DE9: Closer to the Edit

DE9 | Closer to the Edit is a 2001 compilation album by Canadian electronic music artist Richie Hawtin.

DE9 | Closer to the Edit
Compilation album by Richie Hawtin
Released	September 18, 2001
Recorded	June 2001
Studio	The Building 530
Genre	Detroit techno, minimal techno, microhouse
Length	53:10
Label	Novamute Records, Minus
Producer	Richie Hawtin
Richie Hawtin chronology
Decks, EFX & 909 (1999) DE9 | Closer to the Edit (2001) DE9 | Transitions (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The A.V. Club	favorable[2]
MusicOMH	favorable[3]
Pitchfork	7.9/10[4]

Spin named it one of the 20 best albums of 2001.[5] Resident Advisor placed it at number 16 on its list of the top 50 mixes of the 2000s.[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Range/Smart Card?/10 Strikes to 2001"	3:50
2.	"Smart Card?/10 Strikes to 2001/Monostatic/Diminishing Returns (Special Edition Dub)"	1:20
3.	"Monostatic/Diminishing Returns (Special Edition Dub)/Concept Loop U:1/Recoil/1"	1:50
4.	"Green Apple/Stereo Virus/Spastik"	0:51
5.	"Dada EP A2/Stereo Virus/Talk to Me"	0:28
6.	"Stereo Virus/Talk to Me/Diminishing Returns (Special Edition Dub)/Green Apple/4/Contain/From Pioneer to Poet (Softcore Edit)"	1:25
7.	"Orph/Diminishing Returns (Special Edition Dub)"	2:47
8.	"Silent Treatment/Diminishing Returns (Special Edition Dub)/Freek/Into the Duster"	1:18
9.	"Vacuum Cleaner/Silent Treatment/Into the Duster/Freek"	1:15
10.	"Forever Love/Bredow"	0:59
11.	"Forever Love/Courtesy Car/Into the Space/808 Loop"	2:32
12.	"Courtesy Car/Flibkà Top/Las Rambias (Forever Love)/No Milk Today"	2:18
13.	"Untitled/At the Front"	1:56
14.	"Untitled/Slacker Jack/Divisible/Muff Diver"	2:42
15.	"B1/Optical Way/A1"	1:59
16.	"Optical Way/Panna/B1/Too Distant Images/Clinicalism"	0:41
17.	"Luna (Re-Edit)/Clinicalism/Panpot Spliff"	1:01
18.	"Panpot Spliff/Gelb"	0:38
19.	"Gelb/Tea Party/Different View/Life Force/Plasticity/Kriket/Tracks on Delivery Pt. 2 (Pattern 7)"	1:03
20.	"Tea Party/Tracks on Delivery Pt. 2 (Pattern 7)/Gelb/The Climax (Original)"	2:05
21.	"Tracks on Delivery Pt. 2 (Pattern 7)/Grown"	0:47
22.	"Grown/Tracks on Delivery Pt. 2 (Pattern 7)/Loplop B1/Distortion Men"	0:55
23.	"Loplop B1/Anyway I Know You/Edit Blue"	1:56
24.	"Edit Blue/Süizgürtel/Diminishing Returns (Special Edition Dub)"	0:29
25.	"Edit Blue/Süizgürtel/Diminishing Returns (Special Edition Dub)/Formenverwandler"	2:00
26.	"Formenverwandler/Friday Night with B. Reynolds/Chemistry/Octagon/A Factory Dub/Edit Blue/Concept Loop U:2/Concept Loop U:3"	3:39
27.	"Octagon/Edit Blue/Contain/The Super/The Climax (Original)/For My Peepz"	2:56
28.	"Snatch/Lifeforce/LFO Drive"	2:00
29.	"Trinkets/Snatch/Does Ronda Know?"	0:43
30.	"B1/Snatch/Discount Baby (H.A.L. 9000 Mix)/Distortion Men/Flibkà Top/Kriket/Dekompression/B2"	2:32
31.	"Range/Dekommpression/Amenity"	2:15

References

1. Bush, John. "DE9: Closer to the Edit - Richie Hawtin". AllMusic. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
2. Battaglia, Andy (April 19, 2002). "Richie Hawtin: DE9: Closer To The Edit". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
3. Hubbard, Michael (September 17, 2001). "Richie Hawtin – DE9 – Closer to the Edit". MusicOMH. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
4. Cooper, Paul (October 1, 2001). "Richie Hawtin: DE9: Closer to the Edit". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
5. "The 20 Best Albums of 2001 - Richie Hawtin, DE9: Closer to the Edit (M-nus/NovaMute)". Spin. December 31, 2001. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
6. "RA Poll: Top 50 mixes of the '00s". Resident Advisor. January 17, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2017.

Further reading

• Chun, Kimberly (October 26, 2001). "Techno DJ Richie Hawtin Gets Closer". SFGate.
• Sanneh, Kelefa (November 4, 2001). "MUSIC; Old-Fashioned Sounds From Masters of Electronica". The New York Times.

External links

• DE9 | Closer to the Edit at Discogs (list of releases)
• DE9 | Closer to the Edit on SoundCloud