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Eelco’s taste in music has always been eclectic. He has been passionate about music from an early age, drawn to a wide range of sounds, from indie, rock, metal, jazz to hip-hop and drum & bass. But everything changed when he experienced his first AWAKENINGS techno party in Amsterdam over 20 years ago. That day, he had an epiphany! The pulsating energy, the hypnotic rhythms they were a calling.
From that moment on, he became addicted to the raw, driving force of Techno and Electro.
"The first time I stepped into a warehouse and FELT that hard bass, those hissing  sharp hi-hats, and the deep, hypnotic groove of proper Techno, I knew I had come home!"
Ever since then he wanted to share his unrelenting passion for TECHNO with the world!

Eelco自年少时就开始沉迷在音乐的世界当中，与许多Techno DJ一样，他有着自己不拘一格的品味，从金属到爵士，再到古典和鼓打贝斯等。20年前第一次参加Techno派对时，他感受到一种前所未有的顿悟，以至于不可自拔地爱上了这种声音。Techno与Electro是他最喜爱的音乐风格。
“当我第一次走进被低音填满的仓库，尖锐的镲声与令人着迷的Techno之声，我知道自已经回家了，我希望用我纯粹的热情来传播这特有的Techno之声！”

This group is designed to explore music and sound to inspire a visual perspective

Originally from Canberra and now based in Melbourne, Luca, known as Everest, embarked on his DJ journey in 2010, inspired by a live performance by The Aston Shuffle. Quickly making his mark, Everest secured residencies at top Canberra venues like Meche, North Bar, Trinity Bar, and Mr. Wolf, and made appearances at notable events including the Spring Carnival music festival. His talent also led to multiple radio features on stations such as Raw FM, FM 104.7, and UCFM.

Since relocating to Sydney and ultimately Melbourne, Everest has played at renowned venues and events including Chinese Laundry, Circus Bar, The Burdekin Hotel, New Guernica, Killing Time and Sweethearts Rooftop, as well as having multiple guest appearances on Kiss FM, Bondi Radio, and Bondi Beach Radio. His musical influences span across house and all its subgenres, disco, techno and breaks, drawing inspiration from artists like Noir, Maceo Plex, Roland Clark, Guy J, and Floorplan.

Throughout his career, Everest has supported an impressive roster of international and Australian acts, including but not limited to:

Oliver Huntemann, Amine Edge & Dance, MK, Robosonic, Nora En Pure, Bart Skils, Alberto Ruiz, Will Clarke, Kill Frenzy, Peking Duk, Loco & Jam, Marco Faraone, Rufus, Golden Features, and Motez.

Everest's love of a wide variety of music empowers him with the versatility to curate the right sound for any occasion.

FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
https://cmc.lnk.to/cmcd141d

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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Robert Hood - Floorplan