Sin Thetik is a dark, claustrophobic, and intensely focused techno album that finds Plastikman operating at the furthest reaches of his sound. The 2021 release leans into industrial textures and disorienting rhythms, presenting a stark and uncompromising vision.
- Sin Thetik was released on hybrid 128, Richie Hawtin's own label.
- The album was composed and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, a fact that seems to seep into its dense, isolating atmosphere.
- The release was accompanied by a full album visualizer created by the Entanik collective.
Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman project has been a benchmark in techno since the early 1990s, synonymous with uncompromising, dark, and inventive electronic music. Sin Thetik arrived at a point when Hawtin was exploring deeper, more abstract sonic territories, moving away from the dancefloor focus of his earlier work.
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