Like many other artists, the Canadian Richie Hawtin launches a statement on festivals/kkr and on the reasons for changing your performance as PLASTIKMAN In Sónar to a special DJ set.
Due to the crisis that the relationship between a long list of musical festivals has raised in the music scene and their relationship with KKR investment funds through Superconstruct, Richie Hawtin He has believed convenient to expose his opinion in a video on social networks of almost eight minutes. In it, not only is it positioned against everything that is happening in Gaza, but it explains so much that the reasons for the change of action within Sónar have to do with the fact that the show was not yet finished enough to release it at the Barcelona festival. As he says, two months ago, those responsible for the event knew it and was looking for a way to solve the situation, but due to the latest events that happened to a second or third plane.
Likewise, Hawtin points out that he will act in the festivals in which he is hired and that they are related to KKR –Cita Sónar, Awakenings and Monegros– First of all, despite everything that these investment funds represent that phagocyitar the club’s culture, these are events that have supported him throughout his career, for more than thirty years, and considers that now they should not separate themselves from them. It unites a personal relationship in many cases and knows that those who are working on them have the same opinion as him on the genocide in Gaza, rejecting him full. So confirm that he will act at these festivals, as he acted in Boiler Room and others, but that, from this moment on, his Booking It will work in a different way. Those who are after the events, large rooms, etc. will be informed to, as far as possible to prevent that from happening.
He also recognizes that all electronic artists and events have been taking advantage of during the last years of the entrance of those and other investment funds in the club culture, including him, of that great flow of money that has reached the scene and that we now understand that he does not lead to anything good. In any case, this is a summary – positively inaccurate – of his words, so we recommend that you see the full video and listen to it in his own words.
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