## Why designer Merijn Straathof turned a landmark techno album into a playable web-based instrument The Dutch designer has rebuilt Richie Hawtin's landmark album DE9, 25 years on, in a way you can deconstruct and remix yourself, in the browser. I won't go into too many details, but let's just say the house, acid house and then techno scenes of the late 1980s and 1990s were a formative part of my youth. Even today, I just have to stick on Leftism by Leftfield and within seconds I'm mentally back in those heady, intoxicating times. There are a number of other records that pull off the same…