''Recycled Plastik'' is an extended play by Canadian

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

producer Richie Hawtin under the alias Plastikman. It was released in 1994 by

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. The EP, released a few months before the Plastikman album '' Musik'', features "

Spastik "Spastik" is an instrumental track by British people, British-Canadian people, Canadian Electronic musician, electronic musician and DJ Richie Hawtin, under his alias Plastikman. It was released on 4 october 1993 in Canada. It is his most well-kn ...

", which has been described as "perhaps awtin'smost well-known Plastikman production, a signature track that never ceased to inspire feverish reactions among Hawtin fanatics." The remaining five tracks are likewise rooted in Hawtin's trademark minimal style.

Critical reception

Jason Birchmeier of

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wrote that ''Recycled Plastik'' "isn't nearly as thematic or continuous as the other Plastikman releases, utit functions well for what it is, an EP intended to showcase '

' and set the stage for the upcoming '' Musik'' album."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. * Richie Hawtin – music, layout * Dominic Ayre – logo design

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1994 albums Richie Hawtin albums Novamute Records albums