The Essential… Robert Hood

04: ROBERT HOOD
NIGHTTIME WORLD VOL. 1
(CHEAP, 1995)

A rare venture to another label – Austria’s Cheap, as known for its jazz influenced records as it was for techno – brought out a hitherto unexplored area in Hood’s sound. Embracing his love of jazz and downtempo, Nighttime World is still distinctively the Hood of before – there are a plethora of straight up 4/4 club tracks on here, not least ‘Untitled’ which is based on his epic ‘Moveable Parts’ 12” – but there’s also a low swung, smoky flavour guiding the atmosphere, most tellingly on the opening percussion jam ‘Behind This Door’ or the piano-vamp led hip-hop tempo ‘The Color Of Skin’. Hood would go on to develop this sound on the often overlooked Nighttime World Vol. 2 back on M-Plant in 2000, and indeed almost entirely dropped the 4/4 in favour of further downtempo moods.

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  • Jason

    Fantastic stuff – a great summary of nearly 20 years of one man's work – really enjoyed the read and the journey through his music.

  • Kia

    Hmmm… I agreed until the Klock remix and 'Superman' release were identified as 'Essential'. They're not. If any number of musicians had released them they'd be essential parts of their repertoire but not when you consider Hood's output throughout the years. There are simply much better productions. With those two examples in mind, it's such a relief to hear the latest 'Omega' LP which is thankfully a return to form… as it happens it was already playing through my speakers!

  • Bugz

    lacking some Floorplant/Drama material

  • Bugz

    Great artist, retrospective lacking some Floorplan/Drama material imo

  • Bugz

    Great artist, retrospective lacking some Floorplan/Duet material imo

  • Fran

    Actually, ‘Range’ from the Superman release, has all the hallmarks of a future classic. I think it deserves a place here. Nice to see more recent material getting some room among the more obvious classics from ‘back in the day’

  • RAW

    quality roundup and entertaining read!

    I thought I knew my onions as far as Hood went but there's a couple of bits here I'm gonna have to track down and check out now…

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  • Langer

    What about The Pace? surely his best dancefloor moment. Plus there is so much more great material missed.

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  • RuaridhTVO

    Being limited to 10 items means inevitably lots of things get missed, plus it’s a highly subjective exercise innit? Your mileage may vary, etc

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