Tracks experimentales [Sin bajos]

Detroit Techno

Robert Hood - Floorplan

The Album Formerly Known As ...

Technology

They Were

One Day Soon

Science Fiction

Universal Grammar

Creating the Shapes

Classics

Sirenes (Carl Craig's System 7.1 Remix) [feat. Laurent Garnier]

Mines Of Mars

Hip Hop DJ set I prepared especially for the Weather Festival in Paris, France - Saturday 4 June 2016 - live recording

Robert Hood Hip Hop DJ set -  Weather Festival_June 2016

Robert Hood Hip Hop DJ set

Mind Of A Machine

Early support from : Ben Klock, Len Faki, Dave Clarke, Jeff Rushin, Vince Watson, Truncate, Antonio de Angelis, Flug, Chris Liebing, Slam, Exium & many more !!!

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Steve Parker - Rod [android muziq]

Release date: 17th of September 2012

Following recent Music Man cd's from Petar Dundov and Marcel Dettmann, we now welcome one of Detroit’s finest, Robert Hood. After the legendary Nighttime World Volume 1 and Nighttime World Volume 2, we are proud to be able to present you the long awaited “Motor: Nighttime World 3” on Music Man!
With "Motor: Nighttime World 3" Robert Hood returns to the project he first started on Austria’s Cheap label back in 1995 and subsequently continued in 2000 on M-Plant. Fusing his trademark minimal techno into jazz inspired moods and inflections, Hood emerges from the smoke-lit shadows of a downbeat, but not beaten, Motor City metropolis. Inspired by Julien Temple’s documentary ‘Requiem For Detroit?’ Robert Hood examines the life, history and future of Detroit’s motor industry and its workforce, set against a backdrop of decay, despair, hope and re-birth.

TRACKLIST
1. The Exodos
2. Motor City
3. Better Life
4. The Wheel
5. Black Technician
6. Learning
7. Drive (The Age Of Automation)
8. Torque One
9. Hate Transmissions
10. Slow Motion Katrina
11. Assembly
12. A Time To Rebuild

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Motor: Nighttime World 3

Robert Hood - The Exodos

Robert Hood - Motor City

Robert Hood - Drive (The Age Of Automation)

Monobox Ep

Intro (Original Mix)

release date: 4th of March 2013

early support by Surgeon, DVS1, Adam Beyer, Joey Beltram, Dave Clarke, Rolando & more

'Motor: Nighttime World 3' is widely regarded as one of the best albums of last year. We're proud to present you the second single 'Drive (The Age Of Automation)' on Music Man. It includes some very rare remixes... Not many people get the chance to remix Robert Hood, but Ø [Phase] got the stamp of approval from the master. There are two different versions from Ø [Phase] for you to check out. Some good news too for the people that couldn't get a hold of the 'Nighttime World' 3LP too; the original is also included and gets a full side.


TRACKLIST
1. Robert Hood - Drive (The Age Of Automation)
2. Robert Hood - Drive (The Age Of Automation) (Ø [Phase] Nocturnal Mix)
3. Robert Hood - Drive (The Age Of Automation) (Ø [Phase] C-box Mix)


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Robert Hood - Drive (The Age Of Automation) - Ø [Phase] Nocturnal Mix

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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.