Ritchie hawtin is gay

More than any other genre, the roots of dance music are steeped in the ideals of unity, respect and love for all people. At THUMP, we explored the history of gay dance music , from the hot house of early disco and house that flowered at the same time as the first movement toward gay rights. We also examined where the movement is today in terms of the EDM explosion, and we followed the original underground strain all the way up until today's vibrant queer scene. Now, in honor of National Coming Out day on October 11, we are honoring those who gave birth to dance music, and have kept its energy alive for four decades and beyond. The bearded host-cum-DJ who started it all in the early 70s at his legendary residence-cum-afterhours, The Loft. Though mixing was barely an ideal in the earliest days, Mancuso's music selection and crowd curation undoubtedly gave birth to the scene.

He is a techno icon who continues to continually push the frontiers of music and technology. In Richie launched the CNTRL concept — adding education to the forefront of his vision and agenda for the future of electronic music and technology innovations. The lectures focus on the technology aspects of modern-day electronic music, presenting the more futuristic and underground side of the genre, as championed by HAWTIN and DICE and their peers for the last two decades. They aim to inform and inspire people about technology, music production, live performance, and the business of electronic music. CNTRL is a future thinking session but will also ensure the students leave with a deeper understanding of how the genre developed to where it is today.

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Can you imagine Richie Hawtin as a Kiwi junglist? In a parallel universe he could easily have been, if a couple of things had gone differently. For one, before his parents emigrated from England to Canada, they were hoping to relocate to New Zealand.