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RICHIE HAWTIN
TECHNO über mensch Richie Hawtin is With a mad schedule at the best of times,
exhausted and frazzled — yet incredibly 2008’s been extraordinary even by this
animated. With the passion palpable, he musical visionary’s standards.
talks fondly of an insane 2008… Celebrating 10 years of his most successful
and renowned record label M-nus, Hawtin’s
“It’s been so intense that the moments I’ve embarked on a whirlwind of gigs around
been able to enjoy and understand how the globe with the Contakt shows, which
much there is to enjoy are those moments saw the label head and the full M-nus
when I’ve been in front of a crowd,” he alumni DJing and performing live.
enthuses. “It’s really interesting, you’re “This year has been so crazy! With the
finally there and then you forget about Contakt shows, the albums from
everything, and you have the music, the Heartthrob and Gaiser… in a way we’re at a
people, the energy, and the intensity of peak,” Richie reckons.
the sound and it’s like, ‘Ah! This is why “I’m very interested in where the M-nus
we’re doing this!’ It’s been a beautiful aesthetic can go with the music, culture
experience.” and lifestyle.” BEN MURPHY
First record you ever bought? If we’re not talking a Disney record, then it was
Elton John and Showaddywaddy!
Weirdest thing you’ve seen all year? My visual guy Ali jumping into a lake in
the middle of the mountains in Japan.
Top gadget of 2008? The Pacemaker because it’s a whole Richie Hawtin show
Style: Bits and pieces. Best known for: Championing digital DJing
in the palm of your hand.
and using MP3s. Tune of 2008: Mory Kante ‘Yfi e Yfi e (Afro Acid
Your year in five words... Full-on, hectic, busy, ridiculous, inspiring.”
Remix/Hawtin Edit)’ (White) Producer of 2008: All the young
Most important thing you’ve learned recently? That there’s a beautiful
people who now having the opportunity of hearing DJs play their
beach two hours north of Berlin.
music because of technology and the connections that we all have.
HERNAN CATTANEO
BE IT at Tokyo’s Womb, Ibiza’s We Love or travelling musical democrat and celebrated
Brazilian beach club Warung, Hernan national hero.
Cattaneo continues to spread his sound “I don’t play there often but when I do it’s
the globe over, as well as releasing tracks like a home-coming,” he tells us. “When an
like his Urbantorque venture ‘Anime’, yet Argentinean succeeds internationally
he remains one of the most relaxed, everybody supports him. This year I played
understated and grounded characters Moonpark, in Beunos Aires, and the
around. But, then, that’s the Cattaneo response was amazing.”
experience all over — an epic, emotional
journey at a calm and masterfully Citing Macedonia, Romania and Greece as
measured pace. other territories that have responded best
“Probably the most important set I played to his deep and warm voyages, Cattaneo
was the closing of Yello in Tokyo,” he tells also hypes Spain’s Monegros festival as
DJmag. “It’s the only place where I got to another highlight.
play 12-hour sets each time. It was the “As it’s more of a techno festival I wasn’t
perfect club — black, dark, with an really sure how I would go down as my
amazing soundsystem and a crowd that music is more on the deep side, but it went
never asked you to play harder or more really, really well,” he relays.
commercial. Always building, next year will see the
arrival of Hernan’s own digital label.
Hernan is undoubtedly Argentina’s iconic ALLAN MCGRATH
ambassador of electronic music, a
First record you ever bought? Chic ‘C’Est Chic’
Weirdest thing you’ve seen all year? Climate changes.
Top gadget of 2008? iPhone 3G
Style: Different shades of house. Best known for: Deep and long
Your year in five words... Never ever been so happy.
sets. Tune of 2008: Rockets & Ponies ‘Chinese Massage’
Most important thing you’ve learned recently? Fatherhood changes your life
Producer of 2008: Guy J
forever.
www.djmag.com
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