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Floorplan DJ set - August 2021

Amazing DJ set with Robert and Lyric Hood at the 19th edition of Nuits Sonores 2022 in Lyon France

Floorplan aka Robert & Lyric Hood @ Nuits Sonores 2022 - La Sucrière

https://www.facebook.com/jasperjames8?ref=hl

Jasper James Live @XOYO 09/08/14 on Artwork's Show Rinse FM.

Floorplan aka Robert Hood Live at the Weather Festival in Paris, France on 6.6.2015

Floorplan aka Robert Hood Live @ Weather Festival - Paris - 6.6.2015

Tracklist + download this way: http://blrrm.tv/aIP5Hv

Floorplan (Robert Hood) Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival DJ Set

Kevin Saunderson vs Derrick May: tag team live at Fabrik Code in Madrid, Spain (2010)

Download the set here: 
http://corenews.me/floorplan-essential-mix-2017-05-27/
Tracklist over here:
http://tracklists.thomaslaupstad.com/floorplan-essential-mix-2017-05-27-tracklist-playlist/

Floorplan - Essential Mix 2017-05-27

More of Floorplan/Robert Hood: 

Soundcloud: @roberthood 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RobertHoodFloorplan/

Floorplan @ DGTL ADE 18.10.2018

After a brief hiatus next up in our podcast series is Flooorplan, see this as an early xmas present from Robert + Lyric Hood. Enjoy and seasons greetings x

AUSCAST006 Floorplan

Master of minimal techno Robert Hood, recorded live at London's Printworks in December 2019.

Photography: Jake Davis (http://www.hungryvisuals.co.uk)

For more information head here: https://www.factmag.com/2020/04/04/robert-hood-printworks-live/

FACT Mixes

Robert Hood live from The Hydra at Printworks, Dec 2019 (full set)

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. 



Floorplan DJ set - August 2021

Robert Hood - Floorplan

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