South by Southwest’s beauty is the controlled randomness of the conference offerings, divided out into three sections: film, music and interactive. Often meshed together, the three sections intertwine in glorious ways, a prime example is the video below featuring world-renowned DJ Richie Hawtin. During the day Hawtin, a constantly-evolving pioneer in music production hardware, spoke about his latest music projects and the future of DJ’s and the modern-day artist. At night he took the stage at Kingdom to the delight of his die-hard fans. The ability for musically-inclined travelers to hear from Hawtin at length, then rage with him later at night on his dancefloor is second to none. Maybe you’ll taste this for yourself next year?

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