Ali Demirel: Plastikman Video Trilogy

Ali Demirel: Plastikman Video Trilogy

2 December, 2011 | 11.01AM

• Written by: Beatportal
• Filed under: Videos: minus, plastikman, plus 8

The video artist Ali Demirel is a longtime collaborator of Richie Hawtin, having masterminded the visuals for many of Minus’ projects. Taken from the Plastikman Arkives (1993-2010) box set, the “Plastikman Video Trilogy” compiles Demirel’s mind-bending videos for three classic Plastikman tracks, “Mind Encode,” “Lost,” and “Disconnect.”

Arkives, released earlier this year and now available from Beatport, is the definitive history of Hawtin’s Plastikman project, comprising not only lovingly remastered versions of all the original albums (Sheet One, Recycled Plastik, Musik, Artifakts (BC), Consumed, and Closer) but also a number of bonus discs including rare and unreleased Plastikman singles, Plastikman’s remixes for the likes of Depeche Mode and Winx, and a bounty of new remixes by artists like Dubfire, Carl Craig, Severed Heads, and more.

With the exception of the “Optiks” DVD and the “Sessions” disc of unedited recording sessions, virtually all of it is available for download on Beatport in a massive bundle. Alternately, all of the set’s individual discs (save “Rekonstruktions,” the double-disc set of Plastikman’s remixes of other artists) are also available as individually bundled albums; the four core Plastikman albums all include a single-track mixed version, new to the Arkives project. Of particular note are ”Extrakts," featuring unreleased cuts, ”Nostalgic," featuring Guideo Schneider and Dubfire remixes along with still more unreleased plastik, and a disc’s worth of Burn Studios remix contest winners.

Explore it all on Beatport here. Mind in rewind…

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