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Richie Hawtin Laments Closure of DJ Revenue Sharing Platform Aslice: ‘Famous’ DJs ‘Failed Us All’

Richie Hawtin addressed the Aslice closure. You can read his statement on the DJ platform, which let DJs share revenue with artists.

In a 10-minute statement posted to YouTube and social media, the pioneering techno producer expressed his disappointment that many big-name DJs did not participate in Aslice, a donation-based platform launched by DJ Zak Khutoretsky in 2022 that allowed DJs to voluntarily share their set playlists and contribute part of their performance fee to the artists whose music they played. With its closing announcement, the Aslice team said that since launching, they’ve paid out $422,696 to musicians with money from DJs who participated in the platform. Noting that he wasn’t an investor in Aslice, Hawtin explained that it “was a platform that was built to rebalance the economic inequalities that are a big part of our scene.

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