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Plus 8 is a Canadian techno record label, based in Windsor, Ontario and founded in 1990 by DJs Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva. Initial releases were by the pair themselves and their friends using aliases such as States of Mind and Cybersonik, along with other Detroit-based musicians such as Kenny Larkin. Plus 8 was, along with Underground Resistance and Planet E, one of the vanguards of Detroit Techno's 'Second Wave', capitalising on the vacuum left by labels such as KMS, Metroplex and Transmat at the start of the 1990s.

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Plus 8's initial releases were a series of increasingly faster industrial hardcore recordings. The label began to retreat from hard and fast tempo after the release of Circuit Breaker's "Overkill/Frenz-E" and Cybersonik"s "Thrash" in 1992. Hawtin and Aquaviva became disenchanted with the drug fueled dynamic and rave culture that was driving hardcore techno.

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Important releases include early 12 inch singles from Speedy J, and Richie Hawtin's many pseudonyms including F.U.S.E. and Plastikman.

Plus 8 Classics Vol. 1 (1990-1992)
Tracklisting:1 States Of Mind Elements Of Tone (J's A Mix) (4:22) 2 Cybersonik Technarchy (5:54) 3 Psyance Motion (5:36) 4 Kenny Larkin Colony (4:26) 5 Final Exposure Vortex (7:44) 6 Speedy J Evolution (6:51) 7 FUSE* Substance Abuse (5:09) 8 FUSE* F.U. 2 (5:25) 9 Speedy J Rise (9:48) 10 Speedy J Pullover (2nd Remix) (5:14) 11 V-Room G-Hertz (7:08) 12 Alan Oldham Comic Book (Data Track)

Plus 8 Classics Vol. 2 (1993-1994)

Tracklisting:1 FUSE* Slac (3:17) 2 Speedy J Beam Me Up! (5:40) 3 UTU Between The Mirrors (6:48) 4 Plastikman Spastik (9:13) 5 Sysex Cr Acid Trax 1 (4:57) 6 Born Under A Rhyming Planet Analogue Heaven (6:29) 7 Plastikman Krakpot (11:13) 8 Himadri The Perverted Truth (3:36) 9 Plastikman Plastique (13:03) 10 Matthew Hawtin Blue Neuron (Data Track)

Plus 8 Classics Vol. 3 (1995-1997)

Tracklisting:1 R Hawtin* Call It What You Want (10:07) 2 Born Under A Rhyming Planet Spasm Band (5:19) 3 FUSE* vs LFO Loop (8:31) 4 Plastikman Panikattack (8:41) 5 Silvershower 1 (6:39) 6 Kooky Scientist, The O.L.D. vs N.E.A.U. (9:24) 7 Speedy J Pannik (10:03) 8 R Hawtin* 005 (7:32) 9 Theorem Mantra One (7:01)