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DJ​-​Kicks: Robert Hood

by Robert Hood

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    01 Connected (Intro)
    02 Robert Hood - Focus (DJ-Kicks)
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    03 Truncate - Terminal 5
    04 Slam - Remain
    05 Robert Hood - Clocks
    06 Marcel Fengler - Mirror Man
    07 Mark Broom - King (Gary Beck Remix)
    08 Robert Hood - Greytype I **EXCLUSIVE
    09 Robert Hood - Mirror Man
    10 Stare5 - We Will Not

    11 Gary Beck - Video Siren
    12 Mark Reeve - Dice
    13 Robert Hood - Bond Solid **EXCLUSIVE
    14 Landside - Signs of Change
    (Robert Hood Remix)
    15 Adrian Hour - Make You Feel Good
    16 Ben Long & Tom Hades - The Knight Rider
    17 Clouds - Chained to A Dead Camel
    18 Hans Bouffmyere & Kyle Geiger - Inwards
    19 Robert Hood - Machineform **EXCLUSIVE
    20 Robert Hood - Hall of Mirrors
    21 Oliver Deutschmann - Confuzed
    22 Matrixxman - Protocol

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    A1 Robert Hood - Focus (DJ-Kicks)
    A2 Truncate - Terminal 5

    B1 Slam - Remain
    B2 Stare5 - We Will Not

    C1 Gary Beck - Video Siren
    C2 Mark Reeve - Dice

    D1 Landside - Signs of Change
    (Robert Hood Remix)
    D2 Ben Long & Tom Hades -
    The Knight Rider

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Greytype I 06:19
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Bond Solid 07:05
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Detroit’s pioneering techno giant Robert Hood is next to take the reins of the DJ-Kicks mix series. His timeless 22 track offering includes four of his own new exclusives, and will come on CD as well as with a 2 x 12” vinyl sampler in winter 2018. 

It’s hard to talk about techno without Robert Hood. The Motor City mainstay was a founding member of the pivotal Underground Resistance with Mad Mike Banks and Jeff Mills, and then went on to lay down a blueprint for minimal techno which continues to make an impact to this day. As Floorplan, of course, he veers into more funky and melodic house and techno, often with a gospel overtone that lead to rapturous receptions on dance floors around the world. 

But the techno he makes as Robert Hood is what he is best known for. It has come on his own M Plant label, as well as vital outlets like Tresor, Peacefrog and Dekmantel, where 2017’s Paradygm Shift album proved that, 25 years after first starting out, he is still a force unto himself. The record was a return to the roots of his definitive Minimal Nation LP in 1994, and was filled with the sort of expert melodic loops, scintillating drums and hypnotic sense of repetition that only a few can mastermaking such simple yet effective music is a skill that Hood has made all his own. 

His DJ-Kicks mix proves that once more: it is a techno mix, pure and simple. It exudes the trademark machine warmth and muscular sense of groove that makes Hood’s style so infectious. Most tracks are from the last few years and come from a range of mainly European producers, but the result is pure Robert Hood. 

The perennial futurist wastes no time in getting down to business: after a brief buzzing synth line sounds like a spacecraft warming up for take off, the rubbery, relentless drums arrive and remain rooted to the floor for seventy minutes. Despite his famously linear approach, the tension between tracks, suspenseful breakdowns and sci-fi sense of melody throughout keeps you engaged: there is just enough light in the dark, sufficient colour between the shadows and constant sense of pressure to keep you utterly engaged from start to finish. 

Robert Hood is synonymous with techno, and his entry into the DJ-Kicks series shows exactly why.

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released November 16, 2018

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