Silwinski, Wulle, Shannon | 2:42 | | 15 | B1/Optical Way/A1 | Cerrone | 1:59 | | 16 | Optical Way/Panna/B1/Too Distant Images/Clinicalism | Walker, Walker, Lawrence, Rapaccioli, Toky | :41 | | 17 | Luna /Clinicalism/Panpot Spliff [Re-Edit] | Villalobos | 1:01 | | 18 | Panpot Spliff | Voight | :38 | | 19 | Gelb/Tea Party/Different View/Life Force/Plasticity/Krikot/Tracks ... | Flügel, Hawtin, Ford, Hester, Melchior, Loveday | 1:03 | | 20 | Tea Party/Tracks on Delivery, Pt. 2 (Pattern 7) /Gelb/The Climax [Origi | Craig | 2:05 | | 21 | Tracks on Delivery, Pt. 2 (Pattern 7) /Grown | Straka | :47 | | 22 | Grown/Tracks on Delivery, Pt. 2 (Pattern 7) /Loplop B1/Distortion Man | Brinkman, Walker | :55 | | 23 | Loplop B1/Anyway I Know You/Edit Blue | Kübler, ?, Varga, Spless | 1:56 | | 24 | Edit Blue/Süizgürtel/Diminishing Returns [Special Edition Dub] | Wenner, Klos | :29 | | 25 | Edit Blue/Süizgürtel/Diminishing Returns ... [Special Edition Dub] | Mueller | 2:00 | | 26 | Formenverwandler/Friday Night With B. Reynolds/Chemistry/Octagon/A ... | Hawtin, Reuter, O'Sullivan | 3:39 | | 27 | Octagon/Edit Blue/Contain/The Super/The Climax /For My ... [Original V | Hawtin, Lorsbach, Craig, Mengler | 2:56 | | 28 | Snatch/Lifeforce/Lfo Drive | Beer, O'Sullivan, Cam | 2:00 | | 29 | Trinkets/Snatch/Does Ronda Know? | Sutekh, Zip, Dee | :43 | | 30 | B1/Snatch/Discount Baby /Distortion Men/Flibkà Top [H.A.L. 9000 Mix] | Cerrone, Lieb, Etling, Elsel | 2:32 | | 31 | Range/Dekommpression/Amenity | Pritchard | 2:15 |
Releases:
| Year | Type | Label | | 2001 | CD | Novamute Records | | 2001 | CD | Novamute Records | | 2002 | CD | Novamute Records |
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