Plus 8 (also spelled as Plus8) is a Canadian techno record label founded by Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva in 1990 that's based in Windsor, Ontario.
[1][2] Along with Underground Resistance and Planet E, Plus 8 was one of the early producers of Detroit techno's 'Second Wave' music at the start of the 1990s.
[1] Initial releases were a series of increasingly faster industrial hardcore recordings by the pair themselves and their friends, using aliases such as States of Mind and Cybersonik, along with other Detroit-based musicians such as Kenny Larkin.
[1] The label began to retreat from hard and fast tempo after the release of Circuit Breaker's "Overkill/Frenz-E" and Cybersonik's "Thrash" in 1992.
Hawtin and Aquaviva lost interest in the drug-fueled dynamic and rave culture that was driving hardcore techno.