I think he's ****ing shit hot. The video is obvioulsy just a mash up between visuals and a few shots of him actually playing the decks. It is boring as **** though, tried to be too arty but didn't have enough variation to be exciting.

I think your wrong to assume he has changed sounds cause he has played this type of stuff for ages now , this could have just been a PART of his set. Sometimes he plays really hard and then drops into this kind of stuff for a wee while. He tends to do that if he is playing for longer than four hours , cause you can only bang it for so long without slight devaition or it's dull (IMO).

His sound is completely determined by who he is playing to.When he plays in Scotland there are folk hanging from the rafters cause he plays so hard and intense. He isn't the sort of person to play stuff that the folk don't want to listen to , so at that set that was probaly what they were up for hearing.If you watch the video he always looks around to see if the folk are digging it , so they obviously were or he wouldn't keep playing it.
I can't understand folk who think Hawtin is shite. The man is a genius and has done more for the past and the future of the techno scene than anyone (just my opinion). As for Dex FX , it's a ****ing brilliant mix album , if not the best. Altough I didn't like the closer to the edit one , it still deserves credit for it's original concept.

I don't think you should worry , Hawtin hasn't changed his style , it depends on where he is. I do agree that he should avoid trying to look like Sven Vath though , as he clearly does these days. I guess he fancied a change as there are an abundance of Hawtin clones with skinheads and glasses.