M-Plant
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Techno Minimal Techno

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Twenty years have passed since Robert Hood established M-Plant as the outlet for his pioneering, minimal reinvention of the Detroit techno blueprint. To mark this anniversary, 2014 has seen classic M-Plant releases reinvigorated by a series of re-edits and remixes, culminating in the next milestone in the label’s musical journey: ‘M-Print: 20 Years of M-Plant Music’.

Spanning 33 tracks across 3 CDs, ‘M-Print’ brings together for the first time a collection of essential Hood moments from the vast M-Plant back catalogue, alongside a hoard of new, re-mastered and unreleased material. Covering Robert’s output under his own name, as well as his Floorplan and Monobox aliases, the compilation is a coherent journey that celebrates the past, present and future of the M-Plant label.

Tracklist CD1:

1. The Grey Area (Moveable Parts Chapter 2, 1997)
2. Untitled 1 (Moveable Parts Chapter 1, 1995)
3. The Rhythm of Vision (Minimal Nation, 1994)
4. Protein Valve 1 (The Protein Valve, 1994)
5. Stereotype (Stereotype, 1998)
6. Realm (as ‘Monobox’ - Realm, 1996)
7. The Pace (Minimal Nation, 1994)
8. Untitled Sketch (Moveable Parts Chapter 1, 1995)
9. Unix (Minimal Nation, 1994)
10. Minus (Internal Empire, 1994)
11. The Greatest Dancer (The Greatest Dancer, 2001)



M-Print: 20 Years of M-Plant Music CD1(Snippets)

<p>Landmark is back on Agile and things get busy with the tittle track&#8217;s commanding riff which drives the affair home, while an evolving arrangement keeps everyone on their toes, together with haunting synths.&nbsp; On &#8220;TTT&#8221; the rubber-band sub bass sets the mood for the hypnotic loop made out of vintage keys, as the steamrolling rhythm section clears everything in its path.&nbsp; &#8220;Panic Control&#8221; closes the EP and boasts funked-out electronics, a sleazy bassline and playful percussion, all coming together to support the tense melody which unfolds.</p>

Landmark - Panic Control (Original Mix)

David Pher - Wild Eyes

Buy track here: https://www.beatport.com/release/amsterdam-dance-event-2025-nastygrooves-ade-essentials-vol1/5398889

Release Date: 2025-10-10
Label: NastyGrooves Records
Catalog: NG031
Mastering: Forest People

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Gostoja, Xam - Oscurità (Original Mix)

https://slumprecordings.bandcamp.com/album/worthless-make-a-dance-josh-ludlow-remixes

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Baby Rollén returns to his Slump white label series alongside partner-in-crime Ollie Rant, unleashing another MPC-driven beast. ‘Worthless’ follows 2022’s ‘Move It’ with a fresh dose of breakbeat heft and electro flair, while Baby flips the A2 with a slower, TR-505 Trax-inspired dub. Remixes come courtesy of DJ Mag award winners Make A Dance and Josh Ludlow, who both draw us from the haunting A-side sounds into peak-time territory with a pair of thumping dancefloor weapons.

Early support from: Bradley Zero, Raresh, Sam Bangura, eoin dj, Jennifer Cardini, Wallace, Moxie, Voigtmann, Roza Terenzi, Huerta + more

𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐅𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 ➟ Baby Rollén & Ollie Rant - Worthless (Make A Dance Muscle Mix)

‘’What Came First’’ is a new label record found by the people behind the Egg London club venue. The WWD team’s is delighted to exclusively share with you today the very first release of the label! The German born Frag Maddin, prepared a beautiful 3 tracker EP titled ‘’The P Tea Party’’. The third piece of the wax ‘’Purple View’’ is an unconventional one but it surely pushes the boundaries. Dressed with a funk raw bass and layered with delicate textures, the Rhodes Pinao keys is the cherry on the sundae perfectly enveloping all those musical elements. Sit tight, press play and get ready to vanish into a beautiful musical journey.

Release date: 11.11.16

Follow: https://soundcloud.com/fragmaddin // https://soundcloud.com/egglondon

WCF001 - The P Tea Party EP

Premiere: Frag Maddin - Purple View [What Came First]

Mathew Jonson Presents The Decompression Remixes Vol. 2

Decompression (GMT Remix)

Out now on vinyl and digital - https://lnk.to/STR003

Renowned Frankfurt-based producer Anthony Rother delivers an otherworldly release on Rekids offshoot, Stranger in The Night.

Very few electronic music artists stand the test of time but German electro pioneer and visionary, Anthony Rother, is one of them. Whether running labels like Psi49Net, Stahl Industries and Datapunk or working alongside the likes of Sven Väth, DJ Hell and Kraftwerk’s Karl Bartos, Rother’s legacy stands tall. Having made recent appearances on DVS1’s Mistress or Danny Daze’s OMNIDISC, Rother now connects with Stranger In The Night, joining a tight roster of luminaries including King Britt, Fred P and label boss Radio Slave.

‘We Are The Future’ opens the package with sci-fi synths, a decaying vocal and arpeggiated highs, before ‘Super Future Metropolis’ continues the theme with ultramodern vocoding and industrial drum patterns. Following on, ‘The Message’ sweeps in with laser-like stabs and a leading lyrical sample until two new perspectives conclude the package: the multilayered ‘We Are The Future (D-Cut)’ with its intricate keys and a ‘Space Mix’ of ‘The Message’ which widens the audio journey with lightly flowing pads.

Anthony Rother - Super Future Metropolis

Damon Wild Remix 1 of A.Paul's "Myths" for Naked Lunch 100.

Myths - A.Paul (D.Wild in the dub mix)

HORATIO & TOMY DECLERQUE - GINGER 
EARLY SUPPORT FROM CARL COX&ADAM BEYER

Horatio & Tomy DeClerque  - Recursion

Angioma & BLANKA - Get Down [ROOM006]

FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
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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.

M-Print: 20 Years of M-Plant Music CD1(Snippets)

Robert Hood - Floorplan