''Sheet One'' is the second studio album by Canadian

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producer

Richie Hawtin Richard "Richie" Hawtin (born June 4, 1970) is a British-Canadian electronic musician and DJ. He became involved with Detroit techno's second wave in the early 1990s, and has been a leading exponent of minimal techno since the mid-1990s. He becam ...

, and his debut studio album under the alias Plastikman. It was released in 1993 by

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Artwork

The front inlay of ''Sheet One'' was perforated, giving it the look of a wall of

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tabs. The cover was so realistic that a man in Texas was arrested when a police officer saw the CD on his car seat after pulling him over on a traffic violation in 1994.

Critical reception

In 2006, ''Sheet One'' was ranked at number 74 on ''

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''s "Top 100 Albums" list. In 2015, '' Thump'' placed it at number 15 on its list of the "99 Greatest Dance Albums of All Time". In 2017, ''

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'' listed it as one of the 10 best 1990s

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albums.

Track listing

Personnel

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

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1993 albums Richie Hawtin albums Novamute Records albums