The Prototypes Tour will start in Los Angeles at Sound on Monday 14 March and go on to visit club venues around the world including Fabric (London), Robert Johnson (Frankfurt), Watergate (Berlin), Tenax (Florence) and Output (New York). The tour will stop at leading music conventions including Musikmesse (Germany), SXSW and Winter Music Conference / Ultra Music Week in North America.
The tour also includes an in-store performance at the Walrus record store / cafe in central Paris, plus a special talk at SXSW with Resident Advisor where Hawtin will reveal more about the new mixer in public. The tour will also host stages at two global festivals: Movement in Detroit and Awakenings in Amsterdam.
PLAYdifferently was announced at NAMM in Anaheim last January and it sees Richie Hawtin and British product-developer Andy Rigby-Jones in partnership with Allen & Heath and the Audiotonix group. After two decades working at A&H and being an integral part of their Xone DJ division, Rigby-Jones left the company in 2014 and partnered with Richie Hawtin to combine their expertise and unique vision to create new innovative instruments for the electronic music market.
(Jim Evans)
