Plastikman is a Techno act from Canada, ranked #1874 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 96,900 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #36 in Canada and #256 in Techno among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has grown 9% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 88.6K to 96.9K. They have 110,223 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 37/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Spastik”.
Who Plastikman is
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 became known for his recordings under the Plastikman and F.U.S.E. aliases. Under the latter, he released his debut album Dimension Intrusion (1993) as part of Warp's Artificial Intelligence series. In May 1990, Hawtin and John Acquaviva founded the Plus 8 record label, which they named after their turntable's pitch adjust function. In 1998, Hawtin launched M-nus Records. From 2012-2015, Hawtin held the ENTER. Ibiza weekly party at Space in Ibiza. In 2016, Hawtin launched his own technology company called PLAYdifferently, and released the MODEL 1 mixer, co-designed with Andy Rigby-Jones.
Biography from the Plastikman article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Plastikman, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 96.9K in the week of Sep 28, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in techno, and the biggest names from Canada.
Plastikman vs the field
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Plastikman in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Plastikman have?
Plastikman has 96,900 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Plastikman's world ranking?
Plastikman is ranked #1874 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Plastikman from?
Plastikman is from Canada, where they rank #36 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Plastikman make?
Plastikman is categorised as Techno in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as minimal techno, acid house, idm, acid techno.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.