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For 17 years I have been DJ'ing and travelling the world, continuing to inspire and be inspired. Through these years many DJ's/performers have come and gone, but many have remained and stood by our sound and continued to push forward and assist in its' development.

For me it feels like we have come full circle and we find ourselves again with the sound of forward thinking electronic music, Techno, at the forefront of the global electronic music scene.

It's important to remember that many fans have been introduced to our music through different ways, in small clubs, house parties, even large stadium events listening to people like Paul or Tiesto, but I think it's time to truly look at who are the pacemakers of Techno today, and who are really the DJ's/performers that continue to inspire, entertain and push forward....

Who inspires me? Sven, Marco, Magda, Ricardo, Matthew Dear, Luciano, Steve Bug, Dice, Raresh the list goes on!

Born in 1970, in Banbury, Oxfordshire, Richie Hawtin and his family moved to the Canadian border city of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada. It was across the border, in Detroit, that Richie began to make a name for himself on the radio scene, with a show on Detroit 96.3 FM. Shortly afterward, he set up Plus 8 Records.

Decks, EFX and 909, his 1999 debut LP, was a critically-acclaimed album that launched Hawtin into a category of his own.

Also known as Plastikman -- the worst kept alias in the industry -- Hawtin went on to release several more albums, entrenching himself as a pioneer in the techno scene.

We caught up with Richie to talk about music, the business, his revolutionary DJ system known as Final Scratch (which hooks up an ordinary pair of turntables and mixer to a laptop), and the ups and downs of being a DJ who sticks to his guns.