Saw this one and had to throw it out there...after the last olympics with Tiesto, thankfully the Italians went for quality over commercial hype. :Bingo:

Richie Hawtin creates 9:20 for the XXth Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

Words: Resident Advisor Published: 04:00 am Monday, January 16, 2006.

Richie Hawtin has created a piece of music for the XXth Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony taking place on February 10th in Torino, Italy.

The new composition titled "9:20", was written & produced by Richie Hawtin and made in collaboration with renowned Italian choreographer, Enzo Cosimi at Hawtin's Berlin studio. It will accompany Cosimi's provocative choreography featuring famous Italian dancer Robert Bolle along with dozens of other dancers, performers and acrobats. Hawtin & Cosimi worked together to build an evolving soundscape of sounds and effects to accompany the different movements of Cosimi's piece. The composition will tie in with the theme of the Opening Ceremony, the foundation elements of Rhythm, Passion and Speed.

"Enzo and I are very much interested in pushing boundaries, both as artists and for our audiences. Working together for the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Games delivers the creative endeavor to not only entertain a huge audience, but to also introduce them to sights and sounds that they may have never experienced before," says Hawtin from his studio in Berlin.

This is not the first time Olympic ceremony producers have called on an electronic or dance music artist. The Athens Summer Olympics in 2004 also saw Dutch trance DJ Tiesto mix during the Parade of Athletes.

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minus gold? :p

kickass, congrats richie!

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this is huge! im sure it will be great :) hope we can get a roman flugel remix sometime afterwards :p

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better than tiesto playing his uber-set last olympics... was that the olympics he played?

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Kudos to the Olympic committee for recognizing Electronic artists/dj's (even tiesto, i guess) as valid contributors to the Games...and not falling back on pop stars and the like.

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This is cool, I hope we can hear the music clearly this time durring the ceremony, I just hate how they broadcast here in the States going to comercial and stuff and not showing everything, and on top of that, You could barely hear the music, So we'll see what they will do this year.

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Wow this is awesome for Richie. I hope the song goes over well :)

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[quote=Garrick]better than tiesto playing his uber-set last olympics... was that the olympics he played?[/quote]

I remember Bjork preformed at the opening ceremony at the Athens Summer Olympics in '04. Didnt hear about Tieso playing.

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[QUOTE=jarble187]I remember Bjork preformed at the opening ceremony at the Athens Summer Olympics in '04. Didnt hear about Tieso playing.[/QUOTE] He played the background music while the athletes were marching in.

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Tiesto wasn't the first though was he?

I'm pretty sure Aussie DJ Peewee Ferris also did the same thing at the Sydney 2000 games. I've also got a feeling he produced tracks specifically for it, but I'd have to follow that up.

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That will be cool. Let hope we actually get to hear this.

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this is going to rock, i don't care what anyone says.

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Bjork also performed at the Greece opening ceremony. She had a dress that grew and grew. I forget what song she did.

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Good for Richie.. he is from my city Windsor.. I don't care for his music myself but a lot of people do so good for him.

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cool, it's nice to see djs playing at major events instead of watcing j.lo or nsync crying their souls out there

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2004:

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2006:

[IMG]http://www.sunshine-live.de/uploads/pics/hawtin.jpg[/IMG]

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2008:

[IMG]http://student.org.uni-hamburg.de/LINKS/Images/Sensenmann.jpg[/IMG]

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[URL="http://www.inhale.org.uk/ih_music/ing_006.mp3"][/URL]

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^:lol:, have to say that tiesto looks far more likely to take part in any sport... except for mixing.

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His score should start soon..anybody watching the damn ceremony besides me? :lol:

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i'm looking forward to watching it tonight Tom. i just hope that his part doesn't get edited out. has anyone heard the track/score yet? is it something that even while i'm hearing it i wouldn't realize it's richie? i guess we'll see tonight.

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As far as I understood, his score should play when the athlets come in...which they do at the moment but there is some disco house gibberish playing. :what

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[quote=TomTom]His score should start soon..anybody watching the damn ceremony besides me? :lol:[/quote]

Opening Ceremonies dont start till 8pm here on the East coast. Ill be watchin, and Daveman, Im with you...not sure if we will be able to pick out Hawtins track in the midst of everything going on. I sure hope so though.

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I really can't wait to hear this. I hope that there is a clean rip of this b/c I think that you might not be able to hear some of the mix with all the announcements over top of it.

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i really have NO IDEA what to expect from mr. hawtin on this one.

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^^^ i don't either. someone told me to expect more of an ambient type of style. probably more like some of the down tempo tracks from his plastikman albums.

but then again, if they were playing disco-like stuff earlier who knows?

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[quote=TomTom]but there is some disco house gibberish playing. :what[/quote]

Thats about all I caught. Sonded like Teisto was there again for the parade of athletes, not Hawtin. Did anybody catch anything that even remotely seemed Hawtin'esh?

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^^^ Yes.... several of the athletes were bald AND wearing glasses...

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I heard the fucking Village People.

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In all seriousness the whole "choreographed" beginning with the flaming skaters, cows, the "beating" heart etc was hawtin's piece... If you go to his website ([URL="http://www.m-nus.com"]www.m-nus.com[/URL]) it plays a bit of it and you'll recognize it immediately if you watched the opening ceremony.

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I did like the whole thing with the individual people making a big picture like the ski jumper and the dove, though.