''Sheet One'' is the second 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 debut studio album under the alias Plastikman. It was released in 1993 by Novamute Records.

Artwork

The front inlay of ''Sheet One'' was perforated, giving it the look of a wall of

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tabs. The cover was so realistic that a man in Texas was arrested when a police officer saw the CD on his car seat after pulling him over on a traffic violation in 1994.

Critical reception

In 2006, ''Sheet One'' was ranked at number 74 on ''

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''s "Top 100 Albums" list. In 2015, '' Thump'' placed it at number 15 on its list of the "99 Greatest Dance Albums of All Time". In 2017, ''

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'' listed it as one of the 10 best 1990s

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albums.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. * Richie Hawtin – music, layout * Dominic Ayre – logo design

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1993 albums Richie Hawtin albums Novamute Records albums