06: ROBERT HOOD
HOODMUSIC 1 – 3
(MUSIC MAN, 2005-2007)

A jump of almost ten years to the next entry – Hood was active during this time, with albums on Peacefrog taking in more diverse influences, and his Drama and Duet sublabels of M-Plant lending a different spin on his trademark sound (including a perhaps ill-advised edit of ‘He’s The Greatest Dancer’), but space constraints mean a jump to this series of 12”s on Music Man, which marked a further change in his sound. The three 12”s together would make a perfect album release, with variations from Drexciyan electro on ‘Razr’, to the Berlin glide of ‘And Then We Planned Our Escape’ (ubiquitous in discerning sets at time of release, and rightly so), taking in rough drum machine splatter on ‘Needs and Wants’ and the driving, filtered Los Hermanos remix of ‘Still Hear’ (for my money the best thing they did). The Hoodmusic 12”s felt like a summing up of what had come before and a pointer of the new directions to come.

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