PLASTIKMAN Arkives Pre-Order Site Now Live

Plastikman's Arkives is a comprehensive box set that pulls together all 17 years of the Plastikman story so far, including remastered versions of all six previously released Plastikman albums and a trove of rarities, unreleased sessions and new material.

Richie Hawtin comments: “Arkives is the first time that I've collected together all the material under the name Plastikman. Once this is released, for me, it's everything that I know, that I have, that I believe is ready or needs to be heard for people to get a full understanding of what Plastikman is today. Where it's come from, where it's been, where it is now, and hopefully to prepare people for where it might go in the future.”

Arkives is a strictly limited, made-to-order edition—only as many copies will be manufactured as have been pre-ordered— that will be released in four different formats:

Arkives Reference, the main personalized edition, features 11 CDs and 1 DVD. The deluxe packaging includes a slipcase with foldout sleeves for all 12 discs, plus a 64-page book that tells the Plastikman story in archival photos and a newly commissioned text. The set includes newly remastered versions of all six previously released Plastikman albums—Sheet One, Musik, Recycled Plastik, Consumed, Artifakts (B.C.), and Closer—and five further CDs of rare and unreleased material.

Editions can now be pre-ordered at www.plastikman.com/arkives until December 31, 2010. The site also carries full album tracklist information.

The releases are priced as follows:

• Reference €129 Europe / $199 Rest of world

• Analog €55 Europe / $89 Rest of world

• Digital €59 all territories

• Komplete (Reference + Analog) €159 Europe / $239 Rest of world

There will also be special bonus content for everyone who orders before November 14: an exclusive Plastikman mix CD upon ordering, plus a Xmas card and unreleased digital music, which will be received by Christmas.

Richie Hawtin continues: “Trying to put Arkives together has been a jigsaw puzzle, a needle-in-a-haystack situation. So much of the content has been spread out all over the world. I made one special trip back to Canada just for this, and I was just going through boxes of things in the studio. Finding not only DATs of music I totally forgot about, but also photos and images and flyers of things I didn't even really remember happening. It's 18 years of history. This project, I hope, is an inspiring and interesting journey for everyone who becomes part of it, who reads the book and listens to the music, but for me also it's been a journey myself. People are complaining about the music industry going down, about the lack of sales, that people are only downloading digital content or even just trading it. But I believe that if you can bring music together in a package and add something greater—we have a book, we have unreleased material and photos—it becomes something greater than the sum of its parts. It's a whole experience.”

Download Arkives images here:

Reference:

http://m-nus.com/media/MINUS100_ArkivesReferencejpgs.zip

Analog:

http://m-nus.com/media/MINUS100_ArkivesAnalogjpgs.zip

 
For more information: www.plastikman.com/arkives

Richie Hawtin & Plastikman at ADE 2010

New Australian tour dates announced

With Arkives on the horizon, some further dates were added for the Plastikman Live tour, with Plastikman announced as one of the headliners for the FutureMusic festival tour in Australia in March 2011.

Upcoming Plastikman Live dates:

November 13, 2010 – Creamfields Argentina, Buenos Aires
December 04, 2010 – Womb Adventure, Tokyo
March 05, 2011 – FutureMusic Festival, Brisbane
March 06, 2011 – FutureMusic Festival, Perth
March 12, 2011 – FutureMusic Festival, Sydney
March 13, 2011 – FutureMusic Festival, Melbourne
March 14, 2011 – FutureMusic Festival, Adelaide

CONTACT INFORMATION

North America: Alex Greenberg | agreenberg@msopr.com | 818-380-0400 223

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