Robert Hood
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Robert Hood is an American electronic music producer and DJ. 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. As Birmingham's Surgeon once remarked, 'When Hood released his pivotal 'Minimal Nation' EP in 1993, it was like a bomb went off.'
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[edit] Biography
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. Having recorded for Metroplex, as well as the Austrian Cheap label and Jeff Mills' Axis label, Hood also owns and operates the M-Plant imprint, through which he's released the bulk of his solo material. As part of the original UR line up whose influential releases throughout the early and mid '90s helped change the face of modern Detroit techno and sparked a creative renaissance. Infusing elements of acid and industrial into a potent blend of Chicago house and Detroit techno, UR's aesthetic project and militant business philosophy were (and remain) singular commitments in underground techno. Hood left Detroit (and UR) with Jeff Mills in 1992, setting up shop in New York and recording a series of 12-inch Eps. He began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-103 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 collaborated 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.and set up M-Plant in 1994 releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", "The Protein Valve" "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts. "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, 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. With this in mind the seminal "Nighttime World Pt.1" in 1995 and "Nighttime World Pt.2" in 2000 incorporating Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop as well as Techno and House.
[edit] Releases
Robert Hood has released music under his own name, Monobox, Inner Sanctum, The Vision and other aliases. When recording with Jeff Mills, he has used the alias H&M.
[edit] As Robert Hood
- Robert Hood - Sophisticcato, 12" (Duet)
- Robert Hood - The Grey Area, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Spectra, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Red Passion III, 12" (Duet)
- Robert Hood - Addict, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Internal Empire, CD (Tresor)
- Robert Hood - The Protein Valve, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Internal Empire, CD (Tresor)
- Robert Hood - The Pace, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Master Builder, 12" (Tresor)
- Robert Hood - Minimal Nation Misspress, 2x12" (Axis)
- Robert Hood - Minimal Nation, 2x12" (Axis)
- Robert Hood - Internal Empire, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Internal Empire, 2x12" (Tresor)
- Robert Hood - Internal Empire, CD (Logic Records)
- Robert Hood - Nighttime World Volume 1, CD (Cheap)
- Robert Hood - Nighttime World Vol. 1, 2x12" (Cheap)
- Robert Hood - Moveable Parts Chapter 1, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Master Builder, CD5" (BMG)
- Robert Hood - Minimal Nation, 2x12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - The Vision, 12" (Metroplex)
- Robert Hood - Underestimated, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Moveable Parts Chapter 2, 2x12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - All Day Long, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Hoodlum, 2x12" (Drama)
- Robert Hood - Psychic / Pole Position, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Stereotype, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Red Passion II, 12" (Duet)
- Robert Hood - Satellite - A Force Of One, 12" (Hardwax)
- Robert Hood - Internal Empire, 2x12" (Tresor)
- Robert Hood - Technatural EP, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Red Passion I, 12" (Duet)
- Robert Hood - Nighttime World Volume 2, CD (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Nighttime World Volume 2, 3x12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Apartment Zero, 12" (Logistic Records)
- Robert Hood - Invincible, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - The Greatest Dancer, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - The Deal, 12" (Duet)
- Robert Hood - Master Builder, 12" (Tresor)
- Robert Hood - Who Taught You Math, 12" (Peacefrog)
- Robert Hood - The Metronome, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Monobox EP, 12" (Logistic Records)
- Robert Hood - Point Black, 2x12" (Peacefrog)
- Robert Hood - Point Black, CD (Peacefrog)
- Robert Hood - The Art Of War, 2x12" (Peacefrog)
- Robert Hood - Kick Dirt E.p, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - The Black & White E.p, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - "i", 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood - Untitled 5, 12" (M-Plant)
- Robert Hood presents HoodMusic Vol 1 (Music Man)
- Robert Hood presents HoodMusic Vol 2 (Music Man)
[edit] As Monobox
- Monobox - Realm (12") (M-Plant)?
- Monobox - Downtown (12") (M-Plant)
- Monobox - Population (12") (M-Plant)
- Monobox - Molecule (12") (Logistic)
- Monobox - Molecule (LP/CD) (Logistic)
[edit] As H&M with Jeff Mills
- H&M - Tranquilizer EP, 12" (Axis)
- H&M - Tranquilizer EP, 12" (Network)
- H&M - Drama EP, 12" (Axis)
