Name: Floorplan - Dance Floor (preview) by Robert Hood - Floorplan
Duration: 1 min 3 s
Description: Taken from the Floorplan album 'Supernatural' on Aus Music (released Nov. 2019)

Where's Your Child

Out Now (Digi + Vinyl): https://lnk.to/REKIDS218

Detroit icon Eddie Fowlkes drops ‘Forever EP’ on Rekids this March.

As one of Techno’s originators, Godfather of Techno Soul Eddie Fowkes has shaped the Techno genre for over 36 years. With his releases on Metroplex, Tresor, Sony, Peacfrog, and his own imprint CityBoy Records and Detroit Wax Label, Fowlkes' contribution to the blueprint of modern electronic music cannot be overstated. 

Returning in fierce form for 2023, Eddie Fowlkes arrives on Radio Slave’s Rekids with a sizzling four-tracker. From the red hot drums and trippy vocals on the opening track ‘Forever’ through to the bubbly synths and swinging percussion on the B2 ‘Nice’, Fowlkes’ funk-infused House and Techno has its sights set squarely on the dancefloor - an unwavering testament to the lasting production chops of a true originator. 

“All of my creations start off with a baseline that perpetuates other rhythms. I just wanted to keep the impact of the vibe to hold the dance floor, so I’m always thinking about people dancing on the dance floor. Over 42 years of DJing helps me replicate that into tracks and songs.” - Eddie Fowlkes 

Tracklist: 
A1 Forever 
A2 Shake Your Hips 
B1 What About Us 
B2 Nice

Eddie Fowlkes - Nice

Liquid Sun

Liquid Sun (Bonus Beats)

Woman-Hood Chapter 2

Lyric - Gotta Good Thing

Maan - Burn [non013]

Glue Master

DJ Sam Darkhover - Glue Master

Still a favorite in our live set, from the “Foundation EP” (1995). Yep, it’s 20 years since we first released it. Time just flies doesn’t it ?.

Octave One ‎– Foundation EP
Label:
430 West ‎– 4W-240
Format:
Vinyl, 12", EP, 45 RPM, 33 ⅓ RPM 
Country:
US
Released:
May 1995

Octave One online:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/octaveone
Twitter: http://twitter.com/octaveone 
Instagram: http://instagram.com/octaveone
SoundCloud: @octaveone
YouTube: http://youtube.com/430west
Snapchat: http://snapchat.com/add/octaveone
Website: http://octaveone.com

Download from Beatport

Octave One - Empower (1995 original mix)

Virton Upgraded (Ben Klock Remixes)

Virton Upgraded

Afterhour

A battle of the alter-egos as Techno legend Ben Sims dons his Ron Bacardi alias for a weighty, bottom heavy house interpretation of Dan Curtin's Purveyors of Fine Funk alter-ego . Filled with bassline funk this one is sure to light up the dancefloors in clubs worldwide. He's smashed this one.

Artist: @dan-curtin
Remixer: @ben-sims
Label: @vessel-records

Ux2 

SB PREMIERE: Purveyors of Fine Funk - Ux2 (Ron Bacardi Remix) [Vessel Records]

Taken from the Floorplan album 'Supernatural' on Aus Music (released Nov. 2019)

Floorplan - Dance Floor (preview)

Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".
Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties.
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. 

"Growing up in Detroit, I grew up with Motown in the house - a lot of Motown and Philadelphia soul, artists like Marvin Gaye of course and Curtis Mayfield. I remember Isaac Hayes, the soundtrack from ‘Shaft’ had come out. My father was a jazz musician; he played piano, trumpet and drums. My mother was in an R’n’B group.
We listened to a lot of Motown - in fact, my grandfather’s first cousin is Berry Gordy.
"I was influenced by my father - I wanted to play trumpet like he did."
Robert's father tragically died when he was just 6. The photo of Robert siting down holding a trumpet is his fathers.
"I had to beg my grandmother to let me borrow the trumpet to take a picture with it"

In the early 90's he began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-102 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with ‘Tranquilizer EP’ and ‘Drama’.

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically. M-Plant started in ’94. I had developed this “grey area” sound - what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno - it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.

Releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", “The Protein Valve” "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts", "The Pace", more recently "Range", "Alpha" and that isn't even touching his other monikers Floorplan, Monobox, The Vision, etc.
"M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. “It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal. “

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, mainly via his housier, disco, gospel moniker Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood,   Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends. 



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