Consumed is the third studio album by the Canadian electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 artist Richie Hawtin

Richie Hawtin

Richard Hawtin is an English-Canadian electronic musician and DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s and a leading exponent of Minimal techno since the mid 1990s...

 as Plastikman. The album is an exploration of Plastikman's ambient side and features none of the frantic Detroit techno

Detroit techno

Detroit techno is an early style of electronic music beginning in the 1980s. Detroit, Michigan has been cited as the birthplace of techno music. Prominent Detroit Techno artists include Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson...

 experiments he was chiefly renowned for at the time. According to Hawtin, 'Consumed' was designed as an exploration of the idea of sonic space, inspired by the vast expanses of Michigan's and Ontario's plains. The album is dominated by extremely sparse basslines and percussion, combined with 'spatial' sound effects, such as reverb, stereo

Stereophonic sound

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, and delay

Delay (audio effect)

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 effects.

Track listing

All tracks by Richie Hawtin

Richie Hawtin

Richard Hawtin is an English-Canadian electronic musician and DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s and a leading exponent of Minimal techno since the mid 1990s...

1. "Contain" – 8:29
2. "Consume" – 11:19
3. "Passage (in)" – 0:53
4. "Cor Ten" – 6:50
5. "Convulse (sic)" – 1:22
6. "Ekko" – 3:55
7. "Converge" – 4:24
8. "Locomotion" – 8:49
9. "In Side" – 12:37
10. "Consumed" – 11:42
11. "Passage (out)" – 3:11