''Artifakts c' is the fifth studio album by Canadian

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producer

Richie Hawtin 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 becam ...

, and his fourth studio album under the alias Plastikman. It was released on November 2, 1998 by

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and Novamute Records. The album was devised as a way to bridge the periods between the Plastikman albums '' Musik'' and '' Consumed''. The tracks on ''Artifakts c' were originally produced by Hawtin for an unreleased album entitled ''Klinik'' that was intended to form a trilogy with his prior albums ''

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'' and ''Musik''. Hawtin ultimately scrapped ''Klinik'' and instead began work on ''Consumed''. "bc" in the title is an acronym for "Before ''Consumed''". ''Artifakts c' peaked at number 31 on the

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Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. * Richie Hawtin – music, design, layout * Seth – design, layout * Slim – design, layout

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1998 albums Richie Hawtin albums Novamute Records albums