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Richard " Richie " Hawtin ( born June 4 , 1970 ) is aCanadian electronic musician and DJ and three - time DJ Awards winner . He was an influential part of ___MASK46___ techno ' s second wave of artists in the early 1990s and has been a leading exponent of minimal techno since the mid - 1990s . He is best known for his work under the alias Plastikman and for his ENTER . events in Ibiza and around the world . ___MASK46___ techno is a type of techno music that generally includes the first techno productions by ___MASK46___ - based artists during the 1980s and early 1990s . ___MASK46___ has been cited as the birthplace of techno . Prominent ___MASK46___ techno artists include Juan Atkins , Eddie Fowlkes , Derrick May , Jeff Mills , Kevin Saunderson , Blake Baxter , Santonio Echols and Mike Banks . Kompakt is a ___MASK76___ - based electronic music independent record label and vinyl / CD distributor , owned by Wolfgang Voigt , Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape . They specialize in microhouse and minimal techno , and are known for their " Total " compilation series which reached its sixteenth installment in 2016 . Minimal techno is a minimalist subgenre of techno music . It is characterized by a stripped - down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition and understated development . Minimal techno is thought to have been originally developed in the early 1990s by ___MASK46___ - based producers Robert Hood and Daniel Bell . By the early 2000s the term ' minimal ' generally described a style of techno that was popularised in ___MASK49___ by labels such as Kompakt , Perlon , and Richie Hawtin ' s M - nus , among others . Perlon is an electronic music record label founded in ___MASK48___ , Germany , based in ___MASK2___ , and run by Zip and Markus Nikolai . It is a minimal techno and microhouse label whose sound features vocals and peppery sounds . Producers such as Ricardo Villalobos , Baby Ford , Stefan Goldmann , Luciano , Matt John , Dandy Jack , Akufen and Pantytec have released records on Perlon . It is a vinyl only label , apart from a few compilations and mixes released on CD . No released have been made available online in any digital format . Thomas Brinkmann ( born 1959 ) is a German producer of experimental minimal techno music . He began experimenting with records in the early eighties and released re - workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and Richie Hawtin in the second half of the 90s . These productions were made by playing physically modified vinyl records on highly customized turntables with an additional tone arm . Brinkmann later founded the Ernst record label and introduced his own productions on a series of 12 `` records taking their titles from female names . He has also produced for labels such as Traum Schallplatten , Raster - Noton and Mute Records ( under the Soul Center alias ) . ___MASK46___ is the most populous city in the U . S . state of ___MASK50___ , the fourth - largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States  Canada border . It is the seat of Wayne County , the most populous county in the state . Ibiza is an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the east coast of ___MASK94___ . It is from the city of ___MASK64___ . It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands , an autonomous community of ___MASK94___ . Its largest settlements are Ibiza Town , Santa Eulària des Riu , and Sant Antoni de Portmany . Its highest point , called Sa Talaiassa ( or Sa Talaia ), is above sea level . Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in ___MASK46___ , ___MASK50___ , in the United States during the mid - to - late 1980s . The first recorded use of the word " techno " in reference to a specific genre of music was in 1988 . Many styles of techno now exist , but ___MASK46___ techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built .