It's hard to know where to start with this one. Weighing in at a whopping six 12"s and some rather lovely packaging, Arkives Analog 1993-2010 is a super-sized Richie Hawtin career retrospective and then some. The timing couldn't be better - last year Hawtin revived the Plastikman pseudonym for a world tour that seemingly hasn't stopped for 12 months, and he has professed delight at presenting his seminal music to a new generation of electronic music lovers. There's absolutely no doubt that the Canadian has made some terrific techno, ambient and electronica in the last two decades, and Arkives boasts long-forgotten remixes to dancefloor classics, with the likes of Matthew Dear, Moby, Green Velvet, Dubfire, Francois K, Mathew Jonson and Carl Craig all appearing. In a word, essential.
