Robert Hood - Fabric 39
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Artist: Robert HoodEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Music Label: Fabric
Soundtracks:
- Silicone Fingers - Robert Hood / Monobox
- Element 9 - Robert Hood
- Who Taught You Math - Robert Hood
- X-Factor - Pacou
- Strobe Light - Robert Hood
- Taboo - Marco Lenzi
- Fever (Rephrased) - Joris Voorn
- Bust the Vibes (Real Disco) - Fab G.
- Sandune - Dan March
- Element 3 - Robert Hood
- Mind Detergent (Robert Hood) - Diego / Diego
- Skin Deep - Jeff Mills
- School - Robert Hood
- Element 23 - Robert Hood
- Mr. Funk - John Thomas
- Informant - DJ Skull
- One Side - Scorp
- All It Takes - Pacou
- Mass - Phase
- Agent Wood (Adam Beyer) - UK Gold
- Legalize - Solid Decay
- Element 7 - Robert Hood
- Side Effect - Robert Hood
- Drop the Filter - Mion
- New Energy - Scorp
- Agent Wood (Original) - UK Gold
- Still Here (Los Hermanos) - Robert Hood
- Pulp Funktion 2 - John Thomas
- The Greatest Dancer - Robert Hood
- Exclamation - Low Life
- And Then We Planned Our Escape - Robert Hood
- Element 12 - Robert Hood
Free Music Notes for Fabric 39
Free Music Review: Nitty Gritty Motor City
Hit: 4 Stars
Hailing from the gritty city of New York, and with a disproportionately strong taste for minimal techno, Robert Hood is one unsung hero whose name should have become household as early as 1992. Masterminding the M-Plant (and, by extension, Drama and Duet) labels has given him the experience necessary to mix an album such as Fabric 39. In Hood's words, "A set from Fabric is the only way I want to go. This mix has to be about the club... any project I do, I like to read like a book... It has to have continuity to take you on a ride. It should have a concept and be able to translate and read as such."
But to truly understand Robert Hood is to understand an emphatic and influential journey back in time to the early `90s, beginning with Jeff Mills, Mike Banks and the Underground Resistance Label, whose early to mid-90's releases would go on to change the shape of Detroit techno and Chicago house. A principle creator and sculptor of most things minimal today, Hood spins Fabric 39 seamlessly and with complete conceptualization. Given Hood's extensive background in shaping modern house music, it should come as no surprise that his latest work not only hits the ground running, it also retains its momentum throughout its sixty-nine minute duration. It is, as such, the perfect minimal clubbing album - which, as a Fabric release, lends a bit of novelty to the mix in particular. It is truly difficult to comprehend this mix finding shelter within a family of notoriously "minimal" electronic house given the fat, squelching sounds of tracks like `School,' `Mr. Funk,' `Legalize!' and `The Greatest Dancer.' There is too much to hear, too much to "see," to accept this album under the mere guise of "minimal."
And so, Hood and his album's warning shot is precisely that - that "minimal" techno is not a blanket term for dull and listless electronica lacking better classification. In this capacity, tracks like `Silicone Fingers,' `Strobe Light,' `Fever' and `Bust The Vibes (Real Disco Mix)' (amongst many others) realize Hood's vision. Fabric 39 is enticingly wide-scoped; it might be surprising that the thirty-two tracks from fifteen years of Detroit techno, Chicago house, tech-house and New York underground are neither disorienting nor tiring. The breathless pace of new-world minimalism is never at a loss for those deliciously sweet and funky grooves produced and sold straight from `90s record boxes. Hood's retrospect-diversity makes for a dynamic and challenging musical experience. The mix rises from mid-tempo to breakneck speeds, paralleled only by diving to strange and unexplored depths of minimalism before rising to the surface with a gasp of sinister funk. And thus, the movement of the album illustrates itself; a colorful, undulating piece of underground artwork whose strength rests at the fingertips - and in the privileged ears - of its creator.
Brewed from a genre and record-label mastermind, forging new standards for track diversity and smudging the lines that have so far defined convention make Fabric 39 the best purchase and most astounding piece of aural craftsmanship the Fabric label has produced in some time. Minimal fans should prepare to have the carpet swept from under them, for Hood's effort is a forceful testament to what experience can bring to a disc's impact. A fantastic compilation.
- James Woodruff
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