Detroit techno icon Robert Hood is to release a curious new album this Spring via his own M-Plant label.
FACT can exclusively reveal that the album, entitled Omega, is a new soundtrack to the 1971 sci-fi movie The Omega Man. Directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston in the title role, The Omega Man was based on Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend, which inspired 2007′s Will Smith vehicle of the same name.
In the film, most of humanity has been wiped out as a result of biological warfare between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. Heston plays military scientist Colonel Robert Neville. Having rendered himself immune to the killer virus by injecting himself with an experimental vaccine, Neville now leads a life of bitter survivalism, fighting off The Family, a cult of nocturnal albino mutants dedicated to destroying what’s left of technological society. We won’t spoil the rest of the nutty plot , but if you’re curious you can find a full synopsis here.
“The [Omega album] is finished,” Hood, who is best known for pioneering minimal techno with seminal releases like Minimal Nation (1994), tells FACT’s Bjørn Schaeffner. “It’s this long-time vision I’ve had in musically interpreting the movie.
“There was the remake with Will Smith in I am Legend. But I’ve had this vision of doing this project even long before that. You know the story: Charlton Heston plays the last person on Earth, everyone has died. This man is running out of hope, running out of faith. He is this kind of Messiah type figure. The music I’ve done is sort of a loose interpretation of this precept. I just imagined myself if I were commissioned to do this soundtrack. What would it be like? And so, this is what [Omega] is.
But what drew Hood to the project in the first place?
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big up. bit of messianic techno s'just what the doctor ordered
respect!
Rob is back on the scene at his best !
… which is very exiting !
This man is a great artist that definitivly deserve a lot of attention on his work !
Just watch this interview i found week ago, a reel preacher !
http://vimeo.com/8312594
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