Plastikman - Closer

Richie Hawtin’s first album in five years under the revered Plastikman alias marks another unpredictable artistic leap and an unprecedented move towards the personal for one of second-wave techno’s most celebrated auteurs. The music – remote, hallucinatory and disorientingly Cubist, although not without the occasional, inviting wiggle – is as enigmatic as anything in Hawtin’s eclectic canon, continuing the uneasy voyage into the outer limits of mutant acid house Plastikman first began a decade ago with the seminal Sheet One. But it’s also the most accurate channeling of the sounds rattling around inside his head Hawtin has achieved to date.